The French word for lawyer is the same as that for avocado.

I can just imagine the awful French puns (except in Enlgish). Le laugh.

More Strange Stuff: Australia

Swimming - In 1838 it was declared illegal to swim at public beaches during the day! This law was enforced until 1902.

In 1932, Francis De Groot, a retired cavalry officer, managed to get himself selected as part of the honour guard at the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. When the ribbon was about to be cut, he galloped forward on his horse and slashed the ribbon with his sword, declaring the bridge open in the name of 'the decent citizens of New South Wales'. The ribbon was then tied back together and the ceremony continued. De Groot was carried off to a mental hospital, declared insane and later fined for the replacement cost of one ribbon.

Prime Minister Harold Holt went for a swim at Cheviot Beach, near Portsea on 17th December 1967, and was never seen again. The event has been referred to as 'the swim that needed no towel'.

Australia was the 3rd country, after the US and Russia, to launch a satellite into orbit. It was for the British, using a 'Blue Streak' rocket

~SE++

By 1929 half of American families owned a car. The easy credit that made this possible could not possibly backfire. Nope.
Americans pay more tax dollars per capita onr helathcare than... actually I'm pretty sure they spend more than everybody. Same goes for private spending. Somehow American healthcare is still only mediocre.

The average North Korean child is 5 inches shorter than the average South Korean child.
In North Korea enemies of the state are sent to concentration camps alongside their entire families.
North Koreans actually vote for their leader. There just aren't many options.

The National Geographic Channel is owned by the same people as Fox News.

Deca Records refused to sign the Beatles, saying they had "no future in show business".
Western Union almost bought the patent for the telephone, but the CEO stepped in to veto the purchase. The CEO wrote a letter directly to Alexander Grahm Bell calling the telpehone an "electrical toy".

Apple pie predates the USA, the oldest known recipe dating to 1381.
The apple may be the first fruit cultivate by humans.
The movie hero Rambo is named after a variety of apple.
Johnny "Appleseed" Cahpman's apple trees were reputed to have terrible tasting apples. His nickname was actually an insult.

Perhaps the world's most infamous acronym, the USA PATRIOT act, stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism.
Taxes for most Americans are lower today than they have ever been before.

The Aztec empire was less than 100 years old when Cortez arrived in modern day Mexico.
About 1/3rd of the silver the Spanish took from South America went to China.
The Phillipines were named after a Spanish prince. (Who's name was Phillip)

There is a group of thought that says "tastes like chicken" is nature's way of saying something is not poisonous.

There is also a group of thought that says that is a bad way to test if something is poisonous.

Thought that said "tastes like children". Probably also a bad way to test if something is poisonous.

How would one even know what children tasted like?

This is the third time something relatively innocent has turned to this subject on these forums.

I am finding it a mixture of fascinating and disturbing how that seems to happen.

NGA: home of the pedovores.

The country with the highest male:female ratio? Vatican City.
Vatican City is a monarchy. When someone becomes pope, they also become king of Vatican city.
The Holy See, the institution of the popehood is a legal corporate person.

Vikings never wore horned helmets.
Napoleon was 1.7m or 5'7'' tall. Not all that short, especially by the standards of the time.

Then why do all vikikings have hormed helmets? Where did that stereotype come from?

Artists thought they looked cool. Some opera started the trend if I recall correctly.

Those damned artists

In Elizabethan England bastards (children born to unwed mothers) could not legally own property.
Until 1927, the birth certificates of bastard children had the word "illegitimate" on them. A practice that no doubt served some vital purpose. Somehow.

Bob Barker took karate lessons from Chuck Norris.
Ayn Rand collected stamps. According to a possibly facetious John Green, this is because it is not a Marxist enterprise that props up the weak.
Thomas Edison believed that the introduction of sound ruined movies.
Warren Buffet plays the ukelele.
Mark Twain patented suspenders.

There is more technology in the modern smartphone than was used to land astronauts on the Moon.

Snow Leopards are not related to Leopards at all, they are more closely related to Jaguars or Lions.

Much of everyday English language is based on Scandinavian words originally used by the Vikings.

On one occasion after a filming session of the original Star Wars Trilogy everyone else walked off set leaving English actor Kenny baker who played R2-D2 still encased in his droid shell.

There is a species of moth, Mabra elephantophila, that gains most of its sustenance from the tears of elephants.
The fangs of the funnel web spider can penetrate human fingernails.
There is a species of carpenter ant that can self-destruct in a poisonous explosion.

My source - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkYbFr7dcIs

There is a species of bee that gets drunk. Not only this, but the members of its own hive consider this to be worthy of eating any offender's legs. The first time.

The second time...... they ain't so lucky.


Just figured that while we were listing disgusting bug facts.....




On a completely unrelated note, Animal Planet has lost 1 viewer recently.

Random fact that i have discovered : Some folks tend to be so lazy that they would rather stop or not do something as the case may be than take a recommended course of action

When breeding pokemon in X and Y, you have just about double the chance of getting 6 perfect IV's if you use two pokemon with different IV's (I've only tested this while starting with 5 perfect IV parents)
EX: A pokemon with an imperfect attack, and one with an imperfect defense will yield a perfect pokemon (1.09 %) twice as much as two pokemon with imperfect attack (.63 %).

However, if you are looking for a specific set of IV's it is doubly effective to use two pokemon with the same IV's (22.5 % compared to 10.78 %).
(Again tested only with 5 perfect IV parents, this one was obvious, but I felt I'd share it too)