Giving the Finger
Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they would be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous weapon was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking the yew" (or "pluck yew"). Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, "See, we can still pluck yew! PLUCK YEW!" Over the years some 'folk etymologies' have grown up around this symbolic gesture. Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say (like "pleasant mother pheasant plucker," which is who you had to go to for the feathers used on the arrows for the longbow), the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative 'F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute are mistakenly thought to have something to do with an intimate encounter. It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird."

I suppose this one could go in Rocky's.... ;o)

At any given time about 0.7% of the world's population are estimated to be drunk.

...but not in the same place, I think...

I'll drink to that and I'll bet 90% of them are in Australia.

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Did you know?...27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras.

So, I could increase my chances of winning the lottery, if I grope one woman every time I buy a lottery ticket.

I have been testing that theory for decades....I'm not rich but I've had alot of fun.....and a few arrests and visits to the stationhouse. lol

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I found this surprising...

Did you know the first vending machine was invented by Hero of Alexandria around 215 BC. Whenever a coin was dropped into a slot, its weight would pull a cork out of a spigot and the machine would dispense a trickle of water.

I wonder how long it was until the first time a vending machine was kicked/hit for eating your money and not giving you the product...

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Did you know....
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so)

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Did you know?...Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

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Did you know.... It takes glass one million years to decompose.

and.... Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!

White Tennesseans celebrated the victory over the British in the Revolutionary War. Now, Tennessee was a part of the new state of North Carolina . But people were always talking about breaking away and forming a state of their own, and in 1784 many living in Tennessee tried to do this by attempting to form a new state that they called Franklin . They named their new state after Benjamin Franklin in hopes that it might make the new national government more sympathetic to their cause. They also elected John Sevier, hero of the Battle of Kings Mountain, to be the first governor of the state of Franklin .

However that state was never recognized by the government, so it didn’t become a real state. Today this unsuccessful attempt at statehood is known as the Lost State of Franklin.

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Did you know?...It's impossible to lick your own elbow. (If you're normal, that is.)

Unless of course you're Gene Simmons.

That's exactly who I thought about, then I decided he isn't normal by any stretch of the imagination. The guy has an eight inch tongue, if I remember correctly, and has had sex with 5000 woman. If that's normal, I wanna be normal to. :)

Yeah you're right he isn't exactly normal.

I have to agree with the last part you said.

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Did you know?...27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras.

Did you know....98%of all heterosexual men were searching for those lottery tickets?

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Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data!
I did NOT authorize this belly writing!

Did you know?...27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras.

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Did you know?...It's impossible to lick your own elbow. (If you're normal, that is.)

It's much easier to pay someone else to do it....That's how I spend MY weekends...

Did you know?...It's impossible to lick your own elbow. (If you're normal, that is.)

Unless of course you're Gene Simmons.

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Did you know?...It's impossible to lick your own elbow. (If you're normal, that is.)

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Did you know?... The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

I'm hoping that one ain't true. Think if it ever happened to be a Violin Spider.

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Did you know?...1 in every 200 people are a psychopath and they look just like everyone else......

But you can spot them by their writing :o)

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Did you know?...1 in every 200 people are a psychopath and they look just like everyone else......

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Now this is a cracker...

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

I'm lost for words...OK..I know some will say..that makes a change, but I'm working on it.

Those donkeys should be rounded up.

And treated with antibiotics.

It's the only way.

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Did you know?... The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

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Now this is a cracker...

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

I'm lost for words...OK..I know some will say..that makes a change, but I'm working on it.

Those donkeys should be rounded up.

I hear there's a whole ranch devoted to the jackasses around here somewhere....

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Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data!
I did NOT authorize this belly writing!

Now this is a cracker...

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

I'm lost for words...OK..I know some will say..that makes a change, but I'm working on it.

Those donkeys should be rounded up.

And treated with antibiotics; the show must go on!

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