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Deep purple were the first heavy metal band to beat Gary Kasparov at chess. True. Fact.


 
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Oranges are actually the only fruit, everything else is a vegetable.


 
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If you laid out Bill Wurbenicks bladder flat it would cover an area the size of Wales. True. Fact.


 
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Durian is native to Borneo fact. 😀


 
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Second hand Van Nicholas Ti Tuareg 27.5 650B frames are worth £990.


 
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Oranges are actually the only fruit, everything else is a vegetable.

... apart from coconuts


 
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Diana supposed "Princess of Wales" and "Queen of Hearts" was actually English and had never even been to Midlothian.


 
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Lance Armstrong was the first man on the dark side of the moon.


 
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All of the platinum that has been mined, would only fill an Olympic swimming pool up to your ankles if melted. (Give or take as not all ankles are the same height)


 
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Sick! Bicycles deliver on thier promises.


 
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We send the EU £350 a week


 
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All of the platinum that has been mined, would only fill an Olympic swimming pool up to your ankles if melted. (Give or take as not all ankles are the same height)

I'd image the size and shape of ankles would be quite variable in a 1,768 °C paddling pool. 🙂


 
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Garth Merengi is one of the few people you'll meet who's written more books than they've read.


 
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If you tick the [i]Remember log in details[/i] box on Singletrack, you never ever have to log in again.


 
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Shimano brakes don’t squeal. True story.


 
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Oranges are actually the only fruit, everything else is a vegetable.

Or tomatoes


 
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Water is wet


 
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Except dehydrated water


 
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Peanuts aren't nuts.


 
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French bats are bald


 
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I’d image the size and shape of ankles would be quite variable in a 1,768 °C paddling pool. 🙂

If you can’t stand the heat...


 
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Tour de France cyclists, during a typical sprint finish, are going so fast they could ride upside down on the ceiling of a tunnel and not fall off.


 
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If you ever get stuck in a lift ensure that you do so with a member of the Institute of advanced Motoring, they'll have been in the SAS or some shit so will be able to rescue you AND give you lots and lots of the benefit of their experience.


 
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French people go: "haw-hee-haw-hee-haw".


 
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If you film coatamundis walking and play it backwards then they look like tiny herbivore dinosaurs.


 
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The inventor of The Internet, went into cyberspace and has never been seen since.


 
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Pandas eat leaves and shoot blanks


 
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The conversion factor for Imperial to Metric length measurements is off, 8 inches is only around 140cm.


 
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The movie Tron is based on a real story. See Dez's fact up there!


 
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The mode of transportation commonly known as the bicycle has two wheels.


 
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Becoming a sexagenarian isn't as much fun as you thought it would be...


 
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Colour was invented in 1956 the psychedelic 60's were caused by people getting overexcited by the new fangled colours.


 
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The Queen (of England) only drinks swans milk. Fact.


 
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HOmosexuals cannot whistle*

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.* according to James Bond


 
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Earwax contains a complex community of microorganisms that is individual to the ear that produced it. This can be used to identify an individual from a trace sample of their earwax, much in the same way as a fingerprint.

Introducing the earwax of another individual to your own ears creates a completely new bacterial signature, so criminals will routinely share cotton wool buds to prevent their earwax from being used to identify them. It is for this reason that earwax profiling has never been used as extensively as fingerprinting by the police service.


 
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Crayons were invented in 1956 by a Swiss engineer named Gustav Binners.


 
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All cats are grey.


 
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There's no such thing as a seagull.


 
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You can tell a real duck from a fake one because one of its legs are both the same


 
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Chuck Norris is a wimpy sissy. All that internets stuff about him is made up.


 
Posted : 30/05/2019 12:33 pm
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You can tell a real duck from a fake one because one of its legs are both the same

I did not know this! I'm definitely going to check this out on the way home tonight. Amazing.


 
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New Zealand has no edible native plants. The Maori lived entirely on fish and birds so their metabolisms explode when they eat grain.


 
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The QWERTY keyboard layout was invented when Reginald D. Troutman suffered a mishap whilst playing extreme scrabble. This is a version of scrabble wherein the participants get high on glue whilst playing. Reginald famously collapsed at the 1963 ES world championships from being higher than shit, knocking over his tiles whilst simultaneously spilling his glue.

The rest, as they say, is history!


 
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Joe Cocker ate my hamster.

(Hope he's feeling OK)


 
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The forum will all be sorted when the new one comes after Christmas.


 
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Roger Moore is actually dead! RIP Roger


 
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I have never had to wipe!


 
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You can write the word banana with a single tub of hundreds and thousands.


 
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Dogs, cats and horses are all the same animal. Clue's in the number of legs, morons.


 
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The Mueller report only reported true facts and came to a firm conclusion.


 
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Richard Littlejohn is secretly worried that dicks are delicious.


 
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20 Stoats can bring down a Cow!


 
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More people signed the petition to revoke article 50 than voted for Farage's Brexit party.


 
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20 Stoats can bring down a Cow!

Or 40 weasels, 10 pine martens, 1 wolverine


 
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If you encounter a Black bear, play dead and it won't attack you. Brown bears will.

...or is it the other way around? I can't remember.


 
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Just have to remember " If it's brown take it downtown, if it's black fake a heart attack"


 
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[strong]jon1973[/strong] wrote:

If you encounter a Black bear, play dead and it won’t attack you. Brown bears will.
…or is it the other way around? I can’t remember.

Bear bells and cans of pepper spray are handy to avoid / fend off brown bear attacks

Black bear poo smells of pepper and has bells in it


 
Posted : 30/05/2019 3:40 pm
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All very useful, but what about grizzly bears?


 
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All very useful, but what about grizzly bears?

African or European?


 
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Tic Tac mints are made from the holes punched out of Polos.


 
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Grizzly bears may intake up to 360 quarter pounders from McDonalds each day.


 
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BMWs are equipped with awesome visual technology that enables indicators when within sight of an MoT Symbol, then disables them as soon as the car leaves the garage. Contrary to popular belief, it's not because the driver is a bit of a dick.

Speed limits don't apply to Audis, apart from the crappy little ones in which case the speed limit is actually half what the sign says it is

People who live in cities and never get further away from the city centre than an out of town shopping centre really do need a Range Rover.

Dundee Council do actually know what they're doing


 
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African or European?

Yes!


 
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In that case pretend to be a baby seal.


 
Posted : 30/05/2019 4:00 pm
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I just looked it up and discovered another fact - If a bear attacks you it will bite off your face and wear it as a mask to enable it to get closer to picnickers.
(all here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bear-Attacks-Causes-Avoidance-Revised/dp/158574557X for verification purposes)


 
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I just looked it up and discovered another fact – If a bear attacks you it will bite off your face and wear it as a mask to enable it to get closer to picnickers.
(all here – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bear-Attacks-Causes-Avoidance-Revised/dp/158574557X for verification purposes)

Probably part of the origin of the phrase 'bear-faced cheek'.


 
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[s]Probably[/s] FACT!


 
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Most people only use 90% of their brain to complete routine tasks.


 
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I was told it was a bear that had stolen all my tools... (looks suspiciously at DezB).


 
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My bicycle has five wheels.


 
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Most people only use 90% 9% of their brain to complete routine tasks live their entire life.

FTFY, etc.


 
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90% of most people would need 205% of their brain to do statistics. write coherent sentences without editing less than twice.


 
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Statistics are 100% made up.


 
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Grizzly bears aren’t real. They’re just brown bears that have been taking “supplements” to help them make sick gains bro.

Speaking of sick. Sick bikes aren’t a real company. Jeremy Beadle is alive and sick is his tour de force comeback for Beadle’s about. Oh how we’ll laugh when he takes off his mask and fake tattoos


 
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Bats are just nightime birds.


 
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If you ever see a Volvo Xc being driven off-road(excluding pavements) then you’re actually witnessing an ongoing accident.


 
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Fatty and thinny went to bed..
Fatty rolled over and thinny was dead!


 
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Baby hamsters are called Hamlets.


 
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Everyone in the world can fit on the Isle of Wight at the same time.


 
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The Isle of Wight would actually sink if everyone in the world stood on it at the same time.


 
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