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3 strange or funny facts about your Home Country!; Made out of pure randomness.
Topic Started: Dec 1 2010, 05:56 PM (4,718 Views)
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Here's another fun fact about the USA: the oldest city in our country (San Juan) is two centuries older than our nation. We also have a church that is 500 years older than our nation.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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Fun fact: The British Monarch also used to be the King of Hanover, however different succession laws meant that Queen Vic ascended the throne but could not be Queen of Hanover.
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Not very fun fact at all, rather dry really: In Northern English, velar nasals are non-phonemic allophones of /n/ (IPA).
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Did you know the only letter which never appears in the periodic table was J
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i didn't. :o
Remarkable that i hadn't noticed that... i guess i've been looking at missing single letters.

There is no 'E', for example.
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Bermuda has been English since before the Acts of the Union united England and Scotland.
A short walk from my house is a spring where Cynehelm, a Prince of Mercia was murdered. It's said the spring formed under his murdered body and anyone who drinks of it will have good health. Seems to be true, I've not died at all since drinking it.
There were been British Arabs long before their were Anglo-Saxons in the British Isles. Rome recruited troops from all over the empire, and once they had dealt with whatever threat they were sent to defeat they would stay and settle where they were posted.
Cromwell was an arsehole, he killed the King and stole Christmas.

Since I'm partly Irish I'll throw out a few Irish ones.

The Guinness company was founded be protestants, it had to be, they were the only ones in Ireland with any money.
The phrase Beyond the Pale came from The Pale, the only part of Ireland under English control. What happened beyond the Pale was seen as wild and unacceptable, hence the term.
Kingdom of Dublin was the longest lasting Norse Kingdom outside Scandinavia.
Cromwell was an arsehole. He tried to kill all the Irish.
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Dec 6 2010, 01:45 PM
Did you know the only letter which never appears in the periodic table was J
But what about Jellium? You know, the gelatinous metal? ...We have discovered a gelatinous metal, right?
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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That's not like jelly.

Well, let's call element 124 Jingoium!
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The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) technically still exists. In 1972 Castro gave the GDR a little uninhabited island and it was not mentioned in the reunification agreements.
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Does anyone live there?
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Uninhabited.

Though by now I'm sure there's a hotel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Th%C3%A4lmann_Island
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Ah, the first stage of ISLAND INVASION. Improvised airstrip next.

Do we have any uninhabited islands?
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