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Useless facts thread.
« on: September 18, 2003, 06:53:25 AM »
This thread is where you should post all your useless little pieces of trivia.

1) The British fondness for Tea came about because it was cheaper, due to tax considerations, than coffee, and it was not a depressant like Cigarettes or Alchol, the only other stimulants available at that time.

2) Alexander the great was told by the priests of Zeus (or the egyptian incarnation) that he was the 'Son of God'.

3) A quarter of all emigrants from Britain to colonies in the empire were Scottish. Another quarter were Irish. This means that today there are (probably considerably) more Scottish and Irish living outside the British Isles and Eire than within.
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Re: Useless facts thread.
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2003, 08:56:46 AM »
About the Scottish useless fact: in my family history research, I've come across quite a few stats about that. I think the United States alone, they said, has something like 100 million people of Scottish descent. Maybe I'm making that number up. Whatever it was, it was large, like 1/2 of the population of the U.S. Of course, many of them are probably like me, not just Scottish. I'm Swedish, Irish, Scottish, English, German, and Prussian.
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Re: Useless facts thread.
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2003, 09:24:24 AM »
Well im of Scottish, Irish and hungarian descent so i guess thats fair enough :P
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Re: Useless facts thread.
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2003, 09:51:34 AM »
i have a famous Scottish villain in my ancestry. "Bloody" someone. Knox I think.

Anyway, if it's not scottish it's crap.
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Re: Useless facts thread.
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2003, 10:59:00 AM »
Whereas The British and Dutch fondness for coffee comes from the fact that they were protestant, while Catholic nations hold (or at least held) Chocolate as their favorite hot beverge...

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Re: Useless facts thread.
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2003, 11:00:22 AM »
I had a friend who kept claiming that he was descended from scottish kings... So I put him in his place.
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Re: Useless facts thread.
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2003, 08:29:31 PM »
A lot of my family descends from the Island of Mann, which supposedly makes me part Manx. Why do or did they call people from the Island of Mann "manx?" Or is it just a useless fact.
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Re: Useless facts thread.
« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2003, 10:43:22 PM »
Another useless fact: Manx cats have no tails. Or is it no hair?
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Re: Useless facts thread.
« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2003, 09:40:43 AM »
No tails. I have seen them myself. Look wierd.

Its manx because 'Mannians' or 'Manns' doesnt roll off the tounge i guess, although i could check.
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