Unfun facts

[Him15]

I mean, if you really wanna die…

Unfun fact of the day.. I dont want to die until tomorrow when I have to file my taxes.

 

[MedicalMuse]

Unfun fact of the day.. I dont want to die until tomorrow when I have to file my taxes.

Are you a quarterly tax filer?
I’d prefer to be alive for a bit longer. Preferably long enough to have retired and at least enjoyed some of the retirement money I have saved. Lol

 

[MedicalMuse]

Speaking of death taxes, when you die, there are specific taxes involved that can be either an estate tax, which is paid by the deceased's estate, or an inheritance tax, which is paid by the person receiving the assets.
Even in death, someone has to pay

 

[Him15]

Are you a quarterly tax filer?
I’d prefer to be alive for a bit longer. Preferably long enough to have retired and at least enjoyed some of the retirement money I have saved. Lol

Lol no I just had to file an extension this year as I was out of the country during tax season.

Speaking of death taxes, when you die, there are specific taxes involved that can be either an estate tax, which is paid by the deceased's estate, or an inheritance tax, which is paid by the person receiving the assets.
Even in death, someone has to pay

The personal income tax was started as a temporary tax in canada to pay for ww1, it now still exists 100 years later

 

[Him15]

During WW1 and rationing the British government put out a pamphlet suggesting replacements for common household items. The replacement for lettuce and spinach was rhubarb leaves which taste very similar. They are also very poisonous. They or course pulled the pamphlets when they found out.

The pamphlets were reprinted during ww2

 

[UsuallyPresent]

"Burocracy" comes from 1800’s France as a term, but ancient Egypt, China, Sumer, and other lands had the same kind of arrangements - the Rule of Desks.

 

[Him15]

Human beings dont walk with their eyes looking straight ahead, we walk with our eyes angled dow a bit. This is the perfect angle to see snakes before stepping on them and is likely an evolutionary trait to avoid snakes which evolved at the same time we did.

 

[Sinstories]

Human beings dont walk with their eyes looking straight ahead, we walk with our eyes angled dow a bit. This is the perfect angle to see snakes before stepping on them and is likely an evolutionary trait to avoid snakes which evolved at the same time we did.

As well as roots, stumps, rocks, holes, etc that are much more prevalent and thus likely a larger contributor to the evolutionary change than snakes

 

[Him15]

As well as roots, stumps, rocks, holes, etc that are much more prevalent and thus likely a larger contributor to the evolutionary change than snakes

Ok?

 

[ericalauren]

The boy I babysit walked up to me and asked me if I’m afraid to die. I didn’t answer him with words. I just shrugged. Despite praying for death when I was an abused child, I’m not ready to die yet. Weird how that works out.

 

[snexxer]

Human beings dont walk with their eyes looking straight ahead, we walk with our eyes angled dow a bit. This is the perfect angle to see snakes before stepping on them and is likely an evolutionary trait to avoid snakes which evolved at the same time we did.

The reason we all have peepers on the front of our heads is by no means settled in science. Each hypothesis has its own strengths and weaknesses. But it is consensus that it all comes down to life in the trees, not the ground.

 

[snexxer]

Fatal familial insomnia.
It’s a rare, incurable prionic brain disease that progressively destroys your brain’s ability to sleep. Eventually you stop sleeping altogether, go insane, have seizures, and die.

 

[Pabiporffor]

Typing "a seal pushed me" into google translate and playing the French translation on full volume will get you kicked off the bus.

 

[cheekygirl75]

Typing "a seal pushed me" into google translate and playing the French translation on full volume will get you kicked off the bus.

Ok, had to try it. Very good!

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Bomb calorimeters rarely explode.

 

[snexxer]

Sigurd the Mighty. Earl of Orkney. Died in 892AD.
An infected wound was the cause. He was bitten on the leg, by a recently decapitated head.

 

[pinkparkhorse]

Sigurd the Mighty. Earl of Orkney. Died in 892AD.
An infected wound was the cause. He was bitten on the leg, by a recently decapitated head.

I guess that’s one way to get revenge

 

[Pad_Foot]

I was recently told that a woman once accidentally killed her lover by not remembering to allow a breath during facesitting-grinding.

She was found not guilty. Accidental death

Unlike in a major series in TV. I won’t mention

Be careful under there!

 

[Him15]

Unfun fact

The wizard of Oz was an insane production and I could and might make a whole month out of unfun facts from that movie but for now

The lion costume was made out of actual lion skin and wore an absolute ton and was like wearing an especially thick fur coat. The new cameras also required very hot and very bright lights. This caused the man playing the lion to sweat almost constantly, and as it was the only costume it ended up smelling like rotten death so he spent most breaks alone

 

[snexxer]

Torpenhow Hill is a hill in Cumbria, England. Its name consists of the Old English ‘Tor’, the Welsh ‘Pen’, and the Danish ‘How’ - all of which translate to modern English as ‘Hill’.

Therefore, Torpenhow Hill would translate as hill-hill-hill hill and is thus twice as interesting as the Japanese Mount Fujiyama, which translates into English as Mount Mount.

 

[TheWorldBuilder]

Sitting neatly between them is Pendle Hill with three repeats.

Also the residence of the witches tried at Lancaster in 1612; site of the first scientific experiment which proved that pressure reduces with altitude; and the revelation to George Fox which led to the founding of the Quakers.

PS Cumbria Council has been abolished. Torpenhow lies in Cumberland.

 

[snexxer]

The UK’s most immature road trip.

Beginning in the Orkney town of Twatt, you’ll take the hard 367-mile journey through Cock Bridge (Strathdon) and Dick Place (Edinburgh) in Scotland before heading south into England and to the ‘gateway to the western Lake District’ – Cockermouth.

From there, it’s a trip from the base of Penistone (Barnsley/Sheffield) to the tip of Cock Alley in Chesterfield.

However, if you find Cock Alley a little flaccid, then you can travel the 36 miles to the market town of Shepshed, which might leave you with a puzzled expression on your face – until you arrive on Butthole Lane.

After that, it’s a trip to Sluts Hole Lane in Attleborough, and Fingerhoe in Colchester, before you crack into the final stage of the journey at Ass Hill, Wimborne.

Your final destination is, of course, Shitterton, in Wareham, bringing the whole 970-mile trip to a close.

 

[TheWorldBuilder]

Doesn't Wetwang get a visit?

 

[snexxer]

Doesn't Wetwang get a visit?

Thats on the second trip.

 

[Him15]

The collapse of the Bronze age is heavily attributed to...the Sea People according to sources at the time of the collapse. We have no idea who the sea people were.