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

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> What have you done with the REAL Orc Chief Jurak, you evil impersonator you?! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

Great fact Jurak. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

When written in Roman numerals, the year 1666 is the only date in history that is
written from the highest to the lowest value, MDCLXVI (1000 + 500 + 100 + 50 + 10
+ 5 + 1).

Up to the age of six or seven months, a child can breathe and swallow at the same
time. An adult cannot do this.

The average 60-minute audio cassette tape has 562.5 feet of tape in it.

At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620 miles) per hour, the length of the plane
becomes one atom shorter than its original length.

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

According to my theory, the name "Loch Ness" is pronounced *exactlly* the same way both in German and Scottish languages. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> And what's more, the word "Loch" means in German "hole". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

(I noted that in Terry Pratchett's story "The Wee Free Men" they often say "Ach !" It's exactly like the Germab "Ach !", also used as an exclamation !)

For some fish and sea spider species, it's the male's duty to take care of the kids. The males dig a nest, then females come, put their eggs in and go away, never to come back. ( <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" /> )

Wether fecundated or not, the eggs of the queen bee will give a baby: a female if fecundated; a male if not.

A mullet is the animal resulting of a horse and a donkey crossbreed. All male mullets are sterile, but females can reproduce with male horses or donkey. Because of that mullet are not an animal "specie".

Most birds's reproduction system and behavior is activated by the photoperiod (sunlight time in a day).

Some birds use the stars to direct themselves on their migration. They also use, among else, the magnetic field of the earth and the position of th sun.

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/exclamation.gif" alt="" /> Adult facts <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/exclamation.gif" alt="" />:
Whales have to be three to make love. They need a helper to maintain themselves stuck together.
Dolphins are the only animals other than humans that make love just for fun. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

For Bonobos , making love is an act of social life - to avoid aggression, to be exact.

Bonobos are seemingly our next relatives, even closer to Chimps and all other living primates.

Cheddar, often sold as "American" or store cheese, constitutes about two-thirds of
the cheese sold in the United States.

Isaac Asimov wrote more than 500 books during his lifetime (1920-1992). He has the
honor of being the only person who has authored a book in each of the Dewey
Decimal System classifications.

If you stacked one million $1 dollar bills, the pile of money would weigh 2,040.8
pounds. If you used $100 dollar bills, the stack would weigh only 20.4 pounds.

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

A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of it's mouth

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate

A 2 year old horse has 6 incisors

A rhino's horn is made of compacted hair

A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water

A rodents teeth never stops growing

During the Renaissance, laws were passed that prescribed which fashions could not
be worn by the lower classes, so as to keep social distinctions intact.

The cirrus cloud, the highest type of cloud in altitude, contains extremely cold
water at -31 degrees Fahrenheit.

The American lobster can move through the water at a rate of up to 25 feet a
second.

Lobster blood is a clear fluid. When the animal is boiled, the blood turns to an
opaque whitish gel. It has no discernible flavor and is perfectly safe to eat.

Lobster larva will molt about six times while still in the egg. After they are
released from the mother's swimmerettes and hatch, the larva will float freely in
the water column and molt several more times before taking the form that we
recognize as a lobster. At this point they may be only 1/4" in length.

Lobsters may come in a variety of colors besides the usual blue-green, including
blue, yellow, red, and white. Some even come in two colors, having half of their
shell one color and the other half a totally different color. Of these only the
white ones (true albinos) don't turn red when cooked.

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

-A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week

-A snail can have about 25,000 teeth

-A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in lenght

-A starfish can turn its stomach inside out

-A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as steel wire of the same length

There average weight of a humpback whale is 35 tons.

The average humpback is 40 feet long and 35 tons. That is longer then three cars
put together from bumper to bumper and the humpback whale weighs more then six
elephants.

Giant Squids are almost twice as long as a school bus.

Giant Squids have the largest eyes of any animal in the animal kingdom
They have eyes the size of hubcaps, larger than the headlights of a car, and they can reach 25 centimeters in diameter

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

Most Zambians don't live to see their 40th birthday.

Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.

The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.
>> Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.

>> The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.

>> It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

>> Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.

>> It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

>> The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.

>> The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

There is a company that will (for $14,000) take your ashes, compress them into a
synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one.

Russian scientists have developed a new drug that prolongs drunkenness and
enhances intoxication. (This one is for Jurak) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

If you hook Jell-O up to an EEG, it registers movements almost identical to a
human adult's brain waves.

Some dogs can predict when a child will have an epileptic seizure, and even
protect the child from injury. They're not trained to do this, they simply learn
to respond after observing at least one attack.

Life Savers got their shape by a malfunctioning machine, which mistakenly punched
a hole in the center of each candy.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

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

Dogs can also indicate to their diabetic owners when their sugar rate is too high or too low, just by smelling them; after they saw this particular state leading their owner to a crisis one or two times, they learn to adopt a "warning behavior" that the owner will recognise, and they do not need any special training for that. They'll even awake them up if somethig like this happens in the middle of the night.

They can also do this with people that are narcoleptic; these people somethimes fall asleep while standing up and thus can hurt themselves pretty badly. (A lot of narcoleptic people come to have a boxer-looking face because of that. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/exclamation.gif" alt="" /> imagine if they fall asleep while they're going up or down some stairs <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" /> )

A related fact:
Narcolepsy is a genetic disease widespread among the doberman breed dogs; as soon as these dogs are getting a little excited, they fall asleep. It's very odd to see.

Romanian firefighters could not get their trucks close enough to a burning
building, so they put out the fire by throwing snowballs at it.

If you were to spell out numbers, you would have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter "A".

The five Olympic rings are always red, black, blue, green and yellow because at
least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.

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

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

A baby is born without kneecaps. They appear between age 2 and 6.

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

i don't think it's funny but it might be interesting;

most visual effects companies (small to medium ones) close down while the big boys thrive is due mostly due to mismanagement rather than competition.

check this link out for more details. a lot of good advice in it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

Yes, I read an articl about a young woman who had such a dog. Doctors were puzzled.

By the way, what's an "Jell-O" ?

To catch their next meal, some turtles have developped a very clever (and surprisingly efficient) thechnique: they hide themselves in aquatic plants, with just the head a bit uncovered. Then they open their mouth, pull out and slightly shake their tong. Fishes that pass by believe the tong is a worm or a larva, and as they catch it, the turtle only has to close his mouth and the "fishing" job is done. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Jell-O is a little like a Dr. Oetker pudding only see through, I.O.W. it resembles a jellified jellybean, in a larger quantity <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

@Alrik,
It's gelatin.
I'm sure you seen it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> You see (or hear about) it regularly in USA movies and tv series.
In freinds fi, it's one of Monica's favourite foods. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Try this link: JELL-O