A thread of Did you know- 's.

[Hanamichi]

Well...
Did you know that the plastic things at the end of shoelaces are called aglets ?

erm...im bored

[K.I.L.E.R]

If your bored answer this riddle:

"Runs over fields and woods all day
Under the bed at night sits not alone,
With long tongue hanging out,
A-waiting for a bone."

[Hanamichi]

Erm... I dont know.
Did you know that cats always land on their feet from heights?

[K.I.L.E.R]

Did you know I just seen Die Hard for the first time in my life?

[Hanamichi]

Eh....forget it. Ill get on my PS2 now.

Originally posted by Hanamichi
Erm... I dont know.
Did you know that cats always land on their feet from heights?

Yes, but not uninjured...http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_190.html

[Strider]

Originally posted by K.I.L.E.R
If your bored answer this riddle:

"Runs over fields and woods all day
Under the bed at night sits not alone,
With long tongue hanging out,
A-waiting for a bone."

im gonna guess a foot...


feet run all day,
theyre under the bed and have another foot to keep company
shoes have tongues which stick out above
i dunno what a-waiting for a bone means but it has several bones

[Kraiger Drago]

I would say a Shoe.

Did you know?
Despite the known risks, manufacturers of radium-based health foods and drinks did a brisk business in the US up until the 1930s. There was a radium water (one New York company claimed to supply it to 150,000 customers), toothpaste, face cream, hair tonic, and even a popular radium soft-drink endorsed by amateur golf champion, Eben Byers, who drank two miniture bottles of it everyday. His jaw decayed rapidly and he died of anaemia within a few years.

[carnage179]

What's radium?

[Kraiger Drago]

Radium is a highly radioactive element. Back in the early 1900's it was painted on stuff to make it glow in the dark, like watch faces, and clocks. Nobody thought that maybe the whole "glowing in the dark" thing was BAD, so a whole lot of people got cancer (mainly the factory workers who painted the radium onto stuff, and Eben Byers up there).

[K.I.L.E.R]

Yes it's a shoe

[Strider]

dang, so close

[Strider]

ok heres mine:

Answers its caller without being
asked. Responds within seconds, and
speaks all languages with equal ease,
yet it does not actually speak
What am i?

[K.I.L.E.R]

A dog?

[Player-X]

Try this riddle:

Why are they so many fiberoptic highways but no one is getting on?

[Strider]

nope, dogs dont speak all languages

btw heres another one

Brought to the table.
Cut and served.
Never eaten.

[K.I.L.E.R]

The guests?

No on uses fibre optic yet down here btw.

[Strider]

the first one was an echo...

the second one was a deck of cards

[K.I.L.E.R]

Why wouldn't you eat a deck of cards? :confused:

[Strider]

perhaps the better question would be why would you eat a deck of cards