WTF?! (Strange But True Facts)

One I like reeling off when in a debate about martial arts.

The modern sport of MMA is generally regarded as starting with the UFC back in 1992 but this was brought directly from Brazil, specifically with the Gracies, who have been competing in these types of tournaments since the 1930s. So you would think MMA is almost 100 years old but you would be wrong. The ancient Greeks loved a bit of combat and a bit of sport in equal measures so in 648 BC introduced the sport of Pankration into the Olympics which would look a lot the early UFC matches that allowed all forms of fighting minus biting and eye gouging. And since these fighters trained in a varied range of combat ranges they would've looked like the modern MMA fighter.

So the new sport of MMA actually predates most traditional martial arts by a few 1000 years.
 
To further go on from this, although not true and more of a myth but a good one.

Chinese fighting styles are generally regarded as filtering down from the Shoalin temple (which isn't really true but fuck it I'm on a roll so I'm derailing, sorry). As the story goes a Buddhist monk did a bit of wandering and came across a temple and the monks struggled to meditate/fight. Mr Buddhist monk happened to be quite the handy fellow so taught them so badass fighting skills. And thus Chinese Kung Fu was born!

But if we go back further Buddhism was developed in India. So it's fairly safe to assume that the monk was of Indian descent. One of the oldest martial arts in India is an art called Kalaripayattu. It's a theory that this mink knew Kalaripayattu and taught the Chinese monks this fighting system.

But to go back again, its theorised that Kalaripayattu comes from another fighting system that was brought in by conquers of the country.

Meet Alex
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He was kind of Great.

This bad mother fucker loved nothing more than murder, war and Pankration.

You recognise that word I see.

Apparently, although probably mostly wrong, Alexander the Great conquered India, taught the art of Pankration to Indians who produced their own art of Kalaripayattu then a wayward monk pissed off to China and taught some other monks with ADD a bit of hand to hand combat and BOOM.

Kung Fu was born.

So thank the Greeks for your badass democracy and even badasser fighting skills.
 
Our so called "Father of the Nation"

Gandhi was obsessed with sex and it has all been hush-hushed for all these years. He had a habit of sleeping naked with women, including his great niece and other married women, to see if he could control himself. I find it absolutely disgusting that he used women for his own experiments.

At the age of 38, in 1906, Gandhi took a vow of brahmacharya: living a spiritual life which included a vow of chastity. He encouraged his followers to abstain from sex, even in marriage.

To prove his self-control he often slept and bathed naked with other women – including a grandniece and the wife of his grandnephew, who were both 18 when they started sleeping in the same bed as Gandhi, who was 77 years old at the time.

Gandhi's behaviour was widely discussed and criticised by family members and leading politicians.

Some members of his staff resigned, including two editors of his newspaper who left after refusing to print parts of Gandhi's sermons describing his sleeping arrangements.

The first Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru is said to have described Gandhi's sexual behaviour as "abnormal and unnatural".
 
MeganB said:
Our so called "Father of the Nation"

Gandhi was obsessed with sex and it has all been hush-hushed for all these years. He had a habit of sleeping naked with women, including his great niece and other married women, to see if he could control himself. I find it absolutely disgusting that he used women for his own experiments.

At the age of 38, in 1906, Gandhi took a vow of brahmacharya: living a spiritual life which included a vow of chastity. He encouraged his followers to abstain from sex, even in marriage.

To prove his self-control he often slept and bathed naked with other women – including a grandniece and the wife of his grandnephew, who were both 18 when they started sleeping in the same bed as Gandhi, who was 77 years old at the time.

Gandhi's behaviour was widely discussed and criticised by family members and leading politicians.

Some members of his staff resigned, including two editors of his newspaper who left after refusing to print parts of Gandhi's sermons describing his sleeping arrangements.

The first Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru is said to have described Gandhi's sexual behaviour as "abnormal and unnatural".
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I'm not trying to compare myself to Gandhi, but this reminded me of myself. It started back when my ex wife and I were still married. I'd wake up in the middle of the night and we would be fucking. I obviously wasn't going to complain about it so when it would happen I'd fuck her, cum, then go back to sleep.

After we split up and I started dating and staying over with other women the same thing would happen. I go finally asked one of the girls I was fucking why she and other girls would fuck in the middle of the night. Turns out it was my doing all along. Apparently I'd start rubbing their pussy, take off their panties and just start fucking. Because of this I can't sleep in the same bed with just any girl, it's caused issues before and it's something I do completely subconsciously.
 
Facebook is blue because Zuckerberg is color-blind: According to a 2010 profile from the New Yorker, Facebook’s main color is blue because Zuckerberg has a red-green color blindness. In the interview, he told reporter Jose Antonio Vargas that “blue is the richest color for me — I can see all of blue.”
 
Most people think the candy bar Baby Ruth is named after the famous baseball player. However, it was named after the daughter of El Comandante Grover Cleveland, Ruth Cleveland.

Chew on that
 
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