Flying Facts Thread!

In Argentina the toothpaste brand "Colgate" translates as "Go Hang Yourself". Strangely Torn also sells a brand of shampoo called "Go F**k Yourself", but this is because Torn folk are weird.

Cock fighting and prostitution were once thriving industries within Torn until Father Hiram Williams of the Torn Church led a motion to have both outlawed. His religious stance against prostitution is understandable, but as yet nobody has been able to work out why the Father hates the idea of animal battles.

In its history Torn's citizens have mugged over $10 trillion from each other, roughly equivalent to half of the GDP of the United States of America. Good work everyone.

Approximately 80% of Dubai's population is comprised of foreigners, which means it's really hard to be racist there.

FengFeng Oil(hiring) is Torn's most successful oil rig company thanks to the efforts of director YuanLiFengFeng. YuanLiFengFeng is so dedicated to the oil industry that they don't even have a favorite oil. I'm partial to light-crude myself, but I couldn't drink a whole barrel. I mostly use it on salads.

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The Bits and Bobs store is now run solely by Bob Lee. His business partner Kenny Bits died in 1993 after falling into the Ostrich enclosure at one of Torn City's zoos.

Purchasing a stock ticker allows players to participate in the stock market, and lose their money in an entirely new way other than being mugged.

Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, but if Torn's citizens ever feel the need to end their lives they simply have to wear leopard print in public. This is taken as an official invitation to be shot, and the act is usually carried out within minutes.

The top lingerie store in all of Torn is G.O.A.T. owned by local pervert BukakkeBludFart. Their highest selling range is the Dirty Alleyway selection of male and female underwear, so named for its open-rear design which allows for easy entrance round the back.

Despite assaults, murders, arson and drug trafficking going mostly unpunished, swearing in the Torn newspaper is one of the few things which will almost certainly land you in prison. Torn is attempting to be a cuss-free city by 2025.


LIES!

Switzerland contains 208 mountains which are over 3000 meters high. Torn's only mountain can be found at the dump, and it consists of used diapers, old refrigerators, and charred corpses.

Torn's military was once deserted by nearly 100,000 of its soldiers within a single week. Nobody can remember why this happened, and since nobody wrote it down I guess we'll never know.

Torn's rules of engagement allow you to carry one primary weapon, one sidearm, one melee weapon and a single temporary item into any battle. The most embarassing thing to be knocked out with is a trout.

Torn's most popular building is the Item Market, followed by the Bank, Duke's Loan Shark office and the Church. This indicates that people in Torn like to buy crap, then check their bank accounts, realize they're screwed, borrow money off Duke, then go pray to God he never asks for it back.

4,963,840 medical items were used by Torn's citizens in the last month, with most of this consisting of morphine, medical kits, blood bags, and a single treatment applied to an anonymous citizen for TBH (total body herpes

Shooting Ranges are available to those who own a ranch, castle or private island. Even though a palace is quite expensive you still can't install one there, because a palace is too fancy for such shenanigans.

"Torn" is a nickname given to the city after its expulsion from the United States in the early 20th Century. To this day nobody knows the original name of the city, but it was probably something boring like Detroit or Melville.

The first recorded use of Marijuana was in China 4700 years ago. The document from which this evidence has been discerned is over 12,000 pages long, and mostly covers the scholar's theories about unicorns, the illuminati and snack cakes.

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined, because Canada is greedy and won't share.