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toilet

  • The average life expectancy of a toilet is 50 years. (then what?)
  • The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie Psycho
  • Every day, over five billion gallons of water are flushed down toilets in the United States
  • The appliance that uses the most use of water in the home is the toilet
  • The first ever “World Summit on Toilets” was held in Singapore in November 2001
  • There is an estimated 1 public toilet per 10000 person in London

World War I

  • Franz Ferdinand was killed.. remember that the guys death partly caused the World War I (WWI). Anyway, his death was almost unavoidable. After an attempted assasination using a bomb failed, (because the bomb hit the rear mud flap of the car Ferdinand was in and bounced away) authorities decided to change the route of Ferdinands tour… but failed to inform the driver of the car. And so, unfortunately, at one stage, the driver took a wrong turn. While reversing, the car stalled and gears locked, and Princip (who had actually given up and was eating a sandwich) came and shot Ferdinand and his wife at a distance of 4-5 feet killing them. Ferdinand brought his wife to Serejavo to celebrate their anniversary. (And you thought you had a bad day). Gavrilo Princip tried to swallow cyanide, but vomitted up the past-date poison and was caught by police
  • When the German army invaded France in World War I, they actually followed the schedules of the local trains to invade (it was faster by rail and they wanted to surprise France), checking the timetable and abiding by it. And France, whose army was waiting at the border, sent taxis to pick up and transport the troops to counter the attack!
  • Germany’s devised the Schlieffen Plan in order to avoid a war on two fronts. It was so badly made that they ended up fighting both fronts anyway.
  • Britian’s empire was so big during WWI that the sun was always shining over it.
  • The Red Baron was the single biggest threat to allied airplanes. He was killed by 2 Canadian pilots, one of whose poor flying skills made him unpredictable.
  • France lost more people than Britain and Germany
  • After WWI, Germany was forced to replace cows that were lost during the war
  • During World War 1, Hitler was a messanger in the Bavarian army
  • The term ‘World War One’ or ‘First World War’ was actually used before the Second World War

leprosy

  • More than 92 465 people that did the death test in www.thespark.com claimed they had leprosy. (everybody’s a joker)

guestbook

  • Sadly less than 0.0001% of people signed the guestbook on this website, and it got so bad that i took it off altogether
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fuck

  • Bows and arrows used to be meade from the yew tree in the 1500s, so when an arrow was shot it was called “plucking the yew.” At the Battle of Agincort (once again, not sure), the French party was going to capture the English and cut of their middle fingers so they couldn’t pluck the yew. However, the English people heard of their plan and weren’t captured. So, they taunted the french people by waving their middle fingers and saysing “Look, we can still pluck yew!” So “pluck yew” was a phrase used to taunt french people, until it evolved to “fuck you” and the hand gesture was associated with… well, we all know what it’s supposed to look like. Anyway, that’s how my history teacher heard it. Thanx Superchick
  • ‘fuck’ comes from the sentence, “Fornication Under Consent of the King” which was what they called a whore house back then. This came from a facts book i read. Honest
  • ‘fuck’ comes from ‘fichen’, German for “to strike.”
  • Webster’s says that it most likely comes from fokken, “to breed (cattle).” Thanx Jon C
  • The word “FUCK” comes from the olden days. When a person was caught being unfaithful, they were made to wear a sign saying “FUCK”, it stood for “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge”. Thanx Connor B.
  • The word fuck came from WW 1 ,the german airplane manafactuar foccas was the cause, the british use the word as a swear. Thanx Mick Q

England, UK

  • During the 1600′s, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old
  • In Britain, failed suicidees were hanged in the 19th century. (I won’t even comment on this one)