CM's completely useless factoid thread.

[poppy1963]

Corn

An ear of corn averages 800 kernels in 16 rows. A pound of corn consists of approximately 1,300 kernels. 100 bushels of corn produces approximately 7,280,000 kernels. Corn is produced on every continent of the world with the exception of Antarctica.

 

[oggbashan]

Sir Winston Churchill's mother, Jenny Jerome, was an American.

Winston Churchill was half American, but later he was given the the title of honorary US citizen.

He was a minister for the Liberal Party, and later Prime Minister for the Conservatives. Imagine in the US a senior Democrat becoming a Republican President. Only someone like Churchill could get away with it.

Og

 

[Stella_Omega]

Winston Churchill was half American, but later he was given the the title of honorary US citizen.

He was a minister for the Liberal Party, and later Prime Minister for the Conservatives. Imagine in the US a senior Democrat becoming a Republican President. Only someone like Churchill could get away with it.

Og

Hitler was a better painter though.

A whole apartment in one afternoon- two coats!

 

[Vermilion]

Hitler was a better painter though.

A whole apartment in one afternoon- two coats!

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[poppy1963]

A very versatile man...I'm sure I would have found him most fascinating as I do now!

While known as a painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer, Leonard da Vinci was the first to record that the number of rings in the cross section of a tree trunk revealed its age. He also discovered that the width between the rings indicated the annual moisture.

 

[yevkassem72]

A very versatile man...I'm sure I would have found him most fascinating as I do now!

While known as a painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer, Leonard da Vinci was the first to record that the number of rings in the cross section of a tree trunk revealed its age. He also discovered that the width between the rings indicated the annual moisture.

He was also born out of wedlock.

 

[poppy1963]

He was also born out of wedlock.

Oh my...and I'll bet his mother was.........

























*shunned*

 

[yevkassem72]

Oh my...and I'll bet his mother was.........

























*shunned*

Not really. But that was because his dad was rich and she was his lover.

 

[poppy1963]

Not really. But that was because his dad was rich and she was his lover.

LOL...oh...that sounds interesting as well. I will have to read the history now!

*googles*

 

[yevkassem72]

LOL...oh...that sounds interesting as well. I will have to read the history now!

*googles*

LOL. Da Vinci, code or no code, is a favorite of mine. And a solid argument for fornication.

 

[poppy1963]

Because I like you, yev~!

The earliest known soup in Europe is probably the Marseilles fish soup from France, about 2500 years ago. It was probably brought into France by the ancient Greeks although many French are convinced that the Marseillians would have invented the soup soon or later.

NOTE: from Wikipedia

Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man", a man whose seemingly infinite curiosity was equalled only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.[2]

Leonardo, the Legend

Reference: ^ 2. Vasari, Boltraffio, Castiglione, "Anonimo" Gaddiano, Berensen, Taine, Fuseli, Rio, Bortolon, etc. See specific quotations under heading "Leonardo, the Legend".

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Rasputin was bludgeoned, strangled, shot and finally drowned in the Volga River by agents of the Romanov family on December 16, 1916.



It seems they died hard in those days

 

[Arafura]

The left ear is more responsive to words of emotion whispered into it than the right.

So now we know where those sweet nothings should go.

 

[poppy1963]

The left ear is more responsive to words of emotion whispered into it than the right.

So now we know where those sweet nothings should go.

Wow...I'd like to learn more about that! Where did you pick up that bit of trivia?

 

[poppy1963]

Neva mind...I googled and found it! Wow....interesting, huh???!!!

 

[SeaCat]

The oldst operating elevator, (As of 1987) was in the I.G. Farbin Builing in Frakfurt Germany. It was of the continouse chain variety.

Cat

 

[yevkassem72]

The earliest known soup in Europe is probably the Marseilles fish soup from France, about 2500 years ago. It was probably brought into France by the ancient Greeks although many French are convinced that the Marseillians would have invented the soup soon or later.

NOTE: from Wikipedia

Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man", a man whose seemingly infinite curiosity was equalled only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.[2]

Leonardo, the Legend

Reference: ^ 2. Vasari, Boltraffio, Castiglione, "Anonimo" Gaddiano, Berensen, Taine, Fuseli, Rio, Bortolon, etc. See specific quotations under heading "Leonardo, the Legend".

Merci, beaucoup. I like you, too.

Female wrasse, a species of fish, will change sex sometimes to assume control of the harem when the males are killed off.

 

[TE999]

On October 8, 1929, a milestone in modern transportation was reached when a newsreel and two cartoons were shown on a Transcontinental Air Transport plane.

 

[SeaCat]

A handfull of Mentos Candies dropped into a freshly opened two liter bottle of Diet Pepsi will create a geyser up to 13 feet high.

Cat

 

[Xelebes]

In Alberta, if you get released from jail, you can ask for a horse and a gun and the system must provide him with one.

 

[TE999]

The total cost of constructing the Eiffel Tower in Paris was recovered from sightseer's fees during the first year after the Tower's completion.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Due to the fact that we currently have ice caps, we are actually still in an ice age, though in an interglacial period. (Paleontological Research Institute, Museum of the Earth)

 

[ChristopherMaxwell]

British Prime Minister Edward Heath was a bachelor.

 

[SeaCat]

In Edinburough "To Pluck a Rose" meant to pick up a Prostitute. Hmmmmmmm, maybe one shouldn't name their girls Rose?

Cat

 

[rgraham666]

A child laughs and average of four hundred times a day.

An adult laughs an average of fourteen.