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Re: Thread For Facts.... by mytym(m): 9:45pm On Jul 25, 2014
philfearon:
No...It is the same name,but different people..
As at that time,The name is a common and popular names for the local folks in his place!!

I know its different people and infact different times but the question is, why was it boat mishaps and why must it always be Hugh Williams surviving each time.
It makes me conclude sometimes that this life is just an 'Ordered Randomness'...like an 'arranged chaos' sorta. If TIME is an illusion, chance may be too.
So my brother you are very correct! smiley I'm just worried how somethings can't just be explained especially when too many 'coincidences' are involved.
Re: Thread For Facts.... by philfearon(m): 5:27am On Jul 26, 2014
mytym:

I know its different people and infact different times but the question is, why was it boat mishaps and why must it always be Hugh Williams surviving each time.
It makes me conclude sometimes that this life is just an 'Ordered Randomness'...like an 'arranged chaos' sorta. If TIME is an illusion, chance may be too.
So my brother you are very correct! smiley I'm just worried how somethings can't just be explained especially when too many 'coincidences' are involved.

Yea,you are correct too...But there is nothing like coincidence, and nothing happens by accident/chance..Your realisation is Real!!

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Re: Thread For Facts.... by McWhillion(m): 10:22am On Jul 26, 2014
Nobleval: FACT: Asking a lesbian
“are you sure you don’t
like men?” Isn’t going
to suddenly make her
reevaluate her life and
jump into your arms. It’s just going to make
her think you’re a
dumb ass
Fact: Straight men like lesbians and female bisexuals.

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Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 12:33pm On Jul 30, 2014
The words "twerk," "derp,"
and "selfie," have
been added to the Oxford
English Dictionary.
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 12:42pm On Jul 30, 2014
Psychology fact: You can't see
your reflection in boiling
water. Similarly, you can't see
the truths in your life in a
state of anger.

Psychology fact: You are
responsible for your own
happiness. If you expect
others to make you happy,
you will always be
disappointed.

Don’t let yourself be
controlled by three things:
people, money, or past
experiences.

Don’t hold on to anger, hurt
or pain. They steal
your energy and keep you
from love.

77% of men look for
girlfriends with "wife
potential."

“Never trust your tongue
when your heart is
bitter.”

Switching your cellphone to
ring instead of
vibrate almost doubles the
battery life. Vibrate
kills the battery faster.

People are more likely to
assume you're arguing
with them when you're
actually just explaining
why you're right.

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Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:06am On Aug 02, 2014
Students in Denmark get paid
to go to school.

You see better when you are
scared.

Women can tell if a man is a
cheater just by
looking at him, but men can’t
do the same with
women.

You cant lose what you never
had,
You cant keep what is not
yours
And You cant hold on to
something that does not want
to stay.
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:09am On Aug 02, 2014
Type of Phobias

1. Trypanophobia – Fear of
injection

2. Triskaidekaphob ia – Fear of the number 13

3. Soceraphobia – Fear of
parents in law

4. Pogonophobia – Fear of
beards

5.Phobophobia – Fear of
phobias

6. Olfactophobia – Fear of
smells

7. Mnemophobia – Fear of
memories

8. Laliophobia – Fear of
speaking

9. Latrophobia – Fear of
doctors or going to the
doctors

10. Geliophobia – Fear of
laughter

11. Chronophobia – Fear of
time

12. Catoptrophobia – Fear
of mirrors

13. Allodoxophobia – Fear
of opinions
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:11am On Aug 02, 2014
A joke...Bringbaphobia : fear of bring
back our gals shocked

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Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:20am On Aug 02, 2014
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia: fear of long words.

Testaphobia- fear of exam

genophobia:fear of sex
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:21am On Aug 02, 2014
In Ancient Greece, throwing
an apple to a woman was
considered a marriage
proposal.
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:22am On Aug 02, 2014
Music helps in reducing stress
and depression. Like if it
works for you, and name
that song that has been there
for you when your down
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:23am On Aug 02, 2014
Psychology fact: No matter
how strong of a person you
are, there’s always someone
who can make you weak
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:32am On Aug 02, 2014
Applying a male’s underarm
sweat to a female’s lips can
help women relax, boost their
mood and help regulate their
menstrual cycle.
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:33am On Aug 02, 2014
When people say "you've
changed" there's a 95% chance
that you just stopped acting
the way they wanted you to.
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:34am On Aug 02, 2014
Psychology fact: You are
responsible for your own
happiness. If you expect
others to make you happy,
you will always be
disappointed.

Psychology fact: A person
who seems jealous or clingy is
actually someone who cares
the most.
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:36am On Aug 02, 2014
Psychological fact, being
unable to get someone off
your mind indicates that you
are also on that person's mind
as well.

Stop being afraid of what
could go wrong and instead
think of what could go right.

We don't meet people by
accident. They are meant to
cross our path for a reason.

When someone asks, " Guess
what?" 95% of people dnt
guess, rather just say "
What?"
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:38am On Aug 02, 2014
Psychology fact: Fake friends
are no different than
shadows, they stick around
during your brightest
moments, but disappear
during your darkest hours.

Loneliness is processed in the
same part of the brain as
physical pain.

Honey badgers have been
known to eat porcupines and
poisonous snakes, raid
beehives, kidnap baby
cheetahs and steal food from
hungry lions.

Anticipating sex makes your
hair grow faster.
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:40am On Aug 02, 2014
In just seven years, a single
pair of cats and their offspring
could produce a staggering
total of 420,000 kittens.

Psychology says, never give
up on something you really
want. Nothing is worse than
regret.

Approximately 80% of
women who obtain an
abortion are younger than 25.

About 50% of breakups now
occur via text message.
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:53am On Aug 02, 2014
10 Facts about Computer
Viruses:

1. The first windows virus
was WinVer 1.4.
The first .exe files virus
was Groove.
The first boot virus was
created by Farooq Alvi brothers from Pakistan.

2. Mostly, viruses are
created by people under
age 30. These are
experiments or jokes and
the creators only develop
them with basic knowledge of
programming languages.
They have no idea or
intention to cause serious
damage.

3. They can create their
own copies with same,
slightly different or
completely different codes.

4. The first known virus
was created by Bob
Thomas on Arpanet as an
experiment.

5. No computer can get
infected by simply reading
an e-mail, unless you
download or access any
link or attachment. A virus
always needs a host to enter a computer and then
spread.

6. MyDoom was the fastest
spreading virus ever
created. It did the most
economic damage
estimated at USD $38.5
billion.

7. Amazon.com brand was
the most exploited target
for phishing attacks,
followed by Apple and
Ebay.

8. US is at the highest risk
of virus attack, followed
by Russia Federation.

9. 6,000 new viruses are
created every month.

10. 1 in 14 programs
downloaded is malicious.

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Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:36am On Aug 02, 2014
100 Weird Facts About
Dogs :

1. It is a myth that dogs are
color blind. They can actually
see in color, just not as vividly
as humans. It is akin to our
vision at dusk.

2. Dogs DO have better low-
light vision than humans
because of a special light-
reflecting layer behind their
retinas

3. A German Shepherd guide
dog led her blind companion
the entire 2100 mile
Appalachian Trail

4. If never spayed or
neutered, a female dog, her
mate, and their puppies could
produce over 66,000 dogs in 6
years!

5. Dogs’ only sweat glands are
between their paw pads

6. Like human babies,
Chihuahuas are born with a
soft spot in their skull which
closes with age

7. The breed Lundehune has 6
toes and can close its ears

8. Teddy Roosevelt’s dog,
Pete, ripped a French
ambassador’s pants off at the
White House

9. President Lyndon Johnson
had two beagles named Him
and Her

10. Franklin Roosevelt spent
$15,000 for a destroyer to pick
up his Scottie in the Aleutian
Islands

11. In Roman times, mastiffs
donned light armor and were
sent after mounted knights

12. The Russians trained dogs
during WWII to run suicide
missions with mines strapped
to their backs

13. A dog’s mouth exerts
150-200 pounds of pressure
per square inch

14. … with some dogs
exerting up to 450 pounds per
square inch.

15. A one year old dog is as
mature, physically, as a 15
year old human

16. The U.S. has the highest
dog population in the world
17. France has the 2nd highest

18. The average city dog lives
3 years longer than a country
dog

19. 87% of dog owners say
their dog curls up beside them
or at their feet while they
watch T.V.

20. Dogs can be trained to
detect epileptic seizures

21. 15 people die in the U.S.
every year from dog bites

22. In 2002 alone, more people
in the U.S. were killed by dogs
than by sharks in the past 100
years

23. Gidget is the name of the
Taco Bell dog

24. Newfoundlands are great
swimmers because of their
webbed feet

25. Basset Hounds cannot
swim
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:37am On Aug 02, 2014
26. Greyhounds are the fastest
dogs on earth, with speeds of
up to 45 miles per hour

27. Bingo is the name of the
dog on the side of the Cracker
Jack box

28. The bible mentions dogs 14
times

29. Three dogs survived the
sinking of the Titanic – a
Newfoundland, a Pomeranian,
and a Pekingese

30. The Labrador Retriever is
the #1 favorite breed in the
U.S., Canada, and the U.K.

31. Obesity is the #1 health
problem among dogs

32. An estimated 1,000,000
dogs in the U.S. have been
named as the primary
beneficiaries in their owner’s
will{weird..huh?smiley cheesy)

33. An American Animal
Hospital Assoc. poll found that
33% of dog owners admit to
talking to their dogs on the
phone and leaving answering
machine messages for them while away

34. Dog’s nose prints are as
unique as a human’s finger
prints and can be used to
accurately identify them

35. At the end of the Beatles’
song “A Day in the Life”, a
high-pitched dog whistle was
recorded by Paul McCartney
for his sheepdog

36. 70% of people sign their
pet’s name on greeting and
holiday cards

37. 58% put pets in family and
holiday portraits

38. There are only 350 Cisky
Terriers in the world – perhaps
the rarest breed

39. The phrase “raining cats
and dogs” originated in 17th
century England when it is
believed that many cats and
dogs drowned during heavy
periods of rain.

40. Dogs have no sense of
“time”

41. Humans have kept dogs as
pets for over 12,000 years

42. The largest breed of dog is
the Irish Wolfhound

43. The world’s smallest dog
breed is the Chihuahua

44. The St. Bernard is the
heaviest

45. Only dogs and humans
have prostates

46. But dogs do not have an
appendix

47. Every dog on earth likely
descended from a species
knows as the Tomarctus – a
creature that roamed the
earth over 15 million years
ago

48. The oldest known breed is
likely the Saluki – originally
trained by Egyptians to help
them track game.

49. In 1957, Laika became the
first living being in space via
an earth satellite

50. … while JFK’s terrier,
Charlie, father 4 puppies with
Laika’s daughter
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:37am On Aug 02, 2014
51. An African wolf dog
known as the basenji is the
only dog in the world that
cannot bark

52. There are 703 breeds of
purebred dogs

53. Dachshunds were
originally bred for fighting
badgers

54. The world’s smartest dogs
are thought to be (1) the
border collie, (2) the poodle,
and (3) the golden retriever

55. … while the dumbest dog
is believed to be the Afghan
hound

56. A dog’s smell is more than
100,000 times stronger than
that of a human’s

57. … which they need because
their eyesight is not as keen as
a human’s.

58. Dogs judge objects first by
their movement, then by
their brightness, and lastly by
their shape

59. Chocolate contains a
substance known as
theobromine (similar to
caffeine) which can kill dogs
or at the very least make
them violently ill

60. George Washington had
thirty six dogs – all
foxhounds – with one named
Sweetlips

61. All dogs are identical in
anatomy – 321 bones and 42
permanent teeth

62. Smaller breeds mature
faster than larger breeds

63. Female dogs are only
ready to mate – “in heat” –
twice a year for a total of
roughly 20 days

64. Puppies sleep ninety
percent of the day for their
first few weeks

65. Rin Tin Tin was the first
Hollywood dog star

66. … and he really signed his
movie contracts – all 22 of
them – with a pawprint

67. The Wizard of Oz’s Toto
was played by a female Cairn
Terrier named Terry

68. Their vision is not fully
developed until after the 1st
month

69. Dogs have two times as
many muscles to move their
ears as people

70. The longer a dog’s nose,
the more effective it’s internal
cooling system

71. An elderly woman was
saved by her 12 pound
Yorkshire Terrier who fought
off an 80 pound Akita and
survived with only 9 stitches

72. U.S. Customs dogs “Rocky”
and “Barco” were so good at
patrolling the border that
Mexican drug lords put a
$300,000 bounty on their
heads grin

73. Dogs are all direct
descendants of wolves

74. Wolves and dogs can mate
to produce fertile offspring

75. Female wolves have been
known to travel great
distances to regurgitate full
meals for their hungry pups
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:38am On Aug 02, 2014
76. Cerberus was the tri-
headed dog that guarded the
underworld in Greek
mythology

77. Female dogs bear their
young for 60 days before
they’re born

78. Dogs’ sense of hearing is
more than ten times more
acute than a human’s

79. Humans can detect sounds
at 20,000 times per second,
while dogs can sense
frequencies of 30,000 times per
second.

80. The earliest dog fossil dates
back to nearly 10,000 B.C.

81. Bloodhounds are prized
their ability to single out and
identify a number of scents
simultaneously

82. Dalmatian puppies are born
completely white.

83. The Ancient Chinese carried
Pekingese puppies in the
sleeves of their robes

84. Boxers are so named
because of their manner of
playing with their front paws

85. All breeds of dog have
been found to attack
livestock – from 3 month old
puppies, all the way up to
thirteen year old poodles

86. A dog’s heart beats up to
120 times per minute, or 50%
faster than the average
human heartbeat of 80 times
per minute

87. The oldest dog on record –
a Queensland “Heeler” named
Bluey – was 29 years, 5
months old

88. Davy Crockett had a dog
named Sport

89. Dogs were first
domesticated by cavemen

90. Dogs live 15 years on
average

91. Many foot disorders in
dogs are simply an issue of
long toenails

92. More than 5,000,000
puppies are born in the U.S.
every year

93. More than 1 in 3 American
families own a dog

94. Average body
temperature for a dog is 101.2
degrees

95. The Girl Scouts and Boy
Scouts both offer merit
badges in dog care

96. Dogs are natural pack
animals

97. They are naturally
submissive to any creature
with higher pack status –
human or canine

98. After birth, puppies’ eyes
do not fully open until they’re
about 12 days old

99. Dogs with little human
contact in the first three
months typically don’t make
good pets

100. The Chihuahua was
named after the state in
Mexico where they were
discovered
Re: Thread For Facts.... by nolia66(f): 10:44pm On Aug 02, 2014
Anticipating sex makes your
hair grow faster.

[/quote]no wonder most guys cut der hair every two days lipsrsealed

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Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 12:28am On Aug 03, 2014
nolia66:
Anticipating sex makes your
hair grow faster.

no wonder most guys cut der hair every two days lipsrsealed
hey that's funny smiley
Re: Thread For Facts.... by wasak(m): 12:44am On Aug 03, 2014
nolia66:
Anticipating sex makes your
hair grow faster.

no wonder most guys cut der hair every two days lipsrsealed

chaii...i shave once in every five days.... but m a good boy just that i have a silly mind
.
Re: Thread For Facts.... by McWhillion(m): 1:54pm On Aug 05, 2014
Nobleval: On December 5th 1660, a
ship sank in the straights
of Dover - the only
survivor was noted to be
Hugh Williams.

On 5th December 1767,
another ship sank in the
same waters - 127 lost their
lives, the only survivor
was noted to be Hugh
Williams

On 8th August 1820, a
picnic boat capsized on the
Thames - there was one
survivor - Hugh Williams.

You sure say no be the same person?
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 8:58pm On Aug 07, 2014
Courtesy of Mcwhillion smiley

McWhillion: IF YOU ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH YOUR HISTORY BOOKS, YOU MIGHT NOT UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE NAMES HERE

1. The Romans used human urine as mouthwash.

2. The Ivanov experiments - Basically some Russian scientist in the 1920s conducted experiments where he tried to make a “humanzee”. I think there were other secret soviet experiments as well where they tried with gorillas in a (failed) attempt to make a super solider hybrid thing.

3. Boston Corbett, the man who found and shot John Wilkes Booth, was completely insane from handling mercury as a hatter. Years before shooting Booth he had calmly castrated himself with a pair of scissors.

4. People were buried alive so often in the 19th century that inventors patented safety coffins that would give the “dead” the ability to alert those above ground if they were still alive.

5. When the Russian Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government and stormed the Winter Palace in 1917 their revolution was halted for a few days. The reason was because the Bolsheviks got ridiculously drunk in the Winter Palace after finding the wine stores.

6. The Diary of Anne Frank was edited by her father because of some of the thing she talked about: such as her period, discovering herself, learning about hear clitoris/labia and learning some about boys from a younger guy that was staying with them too, and also her father’s infatuation with fart jokes and such (which he didn’t want published.)

7. American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a Hot SOB who kept multiple mistresses

8. During WWII, the propaganda aimed at dehumanizing the Japanese was so successful that American marines in the pacific were keeping the body parts of Japanese soldiers as Souvenirs.

9. Let me tell you the story of Princess Olga of Kiev.
Her husband, Igor, was murdered by the Drevlyans, an Eastern Slavic tribe. Olga took over the Kievan Rus’, but the Drevlyans didn’t want a female ruler, so they sent her a group of suitors.
Still pretty pissed about her husband’s murder, Olga had the suitors carried by her servants on a boat to the courtyard of the castle. The boat was dumped into a giant hole and the suitors were buried alive.
She told the Drevlyans that she had accepted a suitor and organized a party in a bath house. After the guests arrived, the doors were barred shut and the bath house was burned down.
After the memorial to the people who died in the bath house, a party was held and the Drevlyan guests got drunk off their ass. Olga’s royal guard proceeded to kill all 5,000 of them that night. When they requested her forgiveness, Olga asked the Drevlyans to give her three pigeons and three sparrows from each home from their capital of Iskorosten. When they arrive, she had hot coals tied to their legs and set them back home. As the city burned to the ground from the resulting fire, the people that ran out of the city were killed, enslaved, or extorted by Olga’s army. The entire tribe was basically wiped out in the following years. Olga is a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
NOTE: Never piss off a Russian.

10. Tsar Nicholas was fvcking his sister
11. In WWII the Russians trained dogs to run under German tanks with bombs on their backs. However, the tanks the dogs were trained to run under were Russian so they ended up running under the Russian tanks and blowing them up instead.

12. Where the <3 comes from - The Romans had an effective natural contraceptive. It was a plant called Silphium, and the shape of the seed is where we get the traditional heart ♥ shape we all recognize as a symbol of love.
Anyway, they bleeped so much that it went extinct.

13. The Ottoman Empire’s Sultan Ibrahim I had 280 of his concubines drowned in the ocean after one of them slept with another man.

14. Thomas Edison electrocuted a lady circus elephant to death.
She killed three men over the years (including an abusive trainer). Over a thousand people came to watch her die, and Edison recorded it on video.

15. This is about a man named Josef Rudolf Mengele who was also known as “The angel of death.” He was a sick man. He took Jewish kids and did experiments on them. He tried finding ways to turn their eyes blue. He had sewn 2 twins together by the length of their spines; the mother later killed them because they were nonstop screaming in agony. He even took a baseball bat to a child’s leg and right when the broken bone was about to heal he broke it again. He did this a ton of times to see if the leg would just give up on healing. The list goes on. This guy was nuts.

16. The reason why the Spartans were able to be so focused on war was because of massive slavery. Even though much of the ancient world had slavery, the Spartans took it to an extreme level, to the point where the Athenians were horrified just from seeing it.

17. There’s an Egyptian creation myth which states that the universe was the result of the ejaculation of the god Atum. As such apparently some Pharaohs would ceremonially ejaculate into the Nile
18. In the 15th century Romanian ruler Vlad the Impaler impaled 20,000 Ottoman Turks on long, sharp poles on the banks of the Danube.

19. Do you know that millions more Chinese people died cruelly at the hands of the Japanese than Jewish people died at the hands of the Germans but it seems that our history books sort of left that out…hmm

20. Most History textbooks that cover the Holocaust do not cover the Rape of Nanking
Soldiers chopped off the bellies of pregnant women, forced family members to rape each other, cut open children and infants to rape them, forced monks who had an oath to a life of celibacy to rape others, raped young girls literally to death, and so on.

21. During the civil war, prostitution was as big as fighting. General Hooker had huge groups of women go would follow around his troops and satisfy their urges (where the term Hooker comes from) and in 1861 the Union Army Medical Department reported that 1 out of 12 soldiers had venereal disease. One report showed that out of 468,000 men checked, 188,000 had an STD.
22. Genghis Khan raped so many women that the people of Asia have a very small chance of being biologically related to him.

23. A Byzantine emperor, Basil — he captured 15,000 Bulgarians in battle, and blinded 99 of every 100, leaving the 100th guy with one eye — and then send them all home.

24. From a very young age Al Capone had pus coming out of his penis. When he was finally arrested on grounds of tax evasion he was found to have syphillis, which was at the time very treatable. Capone refused treatment however because he was afraid of needles. After his 11 year stint in Alcatraz, the disease had eaten away at his brain so much that he could no longer resume his life of crime. Before his death he was often spotted casting a fishing rod into his swimming pool.

25. Julius Caesar banged Marcus Brutus’ mom. I think that is hilarious.

26. Prior to the 1960s tobacco companies ran physician-endorsed ads that suggested smoking had health benefits.

27. Foot tickling for sexual arousal was used in the Muscovite palaces and courts for centuries. Many of the Czarinas (Catherine the Great, Anna Ivanovna, Elizabeth and others) were fervent participants. The practice was so popular that eunuchs and women were employed as full time foot ticklers. They developed this unique skill so well that their occupations brought prestige and good pay.
Anna Leopoldovna had at least six ticklers at her feet. While the ticklers performed their task, they also told bawdy stories and sang obscene ballads. This was done to work the ladies up to an erotic pitch so that they could meet their husbands or lovers in a sex impassioned mood.
[The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe. William A. Rossi, 1993]

28. In the 1880s, Anthony Comstock went around collecting people’s dildos and other intimacy gadgets. He is like the Anti-Santa… in every way.

29. Christopher Columbus prostituted pre pubescent native American girls

30. For sure, they don’t teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who’d stand with you the whole time to protect you. To watch your asss, for real.

31. The Armenian genocide. It was a genocide which happened and left only an estimated 100,000 people were left in Armenia. The word genocide was created just to describe the massacre that the Armenians faced yet still some people say that it never happened.

32. American Founding father Ben Franklin visited brothels almost every night
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:01pm On Aug 07, 2014
McWhillion: 33. Unit 731 - It was a biological and chemical warfare research unit that undertook lethal human experimentation during the occupation of China.
Vivisection, germ warfare and weapons testing on living subjects (Human beings). Unit 731 was basically full of scientific sadists and psychopaths that killed people in incredibly gruesome ways and it seems their imagination knew no limits.
After WW2, the leaders of the unit gave the US military their research data in return for their own freedom and many of previous members of Unit 731 became part of post-war politics, academia, business, and medicine.
They were just as bad as or even worse than most of the staff of the extermination camps. They didn’t even refer to the Chinese people as humans, but logs(there was a lumber mill nearby and I guess they thought it was some sort of a sadistic humor)…And some even bragged about how many logs they had cut that day (vivisection)

34. The mathematician Pythagoras, who discovered the Pythagorean theorem, (A2 + B2 = C2 ) Was go-nutty, Bat-shit crazy. He killed people who didn’t agree or disproved him, he convinced people that facing the sun when you urinate is a heavily punishable sin, and didn’t believe in fractions, or decimals. He simply refused to believe that more than two and less than three could possibly exist.
35. Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov attempted to impregnate a chimpanzee with human sperm, but failed in his quest to make a “humanzee.”

36. In the middle ages, one of the punishments for being gay was to hang the offending person by his ankles and saw from his genitals towards his head. This process caused the blood to rush to the brain, meaning that the saw would get to the mid chest height before they passed out. Also Catron wheeling, the offender was placed on a large wheel and then had all of their joints broken by a large hammer, then left to be eaten by crows. And that’s just England!

37. The Romans were sick fvcks. The emperors had young boys as concubines frequently, and some even hired toddlers, from their parents, to nibble at their inner thighs while they bathed. Tell that to your grandma the next time she says the world is becoming amoral.

38. U.S. Eugenics program - The US was a leader in negative eugenics, and sterilized over 10,000 people against their will for sexual promiscuity, “feeblemindedness”, having children out of wedlock, being physically “unfit”, and many other things. A Supreme Court ruling in Virginia that sided with the state was what Hitler based his eugenics laws off of. This is what made the Holocaust legal in the Nazi empire. Well legal in the sense that they passed laws saying they could do it, not legal in the sense that it was ok. Certain states sterilized people into the 1970s, NC being one of them. The Supreme Court ruling has never been overturned.
39. Somewhere around 400 unarmed civilians were killed during the Vietnam war by U.S. soldiers, the women were raped. 26 soldiers were originally charged with war crimes, 1 served time. He was given a life sentence but served less than 4 years of house arrest.

40. American president Lyndon Johnson - One particular story that has surfaced involved someone asking Johnson flat out “why are we in Vietnam?” during a meeting and Johnson responding by whipping out his dick (which he publicly nicknamed ‘Jumbo’) and yelling “THIS IS WHY.”

41. The Milky Way supposedly got its name because it was formed when the Greek goddess Hera sprayed her breast milk into the sky.

42. Mozart was surprisingly filthy, and was obsessed with feces and bathroom humor. He wrote two songs about anilingus.

43. In addition to the many, many reasons history books give us to explain why Napoleon lost the battle, what they leave out is the fact that during the battle Napoleon had a terrible case of diarrhea. You’d think this would get mentioned, as I imagine it’s hard to command an army when you are constantly shitting all over the place and becoming dehydrated as a result.

44. Banquet of Chestnuts – October 1501. Basically Pope Alexander VI had a orgy with over 50 prostitutes. The only major sexual event we learned about.

45. The Russians used to have “barrier troops” that would be set up behind Russian army forces and shoot those soldiers that were trying to desert from the front line.

46. The first American past time was incredibly violent wrestling. There were only two chances to ever lose as the victor would take the loser’s eye as a trophy.

47. King Goujian of Yue placed a row of convicted criminals at the front of his army. Before the battle the criminals would cut off their own heads to scare his enemy’s army by how motherfucking crazy Goujian’s army was.

48. Betsy Ross has girls sleep with enemies during the revolutionary war to gain intel. (Pretty much ran a brothel) 

49. In 755 A.D. the An Lushan rebellion against the Chinese Tang Dynasty resulted in 36 million deaths, or one-sixth of the entire world population.

50. In colonial America pregnant women didn’t receive painkillers during delivery because pain was considered God’s punishment for Eve’s eating the forbidden fruit.

51. Saddam Hussein was given the key to the city of Detroit. 
53. African-American men were not deemed equal members of the Mormon Church until 1978.
54. South Africans gave gay and lesbian soldiers sex changes in an attempt to root out homosexuality in their army.
55. In early Rome a father could legally kill anyone in his family.
56. After finding a 36,000 year old steppe bison preserved in the ice, Alaskan zoology professor R. Dale Guthrie and his team ate some of its flesh. Guthrie said “the meat was well aged but still a little tough.
57. Child killer and rapist Pedro Lopez, known as “The Monster of the Andes,” was convicted in 1983 of killing 110 young girls (though he confessed to killing 300). Lopez was released in 1998 after serving Ecuador’s maximum sentence of 20 years. His whereabouts are presently unknown.
58. The Roman Emperor Commodus collected all the disabled and little people he could find and ordered them to fight each other to the death with meat cleavers in the Colosseum
59. Vlad the Impaler also enjoyed sopping up his enemies’ blood with bread and eating it. This disturbing practice, along with his family name of Dracula and birthplace of Transylvania, inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

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Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:02pm On Aug 07, 2014
McWhillion:
60. Peter the Great executed his wife’s lover, then forced her to keep her lover’s head in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom.
61. In 16th-century Canada, women drank a potion with beaver testicles ground into it as a form of contraception.

62. Genghis Khan killed 40 million people across Asia and Europe.

63. In the 16th and 17th century wealthy Europeans ate corpses thinking they’d cure them of ailments. They even ate the remains of Egyptian mummies, which tomb raiders risked their lives to steal.

64. Joseph Stalin, the dictator of the USSR from 1929–1953, is believed to have killed between 20-60 million people.

65. Between 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped and sold into slavery in the United States, Caribbean, and South America.

66. The introduction of Europeans to the New World saw the Native American population drop from an estimated 12 million in 1500 to barely 237,000 in 1900.

67. In the 19th century a popular medicine for kids, “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup,” included morphine.

68. In 1917, Margaret Sanger was jailed for one month for establishing the first birth control clinic.

69. In Venice during the Renaissance there was a case where a rapist was given the choice of going to jail for six months, paying a fine, or marrying his victim. He chose marriage.

70. Chairman Mao Zedong killed 45 million people during China’s “Great Leap Forward” from 1958–1962.

71. Animals were put on trial in medieval times and routinely sentenced to death.

72. Beginning in 1909 (and continuing into the 1970s), the Australian government instituted a policy of removing Aboriginal children from their parents and teaching them to reject their Aboriginality.

73. In the 1970s Pol Pot’s communist regime brainwashed thousands of Cambodian children into becoming soldiers who committed mass murders and other atrocities.

74. Japanese samurais disemboweled themselves with their sword (an act known as seppuko) when in danger of being captured.

75. New research suggests that 15–20 million people were murdered or imprisoned by the Nazis during the Holocaust, much more than previously believed.

76. In 1788 the Austrian army attacked itself and lost 10,000 men.

77. Before becoming pope, Pius II wrote a popular erotic book, The Tale of Two Lovers.

78. The vibrator was created to treat Hysteria because doctors were taking too long to manually masturbate women. The vibrator became the largest selling household appliance.

79. Approximately 750,000 men died in the Civil War, which was more than 2.5% of America’s population at the time.

80. In Medieval times the accused often faced a “trial by ordeal,” where they were forced to stick their arm into a vat of boiling water. If their arm emerged unscathed, it was believed God protected them, thus proving their innocence.

81. The FBI ignored compelling evidence of the attack on Pearl Harbor because Hoover didn’t trust the Serbian double agent Dusan Popov who was a gambling Drunken man LovePeddler. He was nicknamed tricycle because of his love of threesomes. He was also one of the inspiration points for Ian Fleming’s James Bond.

82. In medieval times people were put to death for being witches. One anthropologist conjectures as many as 600,000 “witches” lost their lives.

83. Mexican General Santa Anna had an elaborate state funeral for his amputated leg.

84. Tens of thousands of baby girls were abandoned each year in China because of the country’s one-child policy.

85. Before the mid-19th century dentures were commonly made with teeth pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers.

86. Roman Emperor Gaius made his beloved horse a senator.

87. Ice age Britons used skulls of the dead as cups.
88. After Pope Gregory IX associated cats with devil worship, cats throughout Europe were exterminated in droves.

89. This sudden lack of cats led to the spread of disease because infected rats ran free. The most devastating of these diseases, the Bubonic Plague, killed 100 million people.

90. The Aztecs made human sacrifices to the gods. In 1487, at the dedication of the temple in Tenochtitlan, 20,000 people were put to death.

91. The Mayans also made sacrifices. The most common involved pulling a still-beating heart out of a victim’s chest.

92. In the 13th century 30,000 children went on what is known as the Children’s Crusade. They were convinced God would allow them to take back the Holy Land without incident, but most died on the journey or were sold into slavery.

93. In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey in order to attract flies away from the pharaoh.

94. Upon dying, some pharaohs were sealed into their tombs alongside their living servants, pets, and concubines.

95. Charles II on the wedding night of his nephew and future King, William of Orange, watched the entire consummation whilst shouting encouragement from the sidelines.
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 11:18pm On Aug 13, 2014
Dreams carry more weight
and meaning than our
conscious thoughts while
awake. 70% of your dreams
contain secret messages.

Lying to yourself about how
you truly feel is heavily
associated with depression.
Not accepting the truth is
what makes things harder.
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:51pm On Aug 19, 2014
33 Amazing Football Facts

1·Football originated
generally in its present
form in Britain.

2·The world's oldest club
formed in 1857 is Sheffield
FC (Metro FC was
established in 1899, making
it one of the oldest clubs in
NZ) it was founded by Colonel Nathaniel
Cresswick and Major
William Priest, two British
Army officers

3·Football is the most
played and most watched
sport on Earth

4·Football is called football
in practically every
country except America,
who call 'Grid Iron' football
and football soccer.

5·Famous Football rivalries
include the Old Firm
(Scotland),Manc hester derby,London derbies,Milan
derby, Real vs Barcelona,
and many more.

6·Some famous Football
players: Pele, Maradonna,
Charlton, Eusebio, Cruyff,
Dalglish, Ronaldo,
Beckham, Mattheus.

7·The sport of Association
Football (often referred to
as soccer or simply
football) is the most
popular team sport in the
world, in both number of spectators and number of
active participants.

8·The largest attendance
for a Football match ever
was 199,854 people -Brazil
vs Uruguay in the World
Cup at the Maracana
Municipal Stadium,Rio de Janeiro, July 1950.

9·In the largest Football
tournament ever, no less
than 5,098 teams competed
in 1999 for the second
Bangkok League Seven-a-
Side Competition. Over 35,000 players involved!

10·The most goals scored
by one player in a single
Football match was 16 by
Stephan Stanis (France)
playing for Racing Club de
Lens in December 1942.

11·Based on video
evidence, one of the fastest
ever scored was in 2.8
seconds by Ricardo Olivera
(Uruguay) in December
1998.

12·The international
governing body of
Football is the Federation
Internationale de Football
Association (FIFA), based
inZurich,Switze rland.

13·Diego Maradona was
only 16 when he made his
debut forArgentina.

14·Football goalies didn't
have to wear different
coloured shirts from their
teammates until 1913.

15·Eusebio scored 46 goals
in the European Cup for
Benfica.

16·Chris Woods once went
1196 minutes without
conceding a goal while at
Glasgow Rangers, from
between November 26
1986 and January 31 1987.

17·Ryan Giggs' (of
Manchester United) dad
was a professional Rugby
League player.

18·In 1973, the entire
Galileeteam spent the night
in jail for kicking their
opponents during an Israeli
League game

19.Footballplay ers run an average of six miles during
every game.

20. Football is the most
popular sport in the world.
Over one billion fans watch
World Cup Football on
television.


21.Every year except for two (1930 and 1950)
European Teams have
reached every World Cup
final.

22. India withdrew from
the World Cup in 1950
because they weren’t
allowed to play barefoot.

23. Football facts reveal
that only the United States
and Canada actually call
football “soccer.” 2

4. Over 40 million watched
on television as the U.S.
Women’s Team won the
World Cup in 1999.

25. There are 1000 activity
changes in every soccer
match.

26.The very first game of
basketball was played
with a soccer ball.

27. The most World Cups
have been won by
Brazil--5.

28. A professional soccer
player runs 48 kilometers,
or 3.9 miles, in an average
soccer game.

29 The original World Cup
was made of papier-mâché,
but it had to be replaced
after the heavy rains of
the 1950 World Cup.

30. Brazilian soccer legend
Pelé was born Edson
Arantes do Nascimento. He
took the nickname Pelé, a
Brazilian Portuguese word
meaning “six feet,” due to being born with six toes
on each foot.

31. Soccer developed in
London’s famed Newgate
Prison in the early 1800s.
Prisoners who had their
hands cut off for crimes of
theft came up with a sport that used only the feet. The
game spread from there.

32. Soccer was illegal in
Mississippi until 1991.

33. From 1994 to 1998, the
English Premier League had
red, yellow and teal cards.
Teal cards were used for
possible fouls that were to
be reviewed by instant replay.

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