Cool Trivias!!

Lyndon · Beerkada Creator

RE: Cool Trivias!!

roachy · 10CM - nurse bassist

Contrary to popular notion, the symbolic name "Juan de la Cruz" is not a Filipino invention. R. McCulloch-Dick, a Scottish born journalist, coined the generic tag while working for the Manila Times in the early 1900's after discovering it was the most common name in police blotters and court dockets in and around Manila.

pilandok · Cyber Pilandok

Lyndon wrote:

polskie wrote:

scientist discovered that men using mobile phones for 4 hrs or more have lesser sperm count

Men shouldn't use their crotches when making 4-hour long phone calls.

that should do it XD

All roman soldiers are ones farmers, so they knew hardship already

twistedkai · Carpooler

Salt was once a very expensive commodity that they used it to pay Roman Soldiers.

roachy · 10CM - nurse bassist

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself..

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled

eastydie · Fagazi's Advocate

Elephants have been known to die of broken hearts if a mate dies. They refuse to eat and will lay down, shedding tears until they starve to death. They refuse all human help.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWwwwwwwwww...

bugoytheman · Pseudo Ponderer

Long ago, chinese judge uses sun glasses during trials/hearings for the people in the court to avoid seeing their eyes (to avoid seeing their emotions)

kikomatsin · Junior

More than 45% of myspace users are emo, and over 20% of AIM users have an emo icon as their buddy icon

roachy · 10CM - nurse bassist

Roses MAY be red, but violets ARE, indeed, violet

bowen · Beerkadet

They used to fetch water from the Pasig River to use as bath water in Manila Hotel. That was a long way back

polskie · Carpooler

no word in the english langguage ryhmes with month, orange, silver and purple.

(moral? txtm8s and impotence.proportional..)

-- Edited by polskie at 19:19, 2008-05-08

roachy · 10CM - nurse bassist

KAHEL ang tagalog word for orange

Tora^2 · Beerkadet

bowen wrote:

They used to fetch water from the Pasig River to use as bath water in Manila Hotel. That was a long way back

Pasig River was also a habitat for crocodiles that if anyone bathed there, they needed to do it in cages.

One such crocodile attack was depicted in Noli Me Tangere

twistedkai · Carpooler

Trivium is the singular form of trivia.

Tagala which is the Philippines first Filipino-Spanish dictionary was printed in 1613, 25 years older than the first book printed in the United States.

bowen · Beerkadet

Charlie Chaplin never made it even to the third place when he joined once in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest

tenkouken · Carpooler

Sali ako. XD

American pop singer Neil Sedaka wrote the openings songs and sole ending song for the anime "Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam."

Clueless · Beerkadet

polskie wrote:
scientist discovered that men using mobile phones for 4 hrs or more have lesser sperm count

WHAT!?! got to lessen my time on the phone. hehehe. did you know that birds are the most direct descendants of the dinosaurs?

roachy · 10CM - nurse bassist

"Go" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

polskie · Carpooler

biggest squid is 80feet long! datsalottacalamares!

roachy · 10CM - nurse bassist

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle

sanggre_felicia · Chomplet-in-Training

"&" is called an ampersand which gets it's name from the words " and per se and" (and by itself "and"). when children sang the alphabet, & was included after the letter z, thus "and per se and" shortened to ampersand.

Clueless · Beerkadet

did you know that goldfishes memory lasts only for 3 seconds

roachy · 10CM - nurse bassist

Earthworms have five hearts

psychoCOW · Beerkadet Mascot/Matinee Idol

polskie wrote:

no word in the english language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.

Sorry, I couldn't resist...

Month: C*nt
Orange: Range, Arrange
Silver: Sliver, never, ever, palaver
Purple: Supple

Now where'd you get this? We have to burn that website down.

psychoCOW · Beerkadet Mascot/Matinee Idol

"Bababa ba?" is the only sentence in Filipino that consists of one syllable.
I'd like to say "In any language", but I can't prove it.

KenMikaze · Enigbaboykage-ANBU

On May 9, 1956, the Philippine government signed a reparations agreement with Japan in Malacañang. Japan agreed to pay the Philippines $800 million for damages caused during World War II.

eastydie · Fagazi's Advocate

The brain is soft and gelatinous - its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.

that's why Hannibal Lecter didn't find it hard to chew on them. hehehehe

psychoCOW · Beerkadet Mascot/Matinee Idol

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

kikomatsin · Junior

The Philippine National Anthem played during the declaration of Philippine Independence, as the Marcha Nacional Filipina on June 12, 1898, had no words.

eastydie · Fagazi's Advocate

The original Winnie the Pooh was a real live bear found outside of Winnipeg, Canada, hence the name Winnie.

how do you make dimples? for humans I mean?