I know, full of Canada-related Fun Facts today....
Boston's official Christmas tree is an annual gift from the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. This has been going on since 1918 as an annual "thank you" for Boston's humanitarian help after Halifax and almost everyone in it were obliterated by the biggest explosion in history prior to nuclear weapons.
Fun Fact:
Attempting to kill the Queen - successfully or not - is the only crime in Canada that warrants a mandatory life imprisonment during peacetime.
Fuqing trubblemaker.
"Well, the oldest man to ever father a child did so at 96."
Nope. I think Methuselah was about 200 years old when he fathered a child. At least, according to the Bible ....
#StirringShitUp
Fun Fact:
Mrs. Feodor Vassilyev gave birth to - gasp - 69 children in her lifetime. 67 survived infancy. A peasant in Russia, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets (no single births) between 1725 and 1765.
While this may sound fucking unbelievable, the claim is generally accepted. I'm not sure which is more fantastic - a woman birthing that many children or 67 out of 69 children from multiple births surviving infancy in rural 18th century Russia. Even today the infant mortality of quadruplets is quite high.
However - he wasn't finished yet. After his wife died, Mr. Vassilyev remarried. While it would seem that the mother would be the most important factor in being prone to multiple births, Vassilyev had 18 children with his second wife, who had 6 pairs of twins and 2 sets of triplets, making him a father of 87 children in total. ALSO no single births.
Something was up with the Sperminator here. How the fuck does a peasant care for 87 kids?
Well, the oldest man to ever father a child did so at 96. Ramjit Raghav of India (currently 97).
So... if his child lives to be the same age... they will find themselves being 97 in 2110, with a father having been born nearly 200 years earlier in 1916.
Now that is cool. My grandmother didn't know how old she was but she had very vivid recollections of WW1 (yes ONE) times and talked about the first, car, radio etc she ever saw. Mind blowing and she died in the 90's.
I remember reading about the "last link to the 18th century" - I wish I could find it. A woman whose father was born in 1799, but fathered her in advanced age and she didn't die until 1975 or something. The idea that a child of someone born in 17-ANYTHING having been alive during my lifetime blew my mind.
btw the claim of John Salling was debunked.
Not entirely accurate. 1 pension was still being paid out as of Jul 2013 (2 were being paid in 2012). In both cases, it wasn't a spouse, but a surviving child recieving benefits. The children were most likely disabled or mentally handicapped prior to turning 18 and the mothers deceased at the time of their fathers' passing in order for them to continue to receive pay and benefits.
It's still pretty fascinating though, knowing that the child of a civil war vet is still alive. In this case, the surviving child is in her 90s and living in a nursing home. She receives a little more than $800/mo from her father's pension.
Related Fun Fact: The last Union veteran, Albert Woolson, died in 1956 at age 109. The last Confederate veteran, John Salling, died in 1958 at age 112.
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FF: The government still pays two pensions from the Civil War. Two soldiers in their 90's who fought in it, ended up marrying some 18-19 year olds before they died thus giving them benefits, and the woman are still alive today.
Fun Fact:
Jerry Maren is the only one of the 124 Munchkins from the Wizard of Oz who remains alive to this day. He was a prominent one too - the center (green) member of the Lollipop Guild. He was 19 at the time of filming, and is 94 today.
Ten child actors also dressed as Munchkins to add to the numbers. One child actress (i.e. not a dwarf) remains alive. Priscilla Clark is 85, having been 10 at the time of the production.
Since I missed the first day of National Clitoral Awareness Week I'm celebrating it May 6 - 12 instead.
"some dudes"
Drats. Obviously, she is referring to some dudes other than doods here in the forums.
Whoa! I'm six days behind celebrating this month. I'd better get busy with myself.
Well, damn - I stand corrected.
Is there an Awareness Week for things I was not aware of?
Its a population thing.
Oh, and Va, its International, not National.
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clits get a week and masturbation get the whole month of May
Fun Fact:
There's a website called:
catsthatlooklikehitler. com
It's exactly what it sounds like. Not cats dressed up in Nazi attire - cats with color patterns that make them look like they have a Hitler-esque mustache.
Clits get a whole week? Donuts only got a day. Then again, I have met some dudes for whom even a month would not have been long enough for them to make its acquaintance.
Fun Fact:
May 5-11 is National Clitoris Awareness Week.
It took a Moron to finally come up with a real Fun fact. Thanks.
As for what my seamen say when entering port, I can't really hear the little fellas over the other sounds. I only know they are happy to be there.
Fun_Ahoy fact:
The word, "ahoy" was suggested by Alexander Graham Bell to be used as the standard greeting for answering the telephone. His rival, Thomas Edison suggested that the standard greeting should be, "Hello". Up until that point, the word "hello" was a fairly obscure word that was used to express surprise, similar to the way we use the word "whoa" today. Mr. Edison's greeting won.
Fun, do your seamen exclaim, "Ahoy!" as they go into port?
I married a hot engineer. She must have gotten tired of the rocket scientists or none of em had big dicks. My dick is average so it must have been my tongue that sealed the deal.
Fun Fact: From the first time I saw this thread title I keep thinking it would have some useful fact about me. But as of today, there still isn't anything posted about a cure for narcissism.
Gerry Adams was arrested for murder.
About time...
