random fact game

[Ashlee]

an ostriches' eye is bigger than it's brain

[Kayla]

It is against the law to put firecrackers in your mailbox. (But oh so fun....to watch the door pop open when the bottle rocket bursts)

[tired]

The War of the Roses ended when Henry Tudor, a Lancastrian, defeated King Richard III, a Yorkist at the battle of Bosworth Field on 22 August 1485.

[HappyChristian]

In 1875, Henry Ward Beecher was sued for adultery in a trial that lasted 6 months and ended in the jury deliberating for 6 days and being split, so a mistrial was declared...no-one really knows if he was guilty.

[tired]

Henry Ward Beecher knew if he was guilty. :lol

[HappyChristian]

Henry Ward Beecher knew if he was guilty. :lol

:lol True. But he proclaimed his innocence in the same double speak way the politicians use today. Even though only one of his sisters openly believed him, there was at least one who kind of believed but wouldn't vocalize it, and at least one brother who knew it was possible. Seems Henry was quite the man who liked his pleasures.

[tired]

The great French fighter Georges Carpentier started his carrer as a Fly-
weight and ended his carrer as a Heavyweight. He fought in every divison
boxing has to offer!

[Kayla]

My favorite French last name is DuPont.

[Palatka51]

DuPont paints cars.

[Ashlee]

the scientific term for rust is ferric oxide

[Kayla]

I just ate too many cookies.

[Ashlee]

Bulls are color blind

[tired]

Platypus is one of the few venomous mammals. The male platypus can delivers a poison, causing severe pain to humans, through a spur on its hind foot

[Ashlee]

this board will only allow fifty smilies per post

[John81]

The old board used to allow far, far, far more smilies than 50 per post!