Really TRUE odd factoids

[Punkawallah]

WWII grenade removed from rectum.

See - ‘fail to prepare, prepare to fail’. Should have used a stick grenade . . .

 

[PeteXXX]

Helen Mirren's real name is Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironioff

 

[classic33]

Today(24th October) is a Pythagorean Theorem Day (or Pythagorean Triple Day)!

This occurs when the month (a), day (b), and the last two digits of the year (c) satisfy the Pythagorean Theorem formula!
The last Pythagorean Theorem Day of the 21st century occurs today on October 24, 2026
(10^2 + 24^2 = 26^2)
(100 + 576 = 676).
The squares of the month (10) squared plus the dated of the month (24) squared equals the year's last two digits (26) squared.
No dates in 2027 or the remainder of the 2000s mathematically fit the formula.

The next official Pythagorean Theorem Day will not happen until the 4th March, 2105!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Hospitals in the UK have removed the following objects from people's bottoms:
Lego bricks, beer and shampoo bottles, a toothbrush, a door handle, a mobile phone, a coat hanger, a Nerf bullet, a boiled egg, a Coke can, a deodorant bottle, a toilet brush handle, cucumbers, courgettes, grapes, an apple, TV remote controls, children's toys, a cocktailer stirrer, a bank card, metal screws, tweezers, razor blades, a knitting needle, knives, paper clips, a screwdriver, a snow globe, a branch, a candle, a Kinder egg, a parsnip and a wallpaper scraper.
No pineapples though

They left them in

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Humans have been around for 300,000 years. For 290,000 years every single human had brown eyes. Blue eyes come from a genetic mutation that's been tracked back to one solitary person living near the Black Sea 10,000 years ago.

 

[Dave7]

Apparently we have enough iron in our (average) body to make one 2 inch nail.

 

[DaveReading]

Apparently we have enough iron in our (average) body to make one 2 inch nail.

Well apart from these guys:

 

[Dave7]

Well apart from these guys:

Well I did say average.

 

[Dave7]

Many, possibly most, will know this but I have just found out..........
When you see the word SIC with brackets ie (SIC) it is the translation of the Latin word 'thus' and should be used to show that the previous word is mis spelled but is a literal quote of someone else's words so the writer is obliged to write it thus (that way).

 

[DaveReading]

Many, possibly most, will know this but I have just found out..........
When you see the word SIC with brackets ie (SIC) it is the translation of the Latin word 'thus' and should be used to show that the previous word is mis spelled but is a literal quote of someone else's words so the writer is obliged to write it thus (that way).

Also to be found in the common saying "sic transit gloria mundi" (meaning, the young lady's van broke down at the beginning of the week).