Thread: Strange and Unusual Facts

These cavewomen dildos discovered in Germany are around 28,000 years old. They are believed to be the oldest sex toys ever discovered.

Originally Posted by tomcat

They are believed to be the oldest sex toys ever discovered.

I thought Norton was the oldest sex toy ever discovered . . . and he's German

Which one is Norts?

Originally Posted by tomcat

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This is what a bear without fur looks like.

Wow. The head looks like a kangaroo's. Someone there's a roo with a hairy bear's head.

Originally Posted by tomcat

While digging in a cave in New Zealand, archaeologists discovered the claws of a Moa, a bird that went extinct 700 - 800 years ago.

The Haast's eagle, the largest eagle known to have existed, preyed on the 12ft 200kg+ Moa and went extinct following its preys demise. However the last recorded sighting was circa. 20 years following the extinction of of the Moa.

So somehow an eagle that had its prey imprint as a large two-legged animal survived for a period after its main prey was hunted to extinction... Think about it.

Originally Posted by tomcat

The inventor of the Pringles can was cremated and buried in one.

I guess BBQ

Night time photo of Egypt, showing the population concentration along the Nile River.

In 1887, Alice E. Doherty was born with a rare genetic mutation called “hypertrichosis”, or “werewolf syndrome” causing excessive amounts of body hair. This is the only known case in United States history.

It horrifies me that Cairo's suburban sprawl has now overtaken the pyramids.

In 1961, Leonid Rogozov, a 27-year-old Soviet doctor, performing surgery on himself to remove an infected appendix during an expedition to the Antarctic, where he was the only doctor on the team.

A group of pandas is called an "embarrassment."

A 5MB hard drive being loaded onto a PanAm plane in 1956.

Originally Posted by tomcat

A group of pandas is called an "embarrassment."

Quite so. A group of cats might be referred to as a "cluster" or a "clowder," both of which have alliterative appeal. If it's TC's gang, I feel that a "glaring" might be most appropriate....

Originally Posted by tomcat

A group of pandas is called an "embarrassment."

I think that's a group of LatinKarens.

Originally Posted by tomcat

A group of pandas is called an "embarrassment."

Coincidentally I just learned yesterday that a group of hippos is called a bloat.

Which surprised me as it was both interesting, but pretty much completely useless to know.

Obsessed a bit?

Inventing collective nouns was something of a popular parlour game in England at one time. This is why the language is blessed with such treasures as "a parliament of rooks "and "a murder of crows."

In James Lipton's book "An Exaltation of Larks," it is suggested that a group of sex workers might be referred to as "a queen of tarts."

Originally Posted by Edmond

surprised me as it was both interesting, but pretty much completely useless to know.

Originally Posted by TheMadBaron

"a parliament of rooks

We want more, We want more.

Did anyone ever start a threat on the origin of sayings.*

I learned from Sir Jeremy Clarkson that 'Flash in the pan' comes from old muskets, as well as then going off half-cocked.



* Crank it up Dave-O.

Originally Posted by Edmond

We want more, We want more.

An army of ants
A business of ferrets
A conspiracy of ravens
A dazzle of zebra
An eleven of footballers
A flamboyance of flamingoes
A grist of bees
A husk of hares
An ignorance of asses
A jocularity of hyenas
A kindle of kittens
A leap of leopards
A mischief of rats
A nursery of racoons
An obesity of Americans
A perversion of sailors
A queen of tarts
A romp of otters
A superfluity of nuns
A troop of apes
An unkindness of ravens

Points to the first person who can tell me which three of the above I just made up. You have until midnight GMT.

I'm delighted to have just learned that the collective nouns for zombies are "stagger" and "stench."

Originally Posted by TheMadBaron

An army of ants
A business of ferrets
A conspiracy of ravens
A dazzle of zebra
An eleven of footballers
A flamboyance of flamingoes
A grist of bees
A husk of hares
An ignorance of asses
A jocularity of hyenas
A kindle of kittens
A leap of leopards
A mischief of rats
A nursery of racoons
An obesity of Americans
A perversion of sailors
A queen of tarts
A romp of otters
A superfluity of nuns
A troop of apes
I'm not smeg
An unkindness of ravens

Points to the first person who can tell me which three of the above I just made up.

Done, done and done.

Originally Posted by Edmond

Done, done and done.

Fail, fail and true, but fail.

Teakdoor has an eructation of trolls we call The Mutt Pack.