[Nathan Barker]

You should read an article on him on a site called badass of the week.

I've read quiet a bit on him, and I still think the teddy bears are the best

But he's still my ultimate role model for being a badass, yes



The combat survivability of a marine during an amphibious assault on a hostile beach head, is measured in minutes.

[Queen]

The combat survivability of a marine during an amphibious assault on a hostile beach head, is measured in minutes.

Unless its the USMC!

[remi lasisi]

I've read quiet a bit on him, and I still think the teddy bears are the best

But he's still my ultimate role model for being a badass, yes

Its only half true basically it's supposed to be funny.

[Ludivine Poussineau]

I just saw this on TV, so it's not original at all.

Ancient Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt, which was more valuable back then. This is where we get the word "salary" from.

This is also where we get the saying "Worth his Salt"

Mt. Everest was named after Sir George Everest, who pronounced his name Eve-rist (Eve as in Adam and Eve)

[Eduardo Rosas]

This is also where we get the saying "Worth his Salt"

Mt. Everest was named after Sir George Everest, who pronounced his name Eve-rist (Eve as in Adam and Eve)

An Indian mathematician from Bengal(can't remember his name right now) was the first person to identify Mt. Everest as the world tallest mountain, at this point it was just called Peak 15. Using a theodolite, he measured it to be exactly 29 000 feet. This annoyed him because he thought people would assume that he just rounded it to that number even though it was measured to be exactly 29 000 feet. Because of this, he publicly declared that it was 29 002 feet tall so people would think he was being incredibly precise.

[Gaelle Courant]

Contrary to popular belief, nobody ever called Theodore Roosevelt "Teddy". His family and friends actually called him "Teedy".

[An Lor]

Contrary to popular belief, nobody ever called Theodore Roosevelt "Teddy". His family and friends actually called him "Teedy".

You're joking?

[tiffany Royal]

The Mongols invaded in 13th century and in that time there was no such thing as the Great Wall of China. There was something that resembles the wall but it's production had been on halt for so long that it was starting to fall apart.

I'm sure the Chinese were invaded by somebody after the Great Wall was built. Except they still didn't go around the wall, the Chinese let them in. Yay corruption!

[Emmie Cate]

The deadliest weapon humanity ever unleashed wasn't the atomic bomb. http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/9/01-0536_article.htm

[[Bounty][Ben]]

The deadliest weapon humanity ever unleashed wasn't the atomic bomb. http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/9/01-0536_article.htm

I'm not exactly sure that I derived anything supporting that statement from your link...

[evelina c]

You're joking?

Nope, I never joke in trivia threads. Though I only read it in a book, and books have been wrong before. I'll see if I can verify this with another source.

EDIT: ULTIMATE SHAME

Apparently it was from a joke book.

...

I'll put in 5 more facts to make it even.

[JLG]

Nope, I never joke in trivia threads. Though I only read it in a book, and books have been wrong before. I'll see if I can verify this with another source.

EDIT: ULTIMATE SHAME

Apparently it was from a joke book.

[Nikki Lawrence]

It takes around 2 hours to hard-boil an ostrich egg.
In Jefferson City, Missouri, it is illegal to tie a boat to the railroad tracks.
The boots eaten by Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush (1925) were made of licorice.
Harrison Ford turned down the lead role in Jurassic Park.
The song Hal, the computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey, learned was "A Bicycle Built for Two."

[Cheryl Rice]

I'm not exactly sure that I derived anything supporting that statement from your link...

"On the basis of a 14th-century account by the Genoese Gabriele de’ Mussi, the Black Death is widely believed to have reached Europe from the Crimea as the result of a biological warfare attack." - the CDC website. The full story is that some plague corpses were catapulted into the Affluent port city of Caffa. Because the rich do not like being seiged, and they also owned boats, they fled to the homes of their friends all across Europe, rapidly spreading the disease across Europe.

"In the Early Modern period (1340-1500,) Europe experienced the worst human disaster in its history when the Black Death (also known as the bubonic plague) hit in 1347, destroying a third of the population. It is commonly believed that society subsequently became more violent as the mass mortality rate cheapened life and thus increased warfare, crime, popular revolt, waves of flagellants, and persecution" - from wikipedia. Now, I'm focusing only on Europe because the Horde can only be said to be responsible for the spread of the European black death (it was already raging in Asia at that time).

Hiroshima is, as far as I know, the most lethal atomic bombing in history, and it only killed 166,000 people at maximum (again, this is from wikipedia, because it's something we all should have already learned in school at some point, and thus shouldn't be subject to radical doubt)

[Kat Ives]

"On the basis of a 14th-century account by the Genoese Gabriele de’ Mussi, the Black Death is widely believed to have reached Europe from the Crimea as the result of a biological warfare attack." - the CDC website. The full story is that some plague corpses were catapulted into the Affluent port city of Caffa. Because the rich do not like being seiged, and they also owned boats, they fled to the homes of their friends all across Europe, rapidly spreading the disease across Europe.

"In the Early Modern period (1340-1500,) Europe experienced the worst human disaster in its history when the Black Death (also known as the bubonic plague) hit in 1347, destroying a third of the population. It is commonly believed that society subsequently became more violent as the mass mortality rate cheapened life and thus increased warfare, crime, popular revolt, waves of flagellants, and persecution" - from wikipedia. Now, I'm focusing only on Europe because the Horde can only be said to be responsible for the spread of the European black death (it was already raging in Asia at that time).

Hiroshima is, as far as I know, the most lethal atomic bombing in history, and it only killed 166,000 people at maximum (again, this is from wikipedia, because it's something we all should have already learned in school at some point, and thus shouldn't be subject to radical doubt)

From the abstract of the article you posted:

I conclude that the claim that biological warfare was used at Caffa is plausible and provides the best explanation of the entry of plague into the city. This theory is consistent with the technology of the times and with contemporary notions of disease causation; however, the entry of plague into Europe from the Crimea likely occurred independent of this event.

[Harry Hearing]

From the abstract of the article you posted:

That'll teach me to google for support without reading the whole thing! Also, Damn you Mister Hess!

[Manuel rivera]

The word trivia comes from the Latin for "Three-way" and refers to the casual small talk instigated during a "three-way".

Er, I mean, it refers to the small talk travellers would have when they met at an intersection.

A natural satellite with an identified orbit relatively close to a planet. There isn't an official definition on how large they can be but there are no confirmed moons that I know of with a radius of less than 500m.

You're right, but for the wrong reasons, the earth does have other, rather large natural quasi-sattelites like Cruithne, which is larger than Deimos, but it orbits both The Sun and The Earth.

I'm fairly sure the fact came from QI, which while a good show, has a lot of inaccuracies.

[brenden casey]

? is a ligature and the other two, I believe, contain diacritical marks...but I'm not familiar with their uses in Norwegian or other Northern European languages.
You may as well have posted a character containing an Umlaut.

Then a later edit...
So I did my homework and discovered that the characters ? ?, ? ?, & ??...do have the distinction of being considered full letters in Norwegian & Danish. Icelandic has the ? ?.

good thing you figured that out because i was about to smack you very hard

[Kelsey Anna Farley]

good thing you figured that out because i was about to smack you very hard

How? You don't have any hands; you're just a floating head.

[JAY]

good thing you figured that out because i was about to smack you very hard

Would you care to translate this for the rest of us?
I know what it says but I think it would be entertaining to have your perspective:

H?vdingens kj?re squaw f?r litt pizza i Mexico by.

[Inol Wakhid]

Would you care to translate this for the rest of us?
I know what it says but I think it would be entertaining to have your perspective:

H?vdingens kj?re squaw f?r litt pizza i Mexico by.

The chief's dear squaw get some pizza in Mexico City? Something like that
Using a word like squaw is cheating though, as it's not a Norwegian word even if we use it. Same goes for pizza, but we don't have a Norwegian word for pizza.

[Emma Pennington]

The chief's dear squaw get some pizza in Mexico City? Something like that
Using a word like squaw is cheating though, as it's not a Norwegian word even if we use it. Same goes for pizza, but we don't have a Norwegian word for pizza.

I thought that squaw and pizza would have been cheating a bit...the source I got that from had only a few examples of phrases in Norwegian that contained every letter of the alphabet, and I thought that one sounded less ridiculous than the others:

• V?r s?re Zulu fra bade?ya spilte jo whist og quickstep i min taxi.
  
  • Our strange Zulu from the bathing island actually played whist and quickstep in my cab.
• H?vdingens kj?re squaw f?r litt pizza i Mexico by.
  
  • The chief's dear squaw gets a little pizza in Mexico town.
• IQ-l?s WC-boms uten h?rsel skj?rer god pizza p? xylofon.
  
  • IQ-less WC-bum without hearing cuts good pizza on xylophone.
• S?r golfer med k?lle vant sixquiz p? wc i hjemby.
  
  • Strange golfer with club won six quiz on W.C. in hometown.

Most sentences with all the letters of the alphabet do sound a little silly anyway...

My absolute favorite is:

Jelly-like above the high wire, six quaking pachyderms kept the climix of the extravaganza in a dazzling state of flux.

[Sylvia Luciani]

I thought that squaw and pizza would have been cheating a bit...the source I got that from had only a few examples of phrases in Norwegian that contained every letter of the alphabet, and I thought that one sounded less ridiculous than the others:

• S?r golfer med k?lle vant sixquiz p? wc i hjemby.

hahah I think the last one sounds best in Norwegian I also think that one sounds most Norwegian, actually. But you know, the letters X, C and W are not much used in Norwegian, so I guess it's hard to find original Norwegian words with them in it. We rather use KS, S and V.

edit: forgot Z, we rarely use that one either.

[Nicole Coucopoulos]

Aquan is some kind of alphabetical robot.

[Nick Swan]

There are more pyramids in sudan than egypt