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Hereby i open the thread with all kinds of useless and non-informatic facts which no-one wants to know but me, so spill your guts people :D


The Piramid In front of the Louvre has exactly 666 windows, which was done on purpose to annoy the vatican.
 

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The Piramid In front of the Louvre has exactly 666 windows, which was done on purpose to annoy the vatican.

No it doesn't. It has 673 panes consisting of 603 diamond panes and 70 triangular panes. It's design has nothing to do with the Vatican.
 

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Prostitution in Amsterdam has been legalized. All hookers have their own business and are paying tax, as long as subscribed with the Chamber of Commerce.
 

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rak said:
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Prostitution in Amsterdam has been legalized. All hookers have their own business and are paying tax, as long as subscribed with the Chamber of Commerce.


And u can even ask for a receit (if that's the way to spell it :p)
 

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I found this rather interesting, yet completely useless unless I become a contestant on jeopardy or something.

"At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale."
 

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Silverblood said:
And u can even ask for a receit (if that's the way to spell it :p)

You mean recipe or receipt :D
 

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At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa.
 

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Or this one :
111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321
 

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rak said:
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At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa.

Sounds like a story from Arkansas or Mississippi :D
 

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KenHigg said:
Sounds like a story from Arkansas or Mississippi :D

Yeah ? Wasn't Bill Clinton from Arkansas ? :confused:
 

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What about this :
In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
 

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rak said:
In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

That's a myth. It's believed golf comes from a Germanic word for club. Apprarently there are 15th Century laws regarding a game called gowf too.
 

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He ?
You're saying that they had volkswagen golf in the 15th century ? :confused:
 

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Oh yeah, the one designed in France during Louis XIV
 
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rak said:
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At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa.
And Ronnie Wood's now been in the band longer than Wyman..............just thought I'd mention it
 

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SJ McAbney said:
That's a myth. It's believed golf comes from a Germanic word for club. Apprarently there are 15th Century laws regarding a game called gowf too.
So if it taint a fact, then one has as much chance as the other.
I'll go with RAK's version.
If you have never heard Robin Williams on golf, you should HERE
 
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