The Quite Interesting Thread.

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**Imperial**

No person can solve a rubik's cube with less than 18 moves

**Imperial**

The avengers comic is 50 years old

**Imperial**

Zombies die if they see the sea

**Imperial**

There are 52 universes in DC comics

**Imperial**

The current phantom is kit walker the 21st phantom

**Imperial**

The clock to make the squats again resets whenever a person asks what the squats are

**Imperial**

Radioactive man was first a marvel super villain then the simpsons named a character called radioactive man who was a hero

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Some of those factiods are full of...

**Waaagh_Gonads**

At 4474 posts and 150 pages as of Sunday 14th December, The 'FAIL' Thread in the DCM moshpit is the largest thread in dakka history.

**Miguelsan**

An old UK from 1313 states that it is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament wearing a suit of armour.

M.

**Lord Bingo**

The king/Queen of England is to this day still not allowed to enter the house of Parliment

**Ensis Ferrae**

the old Yankee Stadium never once had a baseball leave its grounds from a home run. the closest anyone came to this was Mickey Mantle, who had one hit the 3rd tier upper deck roofing strut in right field.

Mickey Mantle is also the all-time home run leader among switch hitters.

**Ensis Ferrae**

1986 was the last year that a French rider won the Tour de France.

the longest solo breakaway in the TDF was for 253 km, done by Albert Bourlon in 1947
the fastest average speed of one rider throughout the course of the entire TDF (in one tour, mind) was Lance Armstrong, who averaged 40.276 kph.

**Miguelsan**

William III departed Netherlands on november 11th 1688 and invaded England on the 5th of november of the same year.

M.

Hint. look up when the Gregorian calendar was adopted in both countries.

**Ensis Ferrae**

during WW2 the main three Allied countries' (USA, UK, USSR) leaders all had tattoos somewhere on them.

Churchill's was an anchor on his left forearm, Roosevelt's was his family crest, and Stalin's was a skull (dont remember where the latter 2 leaders tattoos were located tho)

**focusedfire**

During WWII Churchill had body doubles to foil assasination attempts.

**dogma**

Saladin was an ethnic Kurd.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

The Mariana Trench (or Marianas Trench) is the deepest part of the world's oceans, and the deepest location on the surface of the Earth's crust. It has a maximum depth of about 10.9 km (6.77 mi).

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Indo-European languages have the largest numbers of speakers of the recognised families of languages in the world today, with its languages spoken by approximately three billion native speakers

**Waaagh_Gonads**

The density of butter is 911 kg/m3 (1535.5 lb/yd3)

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Edmonton is the northernmost North American city with a metropolitan population over one million.

**Imperial**

Which of those factoids are full of fail?
According to myth and legends zombies die when they sea the sea because water is cleansing
The rubiks cube thing is called God's Algorithm
The squat clock is real
And all the comic facts are real look them up
Philippijnes is an archipeligo

**Lint**

"Radar" is the only word in the english language longer then 3 letters that is spelled the same backwards and forwards.

**Imperial**

Racecar is also one word that can be spelt backwards and forwards

**Lint**

I stand corrected. Stupid radio dj's lying to me.... coulda' won those tickets....

**Lint**

The Federal Reserve is a privately owned company that is sucking the lifeblood out of my country, selling my government it's own money, and leading us into a new age of financial slavery. Sorry, I couldn't resist

**focusedfire**

Focusedfire is "not" the most computer literate member of Dakka.

**focusedfire**

Lint wrote:The Federal Reserve is a privately owned company that is sucking the lifeblood out of my country, selling my government it's own money, and leading us into a new age of financial slavery. Sorry, I couldn't resist

Lint will be questioned in the near future by federal agents wearing sunglasses, for angering the overlords.

Since 1812, there has been some type of major social revolution in the US every 50 years(civil war 1861, workers 1911"better conditions&pay", cultural 1961)

**Ensis Ferrae**

Imperial wrote:Which of those factoids are full of fail?
According to myth and legends zombies die when they sea the sea because water is cleansing

according to modern "zombie science" they can in fact, walk along the bottom of the ocean or any other body of water, as "zombie-ism" is a parasite that reanimates dead flesh once the host no longer needs it. that, and theyre dead so they cant exactly see to well anyhow

**Ensis Ferrae**

Polish is the only word in the English language that changes its pronunciation just simply by capitalizing or uncapitalizing the first letter- Polish, as in being from Poland. polish, as to make very shiny.