Larian Studios Forums General Chat Chat (Anything) Probably useless but interesting/funny facts

the guy on the left looks a bit like Clint Eastwood, with a brushcut! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Right on topic, Jurak <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />. Extremelly funny, extremelly useless <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />.

The first guard you meet in Morrowind wears yellow boots. No other guard inthe game wears yellow boots. (Read in a review of the game. I wonder what kind of guy notice that kind of thing...)

Übereil

Yellow boots ? I only recently learned that people from a southern part of GErmany are sometimes called "Gelbfüßler" ... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> (means "yellowfeet")

In Max Payne, I forgot in which one, there is small hole in the wall (2-3 bricks missing) if you throw grenade into that hole then all mise in the area will equip .45 colts and attack you. More of that is you go into one hall and shoot the third lamp then all mise will split into two teams and start fighting each other, the team that survives will become friendly. It will accompany you and will fight on your side. So you will have mise companions who have nice weapons and are extremely hard to hit thanks to small size <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
Quite funny.

@ Lafille
I just love that picture!!! It's really hilarious, that is what they call "pulling a Bush"!!
I hope these three days are over soon enough so he could go back to his own place. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" />

Also a Fact-> Tea contains more Caffeine then coffee <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

It's very easy to hold a crocodile's jaw closed. Holding it open (eg. if you're inside), it near impossible.

Yikes!!! Did you test that one Hands? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />


The koala is one of the few land animals that does not need water to supplement
its food.

Orchids have the smallest seeds. It takes more than 1.25 million seeds to weigh 1
gram.

At 12,000 feet above sea level, there is barely enough oxygen in La Paz, Bolivia
to support combustion. The city is nearly fireproof.

All cows are females; the males are called bulls. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Shan <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/alien.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Paranormal experts say people reach the peak of their ability to see ghosts when they're 7 years old.

Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes. In the U.S., reported sightings are most likely to occur in July, at 9 p.m. or 3 a.m.

More People use blue toothbrushes then red ones.

According to a 1995 survey, 7 out of 10 British dogs get Christmas gifts from their doting owners.

Someone within 200 miles of your town claims to have had direct contact with a monster, ghost or other unexplainable being.

About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.

Nobody yet has explained satisfactorily why couples who marry in January, February, and March tend to have the highest divorce rates.

Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.

If you earn twenty thousand dollars a year, one minute of your time is worth a little more than seventeen cents.

Two out of three people sleep on their sides, and they're about equally divided as to WHICH side. Of the remainder, slightly more sleep on their stomachs than sleep on their backs.

10 Percent of men are left-handed while only 8 percent of women are left-handed. Male or female, all left-handed people are "in their right mind."

Facts:

A chimera is a big abyssal fish looking like a zombie shark.

Snail's anus is right over their head; their digestive tube is shaped like an "8". That's why their biological class is named gastropod.

Polar bears are the key specie of the Arctic ecosystem because all the other carnivorous land species feed on their prey's rests. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" />

In Quebec, selling yellow margarine is forbidden.

here's an interesting and funny fact.......
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my name is not Jurak, and I am not really an OrC, nor a Chief! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

They're called gastrobods becaus they are crawling on thir belly.

gastros ... belly
pod ... foot

The words are only fragments, because I don't know latin or greek.

The Chimera is actually a "living fossil". It's class hasn't chanced for millions of years now.
They are distant relatives to the sharks.

@Alrik
You're right for the name; it means "stomach in/on the foot". Did you study zoology or biology <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/question.gif" alt="" />

No. Geology/Palaentology. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

By the way, another interesting fact :

The Holy Grail seems to actually exist. It stands in the Cathedral of Valencia.

I've seen that in a TV movie which was a serious documentation about history (in a series).

Source : url=http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/30/0,1872,2192958,00.html]About that documentation[/url] The upper picture is it as it was shown in the documentation. This is where is stands in the cathedral.

urm... Alrik...
I saw another serious documentary, and there they claimed the holy grail is in Ethiopia.
<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Setharmon >

Are you sure?
I thought it was the Ark of the Covenant that was supposedly in Ethiopia according to the documentary before the Grail one.

Tsel <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

um?
Nope... I dunno much anymore at the moment.
Just <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sleepey.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sleepey.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sleepey.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sleepey.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sleepey.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sleepey.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sleepey.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sleepey.gif" alt="" />

Yes, Tsel is right, as far as I know. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Ten percent of men are left-handed while only 8 percent of women are left-handed.

During an eclipse of the sun in 1868, spectral lines were located that were
attributed to an unknown element that was called "helium," from the Greek word for
"sun." Thirty years later, helium was discovered on Earth.

In olden days, barbers also performed as surgeons. Blood-letting, a remedy of the
time believed to cure diseases, was one of their main tasks. The red-and-white
striped barber pole originally symbolized a bleeding arm swathed in bandages.

A short period of time used to be referred to as a "whipstitch."

Shan <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/alien.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />