Stats, Facts, Funnies

Stats, Facts and Funnies - Your issue 11 tit-bits

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:04:38 +0100

Brother, Brother! One day a zookeeper noticed that the orangutan was reading two books — the Bible and Darwin's: The Origin of Species. Curious he asked the ape, "Why are you reading both those books"? "Well," said the orangutan, "I just wanted to know if I was my brother's keeper or my keeper's brother." Over and Out The Darwin Awards — an award ceremony that commemorates individuals who protect our gene pool by removing themselves through stupidity — awarded their 2011 trophy ...

Stats, Facts and Funnies - Issue 10

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:30:18 +0100

The Best Jokes We Heard This Year: 1. My neighbour knocked on my door at 2.30 this morning! Can you believe that – 2.30am?! Luckily for him I was still up playing my bagpipes. 2. Paddy says, “Mick, I’m thinking of buying a Labrador. “Really?” asks Mick. “Have you seen how many of their owners go blind?” 3. I saw a poor old lady fall over today on the ice! ...

All the Stats, Facts and Funnies from Issue 9

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:18:30 +0100

Absinth minded! Towards the end of his life, Vincent van Gogh used a large amount of yellow in his paintings. A common misconception was that he was colour blind, but the truth is that he was born with epilepsy treated it with an herb called digitalis his entire life. His constant use of digitalis combined with his love of absinth saw him decline into madness, and eventually he perceived the world around him to be a collage of yellow hues and dots. ...

Some Trivia to baffle the brain (Issue 8)

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:22:31 +0100

1. Adolf Who?At the Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany 1939, Adolf Hitler promoted his Aryan race policy by stressing how inferior ethnic Africans were. He was therefore slightly annoyed when Jesse Owens, a black American athlete, won four gold medals. The Olympic committee insisted Hitler greet every medalist, but Hitler opted to greet none instead. But it wasn’t Hitler who offended Owens at all. On his return to the USA, Owens said, “Hitler didn't snub me—it was FDR (Franklin D Roosevelt) w...