Fact O' The Day

[Krandall]

w-o-w


'The Flat Earth society has been relaunched and has reopened its membership.'

Relaunched one year ago, the current Flat Earth Society is a continuation of the organization founded in 1956. The society claimed thousands of members at its height, who -- in case it isn't explicit from context -- literally believe that the Earth is a disc-shaped mass, surrounded by a wall of ice. According to The Guardian, its current president, Daniel Shenton, is entirely mainstream in many of his scientific views -- he believes in evolution and happily makes use of GPS -- but just happens to also believe that the Earth is flat, based on the evidence that it appears that way.

[Peelz]

weird

[Krandall]

'The "X" in "Xmas" is a 1,000-year-old abbreviation.'


"Christ" has been abbreviated with an "X" by Christians for at least 1,000 years, the Greek letter Chi standing for the first letter of Jesus' Greek name, Xristos; the shortened form, not intended as a sign of disrespect to Christianity, was merely popular shorthand for Christ's Mass. The Online Etymology Dictionary dates a reference to "Xres masse," appearing in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, to 1100 A.D.

[dragonz]

Kranberry isn't deliberately evil, he was just born that way............
(in his dreams at least) 

[Krandall]

[dragonz]

really just a powder puff...............

[Krandall]

'During World War II, one British officer went to battle with a longbow and claymore.'


Lieutenant Colonel Jack Churchill, dubbed "Mad Jack," was an officer in the respected Manchester Regiment, famous for his iconoclasm and impulsive heroics. (He's the source of the quote "In my opinion, sir, any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed," his response to being asked about the presence of his Scottish blade.) Churchill tooled around the battlefield on a motorcycle, led his men playing the bagpipes and conducted daring commando raids, during which he actually used his sword and bow in combat. A professional soldier for most of his life, Churchill went on to appear as an extra in Ivanhoe (as an archer), and died peacefully in 1996 at the age of 89.


this man sounds like a true Badass!

[Krandall]

'The archerfish shoots water at its land-based prey.'


A small, tropical fish that lives in both freshwater and saltwater, the archerfish searches for insects sitting on low-hanging branches over the water or spiders in webs, then compresses its gills to fire a jet of water at its target. The fish can shoot at distances up to five feet, and is remarkably accurate, even managing to account for the distortion caused by the surface of the water.

[Krandall]

In 1939, Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel that did not contain the letter "e."'


In an extended attempt at a lipogram -- a restrictive word exercise -- Wright wrote a 50,000-word novel, Gadsby, while avoiding the use of the most common letter in the English language. This is no easy feat -- "the," "be," "he," and "she" are all rendered unusable, for instance -- and would probably have won Wright a little more fame than it did, had he not died shortly after the book's publication. Gadsby does contain its share of curious turns of phrase; at one point, while describing a county fair, Wright is forced to refer to turkeys as "our National Thanksgiving Bird."

[rappyfreak]

Now this is a badass!!!
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hayha.html

[Krandall]

Now this is a badass!!!
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hayha.html

Häyhä basically just ran around doling out head-shots like the ice cream man gives out Dove bars on a hot sunny day in the Sahara desert.

[rappyfreak]

He would have been unbeatable at COD: Modern Warfare!!! 

[disco]

Now we know fathered Chuck Norris.

[frog69]

Nikola Tesla,  During his lifetime, Tesla invented fluorescent lighting, the Tesla induction motor, the Tesla coil, and developed the alternating current (AC) electrical supply system that included a motor and transformer, and 3-phase electricity, X-ray machine and cell phones.

Tesla is now credited with inventing modern radio as well; since the Supreme Court overturned Guglielmo Marconi's patent in 1943 in favor of Nikola Tesla's earlier patents. When an engineer (Otis Pond) once said to Tesla, "Looks as if Marconi got the jump on you" regarding Marconi's radio system, Tesla replied, "Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents."

The Tesla coil, invented in 1891, is still used in radio and television sets and other electronic equipment.


thank GERD for Tesla

[Peelz]

I have one of their cd's