*All of us keep finding and learning new things daily....some are interesting ...and some we wish we never knew...here is one example: Interesting: `In ancient times when being attacked by war Elephants....Pigs were used to break up the attack. The Elephants were distressed by their squealing and so they would break formation and run` Wish I didn't Know: `They also used flaming pigs as catapult loads...and set the pigs on fire and shot them over the walls to start interior fires on the wooden structures.....` *What can you share to amaze and amuse? *Please stay on topic and have fun if you choose to post:
Interesting fact: If you took out your vital organs and laid them end to end, you would be completely dead from a lack of vital organs.
`The worlds most expensive substance is anti-matter. The current cost to create a gram of antihydrogen is $62.5 trillion per gram. A 'day' cycle on submarines is actually 18 hours. 6 hours on, 12 hours off with three shifts. As there are no windows, adaptation has not been a problem. Billy Mays was going to star in a chain of Taco Bells TV commercials. Then he died.` Over exposure to silver nano-particles can turn your skin blue. The word 'slut' was originally a 12th century word for an untidy women.
flipping someone the bird originated during the French and English war the English long bow men when captured the French would cut off their middle finger so they wouldn't be able to shot a bow anymore so when the English and French would meet face to face on the battlefield the English long bow men would hold up their middle finger to show the French they still had their finger the salute originated during the medieval period when two knights in full armor would pass each other they would raise their visor of their helm so to recognize each other the first practical indoor toilet was by invented by Thomas Crapper
`Good one! This salute dates back to the English Longbowman who fought the French during the Hundred Years War (1337 1453). The French hated the English archers who used the Longbow with such devastating effect. Any English archers who were caught by the French had their Index and middle fingers chopped off from their right hand- a terrible penalty for an archer. This led to the practice of the English archers, especially in siege situations, taunting their French enemy with their continued presence by raising their two fingers in the Two-Fingered Salute meaning You havent cut off my fingers ! http://bshistorian.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/two-fingers-up-to-english-history/
`If the names of the Civil War dead were organized similar to the names on the Vietnam Memorial wall, the Civil War memorial would be over 10 times longer. During the Civil War, 2% of the U.S. population died. This is equivalent to 6 million men today. While rifles were the deadliest weapons during the war, disease killed more men. Camps became breeding grounds for measles, chicken pox, and mumps. One million Union solders contracted malaria. One of every 65 Federals and 1 of every 45 Confederates were killed in action. Three future presidents fought in the Civil War: Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, and William McKinley. The youngest soldier in the Civil War was a 9-year-old boy from Mississippi. The oldest was an 80-year-old from Iowa. More than 10,000 soldiers serving in the Union Army were under 18 years old. Virginia experienced the most fighting during the Civil Warmore than 2,100 events, followed by Tennessee (1,400) and Missouri (1,100). More Americans died at the Bloody Angle at Spotsylvania, Virginia, in May 1864 than at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944.`
Soldiers during the civil war would throw out their packs of cards because if they died, they didn't want their loved ones to know that they had been gambling.
`The Ka-Bar Knife (pronounced "KAY BAR"), revered combat knife of the United States Marine Corps got its name thanks to a testimonial letter sent to the company by a fur trapper in the 1920s. `The trapper wrote, in very broken English, that he used a Union Cutlery knife to kill a wounded bear after his gun jammed. All that was legible of his scrawled writing was k a bar. `So honored were corporate executives that they used the phrase as their trademark, Ka-Bar. In 1952, the Ka-Bar name had achieved such fame that the company changed its name to Ka-Bar Cutlery. ` - - - Updated - - - `The term "The whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the Pacific.When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
'Survival cannibalism' practiced by Jamestown settlers` `Scientists have verified that early Jamestown, Va., colonists ate fellow settlers in order to stay alive during a brutal winter dubbed "the starving time." It has long been believed that colonists enduring horrible conditions during the winter of 1609-10 practiced "survival cannibalism" to stave off death, but the first forensic evidence was announced Wednesday along with a striking three-dimensional model of a young girl believed to have been cannibalized.` http://www.usatoday.com/story/dispatches/2013/05/01/jamestown-settlement-cannibalism/2127877/
In days of old.... In days of old, when the Knights were bold And toilet lights were dim You'd hear a crash, then a splash OH GOD! He's fallen in! In days of old, when knights were bold And toilets weren't invented. They'd drop their load by the side of the road And walk away contented. In days of old, when knights were bold And paper weren't invented. They'd wipe their arse on clumps of grass And walk away contented. In days of old, when knights were bold And condoms weren't invented, They wrapped their beef with a piece of leaf And proceeded on contented. In days of old, when Knights were bold And condoms weren't invented They stuck some socks upon their cocks And maids were quite contented, In days of old, when Knights were bold And women weren't invented Men drilled holes in telegraph poles And lived life quite contented. In days of old when Knights were bold And toilets weren't invented They dug a pit and had a (*)(*)(*)(*) And came away quite contented In days of old when Knights were bold And condoms weren't invented They stuck a sock upon their (*)(*)(*)(*) And babies were prevented In days of old, when Knights were bold And people were contented, They wipe their arse on a piece of glass And drove themselves demented. In days of old, when Knights were bold And women werent too particular, Wed line them all against the wall And screw them perpendicular.