Thursday, December 28, 2006

...porque todos gostamos de factos

- Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like "baby-talk in Portuguese".

- There are 200 million blogs which are no longer being updated, say technology analysts.

- The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.

- Panspermia is the idea that life on Earth originated on another planet.

- The Pope's been known to wear red Prada shoes.

- Sex workers in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine.

- Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 litre bottles.

- More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.

-Tony Blair’s favourite meal to cook is spaghetti bolognaise.

-The brain is soft and gelatinous - its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.

-The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon’s bedroom.

-Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.

-Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiacs is the term for people who fear the number 666.

-Forty-one percent of English women have punched or kicked their partners, according to a study.

-The clitoris derives its name from the ancient Greek word kleitoris, meaning "little hill".

-A domestic cat can frighten a black bear to climb a tree.

-Online shoppers will only wait an average of four seconds for an internet page to load before giving up.

-Goths, those pasty-faced teenagers who revel in black clothing, are likely to become doctors, lawyers and architects.

-Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.

-George Bush's personal highlight of his presidency is catching a 7.5lb (3.4kg) perch.

-In a fight between a polar bear and a lion, the polar bear would win.

-The egg came first.




ps- Lista completa no site da BBC News.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Para começar, esses 8 copos de vinho são subjectivos. Podem valer 0,000005 euros lá na tasca do bairro, como podem custar 10 euros em Bordeaux!

So what’s the problem, I’m a Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiacs and I wish I was English.

Agora percebo pq nunca faço compras via Internet! N me digas q a gótica q está sentada ao meu lado vai ser uma dessas três coisas…impossível!

Muscles, muscles, muscles…

Terminando, sobre essa última consultem http://leteveryeyenegotiateforitself.blogspot.com/2006/06/uma-semana-depois.html

Renato Quaresma said...

Comentando o comment anterior:

As "sex workers" tambem eram subjectivas. Os romanos que optavam pelas "tascas do bairro" tinham o que mereciam. Cheap bastards.

E fico feliz do nosso blog ter já alguem de fora a lê-lo regularmente. Vanilla, we love you. Quando o Nuno deixar de escrever bem sobre o Porto e pôr fotos dele posteriormente editadas fora pelo Ruben, talvez mais virão...

Anonymous said...

Obrigada Renato, é bom saber q sou bem-vinda e q afinal o Bicho tem amigos simpáticos!

Bicho said...

Apoio o ponto número dois do comentário do Renato. Vanilla, és a maior. E aproveito para dizer, já que estamos numa tendência de crescimento do número de leitores, que estamos a lançar a campanha "traz um amigo". É isso, por cada novo leitor que deixar um comment no nosso blog, ganhas imediatamente, sem sorteio...um bilhete de Metro. (metro de Algés, aquele igual ao do Porto, sabem?)

Anonymous said...

E lá vem o Porto, outra vez.. Assim nem mais um leitor!

Anonymous said...

Lá por eu ter dito q n iam ter mais leitores n precisam d se acanhar e parar com a propaganda, ainda que pointless!:-)