The Official Did You Know Thread

[TabascoElvis]

Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible for the English soldiers to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore incapable of fighting in the future. The famous bow was made of the English Yew tree and the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking the yew" or "pluck you". Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won the battle and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French and saying "We can still pluck yew. Pluck you". Since "pluck yew" is rather difficult to say, 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. It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird". And yew thought that yew knew everything.

http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/pluckyew.asp

I was told it was an acronym for "Fornication Under Consent of King"

http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/fuSEEk.asp

REPLACE THE "SEE" WITH A "C!"

I should have used blue font.

[sighyoung]

Mind you, SNAFU and FUBAR and real acronyms developed during World War II.

[Freed Roger]

Yorkshire pudding was created during a beef shortage. 1

1-Cliff Clavin-Cheers

[Freed Roger]

Trade secret - if you transpose two different numbers, the difference is divisible by 9.

81 - 18 = 63.

540 -450 = 90

50785 - 57085 = -6300

Now go forth and conquer the world.

[Swirls]

Trade secret - if you transpose two different numbers, the difference is divisible by 9.

81 - 18 = 63.

540 -450 = 90

50785 - 57085 = -6300

Now go forth and conquer the world.

That's creepy.

Mind you, SNAFU and FUBAR and real acronyms developed during World War II.

And they are still used quite often today (at least in the nuclear industry).

[StatmanCrothers]

Raisins are actually just dried grapes.

[Hungary Jack]

The smallest (area wise) sovereign state on the planet is Vatican City. It has the same climate as Rome.

[doe_boy]

Raisins are actually just dried grapes.

Guess the gif thread's got me all geeked up today.

[Schlich]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... onceptions

[heyzeus]

The Amazon River is 4300 miles long and there are no bridges over it at any point.