Insert Your Interesting Facts Here.....

Did you know that Ned Kelly was first arrested at the age of 14 in 1869 for assulting a Chinese farmer by the name of Ah Fook?



RMD, i'm expecting big things from you on this thread!!!

did you know that the high cross in finglas graveyard has a big crack going straight across the middle cause when cromwell was doin his rounds they decided they didn't want him knowing they were catholic so they chopped it down , hid it, and just after he past through stuck it back up

Did you know......

....when you see a statue of someone on horseback, if the horse has all 4 legs on the ground the person on it died of natural causes. If the horse has one of it's front legs in the air, the person died from their injuries after battle. If the horse has both front legs in the air, then the person on it died in battle!

....the Titanic cost around $6.5 million to build, the film cost $600 Million!!!

....your left lung is smaller than your right one!

....Derry will win the 2010 All Ireland Senior Football Championship!

BE cotradict you there ,
Te one regarding the horse is as they say an urban legend much like socrates playing soccer for a team in Dublin.

Wexford were the first county to
1. win 6 leinster titles in a row
2 win 4 all ireland title in a row
3 where the first county to compete for the hurling and football in the same year
4 were the first county to lose the double as well, re above

We got our nickname The "model" county
(really because of our good looks????)
due to Farming yes thats right farming, Farmers in Wexford were the most advanced in Ireland at the time that the rest of the country "modelled" there farming methods on what was been carried out in the real sunny south east.
Also all modern techniques would of been tried and test in Wexford at the time to see that the where ok to be carried out.
Our other nickname 2the yellowbellies" came from an English royal think it was quenn liz 1 (not to sure) after Ceaser Coaleagh (of Tintern Abbey) brought a team of hurling over to cornwall to play an exhibition game for the aforementioned royal.
to differeniate between the teams those from Wexford wore a yellow stach around there midriff and hence the name the yellowbellies.

From above we were the first county to promote the game of hurling and also we were the first national gaa team as well.

Jim - I will only accept a correction from yourself as you defeated me in the quiz!!!

It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body

Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking
countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.

If you average only 6 hours of sleep at night, your immunity to viral
infection can be affected by 50%.Poor sleep can make us more vulnerable
to viruses which cause the common cold or influenza.

Cats can run at a speed of thirty miles per hour.

Apart from enhance our moods, laughter can cut down stress, cooperate fighting infection, and reduce pain.

talian author Pietro Aretino who in 1556 was laughing so hard at a
bawdy story being told to him by his sister that he fell backwards in
his chair and died of suffocation from “laughing too much.”

Laughter amplify the natural killer cells that attack viruses and some types of cancer and tumour cells.

Ard Mhacha means Macha's height - Macha was an anciet godess of Ireland and was associated with War, horses and sovereignty

Your heart doesn't pump blood back from your feet as, by time your blood has reached your feet, the pressure has pretty much disappeared. Instead the muscles in your legs squeeze your veins and push blood upwards kinda like toothpaste being pushed from a tube. Your veins have little valves in them that stop the blood from flowing backwards.
Thes veins are also used when someone gets a bypass. So it's important that the doc makes sure that the valves are removed or that they are oriented in the correct direction.

Of the 206 bones that the average human being has, 106 of them are located in your hands and feet.

Does anyone know the name of a chemical component that has an extremely high density. Something like one square inch of it has the same mass as the whole of Earth.

Your bladder holds around 400ml of liquid. That's more than a bottle of beer.

Anthony Tohill once played alongside David Beckham, Ryan Giggs, Eric Cantona and Mark Hughes among others for Manchester United Reserves.

McGeeney as you know lived or lives in Dublin and was training in the gym one day and the Irish national rugby team walked in and asked if he was a New Zealand rugby player and then found out he wasnt and McGeeney trained with them.

Coca Cola is actually green, they put a dye in it make it black.

Coca Cola also invented the traditional image of Santa Claus

Loyal2TheRoyal wrote:Does anyone know the name of a chemical component that has an extremely high density. Something like one square inch of it has the same mass as the whole of Earth.

PFM Pure Feckin Meath meant to have an extremly high DENSE(ity)

Did you know.....

......That only 4% of babies in the UK & Ireland are born on their actual due date.

Did you all know there are 4 big senior championship games on this weekend? (wouldnt think it with the amount of attention stupid threads like this are getting)

Sam, i'm very annoyed that you have called my thread stupid........it's interesting and factual!

It's tough to get a debate going on here at the minute though Samin, i've tried starting a few but the go down like someone farting in a lift!!!

The song Hey Jude, was originally written by Paul McCartney to cheer up John Lennon during his parents divorce. The original title was 'Hey Jules'.

bald eagle wrote:The song Hey Jude, was originally written by Paul McCartney to cheer up John Lennon during his parents divorce. The original title was 'Hey Jules'.

Actually It was written about John Lennons son Julian during Johns divorce BE

I knew it was something like that!

Did you know.....

That Northern Ireland has more Bank/Public holidays that the rest of the UK and Ireland?

Northern Ireland has 10 holidays, while Scotland and the Republic of Ireland have 9, England and Wales have 8!

bald eagle wrote:Did you know.....

That Northern Ireland has more Bank/Public holidays that the rest of the UK and Ireland?

Northern Ireland has 10 holidays, while Scotland and the Republic of Ireland have 9, England and Wales have 8!

The 12th is good for something then!!

Napoleons horse, Marengo, was from Ballinasloe. Fact!

mossbags wrote:Napoleons horse, Marengo, was from Ballinasloe. Fact!

Best thing to ever come out of Ballinasloe.

Arn't you forgetting Mary Harney RMD

Not just Marengo mind you, the majority of Naopleons calvary who conquered Europe were purchased at the Ballinasloe horse fair. So there ye have it. Ye can have yer county Finals, Ballinasloe has conquered Europe.