Did you know...

Did you know that 90% of all airplane accidents happen 3 minutes after take-off, or 10 minutes before landing -- (This is an old statistic, but I think its still valid)

Did you know...the air flowing through a 767-400ER engine at takeoff power could inflate the Goodyear Blimp in seven seconds. 😉

Did you know...that 83% of statistics are lies?

😉

99jolegg wrote:

Did you know...that 83% of statistics are lies?

😉

Did you know that 49.4% of accidents are because of the crew!(pilot, co-pilot). And of this 49.5 %, the distraction factor is arrownd 11%!.

did you know that everything in a room can become combustible in a house fire at abut 1300 degrees 😳

99jolegg wrote:

Did you know...that 83% of statistics are lies?

😉

Then chances are the statistic you threw at me right there was a lie 😉

JarJarBinks wrote:

did you know that everything in a room can become combustible in a house fire at abut 1300 degrees 😳

...except the water in the tub in the bathroom.

Did you know there are two secrets to success in life.

1. Do not tell anyone everything you know.

crosscheck9 wrote:

99jolegg wrote:

Did you know...that 83% of statistics are lies?

😉

Then chances are the statistic you threw at me right there was a lie 😉

It wasn't thrown at anybody, and that is part of the "joke" - its merely highlighting the fact that statistics, by enlarge, only show one aspect of the picture so are fairly useless.

😉

99jolegg wrote:

crosscheck9 wrote:

99jolegg wrote:

Did you know...that 83% of statistics are lies?

😉

Then chances are the statistic you threw at me right there was a lie 😉

It wasn't thrown at anybody, and that is part of the "joke" - its merely highlighting the fact that statistics, by enlarge, only show one aspect of the picture so are fairly useless.

😉

There's the problem with internet communication 😕 -- hehe, I understood the idea behind what you said, and meant the reply in much the same way -- Apologies for the miscommunication 😉

true fact 113: bees are made of wood.

Here is a wierd one-Did you know that you apparently could fit the entire population of China into Loch Ness! 🤔

violentviolet wrote:

Here is a wierd one-Did you know that you apparently could fit the entire population of China into Loch Ness! 🤔

Hmmmm....i'd like to see that 😳 😂

hinch wrote:

true fact 113: bees are made of wood.

Well... better get the axe! 😂

99% sure of this one-Did you know that just after WW2,a US car manufacturer was given the design plans for a small rear engined car but turned it down because they thought it wouldn't sell.VW went on to build it and called it the BETTLE.

violentviolet wrote:

99% sure of this one-Did you know that just after WW2,a US car manufacturer was given the design plans for a small rear engined car but turned it down because they thought it wouldn't sell.VW went on to build it and called it the BETTLE.

Thats so truth! ( good for german economy), after WW2 many thing were taked out of Europe...100% truth.

Oberkomando wrote:

violentviolet wrote:

99% sure of this one-Did you know that just after WW2,a US car manufacturer was given the design plans for a small rear engined car but turned it down because they thought it wouldn't sell.VW went on to build it and called it the BETTLE.

Thats so truth! ( good for german economy), after WW2 many thing were taked out of Europe...100% truth.

Thanks for the confirmation 🍻

violentviolet wrote:

Oberkomando wrote:

violentviolet wrote:

99% sure of this one-Did you know that just after WW2,a US car manufacturer was given the design plans for a small rear engined car but turned it down because they thought it wouldn't sell.VW went on to build it and called it the BETTLE.

Thats so truth! ( good for german economy), after WW2 many thing were taked out of Europe...100% truth.

Thanks for the confirmation 🍻

No problem, VV!

violentviolet wrote:

Here is a wierd one-Did you know that you apparently could fit the entire population of China into Loch Ness!

😳 😳 😳 😳
Makes you wonder what's in there......

😎

Did you know that for the year 2050, the earth population will reach to 9 billon humans = 9,000,000,000!!!, we are now 6.5 billon = 6,500,000,000... 😳

Oberkomando wrote:

Did you know that for the year 2050, the earth population will reach to 9 billon humans = 9,000,000,000!!!, we are now 6.5 billon = 6,500,000,000... 😳

I'll need to have a word with my wife!

my friend is the youngest of 9! 😳

(someone been gettin busy) 🙄

violentviolet wrote:

Oberkomando wrote:

Did you know that for the year 2050, the earth population will reach to 9 billon humans = 9,000,000,000!!!, we are now 6.5 billon = 6,500,000,000... 😳

I'll need to have a word with my wife!

I think yes, many of us will not be confortable, when our cityes became a chaos!. 😕 😳 😀

Oberkomando wrote:

violentviolet wrote:

Oberkomando wrote:

Did you know that for the year 2050, the earth population will reach to 9 billon humans = 9,000,000,000!!!, we are now 6.5 billon = 6,500,000,000... 😳

I'll need to have a word with my wife!

I think yes, many of us will not be confortable, when our cityes became a chaos!. 😕 😳 😀

Ever saw the movie "SOYLENT GREEN"

violentviolet wrote:

Oberkomando wrote:

violentviolet wrote:

Oberkomando wrote:

Did you know that for the year 2050, the earth population will reach to 9 billon humans = 9,000,000,000!!!, we are now 6.5 billon = 6,500,000,000... 😳

I'll need to have a word with my wife!

I think yes, many of us will not be confortable, when our cityes became a chaos!. 😕 😳 😀

Ever saw the movie "SOYLENT GREEN"

I don´t think so, what is it about?, because i have seen many, many movies about every thing and i can not really remember. 🙄

SOYLENT GREEN 1973,CHARLTON HESTON: Over-populated world,runaway greenhouse effect,the land and oceans have been harvested until nothing remains,so they start making food from dead humans.A good movie. 👍

violentviolet wrote:

SOYLENT GREEN 1973,CHARLTON HESTON: Over-populated world,runaway greenhouse effect,the land and oceans have been harvested until nothing remains,so they start making food from dead humans.A good movie. 👍

Oh!, i remember it, well not all the movie, but i can remeber about some escenes. Geat movien because of the imagination the director had!, may happend, some day, hope not to soon, i want to fly birds before something like that happens. LOL 😀

Have you seen the movie 30 days?, it is about zombies in the UK, that after the become alive deads they spred all over the world...

Oberkomando wrote:

violentviolet wrote:

SOYLENT GREEN 1973,CHARLTON HESTON: Over-populated world,runaway greenhouse effect,the land and oceans have been harvested until nothing remains,so they start making food from dead humans.A good movie. 👍

Oh!, i remember it, well not all the movie, but i can remeber about some escenes. Geat movien because of the imagination the director had!, may happend, some day, hope not to soon, i want to fly birds before something like that happens. LOL 😀

Have you seen the movie 30 days?, it is about zombies in the UK, that after the become alive deads they spred all over the world...

It was called "28 days later" over here,and i have it on dvd.Good movie too.My fav. at the moment is "CONSTANTINE" 👍

violentviolet wrote:

Oberkomando wrote:

violentviolet wrote:

SOYLENT GREEN 1973,CHARLTON HESTON: Over-populated world,runaway greenhouse effect,the land and oceans have been harvested until nothing remains,so they start making food from dead humans.A good movie. 👍

Oh!, i remember it, well not all the movie, but i can remeber about some escenes. Geat movien because of the imagination the director had!, may happend, some day, hope not to soon, i want to fly birds before something like that happens. LOL 😀

Have you seen the movie 30 days?, it is about zombies in the UK, that after the become alive deads they spred all over the world...

It was called "28 days later" over here,and i have it on dvd.Good movie too.My fav. at the moment is "CONSTANTINE" 👍

Oh yes CONSTANTINE is great movie, i saw it, very interesting subject.. and goos special effects...

hmm isn't this thread leading onto another topic?? 😕

Because we are talking about a movie AND 'a did you know' subject.

SteveT wrote:

hmm isn't this thread leading onto another topic?? 😕

Because we are talking about a movie AND 'a did you know' subject.

Yes sorry, woun´t happen again... lets continue with the subject 😉

did you know that about 30% of people are scared of flying

Did you know that 10% of total population is left handed? (use left hand )

did you know that 90% of the porulation is right handed 😂

davidmac1 wrote:

did you know that 90% of the porulation is right handed 😂

DID YOU KNOW.....Toyota had to re-name the MR2,the 2.0GT for the french market because of the literal translation of MR2. 🙄

GET YOUR HAND OFF OF YOUR MOUSE BEFORE READING, YOU WILL THANK ME

did you know that a harvard study shows that those who keep their hand on their mouse while they read e-mails have a non-existant sex life???

jeffb57 wrote:

GET YOUR HAND OFF OF YOUR MOUSE BEFORE READING, YOU WILL THANK ME

did you know that a harvard study shows that those who keep their hand on their mouse while they read e-mails have a non-existant sex life???

im 13 still hope to keep it that way for a while 😉

jeffb57 wrote:

GET YOUR HAND OFF OF YOUR MOUSE BEFORE READING, YOU WILL THANK ME

did you know that a harvard study shows that those who keep their hand on their mouse while they read e-mails have a non-existant sex life???

That was the excuse that articles writer found about his sexual life??? 😂

jeffb57 wrote:

GET YOUR HAND OFF OF YOUR MOUSE BEFORE READING, YOU WILL THANK ME

did you know that a harvard study shows that those who keep their hand on their mouse while they read e-mails have a non-existant sex life???

*Removes hand away from mouse after reading*

😂

jeffb57 wrote:

GET YOUR HAND OFF OF YOUR MOUSE BEFORE READING, YOU WILL THANK ME

did you know that a harvard study shows that those who keep their hand on their mouse while they read e-mails have a non-existant sex life???

would that explain why it's been a whole weeeeek!?

JarJarBinks wrote:

jeffb57 wrote:

GET YOUR HAND OFF OF YOUR MOUSE BEFORE READING, YOU WILL THANK ME

did you know that a harvard study shows that those who keep their hand on their mouse while they read e-mails have a non-existant sex life???

im 13 still hope to keep it that way for a while 😉

i work at a school with 13 year olds, and i can say that they can do some things that aren't very "appropriate" for their age.

ive got friends bring in is of their well...... girlfriend and events.

yeah i know

don't crumble into peer pressure, just because they do things doesn't mean that its ok to do.

Did you know that it costs about $5,000 just to start up the engines on a 747?

Did you know that the Latin word for left is "sinister", which now means evil because people thought that left-handed people were possessed(spelling?) by the devil?

Did you know:-
President Kennedys' secretarys' surname was Lincoln
President Lincolns' secretary's surname was Kennedy
Lincoln was elected in 1860
Kennedy was elected in 1960
Both were shot in the head
Both stood for civil rights
Kennedy was shot in a car called a Lincoln
Lincoln was shot in the Kennedy theatre
Kennedys' assassin shot from a warehouse and was caught in a movie theatre
Lincolns' assassin shot from a theatre and was caught in a warehouse
Both assassins had triple barreled names:-
John Wilkes Boothe
Lee Harvey Oswald
Both assassins were assassinated before they came to trial
Both of their wives lost children while in the Whitehouse
There are a few more that i can't remember. Coincidence or downright spooky?

Did you know that there's a new york club for people with paper airplanes that flew(unofficially) for over one hour.

Welshflyer wrote:

Did you know:-
President Kennedys' secretarys' surname was Lincoln
President Lincolns' secretary's surname was Kennedy
Lincoln was elected in 1860
Kennedy was elected in 1960
Both were shot in the head
Both stood for civil rights
Kennedy was shot in a car called a Lincoln
Lincoln was shot in the Kennedy theatre
Kennedys' assassin shot from a warehouse and was caught in a movie theatre
Lincolns' assassin shot from a theatre and was caught in a warehouse
Both assassins had triple barreled names:-
John Wilkes Boothe
Lee Harvey Oswald
Both assassins were assassinated before they came to trial
Both of their wives lost children while in the Whitehouse
There are a few more that i can't remember. Coincidence or downright spooky?

credit to :AlbinoBlacksheep.com

did you know that nobody can lick their elbow...(the wrinkly part...)

earthqu8kes wrote:

did you know that nobody can lick their elbow...(the wrinkly part...)

How old are you earthqu8kes? I don't have a wrinkly part ...

😁

Did you know that the Concorde could descend at 11'000ft per minute.

did you know this is a really old topic?

and the elbows thing - you can if you dislocate your elbow and have a big-ish tongue like my sisters old flatmate. they got the question in a pub quiz wrong as he said it was 'true' - of course he then proved it.

lovely.

Dumb Facts

More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world.

Penguins are not found in the North Pole

People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier errors worldwide.

A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

Rudolf the Red-nosed reindeer was actually created as a promotional figure for Montgomery Wards department stores.

A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

Walt Disney got the idea for Mickey Mouse from watching mice play in a garage, where he was forced to work, because he could not afford to rent an art studio.

About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.

About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf .

The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of."

Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.

Charlie Brown's dad was a barber.

Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks.

Frank Baum, the writer of "The Wizard of OZ", looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs.

😳 😳

CRJCapt, i'm not going to even try to outdo that lot.You win!

This is all good stuff. I'm glad I found this on Thursday.
I had no idea that the MiG was made by an Armenian.[/img]

earthqu8kes wrote:

Welshflyer wrote:

Did you know:-
President Kennedys' secretarys' surname was Lincoln
President Lincolns' secretary's surname was Kennedy
Lincoln was elected in 1860
Kennedy was elected in 1960
Both were shot in the head
Both stood for civil rights
Kennedy was shot in a car called a Lincoln
Lincoln was shot in the Kennedy theatre
Kennedys' assassin shot from a warehouse and was caught in a movie theatre
Lincolns' assassin shot from a theatre and was caught in a warehouse
Both assassins had triple barreled names:-
John Wilkes Boothe
Lee Harvey Oswald
Both assassins were assassinated before they came to trial
Both of their wives lost children while in the Whitehouse
There are a few more that i can't remember. Coincidence or downright spooky?

credit to :AlbinoBlacksheep.com

did you know that nobody can lick their elbow...(the wrinkly part...)

Eartqua8kes, i don't want the credit for it i just thought it was fascinating!
I would never take another persons work and say it was mine!

Did you know it is impossible to read Rudolf the Red-nosed reindeer without thinking of the song 😛

Bash! Have you been down the pub? Like me!

How very dare you!

Ooh this could go on all night!

I am on my last legs. Too many wife beaters and the odd diesel tonight. Stricken pilot going down....mayday mayday

🍻

Nice, shame about your rugby and ours had to drown the pain! Could'nt endanger an aircraft though, 12 hour ruling! Feel like this toward New Zealanders at the moment .Am i bovvered yes!

The one about noone being able to lick their elbow isn't true.

A British progam called "Brainiac" I think showed this fact on one of their shows. Subsequently lots of people sent in pictures of themselves licking their elbows (yes, the wrinkly part).

Did you know that today is the tomorrow you were worrying about yesterday?

*edit: corrected spelling errors .. duh

Insight wrote:

Did you know that today is the tomorrow you were worrying about yesterday?

One of my favorite quotes. 😎