10 Things We Didn't Know This Time Last Week

[Virgil]

3. Colin Powell speaks Yiddish.

Well, he's from New york and we all know some Yiddish, schmuck and putz :D


5. Homes are 4C warmer, on average, than they were 50 years ago.
I guess we want to be more comfortable. Without even looking at the article, it must be from some environmental whacko.


6. Turtles can swim 900km (559 miles) in a month.
Oh what those sexual urges can do. :p


7. Coffins can be made out of banana leaves. Keith Floyd was buried in one.
Just don't let the monkeys think there are bananas in them or you you're going to have quite a mess at the funeral. :)


8. Michael Jackson had tattooed eyebrows and lips.
One of these days they are going to figure out that Michael Jackson was a manikin and never actually lived. :nod:


9. The most common names for swingers are Paul and Catherine.
Hey those are my neighbors. I should knock on their door. :D


10. There are about 100 million bubbles in a bottle of champagne.
And tell me, has anyone actually counted to verify.;)


1. Male life expectancy in the UK goes up by about three months every year.

That's because female life expectancy keeps going down every three months every year. :lol:


2. Fidel Castro stopped smoking cigars in 1985.
Hopefully one day they'll shove them up his butt.


3. In the early days of barcodes there was a plan for round ones.
They were persuaded not to do that because they would look like the back end of a zebra. Everyone woould then think they were looking up a zebra's ***. :lol: :lol:


5. Japan has a theme park where children pretend to be fast food workers.
What??? Must be inspired by a bunch of philosophy majors after graduating and getting jobs: "Do you want fries with that?"


6. Only two serving US presidents won the Nobel peace prize before Barack Obama - Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson in 1919.
At least they actually did something to accomplish it. Apparently they give out these things on affirmative action these days. I heard President Obama will now get a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, and an Olympic gold medal. What the hell, one doesn't have to achieve anything anymore.


7. The flash on David Bowie's Aladdin Sane album cover was inspired by the logo from a rice cooker.
And a lot of scotch!


8. Wild animals in zoos in Gaza have to be smuggled in tunnels under the border.
Just like the terrorists. ;)


9. There was a royal blood disorder.
It gave the vampires a stomach ache. :D


10. Low-quality females prefer low-quality males. In the world of zebra finches at least.
Looking at all the low class trash couples out there, I would say that's true in the human world as well. :lol:

[Scheherazade]

1. Earth's warmest year was 1998.

2. Morecambe and Wise nearly split up, before they had even got on television.

3. Sailors in Tudor times had man bags.

4. Some spiders are vegetarian.

5. Each person has 1.5kg of probiotic bacteria in their digestive system, on average.

6. The placebo effect is real.

7. Boyzone sold more singles than Take That in the 1990s.

8. Culled rabbits are used to heat homes in Sweden.

9. William Pitt's dying words were about House of Commons catering.

10. Jeremy Clarkson's father was friends with the Monty Python team.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/

[papayahed]

3. Sailors in Tudor times had man bags.


I've always suspected men secretly long to carry murses.

[Scheherazade]

1. Humpback whales' mating rituals can be deadly.

2. Galaxies that are 10.2 billion light-years away can be seen through telescopes.

3. Wine gums have the names of alcoholic drinks on them.

4. People spent £37m on cup cakes in the UK last year.

5. The spread of cupcake shops has been used to map urban gentrification in the US.

6. Bagged salad is photographed 4,000 times a second.

7. The most available time of week for a meeting is Tuesday at 3pm.

8. GPS locates the Prime Meridian 100m to the east of Greenwich Observatory.

9. Sales of Asterix books number 325 million.

10. The first watches appeared shortly after 1500 in Germany.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/10/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_110.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. The city of Bath, in Somerset, was referred to as "The Bath" until the 19th Century.

2. Bears don't like honey, and aren't even very keen on berries and nuts.

3. Scouts can deliver post.

4. Barbara Windsor was the second actress the play Peggy Mitchell in Eastenders.

5. Tattoos can be done with a person's ashes.

6. The average American spends $66.45 (£40) on Halloween.

7. When a shark pup is born its liver makes up 20% of its body mass

8. The world's oldest dog is 20.

9. The secret to a happy marriage for men is choosing a wife who is smarter and at least five years younger.

10. A man has been sent to jail for driving the motorised chair while drunk.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/10/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_111.shtml

[Virgil]

1. Earth's warmest year was 1998.

And we've continued to dump ever more CO2 into the atmosphere and it has actually cooled down. Is there something wrong with the man made global warming theory? I would say so.


2. Morecambe and Wise nearly split up, before they had even got on television.
And would anyone really have cared? :P


3. Sailors in Tudor times had man bags.
Oh I bet they looked sexy. :D


4. Some spiders are vegetarian.
Then why do they need to make a web, to catch falling grapes? ;)


5. Each person has 1.5kg of probiotic bacteria in their digestive system, on average.
Isn't that commonly known as sh*t, or crap, or feces? :lol:


6. The placebo effect is real.
Now that you've let the cat out of the bag, it's effect has just been eliminated. Hey if it's real, why don't we all pretend to take medicine? :D


7. Boyzone sold more singles than Take That in the 1990s.
That's because Girlzone was whispering sweet nothings into his ear. ;)


8. Culled rabbits are used to heat homes in Sweden.
Ah how cruel. Can't they use logs or coal like other places? Those poor bunnies. :)


9. William Pitt's dying words were about House of Commons catering.
Yeah, the chef sucked. :lol:


1. Humpback whales' mating rituals can be deadly.
Isn't that why they are called hump-back? :lol:


2. Galaxies that are 10.2 billion light-years away can be seen through telescopes.
Wow. I can't even imagine how far that is.


3. Wine gums have the names of alcoholic drinks on them.
Cool, gum now comes in wine flavors! :)


4. People spent £37m on cup cakes in the UK last year.
Part of the reason for the weight problem I would guess. ;)


5. The spread of cupcake shops has been used to map urban gentrification in the US.
I've never seen a cupcake shop. I guess I'm just not part of the gentry. :lol:


6. Bagged salad is photographed 4,000 times a second.
Boy some of the things that people find photogenic surprises me.


7. The most available time of week for a meeting is Tuesday at 3pm.
Hey I am free at that time. Who wants to meet with me? :D


8. GPS locates the Prime Meridian 100m to the east of Greenwich Observatory.
I thought it was supposed to go right through the Observatory. Did they make a 100m mistake?


9. Sales of Asterix books number 325 million.
What? I've never even heard of Asterix books.


10. The first watches appeared shortly after 1500 in Germany.
That is actually interesting.


1. The city of Bath, in Somerset, was referred to as "The Bath" until the 19th Century.
Is that when people started switching over to showers? :p


2. Bears don't like honey, and aren't even very keen on berries and nuts.
They like good old human flesh. :D


3. Scouts can deliver post.
What and the unions don't complain?


5. Tattoos can be done with a person's ashes.
OK. Is that better than snorting someone's ashes? ;)


6. The average American spends $66.45 (£40) on Halloween.
I'm not average. I didn't spend anything. :lol:


7. When a shark pup is born its liver makes up 20% of its body mass
And the other 80% are teeth.


8. The world's oldest dog is 20.
That was a great video. he looks pretty darn good for 140 years old. (20 x 7)


9. The secret to a happy marriage for men is choosing a wife who is smarter and at least five years younger.
Now that's where I screwed up. :lol: :lol: :lol: (Lord I hope sh doesn't see that. :D)


10. A man has been sent to jail for driving the motorised chair while drunk.
I saw that on TV here. What a cool chair!

[Scheherazade]

1. Gordon Brown gave up a £2m pension on his first day in office

2. At peak times, 32,000 pedestrians cross Oxford Circus junction in one hour.

3. Lyrics from Jon Bon Jovi's new album are framed and hanging up in the White House.

4. Journalists visiting Sesame Street are banned from asking Bert and Ernie if they are gay.

5. The BBC rejected Sesame Street in 1971 because it was "too authoritarian".

6. Elmo's favourite food is wasabi .

7. Tall men can have small parents.

8. Part-time veggies are called flexitarians.

9. A missing child must usually have been missing for at least two years to warrant an age progression image.

10. French babies cry with an accent.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/11/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_112.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. Reading lamps can run off the electricity that comes down a defunct landline socket.

2. Men's urine is less acidic than women's.

3. Coral can eat jellyfish.

4. The first sell-by dates were on milk and cream in the 1950s.

5. Early flights to India stopped to refuel in Basra.

6. Porn for the furry community is known as "yiff".

7. Russia has 11 time zones.

8. Travelling in a "road train" can cut fuel consumption by 20%.

9. Canadian Transport Minister John Baird called his cat Thatcher.

10. Pigtails used to be known as queues.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/

[Virgil]

1. Gordon Brown gave up a £2m pension on his first day in office

Of course no one knows he made 3m under the table. ;) [Actually that sounds quite admirable.]


2. At peak times, 32,000 pedestrians cross Oxford Circus junction in one hour.
I didn't realize that circus clowns went to Oxford. :)


3. Lyrics from Jon Bon Jovi's new album are framed and hanging up in the White House.
What? Of all the great quotes from past presidents and world leaders and dignataries, and this administration frames quotes from Bon Jovi? We are in bigger trouble than I thought.


4. Journalists visiting Sesame Street are banned from asking Bert and Ernie if they are gay.
:lol: Now why would puppets be gay? Or perhaps why would puppets not be gay? :lol:


5. The BBC rejected Sesame Street in 1971 because it was "too authoritarian".
Yeah, that big bird really has a lot in common with Adolph Hitler. :p


6. Elmo's favourite food is wasabi .
Goes great with chocolate milk. :D


7. Tall men can have small parents.
Tall men can have small other things. Size is not linked to height. ;)


8. Part-time veggies are called flexitarians.
Part-time veggies? Couldn't they get a full time paying job? :nod:


9. A missing child must usually have been missing for at least two years to warrant an age progression image.
I don't have the heart to make a joke out of this one. God be with those missing children.


10. French babies cry with an accent.
Well, they want to be fed and so they are trying to say, "bon appétit." :D



1. Reading lamps can run off the electricity that comes down a defunct landline socket.

Don't stick your finger in there. It will be shocking. ;)


2. Men's urine is less acidic than women's.
Don't I know it. Women's always seems to give me heartburn. :p


3. Coral can eat jellyfish.
And Carol put her's on toast. :)


4. The first sell-by dates were on milk and cream in the 1950s.
And by all accounts, they are still on the supermarket shelf. ;)


5. Early flights to India stopped to refuel in Basra.
So where did late flights stop? :eek2:


6. Porn for the furry community is known as "yiff".
Well, there's a lot of furryness on display in porn, isn't there? :lol:


7. Russia has 11 time zones.
Do they even have clocks there? ;)


8. Travelling in a "road train" can cut fuel consumption by 20%.
I went over to read this one. Sounds cool. But yikes if there is an accident. Could be deadly.


9. Canadian Transport Minister John Baird called his cat Thatcher.
A conservative I take it. :) :)


10. Pigtails used to be known as queues.
And people in queue are regarded as pigs? :)

[bloomdido]

:eek:I may never sleep again.

[Scheherazade]

1. Three of the world's supercomputers are in the US.

2. Humans are more likely to be killed by a hippo than a lion.

3. Teeth grinding is known as bruxism.

4. Spin doctors were used in the Iron Age.

5. School phobia is a condition recognised by doctors since the 1960s.

6. Whisky should be stored upright, unlike wine.

7. "Wrap rage" is a term coined to describe the anger felt by people trying to get into bonded plastic "clamshell" packaging.

8. Male and female candidates to be officers in the British Army have to do different amounts of press-ups, but the same number of sit-ups in a physical test.

9. For three decades, the BBC took a very dim view of Enid Blyton's work.

10. Swindon has the UK's highest broadband use.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/11/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_114.shtml

[Virgil]

Geez, I need a laugh this evening. This came just in time. ;)


1. Three of the world's supercomputers are in the US.

Doesn't one belong to Admin to run lit net? All my super thoughts require at least one supercomputer to handle them. :p


2. Humans are more likely to be killed by a hippo than a lion.
How true. I've know several run over by a hippo but only my ex-best-friend who was killed by a lion. I bet we've all known a few people killed by your next door neighbor's hippo. :lol:


3. Teeth grinding is known as bruxism.
I used to do that. Or maybe I still do. My wife has other noises I make in bed to complain about. :lol:


4. Spin doctors were used in the Iron Age.
Politicians go way back, don't they? ;)


5. School phobia is a condition recognised by doctors since the 1960s.
Are you kidding? School phobia must go back to Plato's Symposium. :)


6. Whisky should be stored upright, unlike wine.
Hmm, two of my favorite beverages. I guess i do it correctly. :D


7. "Wrap rage" is a term coined to describe the anger felt by people trying to get into bonded plastic "clamshell" packaging.
I know the feeling!! Why do they make those things so hard to open?


8. Male and female candidates to be officers in the British Army have to do different amounts of press-ups, but the same number of sit-ups in a physical test.
I just checked for the US Army and it's the same for them. Interesting. I wonder why women can do the same situp requirements. By the way, I can still meet a 100% score for my age group in both the pushups and situps. :D


9. For three decades, the BBC took a very dim view of Enid Blyton's work.
And if that is the case, why did it take 30 years to fire him. :p


10. Swindon has the UK's highest broadband use.
And what a selfish person he is. Didn't his parents teach him to share. ;)


Out of curiosity, does anyone read my retorts here?

[Scheherazade]

Politicians go way back, don't they? ;)Maybe that is the world's oldest profession...
And if that is the case, why did it take 30 years to fire him. :pYou don't know who Enid Blyton is, d'ya? :D (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Blyton)
Out of curiosity, does anyone read my retorts here?Oh, I read your every single post, Virgil! ;)

[Virgil]

Maybe that is the world's oldest profession
Yeah, actually they do share a lot in common, don't they.


...You don't know who Enid Blyton is, d'ya? :D (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Blyton)
No, I never have. Thanks. She seems noteworthy to know.


Oh, I read your every single post, Virgil! ;)
Ah, yes, I know too well. Big brother, or should I say Big Sister. ;)

[Scheherazade]

1. Michael Jackson's iconic white glove is a modified golf glove.

2. To be a Beefeater you have to have done 22 years military service.

3. Seemingly vegetative patients are asked to think of playing tennis while being scanned for evidence of consciousness.

4. The UK had its first curry restaurant in 1809.

5. The hamlet of Seathwaite in Borrowdale is, on average, the wettest inhabited place in England.

6. All British infrastructure, including bridges, is designed to at least withstand the kind of flooding that would happen on average once every 200 years.

7. Hammerhead sharks can actually see rather well.

8. And humans use their skin to "hear".

9. Google will only remove images from its image search facility if legally ordered to do so.

10. Christmas trees can be dangerous.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/11/10_things_we_didnt_know_this_t_20.shtml

[Taliesin]

10. Christmas trees can be dangerous.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/11/10_things_we_didnt_know_this_t_20.shtml

That's news? I thought that anyone who has hunted, or, at least, been taken as a little child to the forest to hunt a Christmas tree, knows how dangerous those cunning bastards are. I've known plenty of good men who have perished hunting those magnificient beasts. It is not a show for the weak-hearted not for those who cannot stand the sight of blood, since a Christmas tree, when cornered, can be fierce - and deadly.

[Basil]

That's news? I thought that anyone who has hunted, or, at least, been taken as a little child to the forest to hunt a Christmas tree, knows how dangerous those cunning bastards are. I've known plenty of good men who have perished hunting those magnificient beasts. It is not a show for the weak-hearted not for those who cannot stand the sight of blood, since a Christmas tree, when cornered, can be fierce - and deadly.
Christmas trees can be dangerous in other ways, as well. Their shiny ornaments, their shimmery tinsel, their suggestive poses...anyone who has succumbed to the cheap and tawdry allure that Christmas trees possess will tell you: Christmas trees have been the ruin of many a poor boy.


And God, I know I'm one.

[papayahed]

Christmas trees can be dangerous in other ways, as well. Their shiny ornaments, their shimmery tinsel, their suggestive poses...anyone who has succumbed to the cheap and tawdry allure that Christmas trees possess will tell you: Christmas trees have been the ruin of many a poor boy.


And God, I know I'm one.

Kinda gives new meaning to the term "Trimming the tree", no?:santasmil

[Basil]

Kinda gives new meaning to the term "Trimming the tree", no?:santasmil

Don't taunt me, Papaya.

[Basil]

papayahed : O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree...

basil : Shut up! SHUT UP!!

[Basil]

papayahed :
...Much pleasure thou can'st give me;
How often has the Christmas tree
Afforded me the greatest glee
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree,
Much pleasure thou can'st give me...

basil : *buries his face in his hands*

[papayahed]

Check out the bulbs on that thing:

http://www.moonbattery.com/christmas-tree.jpg

[Niamh]

:lol:

[Basil]

http://www.moonbattery.com/christmas-tree.jpg

O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
You fill my heart with music
Reminding me on Christmas Day
To think of you and then be gay
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
You fill my heart with music

[Scheherazade]

O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
You fill my heart with music
Reminding me on Christmas Day
To think of you and then be gay
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
You fill my heart with musicOh, don't let all those tinsel and baubles dazzle you; the beauty is only skin deep, after all.

The real question is whether you will still care for the Christmas tree when it it has passed its prime and looks like this:


http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1143/treev.jpg (http://img219.imageshack.us/i/treev.jpg/)

[Basil]

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1143/treev.jpg (http://img219.imageshack.us/i/treev.jpg/)
Nah, I'd probably just take it in the backyard and set fire to it. That's actually how most of my relationships end.

[jocky]

Nah, I'd probably just take it in the backyard and set fire to it. That's actually how most of my relationships end.

That is so unfair; ' A thing of beauty is a joy forever ' Remember that tree had leaves at one time, it had D.N.A. it could have been a prince among trees, it could have supported birds, squirrels, insects and sasquatch. What time are you burning it I am freezing? :)

[Taliesin]

In Estonia, men who perform such acts with Christmas trees are traditionally poked to death with Christmas ornaments and no wonder - monstrous creatures who stalk the forests of Estonia even now are known to be born of such unnatural unions of man and tree. These creatures possess both the cunning, strength and allure of a Christmas tree and the intellect of a human - creatures even more dangerous than the ordinary Christmas-trees.
Fortunately, due to genetics, half-Christmas-trees cannot produce offspirng themselves, although they are unarguably sexy - even I, who I am not a treesexual can see it.
Basil, I don't know whether the creatures you engage in relationship with are real Christmas-trees or the halfbreeds(they can be uncannily similar to ordinary Christmas trees if they take after their wooden parent) and, being a liberal-minded European man, I do not condemn your lifestyle, but please, and I cannot stress this enough: use protection. For the sake of general and personal good.

[jocky]

In Estonia, men who perform such acts with Christmas trees are traditionally poked to death with Christmas ornaments and no wonder - monstrous creatures who stalk the forests of Estonia even now are known to be born of such unnatural unions of man and tree. These creatures possess both the cunning, strength and allure of a Christmas tree and the intellect of a human - creatures even more dangerous than the ordinary Christmas-trees.
Fortunately, due to genetics, half-Christmas-trees cannot produce offspirng themselves, although they are unarguably sexy - even I, who I am not a treesexual can see it.
Basil, I don't know whether the creatures you engage in relationship with are real Christmas-trees or the halfbreeds(they can be uncannily similar to ordinary Christmas trees if they take after their wooden parent) and, being a liberal-minded European man, I do not condemn your lifestyle, but please, and I cannot stress this enough: use protection. For the sake of general and personal good.

:)
So you are not a treesexual, this is a new phenomenom which may branch out and take root. I believe half of this post, yes and that is the half that is patently untrue. ' God stand up for treesexuals ' :santasmil

[Scheherazade]

1. Mobile numbers 07700 900000 to 900999 are reserved for fictional numbers in TV and films.

2. Smoking first thing in the morning is worse for you than other times of the day regardless of the number of cigarettes smoked, US research shows.

3. There is one CCTV camera for every eight people in London.

4. The world's oceans are believed to absorb about half of the total carbon emissions from human activities.

5. Italian police have a Lamborghini patrol car worth 165,000-euro (£150,000).

6. Pubs in England pull about 10 million extra pints when the national football team plays in the World Cup.

7. Jane Austen probably died of TB - commonly caught from drinking infected milk - when she passed away aged 41.

8. Feet movements reveal who you are sexual attraction to.

9. The feet of the blue-footed booby, a bird which is native to the Galápagos Islands and Ecuador, get brighter in colour the less sex it has.

10. There are just four minarets on mosques in Switzerland.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/12/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_115.shtml

[Virgil]

1. Michael Jackson's iconic white glove is a modified golf glove.
He and Tiger Woods must have been on double dates. ;)


2. To be a Beefeater you have to have done 22 years military service.
I was eating beef at a pretty early age. :p


3. Seemingly vegetative patients are asked to think of playing tennis while being scanned for evidence of consciousness.
Well, there is a loss of consciousness when one is a vegtetarian too long. :D


4. The UK had its first curry restaurant in 1809.
And its first customer was William Wordsworth who wrote a sonnet on it:

The curry is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our curry;
Little we see in curry that is ours;
We have given our curry away, a sordid boon!
This curry that bares her bosom to the moon,
The curry that will be howling at all hours...
His editor didn't like it and so had him change it to "The World is too much with us..." :lol:


5. The hamlet of Seathwaite in Borrowdale is, on average, the wettest inhabited place in England.
Isn't that the pissing spot outside the Borrowdale Pub. :p


6. All British infrastructure, including bridges, is designed to at least withstand the kind of flooding that would happen on average once every 200 years.
Hmm, of course they were designed in 1809 and so now you have a problem. ;)


7. Hammerhead sharks can actually see rather well.
And what optomitrist is going to tell them otherwise? :nod:


8. And humans use their skin to "hear".
And what happens when you get a mole? Does one grow deaf? :eek2:


9. Google will only remove images from its image search facility if legally ordered to do so.
Ooh, I bet they have lots of my birthday images searches for lit netters. :D


10. Christmas trees can be dangerous.
It's not exactly nutritious. ;)


1. Mobile numbers 07700 900000 to 900999 are reserved for fictional numbers in TV and films.

And if I dial one will I get charged? It was fictional? :)


2. Smoking first thing in the morning is worse for you than other times of the day regardless of the number of cigarettes smoked, US research shows.
That is very interesting.


3. There is one CCTV camera for every eight people in London.
Shh. Don't let all the 1984 people hear that. They already see Big Brother everywhere.


4. The world's oceans are believed to absorb about half of the total carbon emissions from human activities.
Now that was very interesting. Here's a quote from the article:

Professor Watson said that it had been assumed that the amount of CO2 absorbed by the oceans remained constant.
"It had been assumed?" You mean that this has not been modeled correctly in those famous models that are predicting global warming? Does that support that global warming is a crock and flawed science? It does to me.


5. Italian police have a Lamborghini patrol car worth 165,000-euro (£150,000).
Oh, it's almost worth getting arrested just for a ride. :D


6. Pubs in England pull about 10 million extra pints when the national football team plays in the World Cup.
I guess they have to drown their sorrows somehow. :p


7. Jane Austen probably died of TB - commonly caught from drinking infected milk - when she passed away aged 41.
What a shame. Only 41. She hadn't even hit her peak yet.


8. Feet movements reveal who you are sexual attraction to.
Kind of gives a whole new meaning to the phrase my wife is a ball and chain. :lol:


9. The feet of the blue-footed booby, a bird which is native to the Galápagos Islands and Ecuador, get brighter in colour the less sex it has.
Hmm, kind of like my feet. You want to see how bright my feet are? They couldn't get any brighter. :p

[skib]

Virgil, I absolutely love your retorts! They're fantastic, and I do hope you keep it up!

[Virgil]

Thank you Skib. I really appreciate that. :) :)

[JuniperWoolf]

Nah, I'd probably just take it in the backyard and set fire to it. That's actually how most of my relationships end.

:lol: I hope that you just mean your relationships with old christmas trees.

[Basil]

:lol: I hope that you just mean your relationships with old christmas trees.
Ummm....yes. That IS what I meant.

Taliesin, your words of solidarity are very much appreciated.

[Basil]

...monstrous creatures who stalk the forests of Estonia even now are known to be born of such unnatural unions of man and tree. These creatures possess both the cunning, strength and allure of a Christmas tree and the intellect of a human - creatures even more dangerous than the ordinary Christmas-trees.
Fortunately, due to genetics, half-Christmas-trees cannot produce offspirng themselves, although they are unarguably sexy - even I, who I am not a treesexual can see it.

http://babyhatchetblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/christmas-tree-costume.jpg

Yes, you can't deny they possess a certain slatternly appeal.

[Scheherazade]

Nah, I'd probably just take it in the backyard and set fire to it. That's actually how most of my relationships end.Interesting.

I had put you down as a "chop-store-and-consume-as-and-when-needed" kind of a guy, actually.

[stephofthenight]

10. Some people eat goat and horse meat :(
9. If you fry your mothers microwave she will probably get pissed, especialy if she doesnt like what you are using it for.
8. It is not wise to microwave your lip rings, they are metal and make lovely blue, purple and green sparks before causing the microwave to go boom.
7. The capital of argentina is not San Juan
6. There are only 15 days left until Christmas
5. Not everyone appreciates house goats, even if they are potty trained
4. There are lots of educated Idiots in this world
3. Always back your computer up daily during finals, this way if your wonderful computer decides to crash you do not have to rewrite the paper that has taken you over a month again in 2 days.
2. Ups trucks do not have doors, and it gets VERRRY cold in them, you should so be nicer to the delivery guy/girl next time, its not as easy as it looks!
1. This is my 1,000 post YAY

[Taliesin]

Interesting.

I had put you down as a "chop-store-and-consume-as-and-when-needed" kind of a guy, actually.

Personal experience, Scher?

[Scheherazade]

Personal experience, Scher?Do I sound like I have been chopped, stored and consumed as and when needed? :rolleyes:

1. The Queen travels to Sandringham by scheduled train each Christmas.

2. The Moon has the coldest place in the Solar System measured by a spacecraft

3. About 3.8 million cheques were written in the UK every day last year.

4. Australian stingless bees immobilise intruding beetles by mummifying them in resin, wax and mud.

5. The Royal Mail's missed parcel cards are also known as "739" cards.

6. 748 million burgers are sold in the UK annually.

7. Women's touch is more sensitive than men's.

8. The Na'vi language spoken in James Cameron's new film Avatar took four years to write and develop.

9. Female spiders eat their mates despite them being nutritionally poor.

10. Milton Keynes central railway station appeared as a UN building in Superman IV.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/12/10_things_we_didnt_know_this_t_21.shtml

[1n50mn14]

8. The Na'vi language spoken in James Cameron's new film Avatar took four years to write and develop.

I don't know about everybody else, but I have far better things to do with four years of my time. :lol:

[Virgil]

1. The Queen travels to Sandringham by scheduled train each Christmas.

Coach or first class? :D I bet she gets an earfull from the fellow passengers. ;)


2. The Moon has the coldest place in the Solar System measured by a spacecraft
And I thought it was Rosie O'Donnell's heart. :lol:


3. About 3.8 million cheques were written in the UK every day last year.
Wow, that's probably about right. It is a lot but then we all have bills to pay. :(


4. Australian stingless bees immobilise intruding beetles by mummifying them in resin, wax and mud.
Sort of like the American divorced woman immobilising her ex. :D


5. The Royal Mail's missed parcel cards are also known as "739" cards.
I see the mail in Britain is as lousy as ours. :sick:


6. 748 million burgers are sold in the UK annually.
And all these vegetarians around here don't know what they're missing. :D


7. Women's touch is more sensitive than men's.
It all depends on where you're touching. :D [Geez I hope they didn't spend millions of dollars on that study.]


8. The Na'vi language spoken in James Cameron's new film Avatar took four years to write and develop.
Four years to write a fake language? I could have saved him a lot of time and money. Plus why didn't they just take some remote language from a tribe in the amazon? It would have been a lot easier.


9. Female spiders eat their mates despite them being nutritionally poor.
Now here I am in a quandry. Do I quip on the fact that a female spider is sucking the life blood out of a male just like humans or do i quip that a males don't have any nutrition? Choices, choices. :D


10. Milton Keynes central railway station appeared as a UN building in Superman IV.
But it doesn't say who Milton Keynes is. Sounds like a merging of Milton Freidman and John Mayard Keynes. Quite an economic center. ;)

[Scheherazade]

And all these vegetarians around here don't know what they're missing. :D


It doesn't say they are beef/chicken burgers... For all you know, they might be veggie burgers, which I love.

:D

[Virgil]

It doesn't say they are beef/chicken burgers... For all you know, they might be veggie burgers, which I love.

:D

:D This is true. But I bet the overwheling majority are beef.

[Scheherazade]

1. The G-spot nearly came to be known as the Whipple Tickle

2. The average British woman's foot is a size five and a man's is a size nine.

3. You have a legal duty to clear snow and ice from your path if you know it would otherwise be a hazard to people legitimately walking up it.

4. Cleopatra's eye make-up may have protected against disease.

5. Breast implants can slow you down.

6. Swiss law allows enormous speeding fines.

7. The legal limit for flying is 9mg alcohol per 100ml of breath.

8. People are still buying audio cassettes - 8,443 were sold in 2009.

9. Mobility scooters are exempt from the Road Traffic Act, leaving police powerless to act against examples of careless driving.

10. You can spot signs of high cholesterol from looking at someone.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/01/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_117.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. Riot shields make good sledges.

2. You can assault someone without touching them.

3. Alligators and birds breathe the same way - in one direction only.

4. Hiccups can be caused by brain tumours.

5. South Korea has the fastest broadband in the world.

6. Snow causes potholes.

7. The same weather system that froze Britain also baked Greece in record temperatures.

8. Michael Winner had part of his leg cut away due to oyster poisoning.

9. It's OK to own military medals you haven't earned, but it's illegal to wear them.

10. Animal heaven is called Rainbow Bridge.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/01/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_118.shtml

[Virgil]

1. The G-spot nearly came to be known as the Whipple Tickle

*face palm* :lol: What can I say to that? Let's just be gratefull it wasn't called the finicky fankle. ;)


2. The average British woman's foot is a size five and a man's is a size nine.
Of course. Men are more evolved!!! :lol: It's that Y chromosone. :D


3. You have a legal duty to clear snow and ice from your path if you know it would otherwise be a hazard to people legitimately walking up it.
Now what if you're out of town and no one is home? We have the same law and I have wondered about this.


4. Cleopatra's eye make-up may have protected against disease.
But I bet it encouraged STDs. :p


5. Breast implants can slow you down.
Yeah, but they are fun to watch as they slow her down. :D (Hey are these news items turning rated X all of a sudden?)


6. Swiss law allows enormous speeding fines.
Was that 14 million euros? Or is the "m" a thousand? And the fine was calculated based on his wealth? You mean there are different catagories of punishment based on a person's wealth? Now that doesn't sound like justice being blind.


7. The legal limit for flying is 9mg alcohol per 100ml of breath.
And a few more drinks and you'll really be flying. :D


8. People are still buying audio cassettes - 8,443 were sold in 2009.
I heard some people were still washing their clothes by the river. ;)


9. Mobility scooters are exempt from the Road Traffic Act, leaving police powerless to act against examples of careless driving.
But if you're caught speeding in a car they fine you millions of dollars (see #7). Laws don't make sense do they? It's what ever capricious thought comes into the legislatior's minds.


10. You can spot signs of high cholesterol from looking at someone.
Well, if their face is about the size of a basketball, you know they've been over eating. :)


1. Riot shields make good sledges.

I wonder if Sir Lancelot sledded on his shield? :D


2. You can assault someone without touching them.
Well, smacking them with a hammer across the head isn't exactly touching them. Is it? :D


3. Alligators and birds breathe the same way - in one direction only.
You mean they don't fart? :eek:


4. Hiccups can be caused by brain tumours.
And burps can be caused by hemorrhoids. :lol:


5. South Korea has the fastest broadband in the world.
Maybe we should get Admin to situate lit net there. :p


6. Snow causes potholes.
And ice. The streets get torn up so around here after every winter.


7. The same weather system that froze Britain also baked Greece in record temperatures.
It's global warming!!! :lol:


8. Michael Winner had part of his leg cut away due to oyster poisoning.
He's lucky it wasn't shrimp or they would have gone after his penis. :D (Now this is getting into the gutter. ;))


9. It's OK to own military medals you haven't earned, but it's illegal to wear them.
Is it also ok to have diplomas one hasn't earned as long as you don't hang them on the wall? ;)


10. Animal heaven is called Rainbow Bridge.
And animal hell is called the Vet's office. :)

[Scheherazade]

1. Mo Mowlam lied about her tumour.

2. The last remaining Royal Mail ship goes to St Helena.

3. Blind people can be taught to take photos.

4. Bolognese should be served with tagliatelle, not spaghetti.

5. Parliamentary candidates can put their own seals on ballot boxes under the Ballot Act of 1872.

6. South Korea's Ministry of Health is nicknamed Ministry of Matchmaking.

7. The first international cricket match was in the US.

8. The two most common pronunciations of Van Gogh are wrong.

9. Dead bodies do not necessarily pose a health risk to humans.

10. Cells surf.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/

[Basil]

9. Dead bodies do not necessarily pose a health risk to humans.
Well, provided you cook them long enough.

[Scheherazade]

Well, provided you cook them long enough.Well, I was thinking, "Tell that to those who have been chased by zombies..."

[Veho]

Well, I was thinking, "Tell that to those who have been chased by zombies..."

:lol: That made me laugh.


8. The Na'vi language spoken in James Cameron's new film Avatar took four years to write and develop.

Four years to write a fake language? I could have saved him a lot of time and money. Plus why didn't they just take some remote language from a tribe in the amazon? It would have been a lot easier.

I'm sure he's not worrying about money now, to be honest. He won't be short of a bob or two. :p

[Scheherazade]

1. By 57, men tend to wear their trousers just seven inches below their armpit.

2. Running barefoot may pose less risk for injury than wearing running shoes.

3. Motor home owners in the UK need a professional licence to drive one of the "homes on wheels". Not those in the US.

4. Swans divorce.

5. Texting may help children learn to spell btr.

6. Some dinosaurs were ginger.

7. Haggis has been banned in the US since 1989.

8. Among the first ever vacancies listed at early job centres were piano regulator, picture frame gilder and "girl confectioner's packer".

9. Mackenzie Crook keeps tortoises and three of them star in his latest play.

10. Face blindness - difficulty in remembering faces - is called prosopagnosia.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/01/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_120.shtml

[Virgil]

1. Mo Mowlam lied about her tumour.

It was only a pimple. ;)


2. The last remaining Royal Mail ship goes to St Helena.
St. Helena? Isn't that where Napoleon was confined to? Boy are they late with the mail. ;)


3. Blind people can be taught to take photos.
Of course the pictures look like Picasso portraits - body parts missing. :lol:


4. Bolognese should be served with tagliatelle, not spaghetti.
Of course, and my mother makes it so good, and she makes the tagliatelle from scratch. ;)


5. Parliamentary candidates can put their own seals on ballot boxes under the Ballot Act of 1872.
I didn't realize they owned seals. Kind of hard to vote if you got these barking creatures swinging their flappers at you. :D


6. South Korea's Ministry of Health is nicknamed Ministry of Matchmaking.
Makes one wonder how they play doctor over there. :p


7. The first international cricket match was in the US.
And that was probably the last time. ;) Now that is amazing. I don't think a single American has ever figured out how the game is played.


8. The two most common pronunciations of Van Gogh are wrong.
I pronounce it Van Goosh. Is that right or wrong? :p


9. Dead bodies do not necessarily pose a health risk to humans.
Unless of course you're vitually trapped in the movie Night of the Living Dead! :D


10. Cells surf.
Kind of gives a whole new meaning to the Beach Boy's "Surfer Girl."

Little surfer little one
Made my heart come all undone
Do you love me, do you surfer girl
Surfer girl my little surfer girl



1. By 57, men tend to wear their trousers just seven inches below their armpit.

Hey I'm almost there 57 now and my pants are just three inches from my arm pit. :p


2. Running barefoot may pose less risk for injury than wearing running shoes.
I heard this earlier in the week and I really find it hard to believe. Of course all it takes is one thumb tack on the ground. :D


3. Motor home owners in the UK need a professional licence to drive one of the "homes on wheels". Not those in the US.
Hmm, that is interesting. It'd be cool to own one, just for the easy access to a toilet while on the road. :)


4. Swans divorce.
And the alimony is three fish per month. :lol:


5. Texting may help children learn to spell btr.
Yeah right. And typing has mde me suhc a grate speler to.


6. Some dinosaurs were ginger.
And some were Maryann. ;) (Gilligan's Island TV show for those that are too young.)


7. Haggis has been banned in the US since 1989.
Stuffed intestines should be banned everywhere. :sick:


8. Among the first ever vacancies listed at early job centres were piano regulator, picture frame gilder and "girl confectioner's packer".
Can I put in an order for a pack of girl confectioned? Please?


9. Mackenzie Crook keeps tortoises and three of them star in his latest play.
I hope they learn their lines. :D


10. Face blindness - difficulty in remembering faces - is called prosopagnosia.
Hmm, I don't usually forget a face, but I have a heck of tme with names.

[Helga]

7. Haggis has been banned in the US since 1989.



it's a delicacy in Iceland and my favourite food as a kid, and has nothing to with me being a vegetarian!

[The Walker]

Virgil you are so funny. Loved to read this with your personal comments added :D

[Virgil]

Virgil you are so funny. Loved to read this with your personal comments added :D

Thank you Walker. I'm glad you enjoy it. I have fun coming up with comments. :)

[Niamh]

virg you are a nutter! :lol:

[Virgil]

virg you are a nutter! :lol:

:D Thank you Niamh.

[Scheherazade]

1. When the term "nostalgia" was coined in the 17th Century, some thought it was a uniquely Swiss phenomenon.

2. The removal of bales of straw can legally constitute building work for planning law purposes.

3. Half of the world's 7,000 languages are in danger of disappearing.

4. Some bugs do not get tackled for years.

5. Glass attacks in bars and pubs cause 87,000 injuries a year in England and Wales.

6. You can pay for university courses with Tesco Clubcard points.

7. Italy has 180 products with protected origin status, the most in the EU.

8. Racing camels can be worth millions.

9. Lego fanatics use computer modelling to design their creations.

10. "Baby brain" is is just a myth.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/02/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_121.shtml

[Virgil]

1. When the term "nostalgia" was coined in the 17th Century, some thought it was a uniquely Swiss phenomenon.

Well, if you make such wonderful chocolates, you would be nostagic for it too. :)


2. The removal of bales of straw can legally constitute building work for planning law purposes.
Incredible. There must be a union that governs removal of straw. ;)


3. Half of the world's 7,000 languages are in danger of disappearing.
Not that is actually very sad. I love English, but really does it have to absorb all the other languages?


4. Some bugs do not get tackled for years.
Then they ought to play in the super bowl. They would make a heck of a running back. :lol:


5. Glass attacks in bars and pubs cause 87,000 injuries a year in England and Wales.
Maybe they ought to switch to plastic bottles and glass. ;)


6. You can pay for university courses with Tesco Clubcard points.
And here I thought monopoly money was valueless. I could have paid for college on game money! :lol:


7. Italy has 180 products with protected origin status, the most in the EU.
:banana: I bet most of it has to do with food. What kind of cuisine would the world have without us Italians. :D


8. Racing camels can be worth millions.
Did you ever see the jockies for those camels? Completely bow legged. ;)


9. Lego fanatics use computer modelling to design their creations.
Are you serious? That is actually really cool. I bet those are good skills for a kid to develop if they want to get into engineering.


10. "Baby brain" is is just a myth.
Oh yeah. When you're born you already start with the brain of a ninety year old. How silly. :p

[Scheherazade]

1. The Frisbee was originally called the Pluto Platter.

2. Fast-moving elephants run with their front legs but walk with their back legs

3. Parents in Japan swear by KitKats when their children are taking exams.

4. High-end cars have radar-based cruise control.

5. At the 1964 Innsbruck Games the Austrian army transported 20,000 blocks of ice for the bobsled and luge.

6. The United Arab Emirates recently held the largest camel beauty contest ever.

7. "Karaoke rage" has claimed more than a dozen lives in the Philippines... usually for Frank Sinatra's My Way.

8. Birds may use their feathers for touch, like cats use their whiskers.

9. Nearly 400,000 people still watch every episode of Friends on Channel 4 and E4.

10. In Japan, a bow's humility is determined by its deepness and duration.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/02/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_122.shtml

[The Walker]

9. Nearly 400,000 people still watch every episode of Friends on Channel 4 and E4.



of course! friends is friends
oh i know so many of them! jeje

[Scheherazade]

1. The Dalai Lama has met every serving US president since 1991.

2. The Barbie doll has had 125 careers since 1959.

3. There is a Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.

4. 10 possible endings were written and rehearsed for the EastEnders live episode.

5. Pregnant women do not need to eat for two.

6. Winning the lottery really does make you happier.

7. Australia has never had a saint. Until now.

8. The Battle of Bosworth actually took place more than a mile from where we thought.

9. Goldie Hawn runs schools.

10. King Tut broke his leg shortly before his death.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/02/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_123.shtml

[Virgil]

1. The Frisbee was originally called the Pluto Platter.

I tell you, Pluto gets no respect. First they downgrade it from a planet and then they scrap it as a toy. What next? :cornut:


2. Fast-moving elephants run with their front legs but walk with their back legs
Sounds like Michael Jackson and the moon walk. :p


3. Parents in Japan swear by KitKats when their children are taking exams.
Did Scher grow up in Japan? She grew up on kitkats. :D


4. High-end cars have radar-based cruise control.
What the heck is that for, monitoring ICBMs while one is driving? :driving:


5. At the 1964 Innsbruck Games the Austrian army transported 20,000 blocks of ice for the bobsled and luge.
Can't the Austrian army come to my house now? We're in our fourth snow storm of the year, and it would be so knid of them to take some of this crap away.


6. The United Arab Emirates recently held the largest camel beauty contest ever.
And the camel was cuter than their Miss Universe entry. :lol: (No, no, I'm kidding. No disrespect intended. Just a joke.)


7. "Karaoke rage" has claimed more than a dozen lives in the Philippines... usually for Frank Sinatra's My Way.
:confused: I can't imagine what exeactly happens here to end their lives. Did the singer sing so bad that they decided to pummel him to death? :beatdeadhorse5:


8. Birds may use their feathers for touch, like cats use their whiskers.
But you can't use a cat whisker for a quill. Birds are more literary. :)


9. Nearly 400,000 people still watch every episode of Friends on Channel 4 and E4.
One of these days they will no longer be friends. :wink5:


10. In Japan, a bow's humility is determined by its deepness and duration.
Don't get fooled. Most japanese have bad backs and are hunched over. :p


1. The Dalai Lama has met every serving US president since 1991.

And the Dalai Lama is still in office while all those presidents are not. I'll take the D-L's job, despite the dresscode. ;)


2. The Barbie doll has had 125 careers since 1959.
Talk about a lack of focus and not having a direction in life. :D


3. There is a Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.
And one wonders why UK have never had a great composer like Mozart. :D


4. 10 possible endings were written and rehearsed for the EastEnders live episode.
Can't they make up their mind? Talk about indecision. :)


5. Pregnant women do not need to eat for two.
But they so enjoy doing so. :lol:


6. Winning the lottery really does make you happier.
I'm willing to give it a try. :D


7. Australia has never had a saint. Until now.
That's because most Aussies are a bunch of devils. :devil:


8. The Battle of Bosworth actually took place more than a mile from where we thought.
I guess they liked the alliteration. The Battle of Umphadickering just didn't sound as cool. :coolgleamA:


9. Goldie Hawn runs schools.
For blondes. Enough said. :p


10. King Tut broke his leg shortly before his death.
His Queen was a karate balckbelt and didn't like him staring at the slave girls. :D

[Scheherazade]

Did Scher grow up in Japan? She grew up on kitkats. :DGuess, this explains why I am super-duper like this, doesn't it? :D

1. The average life of a web page these days is apparently somewhere between 44 and 77 days.
More details

2. A "beryl" is a type of precious mineral.

3. A dentist in San Francisco is named Les Plack.

4. A piconewton is a millionth of the force that a grain of salt exerts when resting on a tabletop.

5. There are people in the UK called Justin Case, Barb Dwyer and Stan Still.

6. Computer game and movie character Lara Croft was created in Derby.

7. Elephants growl.

8. Johnny Cash's Guess Things Happen That Way was the 10 billionth track to be sold on iTunes.

9. The types of lasers that remove tattoos can also be used to clean up works of art.

10. Recent snow has left the UK's roads riddled with 1.6 million new potholes.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/02/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_124.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. A parrot can be repossessed.

2. Germans call chickenpox windpox, due to the speed with which it spreads.

3. Chickenpox is not referred to in medical literature before the 17th Century but it is thought to be an ancient condition whose name springs from the fact that the blisters resemble chick peas.

4. Some chickens are half-male and half-female.

5. The largest meat-eating plant in the world likes to eat the droppings of tree shrews and rats, rather than tree shrews and rats themselves.

6. "Hurt locker" is a phrase used by the military since at least 1966.

7. The Yukon never actually has 24-hour darkness.

8. Fifty percent of a jumbo jet can be recycled.

9. The world's first sleeping bag was patented in 1876, and called an Euklisia rug.

10. Soldiers in Afghanistan use concrete mixers to wash their clothes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/03/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_126.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. Plastic surgeons in the US are doing lip grafts using muscle from the neck to make lips fuller.

2. For almost 30 years, the Virgin Mary has been said to appear daily in the Bosnian town of Medjugorje.

3. The mafia use Facebook.

4. The flat-headed cat has webbed feet.

5. Bono, Nick Cave and Jarvis Cocker sing sea shanties.

6. A "labile" vitamin means it is easily destroyed.

7. Straightening irons outsell hairdryers.

8. Dolphins can swim up to 50 miles a day.

9. Fried tarantula tastes like liver.

10. The Achilles tendon usually breaks with a loud snap.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/03/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_127.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. Eighty-two million people play Farmville.

2. The name "scrumpy" comes from a word meaning small and shrivelled.

3. Rudyard Kipling turned down the Order of Merit - twice.

4. In The Wizard of Oz, Toto was played by a dog called Terry.

5. Pine that is grown in a cold climate has greater durability.

6. The Bill began life as a one-off drama called Woodentop.

7. The world's most complex mathematical problem is called the Poincare Conjecture.

8. There are only about 10 Pagani Zonda S supercars produced each year.

9. Teachers sometimes get lavish gifts from their pupils like a Tiffany bracelet.

10. Over 260 species of marine wildlife become entangled in litter or mistake it for food.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/03/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_128.shtml

[jet.thursday]

7. "Karaoke rage" has claimed more than a dozen lives in the Philippines... usually for Frank Sinatra's My Way.

-oh this so true! :iagree: especially on streets where there are dozen drunk men, i think i also heard,
that when the drunk man's singing is out of tune, he'll be sorrrrry and dead (>.<)



4. Some chickens are half-male and half-female.


quite unusual, and will you tell it is half male/female? cause we've got lots of
chickens back at our yard :D

[Scheherazade]

1. The heat of a chilli pepper is measured on the Scoville Scale.

2. The world's oldest hot cross bun is 189 today.

3. The world record for sitting in a room with snakes without being bitten is 113 days.

4. Fish, rodents and snakes can predict earthquakes.

5. The classic 45-second shower scene in Psycho took a week to film.

6. Britain's oldest-known new father is 76.

7. The average person tells four lies a day.

8. The most visited exhibition in the world last year was a Buddhist exhibition in Japan.

9. Ordained priests can work in supermarkets.

10. Gossip spreads as rapidly as flu.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/04/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_129.shtml

[cgrillo]

2. The world's oldest hot cross bun is 189 today.

Wow - happy birthday to the hot cross bun.

That'll take a lot of candles...

[Virgil]

Wow, am I behind. I'll attempt a retort to a selected few from each week.


1. The average life of a web page these days is apparently somewhere between 44 and 77 days.
More details

Hmm, sounds like the life of a fly.


4. A piconewton is a millionth of the force that a grain of salt exerts when resting on a tabletop.
:lol: Having bad breath probably has more force that a piconewton.


7. Elephants growl.
If you had their sinuses, you would too. :wink5:


8. Johnny Cash's Guess Things Happen That Way was the 10 billionth track to be sold on iTunes.
I guess it happened that way. :p


9. The types of lasers that remove tattoos can also be used to clean up works of art.
First, you can't be the smartest person in the world to get a tattoo, but burning it off with a laser isn't exactly all that brilliant a thing to do either. :sosp:


10. Recent snow has left the UK's roads riddled with 1.6 million new potholes.
Seriously, you should see the pot holes we have. I've never seen it so bad.


1. A parrot can be repossessed.

Yeah, but don't take his cracker away or he'll peck your eyes out. :reddevil:


2. Germans call chickenpox windpox, due to the speed with which it spreads.
Hmm, we call windpox that breaking of wind from one's behind. :smilielol5:


3. Chickenpox is not referred to in medical literature before the 17th Century but it is thought to be an ancient condition whose name springs from the fact that the blisters resemble chick peas.
I thought chickenpox was the original bird flu. :p


4. Some chickens are half-male and half-female.
Some humans too. :D


5. The largest meat-eating plant in the world likes to eat the droppings of tree shrews and rats, rather than tree shrews and rats themselves.
Yummy, tastes like spam. :spam:


9. The world's first sleeping bag was patented in 1876, and called an Euklisia rug.
Snug as a bug in a rug. :wink5:


10. Soldiers in Afghanistan use concrete mixers to wash their clothes.
Talk about body armor.:p


1. Plastic surgeons in the US are doing lip grafts using muscle from the neck to make lips fuller.

Now, who thought of that? Can you imagine sitting around brain storming, trying to figure out where to take flesh to make the lips fuller? I would have thought the anus. :smilielol5:


3. The mafia use Facebook.
No way. Probably more likely to break your face with a book than to use Facebook. :boxing_smiley:


6. A "labile" vitamin means it is easily destroyed.
Hmm, sounds like one of those gynecologist words. :p


9. Fried tarantula tastes like liver.
Now who was sick enough to taste a fried tarantula? :sick:


1. Eighty-two million people play Farmville.

Including my wife.


2. The name "scrumpy" comes from a word meaning small and shrivelled.
Better than being called scummy. :p


4. In The Wizard of Oz, Toto was played by a dog called Terry.
And he was smarter than the scarecrow. :)


5. Pine that is grown in a cold climate has greater durability.
Hmm, that is actually very interesting.


7. The world's most complex mathematical problem is called the Poincare Conjecture.
Sounds like a TV show that was cancelled.


9. Teachers sometimes get lavish gifts from their pupils like a Tiffany bracelet.
That's the price of the local bribe to pass the class. :wink5:


1. The heat of a chilli pepper is measured on the Scoville Scale.

That's the scale of the intensity of the burn in the colon as it comes out six hours later. :lol:


2. The world's oldest hot cross bun is 189 today.
And still edible. :sick:


3. The world record for sitting in a room with snakes without being bitten is 113 days.
Now there is an interesting stat. Why would anyone sit in a room that long even without snakes? And what were the sankes eating for those 113 days?


4. Fish, rodents and snakes can predict earthquakes.
Seems like every creature but man can predict earthquakes. What is it, God didn't want us to survive them? :hat:


5. The classic 45-second shower scene in Psycho took a week to film.
They had to sharpen that knife several times during the week. :p


6. Britain's oldest-known new father is 76.
Dirty old lech. :devil:


7. The average person tells four lies a day.
I never lie, I swear. :D


9. Ordained priests can work in supermarkets.
Talk about a life of poverty. :lol:


10. Gossip spreads as rapidly as flu.
Yeah, I'm still laughing over using the anus for lips by plastic surgeons. :smilielol5:

[Scheherazade]

Now, who thought of that? Can you imagine sitting around brain storming, trying to figure out where to take flesh to make the lips fuller? I would have thought the anus. :smilielol5:Depends on out of which part of his anatomy the person tends to speak, I guess.

[Paulclem]

Depends on out of which part of his anatomy the person tends to speak, I guess.

:lol:

[Scheherazade]

1. Marriage over the telephone is valid under Islamic law.

2. Salmonella can build up on bird feeders and then spread among birds.

3. Bebo stands for blog early, blog often.

4. Capuchin monkeys were named because of their resemblance to the Catholic friars.

5. MPs' parliamentary gym memberships are cancelled during the election campaign.

6. Wombats produce cube-shaped dung.

7. The home computer was invented by a man called Dr Henry Edward Roberts.

8. Cillit Bang is called Cillit Bam in New Zealand.

9. Bodies repatriated to a home country from the UK must be encased in zinc-lined coffins.

10. Insect museums are called insectariums.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/04/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_130.shtml

[Aravona]

5. MPs' parliamentary gym memberships are cancelled during the election campaign.

6. Wombats produce cube-shaped dung.


These two had just made my day.

Firstly, I didnt think most MPs know what a gym is... :shocked:

Secondly... thats gotta be one strange sensation, cubed dung! My day is definately looking better now :D

[Scheherazade]

1. In America, 30% of teenagers send more than 100 texts a day.

2. Gaza has a surf club.

3. Migalki is a type of siren which allows some Russian officials and business to bypass regulations so they can get through traffic jams.

4.US President Barack Obama has played golf 32 times since taking office, beating George W Bush's record.

5. Male long tailed slugs make "love darts" from calcium minerals and use them to inject hormones into females.

6. Babies born in autumn or winter are more likely to develop a food allergy than those born in spring or summer.

7. In the 13th century, the Chinese used covered sewage tanks to generate power.

8.2 metre-long sea-scorpions used to roam the coast of North East Fife

9.US President George Washington failed to return a library book. It's now racked up a $300,000 fine.

10. Children who address important issues with their fathers are less likely to smoke.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/04/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_132.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. There are vending machines that sell hot chips.

2. Burning oil is one way of controlling a spill.

3. A lot of people are still using floppy disks.

4. Chocolate doesn't always make you happy.

5. In Japan, burahara is the harassment of people because of their blood group.

6. Chimpanzees deal with death in a similar way to humans.

7. Some ready-meal curries are saltier than seawater.

8. There are surgeons who specialise in restoring virginity.

9. Stephen Hawking thinks aliens exist.

10. Storks can go blue.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/04/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_133.shtml

[Revolte]

8. There are surgeons who specialise in restoring virginity.



your kidding me..... why would any women want to go through that again? lol.

[Hurricane]

your kidding me..... why would any women want to go through that again? lol.

I've heard of it as a way for women who are members of a religion that forbids sex before marriage to avoid being stigmatized. Kind of messed up stuff, actually.

[cgrillo]

9. Stephen Hawking thinks aliens exist.

Hm. He always struck me as the sort that wouldn't believe in aliens - but I'm sure he has some really confusing theory that detracts from the whole 'little green men' sort of thing. I've read A Brief History of Time, so he's confused me many times before. :p

[applepie]

3. A lot of people are still using floppy disks.


Heavens why???? Do they even make floppy disks or computers with them any more?


4. Chocolate doesn't always make you happy.

You're not eating the right chocolate then :D

[Basil]

6. Chimpanzees deal with death in a similar way to humans.
Chimps drink bourbon?

[Scheherazade]

Chimps drink bourbon?What a ridiculous idea, Basil!

Where are they supposed to get the ice from in the jungle?

[Virgil]

1. Marriage over the telephone is valid under Islamic law.

:eek2: What if you got the wrong number? What if she passes the phone over to the ugly sister? :lol:


2. Salmonella can build up on bird feeders and then spread among birds.
Well, birds aren't excluded from vomiting either. :wink5:


3. Bebo stands for blog early, blog often.
Sounds like Dark Muse here on Lit Net. :p


4. Capuchin monkeys were named because of their resemblance to the Catholic friars.
And here i thought they were praying for evolution to hurry up. :p


5. MPs' parliamentary gym memberships are cancelled during the election campaign.
:lol: Now there's a way to punish politicians, take away their exercise.


6. Wombats produce cube-shaped dung.
Sounds like their colon is like a pasta making machine. :lol: :lol:


7. The home computer was invented by a man called Dr Henry Edward Roberts.
So that is the S-0-B responsible for sucking away all my free time.


8. Cillit Bang is called Cillit Bam in New Zealand.
Better than being called Clitoris Bang. :p


9. Bodies repatriated to a home country from the UK must be encased in zinc-lined coffins.
What's the matter, you Brits don't want to smell the encasings. :wink5:


10. Insect museums are called insectariums.
Sort of like masoleums for cockaroaches.


1. In America, 30% of teenagers send more than 100 texts a day.

And you would think they are literate. Have you seen some of their messages? "C u wen da clss n's."


2. Gaza has a surf club.
That's called their Navy. :D


3. Migalki is a type of siren which allows some Russian officials and business to bypass regulations so they can get through traffic jams.
Yeah, I bet it's all part of their corruption.


4.US President Barack Obama has played golf 32 times since taking office, beating George W Bush's record.
Actually I don't think Bush had the record. I think that should have said Obama in one year exceeded the number of times Bush had golfed in all of his eight years. I couldn't track down the statistic, but I seem to recall Eisenhower played the most golf while in office.


5. Male long tailed slugs make "love darts" from calcium minerals and use them to inject hormones into females.
Sounds rather sexy. Are you sure you can say that on Lit Net. :D


6. Babies born in autumn or winter are more likely to develop a food allergy than those born in spring or summer.
Well, it must depend on which day of the year they were concived. :p


7. In the 13th century, the Chinese used covered sewage tanks to generate power.
And what is different in the 21st century? :p


8.2 metre-long sea-scorpions used to roam the coast of North East Fife
And that is why the residents of North East Fife now abhor sea food.


9.US President George Washington failed to return a library book. It's now racked up a $300,000 fine.
Yeah, and just try to collect. :)


10. Children who address important issues with their fathers are less likely to smoke.
I completely believe that. Who says fatherhood is obsolete. Fathers establish right and wrong through their actions and values. Take that feminists. :D


1. There are vending machines that sell hot chips.

Hopefully they are not cow chips. :D


2. Burning oil is one way of controlling a spill.
Yes it is sad but necessary.


3. A lot of people are still using floppy disks.
They are called old men and their members are should not be referred to as floppy. :lol:


4. Chocolate doesn't always make you happy.
Oh just test me. :D


5. In Japan, burahara is the harassment of people because of their blood group.
You mean there is prejudice against B+ types? Shame on them. i thought we were over such petty racism. :wink5:


6. Chimpanzees deal with death in a similar way to humans.
I've never been to a chimp funeral parlor. :)


7. Some ready-meal curries are saltier than seawater.
And some are against the fire department codes of flame temperature.


8. There are surgeons who specialise in restoring virginity.
Yes, their method is to have sex with them and wollah, you are magically a virgin. :D


9. Stephen Hawking thinks aliens exist.
I always though Steven Hawking was an alien. :D


10. Storks can go blue.
And pink for girls. :wink5:

[SilentMute]

You know what I know this week that I didn't know last week? I think it is really neat!

Dermoid cysts. They are cysts that can grow on the back of your neck, on the brain, on the ovaries, etc. They contain many different tissue cells, which is why they are called monster cells. They can have hair, sweat glands, teeth, and even eyes!

[Scheherazade]

1. Britain's oldest unsolved murder dates back to 1866.

2. Discussion about politics is banned inside polling stations.

3. As is the wearing of rosettes by anyone except for election candidates and their polling agents.

4. Dawdling across a pedestrian crossing could land you in court.

5. 1,000,000,000 trillion (that's a billion-trillion) bytes of computer storage is called a zettabyte.

6. The inventor of the Maclaren folding pushchair also designed the Spitfire's undercarriage.

7. The difference between the minimum wage and "living wage" in London is £1.80 per hour.

8. People who regularly have less than six hours sleep increase their chance of dying over a 25-year period by 12%.

9. Despite its scary name, the colossal squid is no fast-paced predator - it prefers to drift about.

10. Blood pressure rises when checked by a doctor.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/05/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_134.shtml

[Hurricane]

10. Blood pressure rises when checked by a doctor.

Funny story about this; one of my good friends gets really nervous when getting his blood pressure and heart rate checked by a doctor to the point where they've had to send him to the hospital to make sure there's nothing seriously wrong with him (there isn't).

[RaoulDuke]

Funny story about this; one of my good friends gets really nervous when getting his blood pressure and heart rate checked by a doctor to the point where they've had to send him to the hospital to make sure there's nothing seriously wrong with him (there isn't).

A younger brother of a friend of mine once had to wear a monitor which logged his blood pressure for a 48 hour period in which he was instructed to do no exercise, in order to test for a hereditary heart murmur condition. At the time he was a young teenager without a girlfriend (you can probably see where this is going!)

When he took it back the doctor had a look at the data which showed a five minute spell where the blood pressure exploded in a massive peak. The peak was late at night and the doctor thought it was unlikely he would have done any excercise at this time of day and began to get very worried. He was eventually faced with the toss up of either coming clean (no pun intended) or being diagnosed with a heart condition!


Anyway... 10 things I didn't know last week...

1). Lightning strikes the earth on average 100 times every second.
2). Bolivia has the highest turnover of governments (200 since 1825).
3). 5 billion crayons are produced every year.
4). 92 nuclear bombs are lost at sea
5). Peter the Great taxed people with beards!
6). Sea captains used to keep pigs on board because they believed, should they be shipwrecked, pigs always swam toward the nearest shore.
7). In Denmark there are twice as many pigs as people
8). There exists a critter called the Mongolian Death Worm.
9). The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a wonderful film.
10). If I spent half the time I spend trawling the internet and watching films doing something constructive then I could probably have made a useful contribution to society last week!

[Scheherazade]

1. £1m made up of £20 notes weighs 25 times as much as the equivalent of £1m in 500 euro notes.

2. Downing Street's famous black front door was once green.

3. And the original door - now in the Churchill Museum - has its own cleaner.

4. Shakespeare's Henry VIII is considered jinxed because during a performance in 1613, the Globe theatre burned down.

5. The prime minister's first task is always to answer the question of whether he would retaliate in the event of a nuclear attack.

6. More than half of Spain's cabinet is female.

7. China smokes one third of the world's cigarettes.

8. And there are 4.5 trillion cigarette butts discarded each year.

9. Florence Nightingale used the pseudonym "Miss Smith" to evade the media.

10. Hair is used to clean up oil spills because it is adsorbent (not absorbent).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/05/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_135.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. Kiefer Sutherland watches Coronation Street.

2. In Greece, trombonists and hairdressers can retire early because their professions are classed as unhealthy.

3. Sex is not dangerous for heart attack patients.

4. A million people a month are refused a drink in a pub.

5. American and British sign language is different.

6. Twelve is the optimum age for lying.

7. Jigsaw puzzle sales reached a weekly peak of 10 million in 1933.

8. The German army used nettle fabric to make army uniforms during World War I.

9. There are 450 music festivals in the UK this year alone.

10. Sextuplets are born once in every 4.5 million pregnancies.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/05/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_136.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. People conduct 22 Google searches each day, on average.

2. Guinness really is good for you.

3. Planets eat stars.

4. Ray Alan's puppet Lord Charles was modelled on Stan Laurel.

5. A pollen expert is called a palynologist.

6. Brushing teeth is good for the heart.

7. Botticelli's Venus and Mars were high on drugs.

8. Andy Murray has a kneecap made of two separate bones rather than one.

9. In winning Eurovision songs, one word in every 50 is "love".

10. The risk of contracting HIV is higher during pregnancy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/05/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_137.shtml

[Virgil]

Gosh, I'm definitely falling sdown on the job. Let's see how many I can tackle.


1. Britain's oldest unsolved murder dates back to 1866.

I guess the neighborhood is still in fear he's at large and ready to strike again. :wink5:


2. Discussion about politics is banned inside polling stations.
And Scher and Logos are there to moderate. :lol:


4. Dawdling across a pedestrian crossing could land you in court.
Or in the hospital. :)


6. The inventor of the Maclaren folding pushchair also designed the Spitfire's undercarriage.
Either a very comfortable car or a very uncomfortable chair. :D


8. People who regularly have less than six hours sleep increase their chance of dying over a 25-year period by 12%.
I really need to get more sleep.


9. Despite its scary name, the colossal squid is no fast-paced predator - it prefers to drift about.
Makes for good fried calamari though. :D


10. Blood pressure rises when checked by a doctor.
I think mine does too actually.


1. £1m made up of £20 notes weighs 25 times as much as the equivalent of £1m in 500 euro notes.

I bet they blame it on Greece. :D


2. Downing Street's famous black front door was once green.
I wonder if the Stones's song "Paint It Black" had anything to do with it. :wink5:


4. Shakespeare's Henry VIII is considered jinxed because during a performance in 1613, the Globe theatre burned down.
I would think many of Henry VIII's wives thought he was a jinx. :lol:


5. The prime minister's first task is always to answer the question of whether he would retaliate in the event of a nuclear attack.
And I would assume the answer would always be yes.


6. More than half of Spain's cabinet is female.
No wonder. :D


7. China smokes one third of the world's cigarettes.
So that's the cause of global warming. :)


8. And there are 4.5 trillion cigarette butts discarded each year.
That's revolting actually. Urrgh.


10. Hair is used to clean up oil spills because it is adsorbent (not absorbent).
Something to talk about next time I go to the barber shop. My didn't realize he was saving the world. :D


1. Kiefer Sutherland watches Coronation Street.

Never heard of him or the show.


2. In Greece, trombonists and hairdressers can retire early because their professions are classed as unhealthy.
Sounds like everyone in Greece has a justification to retire early. And what's early, 30? :wink5:


3. Sex is not dangerous for heart attack patients.
I guess it depends who you're having sex with, doesn't it? :lol:


4. A million people a month are refused a drink in a pub.
Bad breath is a real turn off. :)


5. American and British sign language is different.
No different than American and British English. :D


6. Twelve is the optimum age for lying.
If so, how come there are no politicians who are twelve years old?


1. People conduct 22 Google searches each day, on average.

Strange, but probably fits my average.


2. Guinness really is good for you.
It sure is!! :cheers2:


6. Brushing teeth is good for the heart.
Definitely true!


7. Botticelli's Venus and Mars were high on drugs.
But Botticelli was clean sober. Sure. :p

[Scheherazade]

1. The number of snakes in the world is falling.

2. Indigenous Bolivians wear bowler hats because of the English.

3. The top sponsors of the World Cup pay on average £75m.

4. Forty-two people die on South African roads every day, on average.

5. Motor racing is popular in the West Bank.

6. More than one in 10 websites is pornographic.

7. When one police diver is under water, another four remain on dry land.

8. If all the worldwide television coverage of the 2006 World Cup was shown on one channel, it would take more than eight years to watch.

9. Man can beat a horse in a running race, in the right conditions.

10. A seal's whiskers can detect fish movement 100 metres away.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/06/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_139.shtml

[dafydd manton]

The number of snakes is falling? Hissssssss-terical!

[Scheherazade]

1. Whale poo helps absorb CO2.

2. The BBC failed to record Charles de Gaulle's famous broadcast to German-occupied France.

3. Vuvuzelas are pitched at the B flat below middle C.

4. Male menopause exists (in 2% of men).

5. Britain's VAT of 17.5% is one of the lowest rates in Europe.

6. That "USA WINS 1-1" headline in the New York Post? They were joking.

7. Men were taught to change nappies at Fathercraft classes in the 1920s.

8. The government considered blocking North Korea from the 1966 World Cup.

9. Using the words "Games" and "2012" could land advertisers a £20,000 fine come the next Olympics.

10. Mathematicians busk.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/06/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_140.shtml

[billl]

There is a large region of Antarctica called West Antarctica.

[Scheherazade]

1. More than 5,000 so-called mosquito alarms, which emit a sound to disperse teenage groups, are in operation in the UK.

2. Human hair is used as a food additive.

3. Italy's footballers were pelted with rotten fruit when they arrived back in the country after an early exit from the 1966 World Cup.

4. Scotland has the highest proportion of cocaine users in the world.

5. Tennis matches can last three days.

6. There are 820 government websites.

7. More than eight million visits were made to news websites every minute, on the night Barack Obama won the US presidential election. On the first day of the World Cup, there were 12m visits per minute.

8. General Stanley McChrystal only eats one square meal a day.

9. Nottingham Forest players got drunk the night before winning the League Cup final in 1979.

10. There are 6,000 islands in Greece, but only 227 are inhabited.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/06/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_141.shtml

[prendrelemick]

4. Capuchin monkeys were named because of their resemblance to the Catholic friars.

]

Which also explains why the Friars are often called Monks

[Scheherazade]

1. Ancient whales had really big teeth.

2. German fans moo at England football players and fans.

3. The process of encrypting secret data in images or text is called steganography.

4. The name comes from Steganographia, title of a book written in 1499.

5. Some 14 million British homes date from when asbestos was widely used as a building material.

6. The celebrity perfume market is estimated to be worth £255m in the UK alone.

7. Wonder Woman was originally an Amazon.

8. A Gazan man has more than 430 grandchildren (and 11 wives over his lifetime).

9. BBC Radio 2 was once called the Light Programme, and Radio 3 the Third Programme.

10. Withdrawn banknotes are shredded and sometimes used in compost.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/07/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_142.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. You can get inflatable TV screens.

2. Meerkats have family "traditions" that are passed down through generations.

3. Two year olds have woodwork lessons, using hammers and nails.

4. A salary of £14,400 is the minimum a single person needs for an acceptable standard of living.

5. The world's tallest tent is 150m (490ft) high.

6. Lady Gaga has over 10m fans on Facebook.

7. Hamburger-related injuries are on the rise in Taiwan.

8. The common octopus is the most intelligent invertebrate.

9. Liquid can stop bullets.

10. The male squid's sexual organ is almost as long as its whole body.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/07/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_143.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. David Beckham's wife Victoria is named "Posh" in his mobile phone.

2. Plants think.

3. Having a big head may protect against dementia.

4. Gorillas play tag.

5. Throughout history, most US infants of both genders have worn dresses.

6. Mount Everest is getting less icy.

7. Former Olympics minister Tessa Jowell is a "must-see" landmark on Google Maps.

8. The Vatican says ordaining women is "grave" as is sex abuse.

9. Wearing high heels makes flat shoes more painful.

10. Scientists don't know whether intensive exercise is good for footballers.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/07/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_144.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. Twenty babies born in the UK since World War II have been named Adolf.

2. Thursday is the grumpiest day, according to research in the US.

3. In Brazil, a social networking site called Orkut has more members than Facebook and Twitter combined.

4. Beer can have an alcohol content of 55%.

5. Jokes can be protected by copyright, in theory.

6. Blood can be mixed with pulp to make a page in a book.

7. A sum of £650m can buy you about 7% of the world's cocoa.

8. Before 2008, prisoners were allowed to have fancy dress parties and comedy nights.

9. Black parents can have white, blond-haired children.

10. Tour de France etiquette dictates that cyclists should not overtake the leader if he suffers mechanical problems.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/07/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_145.shtml

[Virgil]

I guess I haven't retorted in a long while. Let's see if my humor button is still working. :wink5:


1. You can get inflatable TV screens.

Wow, get yourself a blowup doll and you really can make your own porn movie with no one else. :p


2. Meerkats have family "traditions" that are passed down through generations.
I bet they don't celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December. :D


3. Two year olds have woodwork lessons, using hammers and nails.
Ok, and the safety expert who came up with this brilliant idea was?


4. A salary of £14,400 is the minimum a single person needs for an acceptable standard of living.
That's about $22,000. Yeah that's about minimum.


5. The world's tallest tent is 150m (490ft) high.
Will they fly air planes into them to knock them down? I bet not.


6. Lady Gaga has over 10m fans on Facebook.
Not me. I have no idea who she is.


7. Hamburger-related injuries are on the rise in Taiwan.
Eating them too fast can be a problem. :D


8. The common octopus is the most intelligent invertebrate.
Of course that doesn't say much for vertebrate. They have the same intelligence of many punks on the streets. :p


10. The male squid's sexual organ is almost as long as its whole body.
:lol: Well, it's not the size that matters, but the motion in the ocean. :lol: :lol: [Oh I couldn't resist that. :D :D]


1. David Beckham's wife Victoria is named "Posh" in his mobile phone.

Family secrets are just so hard to keep.


2. Plants think.
And i bet more profoundly than many of our philosophical threads here. Have you seen some of those threads? My geranium has a higher I.Q. :wink5:


3. Having a big head may protect against dementia.
Then i'm more than safe. :D


4. Gorillas play tag.
Unfortunately if they tag you, you are squashed.


5. Throughout history, most US infants of both genders have worn dresses.
That's because mothers indulge their whims so. Matthew will not suffer this, I promise you. :wink5:


6. Mount Everest is getting less icy.
So?


7. Former Olympics minister Tessa Jowell is a "must-see" landmark on Google Maps.
The olympics have ministers? I assume they pray to the Greek gods?


8. The Vatican says ordaining women is "grave" as is sex abuse.
If those women groups object, why don't they just leave the Catholic Church? They are "shocked" at the Vatican position? The position has only been around for two thousand plus years. Why should they be shocked? Such phonies.


9. Wearing high heels makes flat shoes more painful.
Why do women wear high heels? Other than for that sexy tramp look. :)


10. Scientists don't know whether intensive exercise is good for footballers.
I guess we should see if your average obese man can keep up with those that intensely train. How silly. Another of your tax dollars going toward an itelligent study.


1. Twenty babies born in the UK since World War II have been named Adolf.

I guess Hitler kind of ruined that name forever. Actually Adolf came in second as a name for our son. :p :p


2. Thursday is the grumpiest day, according to research in the US.
Nothing is grumpier than Monday. I'm sorry, that holds as much water as a thimble.


3. In Brazil, a social networking site called Orkut has more members than Facebook and Twitter combined.
Hmm, that is very interesting and surprising.


4. Beer can have an alcohol content of 55%.
Oh I saw that in the news. Leave it to the Scots to make the perfect beer. :D


5. Jokes can be protected by copyright, in theory.
Hey, I should copyright this thread! :party:


6. Blood can be mixed with pulp to make a page in a book.
Yes, and that book is called Dracula. :lol:


7. A sum of £650m can buy you about 7% of the world's cocoa.
Is that cocoa for chocolate or cocoa for cocaine? :wink5:


8. Before 2008, prisoners were allowed to have fancy dress parties and comedy nights.
Sounds like that's from a play by Jean Genet. Dress parties? What were they dressed as, Zorro with a whip? :lol:


9. Black parents can have white, blond-haired children.
Maybe so but do you believe that the rest of the family will buy that one? :lol: I doubt it. And frankly I'm kind of skeptical of that story.


10. Tour de France etiquette dictates that cyclists should not overtake the leader if he suffers mechanical problems.
But a good knife in the back while his bike is working just fine is perfectly legal. :wink5:

[Basil]

2. Thursday is the grumpiest day
I think this was originally the first line of The Waste Land until Pound made Eliot change it.

[papayahed]

I think this was originally the first line of The Waste Land until Pound made Eliot change it.

I heard that somewhere.. I also heard that Tolstoy wanted to name it War: What's it good for? but his publisher made him change it to War and Peace.

[Basil]

Whatever you say, Jerry. :lol:

[Scheherazade]

1. One in five UK women will not have children, many by choice.

2. Gooseberries have been in England since at least 1275, when the king shipped over plants from France to grow at the Tower of London.

3. International athletes coming to London for the 1948 Olympics had to bring their own towels.

4. And half the pigeons brought to the stadium to be released for the opening ceremony died in the heat.

5. A man thought to be Tokyo's oldest had, in fact, been dead for 30 years.

6. Dogs mimic their owners.

7. And one in three are obese.

8. Snooker world championships used to last a year.

9. One in 36 pound coins is fake.

10. The world's most ancient living creatures are a breed of shrimp which live in south-west Scotland.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/07/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_146.shtml

[Virgil]

1. One in five UK women will not have children, many by choice.

Hopefully those that want children will consider adoption.


2. Gooseberries have been in England since at least 1275, when the king shipped over plants from France to grow at the Tower of London.
Little known fact was the King of England stole it from the King of France, and so the long history of English/French warfare has its roots in a pilferred gooseberry plant. :p


3. International athletes coming to London for the 1948 Olympics had to bring their own towels.
And if they forgot? Boy I bet there were lots of smelly athletes. :wink5:


4. And half the pigeons brought to the stadium to be released for the opening ceremony died in the heat.
Can you imagine the openning ceremony? Dead pidgeons all over the ground.


5. A man thought to be Tokyo's oldest had, in fact, been dead for 30 years.
And if they didn't find him he would have lived forever.


6. Dogs mimic their owners.
Is that why she howls at dinner time too? :D


7. And one in three are obese.
The owner or the dog? Well, they mimc.


8. Snooker world championships used to last a year.
Maybe if they were better shots the game would only last six months.


9. One in 36 pound coins is fake.
Yes, they are only eight onces. :wink5:


10. The world's most ancient living creatures are a breed of shrimp which live in south-west Scotland.
And Nelly at Loch Ness has been feeding on those shrimps since the beginning of time. :D Or is Nelly a very large shrimp?

[Niamh]

6. Lady Gaga has over 10m fans on Facebook.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/07/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_143.shtml

Current figure is 14,556,153.

Yes i am one of them :blush:

[Scheherazade]

1. Rotterdam is Europe's busiest port.

2. Beach huts in Scarborough cost nearly as much as a one-bedroom flat.

3. Buttocks are hardest to tan.

4. Last year, Iceland became the first country with an openly gay head of state.

5. Middlesex was first documented in the Eighth Century.

6. Winston Churchill concealed a reported UFO sighting while prime minister because he feared it would cause mass panic and make people question religion.

7. One in five drivers killed in road accidents has some kind of drug in his body.

8. Hormones can affect shopping habits.

9. William, Alice and Robert are names the English adopted from the Normans.

10. Fourteen swimmers have been rescued from The Thames in the last six months.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/08/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_147.shtml

[DocHeart]

1. I didn't know I would break up with her. We had just come back from holiday, everything seemed fine.

2. I didn't know she was planning to move out and had already started looking for a flat.

3. I didn't know I would be sleeping in a dingy hotel to allow her to pack in peace.

4. I didn't know that when I'd come back the house would start to feel like hell.

5. I didn't know that so many of her socks had accidentally ended up in my drawer.

6. I didn't know that her perfume would stay on some parts of the sofa. How long will this last?

7. I had no idea that the fact that she hasn't even called once to say "how are you" would bother me so intensely.

8. I didn't know that a serious relationship can end so swiftly, almost silently, with only very few (and mundane) words uttered.

9. Having broken up with dozens of women, I never thought breaking up with this one would hurt so much.

10. And I didn't know that, contrary to the dictates of the pain, I would be so determined to avoid getting back with her at all costs.

[Scheherazade]

1. Pea plants can grow inside a human lung.

2. In Switzerland you can be fined $1m for speeding.

3. Seaside towns and the Isle of Man used to have postcard censorship committees.

4. The penguin on Penguin books was named Frostie after one of the editors at the publishing house.

5. Nationwide supermarket bans exist.

6. Naturalist Charles Darwin left the Victorian equivalent of about £13m today, and Charles Dickens £7m when they died.

7. Fishermen in Britain have a one in 20 chance of being killed on the job during the course of their working lives.

8. The Qwerty keyboard layout isn't random - it's to keep commonly used letters apart.

9. Some hardened sauna users can stand temperatures of up to 160C.

10. Honeybees are cleverer at certain times of the day.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/08/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_148.shtml

[Virgil]

yikes, I'm behind.


1. Rotterdam is Europe's busiest port.

That's because there's a damm lot of rot that goes through there. :D


2. Beach huts in Scarborough cost nearly as much as a one-bedroom flat.
That's because Beach huts forgot to have toilets. :banghead:


3. Buttocks are hardest to tan.
I guess it depends on whether the buttocks belong to a slim sexy person or a fat person. :lol:


4. Last year, Iceland became the first country with an openly gay head of state.
That's because there's not that much sun in Iceland to tan his buttocks. :p


5. Middlesex was first documented in the Eighth Century.
Silly me, and I thought sex existed from the time of creation. :wink5:


6. Winston Churchill concealed a reported UFO sighting while prime minister because he feared it would cause mass panic and make people question religion.
And what if the UFO happened to be God! :eek:


7. One in five drivers killed in road accidents has some kind of drug in his body.
Does food count as a drug? Or caffeine?


8. Hormones can affect shopping habits.
Anyone who's shopped with a menstruating woman knows how true that is. "Why are you buying that hammer sweetheart?" "To smash your skull darling." :D


9. William, Alice and Robert are names the English adopted from the Normans.
How about Norm? :wink5:


10. Fourteen swimmers have been rescued from The Thames in the last six months.
I guess they need to place hand rails along London Bridge.


1. Pea plants can grow inside a human lung.

That was one weird story. Talk about chest congestion.


2. In Switzerland you can be fined $1m for speeding.
One million dollars? Boy that's some ticket. I wonder how much the insurance goes up after that. :auto:


3. Seaside towns and the Isle of Man used to have postcard censorship committees.
I guess they had too many people trying to tan their buttocks. :ciappa:


4. The penguin on Penguin books was named Frostie after one of the editors at the publishing house.
Penguins on penguins? Is that the new porn? :lol:


5. Nationwide supermarket bans exist.
Then how do people eat if there are no supermarkets? :out:


6. Naturalist Charles Darwin left the Victorian equivalent of about £13m today, and Charles Dickens £7m when they died.
I think I'll be kind to my uncle Charlie. I bet he's got bucks too. :D


7. Fishermen in Britain have a one in 20 chance of being killed on the job during the course of their working lives.
That's incredible. Well, if you go looking for Great Whites, Jaws come looking for you. :p


8. The Qwerty keyboard layout isn't random - it's to keep commonly used letters apart.
The Qwerty keyboard is idiotic. Why did they put "A" under a pinky finger and "J" under the right index finger? It would have been more appropriate if it the letters F-U-C-K-Y-O-U went across the top row :p


9. Some hardened sauna users can stand temperatures of up to 160C.
And after 20 minutes their buttocks are well done. :p


10. Honeybees are cleverer at certain times of the day.
After breakfest and a good cup of coffee. :)

[Helga]

4. Last year, Iceland became the first country with an openly gay head of state.

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She was also the first to get married to her partner.

I think we have the strangest mayor too, did you see him in drag?

[Scheherazade]

1. Roadside trees slow down cars.

2. School uniforms cost less than £5.

3. Only 10% of words in a text message are not written in full, on average.
More details

4. You can get six A grades at A-level and still not be offered a university place.

5. One in three adults takes a soft toy to bed, according to new research.

6. Dogs can walk upright.

7. Man was not responsible for the extinction of the woolly mammoth.

8. The average person spends around 15 hours 45 minutes every day awake.

9. Children with squints are less likely to be invited to birthday parties.

10. Urine could be a source of renewable energy.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/08/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_149.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. The Tube carries more passengers than the whole of the national rail network.

2. The optimum time to book a flight is eight weeks before departure.

3. The Stig was originally going to be called The Gimp.

4. Milk used to be watered down, then coloured yellow with toxic lead chromate to make it look creamy.

5. It's possible to watch 28,000 films in a lifetime.

6. Sumo wrestlers can't use iPhones because their fingers are too fat.

7. The socks-with-sandals look came from the Romans.

8. Tornados can burn.

9. Putting a cat in a bin is not illegal.

10. Traffic jams can last nine days.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/08/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_150.shtml


1. Apples originated in Kazakhstan.

2. Ray Winstone turned down the part of McNulty in The Wire.

3. It is illegal to dry clothes in various parks in Whitstable, Kent.

4. The UK's newest submarine will last 25 years without needing to be refuelled.

5. The Queen washes up.

6. Tony Blair was nervous meeting Des O'Connor.

7. Usain Bolt was called VJ as a child, because his mother thought he needed a nickname. It doesn't stand for anything.

8. Guinness can be deep-fried.

9. The biggest crisp factory in the world is in Leicester.

10. Britons drink less alcohol than the European average.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/09/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_151.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. The salary with optimum happiness is £50,000.

2. Hull lost 85% of its buildings during the Blitz.

3. Geoff Capes was a champion budgerigar breeder.

4. Spiders eat birds. .

5. A hand dryer can increase germs.

6. Clint Eastwood turned down playing James Bond and Superman.

7. The trapped miners in Chile are recycling.

8. People who rise from their chair quickly are more likely to live longer.

9. Diners pay more for desserts when they on a trolley.

10. Happy people give more to charity.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/09/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_152.shtml

[Patrick_Bateman]

I thought the bird eating spider was just a name indicative of it's size and that it doesn't actually eat birds, but the size of the arachnid itself would suggest the ability to eat something that big.


I thought the bird eating spider was just a name indicative of it's size and that it doesn't actually eat birds, but the size of the arachnid itself would suggest the ability to eat something that big.

Quick google-age


Despite its name, the Goliath Birdeater does not normally eat birds. As with other species of spider (specifically tarantula), their diet consists primarily of insects and other invertebrates. However, because of its naturally large size, it is not uncommon for this species to kill and consume a variety of vertebrates. In the wild, larger species of tarantula have been seen feeding on rodents, lizards, bats and even deadly venomous snakes.

*crosses his legs while smoking a cigarette and smiling smugly

[Scheherazade]

I thought the bird eating spider was just a name indicative of it's size and that it doesn't actually eat birds, but the size of the arachnid itself would suggest the ability to eat something that big.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3353693/Giant-spider-eating-a-bird-caught-on-camera.html

[Patrick_Bateman]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3353693/Giant-spider-eating-a-bird-caught-on-camera.html

Well i can't argue with photographic evidence.

A good demonstration of the strength of spider's web too.

[Scheherazade]

*crosses his legs while smoking a cigarette and smiling smuglyOh, and would you mind putting out your cigarette?

This is a "no smoking" area.

[Patrick_Bateman]

I don't smoke :(

[Scheherazade]

1. Cancer patients typically make 53 visits to hospital during treatment.

2. Bubbles lives in Florida.

3. DJ Paul Oakenfold made about £20,000 a year from the Big Brother theme tune.

4. Tony Blair has not watched The Queen, in which he features.

5. Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States, invented bifocal glasses.

6. When people fall in love they lose on average two close friends.

7. Subbuteo has a rugby version.

8. The Pope's aircraft is known as "Shepherd One".

9. Humans could not digest milk 10,000 years ago.

10. Oxford University doesn't care whether you can play the flute.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/09/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_153.shtml

[Virgil]

Yikes am I behind. I'm half asleep but let me give it a whirl.


1. Roadside trees slow down cars.

Yeah, from 65 mph to zero in five milleseconds. CRASH! :auto:


2. School uniforms cost less than £5.
Of their used and have stains in unsightly places. :D


3. Only 10% of words in a text message are not written in full, on average.
Y nt?


4. You can get six A grades at A-level and still not be offered a university place.
But get a few F's and you get a scholarship. :p


5. One in three adults takes a soft toy to bed, according to new research.
Hey when a man gets old, it's always a soft toy in bed. :lol:


6. Dogs can walk upright.
And with evolution they should be speaking and building houses in a few more million years. :wink5:


7. Man was not responsible for the extinction of the woolly mammoth.
The first victum of global warming. :p


8. The average person spends around 15 hours 45 minutes every day awake.
Not me. I guess i'm not average.


9. Children with squints are less likely to be invited to birthday parties.
That's because they can't see the invitation. :)


10. Urine could be a source of renewable energy.
Sure, let's all pee on each other now. Isn't global warming fun. :p


2. The optimum time to book a flight is eight weeks before departure.
Half the time I don't even know I'm leaving eight weeks before.


3. The Stig was originally going to be called The Gimp.
I call it The Wimp. :wink5:


4. Milk used to be watered down, then coloured yellow with toxic lead chromate to make it look creamy.
That was urine they added for that creamy texture. :D


5. It's possible to watch 28,000 films in a lifetime.
28,000 films x 3 hrs/film / 24 hrs/day = 3500 days which equals 9.5 years round the clock. What a stupid way to live a life.


6. Sumo wrestlers can't use iPhones because their fingers are too fat.
I guess they can't pick their nose either. :p


7. The socks-with-sandals look came from the Romans.
Oh sure, that what people were thinking at the beach last year - let's emulate the Romans. :rolleyes5:


8. Tornados can burn.
Global warming. :p


9. Putting a cat in a bin is not illegal.
But putting one in a bathtub full of water will send you to the hospital.


10. Traffic jams can last nine days.
God, it can be like that around here too. :wink5: Seriously, that is insane.


1. Apples originated in Kazakhstan.
Hey I was just there and apples are big. I believe that.


3. It is illegal to dry clothes in various parks in Whitstable, Kent.
I guess everyone walks around in wet clothes. I guess looking at all the wet tee shirts on sexy girls is what generated the law. Not all politicians are stupid. :D


4. The UK's newest submarine will last 25 years without needing to be refuelled.
If you don't launch it it won't need any fuel. The British Navy isn't what it used to be. :p


5. The Queen washes up.
Only when she smells. :lol:


6. Tony Blair was nervous meeting Des O'Connor.
So what? Blair was nervous meeting Simon Cowell. Afraid of the review. :)


7. Usain Bolt was called VJ as a child, because his mother thought he needed a nickname. It doesn't stand for anything.
And that's why he runs so fast. Stupidity leads to speed.


8. Guinness can be deep-fried.
It's better than french fries. :drool5:


10. Britons drink less alcohol than the European average.
Then they have a low tolerance for alcohol because there are way more British drunks around. :D


1. The salary with optimum happiness is £50,000.

Not to me. I'll take a couple of million. :wink5:


3. Geoff Capes was a champion budgerigar breeder.
What the heck is that? And why would you breed it?


4. Spiders eat birds.
And they'll have a cat for desert. :)


5. A hand dryer can increase germs.
Not unless she's ugly. :p


6. Clint Eastwood turned down playing James Bond and Superman.
Oh thank God. That would have been horrible casting.


7. The trapped miners in Chile are recycling.
Yeah their urine. See above. Even there environmental whackos are imposing laws.


8. People who rise from their chair quickly are more likely to live longer.
I always thought life was a game of musical chairs. This proves it. :wink5:


10. Happy people give more to charity.
Sounds true. Santa Claes does go ho ho ho. :D


1. Cancer patients typically make 53 visits to hospital during treatment.

Oh, that's too sad to joke on.


2. Bubbles lives in Florida.
The home of strip clubs. :D


4. Tony Blair has not watched The Queen, in which he features.
He didn't exactly serve as Prime minister either, in which he featured. :lol:


5. Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States, invented bifocal glasses.
So he could sign the Declaration of Indepedence while looking out for the redcoats. A most proactical man. :wink5:


6. When people fall in love they lose on average two close friends.
And one of them is the person their in love with. :D


8. The Pope's aircraft is known as "Shepherd One".
:lol: That's funny and cute.


9. Humans could not digest milk 10,000 years ago.
Judging by the gas I get, humans still can't. :p

10. Oxford University doesn't care whether you can play the flute.
But they insist on you playing the bagpipes as a pre-requisite. :wink5:

[Scheherazade]

1. Blowflies can help solve murders.

2. New Zealand's birds suffer from body odour.

3. Would-be hobbits should be no more than 158cm (5ft 2ins) tall if male or 153cm (5ft) if female.

4. Strong winds could have parted the Red Sea.

5. Children's waistlines have expanded by an average of 12.5cm (4.9ins) since the 1970s.

6. Ed Miliband can solve a Rubik's Cube in one minute 20 seconds.

7. Customers using cash machines of the Vatican bank are offered Latin as the preferred language.

8. The Facebook logo is blue because founder Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colour blind.

9. Northern Ireland has the lowest proportion of out gay, lesbian and bisexual people in the UK.

10. Denim jeans come from Italy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/

[Hurricane]

6. Ed Miliband can solve a Rubik's Cube in one minute 20 seconds.



I watched my roommate do a Rubik's Cube in one minute twelve seconds freshman year. One of the more bizarre and strangely impressive things I think I've witnessed personally.

[Scheherazade]

1. Elgar wrote world's first football chant.

2. The UN has an Office of Outer Space Affairs.

3. There's a market for mammoth ivory and it sells for £330 per kilogram.

4. Neanderthals were tech-savvy.

5. Engineers estimate that 12 to 15 tonnes of rock will need to be cleared by the trapped Chilean miners each day.

6. In French, the words for "inflation" and "fellatio" are very similar.

7. The first travelator in the UK was at Bank Tube station in London.

8. Former PM Edward Heath left his home to the nation as a museum when he died.

9. Intestinal worms can grow to more than 2m long.

10. Penguins have been around for 36m years.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/10/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_155.shtml

[Virgil]

1. Blowflies can help solve murders.

If they don't get distracted by the dog sh*t, they can be pretty smart. :p


2. New Zealand's birds suffer from body odour.
Have you smelled any New Zealanders recently? They're not exactly perfumy. :D


3. Would-be hobbits should be no more than 158cm (5ft 2ins) tall if male or 153cm (5ft) if female.
Hey my next door neighbor must be a hobbit! :lol: And his wife too. :wink5:


4. Strong winds could have parted the Red Sea.
That has as much credibility as the global warming models. :)


5. Children's waistlines have expanded by an average of 12.5cm (4.9ins) since the 1970s.
Parent's waistlines haven't exactly gone down either. :lurk5:


6. Ed Miliband can solve a Rubik's Cube in one minute 20 seconds.
But it takes him five minutes to tie his show laces. :crazy:


7. Customers using cash machines of the Vatican bank are offered Latin as the preferred language.
:lol: As long as it's Euros that come out and not dinaris.


8. The Facebook logo is blue because founder Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colour blind.
Maybve theat's why I refuse to join. If only they had a red and green logo. :p


9. Northern Ireland has the lowest proportion of out gay, lesbian and bisexual people in the UK.
Now that is interesting. I wonder why.


10. Denim jeans come from Italy.
And I assume it's not those low rider types that expose your a$$ crack. :cool:



1. Elgar wrote world's first football chant.

It wasn't very good though: "Yay, yay, let's all play." It should have been snappier. :lol:


2. The UN has an Office of Outer Space Affairs.
I have to say that was the stupidest thing I ever heard, a person whose job it is to greet aliens. How do I get such a useless job? And how much money goes toward that person's staff and expenses? No wonder people want the UN to disolve.


3. There's a market for mammoth ivory and it sells for £330 per kilogram.
I guess there aren't any poachers out there on this one. :wink5:


4. Neanderthals were tech-savvy.
Yeah, and a few of them are here on Lit Net. :D


5. Engineers estimate that 12 to 15 tonnes of rock will need to be cleared by the trapped Chilean miners each day.
And do you trust these engineers? Weren't they the ones responsible for getting those miners trapped in the first place. :rolleyes:


6. In French, the words for "inflation" and "fellatio" are very similar.
Well, I guess a part of the anatomy does get inflated during the process. :p


7. The first travelator in the UK was at Bank Tube station in London.
But it had to be removed. It made bank robbery a little too easy. :smilewinkgrin:


8. Former PM Edward Heath left his home to the nation as a museum when he died.
Why? He must owe money on it. :smile5:


9. Intestinal worms can grow to more than 2m long.
Wow. At some point the worm becomes the intestine.


10. Penguins have been around for 36m years.
Cute aren't they? They're secret is that male penguins never argue with their wives. :)

[Scheherazade]

1. The world's largest circulation newspaper is the Japanese title Yomiuri Shimbun, selling 15 million copies.

2. Squirrels can be black.

3. Chimpanzees can become addicted to smoking.

4. One in 10 babies born in Europe is conceived in an Ikea bed.

5. Tarantulas are edible.

6. People can begin apprenticeships in their 70s.

7. Adolf Hitler promised to give his foreign minister Cornwall.

8. Men sweat more efficiently than women.

9. Sewage can be used to heat homes.

10. Potatoes can be purple - inside and out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/10/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_156.shtml

[Wilde woman]

2. Squirrels can be black.

Yes, I saw many black squirrels when I was in Ontario a few weeks ago. Apparently, they're one of the selling points for visiting there. :D

[Scheherazade]

Apparently, they're one of the selling points for visiting there. :D"101 Things to Do Before I Die:
.
.
.
93. See some black squirrels. ✔
.
.
."

:p

[Scheherazade]

1. Chinese apple trees are pollinated by hand.

2. There have been 39 marriages between Riverdance cast members.

3. Barack Obama and Sarah Palin are related.

4. Eighty percent of young women in Finland go to university.

5. Hermaphrodite dogs exist.

6. Noise affects taste.

7. The chairman of Liverpool FC supports Chelsea.

8. Martin Freeman of The Office turned down the part of Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit.

9. Insects are attracted by the colour of wind turbines.

10. Bilingual children get confused less easily.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/10/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_157.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. Baseball bats make good violins.

2. Getting drunk quickly is genetic.

3. King penguins flirt with other penguins of the same gender but tend not to settle down with them.

4. Leopards' spots are camouflage.

5. The Vatican likes The Simpsons.

6. Germans have been blurring their homes on Google Street View.

7. Sparrows eavesdrop on fighting birds.

8. Labradors shake their bodies to dry off at a frequency of 4.3 Hz.

9. Traces of silver can be found on the moon.

10. A third of iPad owners haven't bothered to download any apps.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/10/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_158.shtml

[Lulim]

(...) 6. Germans have been blurring their homes on Google Street View. (...)

There was an option to appeal against Street View showing ones house on the internet, 245.000 house owners made use of, for privacy reasons. Only this homes get blurred, permanently and irreversibly.

Is this not general procedure in other countries?

[kasie]

8. Martin Freeman of The Office turned down the part of Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit.......

Has he changed his mind? According to the Telegraph on Saturday 21 October, he is going to play Bilbo. There was even an Editorial Comment on the subject - well, it was more about the power of Myth and how he need not change out of the dressing gown he wore in Hitch-hikers Guide. They must have been short of news that day.

[Scheherazade]

1. Crows go to school.

2. Flamingos use make-up.

3. John and Margaret were the most popular baby names for 30 years.

4. Polar bears wave.

5. More than half of all Americans dress up at Halloween.

6. The normal lifespan of an octopus is three years.

7. Liberalism is genetic.

8. A footballer can be allergic to grass.

9. Mount Everest has its own 3G wireless network.

10. Some 7.2 million British people get by without a wristwatch.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/10/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_159.shtml

[papayahed]

7. Liberalism is genetic.


I just read an article about that.

[hoope]

8. A footballer can be allergic to grass.


Really, i never knew that ...
I guess he will quit playing then !

[Virgil]

I'm behind again. *sigh* Let's see...


1. Chinese apple trees are pollinated by hand.

What??? Sounds like Communist efficiency. :D


2. There have been 39 marriages between Riverdance cast members.
They must be doing a lot more kicking between the sheets. :wink5:


3. Barack Obama and Sarah Palin are related.
Just like I'm related to Queen Elizabeth.


4. Eighty percent of young women in Finland go to university.
Smart girls.


5. Hermaphrodite dogs exist.
What happens when they go in heat? Chase their tail? :p


6. Noise affects taste.
Hmm, I just had a noisy chocolate cake.


7. The chairman of Liverpool FC supports Chelsea.
Chelsea, Bill Clinton's daughter? Is she running for MP?


8. Martin Freeman of The Office turned down the part of Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit.
But he accepted the role of Thom Thumb.


9. Insects are attracted by the colour of wind turbines.
As opposed to being sucked in by the air stream? How silly.


10. Bilingual children get confused less easily.
Or they just confuse the teacher with their multi lingual answers. :)



1. Baseball bats make good violins.

Well then, you can strike out in music as well as baseball.


2. Getting drunk quickly is genetic.
Sure blame your father if you're an alcoholic. :p


3. King penguins flirt with other penguins of the same gender but tend not to settle down with them.
How do they know it's flirting? They could be talking sports.


4. Leopards' spots are camouflage.
And how much did that study cost?



5. The Vatican likes The Simpsons.
I thought Homer was excommunicated. :mad5:


6. Germans have been blurring their homes on Google Street View.
How does one do that? I've seen my house on Google. Good thing I was streaking when they took the picture. :p


7. Sparrows eavesdrop on fighting birds.
Well, that's smarter than fighting fighting birds.


8. Labradors shake their bodies to dry off at a frequency of 4.3 Hz.
Next time my Brandi shakes, I'll have to measure the frequency. :wink5:



9. Traces of silver can be found on the moon.
Gold rush!


10. A third of iPad owners haven't bothered to download any apps.

I guess i'm one of that third. What are apps? :lol:


1. Crows go to school.

They aint so smart. I've seen them fail a number of classes.


2. Flamingos use make-up.
Let me guess, pink tones. :D


3. John and Margaret were the most popular baby names for 30 years.
I assume that's for UK. I would say that John is probably just as popular here but I haven't come across an extraordinary number of Margarets.


4. Polar bears wave.
So you think they're cute, and then they'll rip your head off. Polar bears are vicious.


5. More than half of all Americans dress up at Halloween.
Ooh, go to my blog and see Matthew's first Halloween, dressed as a monkey.
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/blog.php?b=11142


6. The normal lifespan of an octopus is three years.
Wow, more arms than years alive.


7. Liberalism is genetic.
Like many other genetic birth defects. :lol: :lol: Oh that one was easy. :D


8. A footballer can be allergic to grass.
I guess he can blame the sneeze when he misses the ball. :wink5:


9. Mount Everest has its own 3G wireless network.
Let me see. If I should happen to climb Mt Everest, the first thing I'll do at the peak is log on to Lit Net. :lol:


10. Some 7.2 million British people get by without a wristwatch.
I see that more and more. It's all these young people who think they can show up whenever they want. Oh the young are so stupid. :p

[Scheherazade]

1. Tea parties were invented in the 1830s.

2. Which means that the 1773 Boston Tea Party wasn't known by that name until more than 60 years after the event. At the time it was referred to as "the destruction of the tea".

3. Adult kingfishers need to catch about 5,000 fish a year to thrive.

4. Dick Bruna, the man famous for creating children's character Miffy, also created the stick man with a halo in the Saint TV series.

5. Smokers on average, according to one reckoning, spend an hour a day on fag breaks.

6. Chips implanted in the eye can, under certain circumstances, let the blind see.

7. Just thinking you're fit might help you avoid getting colds.

8. Having fewer brothers and sisters can be good for your education.

9. It's not just in comedy films that babies can fall from tall buildings, bounce on awnings and be caught by a passer-by.

10. And it's not just in sci-fi films that holograms can be sent as messages.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/11/10_things_we_didnt_know_this_t_22.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. You must be 16 to buy Christmas crackers.

2. George W Bush read about 95 books a year when US president.

3. Turtles breathe in to float.

4. Nazis coined the verb coventrierung (literally, to coventrate) to describe total annihilation of a city - Coventry - through aerial bombardment.

5. One in five people only clean their homes at weekends.

6. A cat's tongue moves at one metre per second when lapping milk.

7. The tomb of the unknown soldier was originally the idea of a padre called David Railton.

8. Aerial massed acrobatics performed by starlings at this time of year are called "murmurations".

9. Bush crickets have the biggest testicles of any animal, in relation to body weight.

10. People daydream for nearly half of their waking hours.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/11/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_161.shtml

[papayahed]

2. George W Bush read about 95 books a year when US president.


That Dr Suess was quite prolific.

[Pendragon]

9. Bush crickets have the biggest testicles of any animal, in relation to body weight.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/11/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_161.shtml

And they say size isn't everything! :smilielol5:

[Pendragon]

I see that more and more. It's all these young people who think they can show up whenever they want. Oh the young are so stupid. :p
Actually, it's because everyone has cellphones, I know my kids use them instead of a watch... :rolleyes:

[Pendragon]

Yes, I saw many black squirrels when I was in Ontario a few weeks ago. Apparently, they're one of the selling points for visiting there. :D

I actually have one mounted on my home entertainment shelves that I shot several (20?) years ago

[Scheherazade]

1. Away football teams usually have a 30% chance of winning.

2. Babies born with no cheekbones have a condition known as Treacher Collins syndrome.

3. David Cameron slept on the Mall the night before Prince Charles married Lady Diana.

4. A solitary church may signal where an entire village once stood.

5. German shoes are wider than Italian.

6. It can take 18 years for the foot's bones, muscles and ligaments to harden into adult form.

7. One in three people aged over 65 will die with dementia.

8. Dartmoor prison rents land from Prince Charles.

9. Badgers still occupy setts known since the Domesday Book.

10. The number of people raising funds for charity has doubled in the last three years.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/11/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_162.shtml

[kasie]

3. David Cameron slept on the Mall the night before Prince Charles married Lady Diana.
Do you think he'll sleep there the night before William and Kate's wedding?

[Scheherazade]

1. Fish shrink in winter.

2. A cracked elephant's tusk requires at least 47 tubes of resin to fill it.

3. North and South Korea have technically been at war for decades, because no peace treaty was signed in 1953.

4. The Shard was first designed on the back of a napkin.

5. The number of schools teaching cheerleading is triple the number that teach judo.

6. A cup of coffee combined with a 20-minute nap will double the caffeine effect.

7. Donald Trump's hair is real.

8. One in four people with HIV in the UK is unaware they have it.

9. The US president has the power to shut down key computer systems in that country.

10. Turkey tycoon Bernard Matthews started his business with 20 eggs and a second-hand incubator.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/11/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_163.shtml

[Wilde woman]

7. Sparrows eavesdrop on fighting birds.

What does that even mean?


9. Mount Everest has its own 3G wireless network.

Wow. Just wow.


5. One in five people only clean their homes at weekends.

That's me. Guilty as charged. :D


1. Fish shrink in winter.

So now fish and I have something in common. As I try to survive my first winter on the East Coast, I find myself constantly shrinking into a fetal position in bed and crying.

[Scheherazade]

1. Mercury can cause birds to seek same-sex relationships.

2. Penguin is a Welsh word.

3. Coronation Street was going to be called Florizel Street.

4. Coca has been chewed for 8,000 years.

5. In the Arctic Circle you can take a mortgage out to buy a fur coat.

6. The pavlova was invented in New Zealand.

7. Temperatures in Qatar reach 50C in summer.

8. Italy and Luxembourg are Eurovision Song Contest stayaways.

9. Mick Hucknall had sex with 3,000 women in three years, he says.

10. Driving a car with snow on the roof contravenes the Highway Code.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/12/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_164.shtml

[papayahed]

9. Mick Hucknall had sex with 3,000 women in three years, he says.


That's 2.7 women per day. Unless he's a famous musician I'm not bying it.

[Scheherazade]

That's 2.7 women per day. Unless he's a famous musician I'm not bying it.Mick Hucknall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Hucknall)

[papayahed]

haha, I knew that.:leaving:

[RaoulDuke]

10. Driving a car with snow on the roof contravenes the Highway Code.


That's not actually true, and I'm very surprised to see it has made the BBC website.

As a teenager I used to frequent a forum called totse.com, which gained some notoriety for this (http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/990185.rude_awakening_for_dawn_drivers/) amongst other things. The snow on the car roof myth was created and spread around the internet by some of the forum regulars several years ago, and weirdly it seems to have surfaced again now...

[Scheherazade]

That's not actually true, and I'm very surprised to see it has made the BBC website.

As a teenager I used to frequent a forum called totse.com, which gained some notoriety for this (http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/990185.rude_awakening_for_dawn_drivers/) amongst other things. The snow on the car roof myth was created and spread around the internet by some of the forum regulars several years ago, and weirdly it seems to have surfaced again now...Actually you are required to remove all the snow from your car:
remove all snow that might fall off into the path of other road users
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_069859 (section 229)

[kasie]

There was a nice man from the AA (or maybe RAC) on tv last week showing you how to drive in the snow and he said it was illegal to drive with snow on the roof of your car in case it thawed then slipped down and covered the windscreen, blocking your vision.

[Scheherazade]

1. Starfish have a Teflon-like non-stick surface.

2. There's a condition that can cause teenagers to sleep for weeks on end.

3. Soap opera can be live.

4. There are currently no machines that can correct flawed banknotes. But there will be soon.

5. Jim Morrison may actually not have exposed himself at a Miami concert in 1969.

6. Taking photos of children at nativity plays is not against the law..

7. There could be planets made of diamond.

8. More than half of all adults in the EU are overweight.

9. Almost one in five off-licences in Britain went under last year.

10. Patients recover quicker from surgery when looking at trees.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/12/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_165.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. The father of Michael Palin, who brought the stammer to national attention in the film, A Fish Called Wanda, had one himself.

2. Mark Twain opened Kensal Rise library in north London.

3. Birds binge drink.

4. There are 18 super-arbitrators of the English language version of Wikipedia.

5. Aristotle was known as the human Wikipedia.

6. Tinie Tempah's real name is Patrick.

7. An elephant can be hired for £20 in New Delhi .

8. The fall of the Roman Empire can be detected in tree growth rings.

9. People who are tone deaf can hear music perfectly well.

10. Saint Wilgefortis was a woman who grew a beard to resist offers of marriage.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/01/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_169.shtml

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

.
...

3. Birds binge drink.

7. An elephant can be hired for £20 in New Delhi .





3. Birds binge drink.

I believe it. When the Cedar Waxwings and Robins migrate into our neck of the woods, they ravage the berries from the Cedar / Juniper trees. After some time, one will begin to observe erratic "drunken" behavior among the birds; flying into windows, dropping to the ground, etc.

7. An elephant can be hired for £20 in New Delhi .

That's a bragain, 20 pounds for about 8,000 pounds !

.

[Niamh]

Yes, I saw many black squirrels when I was in Ontario a few weeks ago. Apparently, they're one of the selling points for visiting there. :D
I was fascinated by the black Squirrels in Ontario! Practically chasing them just to get a photo!

[Wilde woman]

^ Me too! I swear I'm going to catch one the next time I go, because my brother doesn't believe they exist.


1. Mercury can cause birds to seek same-sex relationships.

Who the hell discovered this? And how? Is some sicko out there deliberately mercury-poisoning birds and then tracking them to find about their love lives?


2. Penguin is a Welsh word.

Can a Welsh litnetter confirm this for us? :biggrin5:


3. Birds binge drink.

I believe it. When the Cedar Waxwings and Robins migrate into our neck of the woods, they ravage the berries from the Cedar / Juniper trees. After some time, one will begin to observe erratic "drunken" behavior among the birds; flying into windows, dropping to the ground, etc.

I want to witness this.

[Virgil]

Mick Hucknall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Hucknall)

Did you see his picture there? He's only a year older than me and looks horrid and old. I guess that's what that much sex will do to you. :lol: Either that or God knows what diseases he's picked up.

[Big Dante]

1. Mercury can cause birds to seek same-sex relationships.



Some people have very interesting jobs....



7. An elephant can be hired for £20 in New Delhi .



And to think I've been paying 25!

[Scheherazade]

1. Princess Diana had two wedding dresses.

2. President Kennedy's famous line "Do not ask..." was inspired by the headmaster of his prep school.

3. Fourteen-year-olds build successful iTunes apps.

4. Justin Webb's father was a BBC newsreader.

5. "Filthy lucre" and at least 256 other distinct phrases from the King James Bible are in modern English idiom.

6. There have been a number of suggested 13th signs of the Zodiac over the years.

7. Phone books are getting thinner.

8. Birds make "No trespassing" signs.

9. Smoking damages the body in minutes.

10. Chess playing stimulates different brain activity.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/01/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_170.shtml

[MystyrMystyry]

January
Named after the Roman god of beginnings and endings Janus (the month Januarius).

February
The name comes either from the old-Italian god Februus or else from februa, signifying the festivals of purification celebrated in Rome during this month. (februare, Latin: to purify CB)

March
This is the first month of the Roman year. It is named after the Roman god of war, Mars.

April
Called Aprilis, from aperire, "to open". Possible because it is the month in which the buds begin to open.

May
The third month of the Roman calendar. The name probably comes from Maiesta, the Roman goddess of honor and reverence.

June
The fourth month was named in honor of Juno. However, the name might also come from iuniores (young men; juniors) as opposed to maiores (grown men; majors) for May, the two months being dedicated to young and old men.

July
It was the month in which Julius Caesar was born, and named Julius in his honor in 44 BCE, the year of his assassination. Also called Quintilis (fifth month).

August
Originally this month was called Sextilis (from sextus, "six"), but the name was later changed in honor of the first of the Roman emperors, Augustus (because several fortunate events of his life occurred during this month).

September
The name comes from septem, "seven".

October
The name comes from octo, "eight"

November
The name comes from novem, "nine".

December
The name comes from decem, "ten".



Might be one or two you didn't know

[Scheherazade]

1. Polar bears can swim for nine days.

2. Tony Blair never had a mobile phone as prime minister.

3. JD Salinger was a big fan of Tim Henman.

4. Prince Philip almost became a coal miner for a month.

5. Social networks may date back as early as the 1970s.

6. The kilogram doesn't weigh as much as it used to.

7. Huskies can smell thin ice.

8. Kelly Hoppen used to be Sienna Miller's stepmother.

9. Many Kenyans think twins are cursed.

10. Pigeons can smell their way home hundred of miles.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/01/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_171.shtml

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1. Polar bears can swim for nine days.
They may need life jackets then, judging from the way their ice cap is melting.


2. Tony Blair never had a mobile phone as prime minister.
How very sensible of him. I suppose he avoided the odd SMS wakeup that way.


3. JD Salinger was a big fan of Tim Henman.
Good for Henman


4. Prince Philip almost became a coal miner for a month.
I wonder if he was in a black mood?


5. Social networks may date back as early as the 1970s.
Errrr... I am pretty certain that we had social networks before the 70's. It's just that they were not computerized, that's all...


6. The kilogram doesn't weigh as much as it used to.
Right. Apparently it has lost fifty-millionths of a gram. Imagine the impact on weight watchers worldwide :shocked:


7. Huskies can smell thin ice.
That would seem like a useful ability considering where they perform their daily chores.


8. Kelly Hoppen used to be Sienna Miller's stepmother.
Really? Whose stepmother is she now?


9. Many Kenyans think twins are cursed.
Small wonder. Judging from myself I think I would be hard pressed to stand myself in duplicate.



10. Pigeons can smell their way home hundred of miles.
I always thought their nests packed a bit of a pong. Do they never clean their messes up?

About birds binge drinking:

I want to witness this.Birds... Agile creatures with lightning reflexes, never missing a beat, right? Wrong! They do make the occasional mistake, and sometimes leave very literal evidence of the fact. I can show you a result. This picture was taken in central Eskilstuna a few years back:

http://elsmar.com/Forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=6822&d=1178883603

/Claes

[MystyrMystyry]

Birds' brains actually shrink in flight to make their heads lighter and therefore aerodynamic and thence also run on the autopilot of instinct, but when big, immovable, and invisible things get in their way, they crash - and whose laughing now you little show-offs?

Thing with flight though - you can understand why they sacrifice their tiny minds in order to do it - you wouldn't want to think about what you were actually doing: have you seen how hight they fly?

Another thing about our birdbrained friends is the drinking I witnessed where I used to live - they pick at the apricots in the morning so they'd ferment throughout the day, and come back for the juice/beverage in the afternoon

Elephants likewise do this with berries which they knock from the bushes in the morning, but in the afternoon they eat the whole fruit and deposit the seeds farther afield than they could travel by simply dropping to the ground - along with monkeys this provides another example of symbiosis

[Scheherazade]

1. Mark Zuckerberg has watched The Social Network

2. Chewing gum can be used to make counterfeit keys.

3. Parrots are left and right-handed.

4. The average hug lasts three seconds.

5. Angry tarantulas kick tiny, stinging hairs off their bodies at predators.

6. Good cops are better at getting confessions than bad cops.

7. One in 10 of the world's adults is obese.

8. Chimpanzees grieve.

9. A water flea 2mm long has 50% more genes than a human.

10. Graffiti existed in the 19th Century.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/02/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_172.shtml

[MystyrMystyry]

1) Mark Zuckerberg Mark Schmuckerberg

2) Pretty soft keys

3) Parrots have teeny little hands but choose to write with the right, right?

4) Three seconds is an aeon if you don't want to be hugged

5) Tarantulas have emotions?

6) Good cops?

7) Fatsos are great!

8) All mammals grieve - it's part of the make-up, you just can't tell that a cow or horse or rat is grieving. [Interesting sidenote - an island in the South Pacific has vegetarian skink lizards that have taken to the trees like monkeys and have curly tails for hanging on and swinging from branch to bough - but what's really cool is they've evolved a social structure similar to a group of monkeys: the only reptiles to get along like this]

9) Fleas with high compression ratios in their genes as well?

10) Graffiti also existed in the 18th, 17th, 16th, you name it th centuries - but not until the late 20th was it perpetrated with spraycan and sharpie

[Scheherazade]

1. David Hasselhoff is a friend of Morecambe Tory MP David Morris.

2. Where you look affects how much pain you feel.

3. Elton John has no mobile phone.

4. Feeding garden birds makes them have a lie-in.

5. There is no minimum age at which UK children can be left on their own.

6. Horses can enjoy pints too.

7. Ravens get stressed when they join juvenile gangs.

8. Catholics are banned from confessing via iPhone.

9. Pessimism could be genetic.

10. Cattle once regularly swam between Hebridean islands.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/02/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_173.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. The paint on an average Easyjet plane weighs 80kg

2. Silvio Berlusconi has appeared in 106 trials, racking up more than 2,500 court appearances, he says.

3. MPs still have to do jury service.

4. There is no central sex offenders register in the UK.

5. Ancient Britons drank out of skulls.

6. You needed a permit to carry a sword or dagger in Italy in the early 1600s.

7. Incan brides had to peel a potato to prove they would be a good wife.

8. The first recorded use of OK was on 23 March 1839 on the second page of the Boston Morning Post.

9. The black bear's heart stops for up to 20 seconds when it exhales breath during hibernation and starts again when it inhales.

10. Wheelchairs can be controlled by thought.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/02/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_174.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. The Queen has a washer-up.

2. Robots do marathons.

3. Monkeys have self-doubt.

4. Artist LS Lowry was a debt collector.

5. Postal workers get through two million red rubber bands per day.

6. Nudity is banned on Facebook.

7. Blind people can regain sight.

8. Alligators hide behind sofas.

9. Wheelchairs can be controlled by thought.

10. Capuchin monkeys wash using urine.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/02/10_things_18.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. Kenya's MPs aren't allowed to wear bling.

2. People with full bladders make better decisions.

3. Killer whales have a "stealth mode".

4. Finnish men have have some of the highest sperm counts in the world.

5. The ransom paid to release Richard the Lionheart, captured in 1192 on his way back from fighting the Crusades, was the equivalent of about £2bn in today's money.

6. Parents exaggerate the joy of having children to justify the sky-high cost of bringing them up.

7. The Mr Men and Little Miss series have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide.

8. There are 16 amateur superheroes patrolling UK streets at night.

9. The average time Britons have their first alcoholic drink in the evening is 7.11pm.

10. Britain's biggest bird of prey is the white-tailed (or sea) eagle, which has a wingspan of eight feet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/03/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_175.shtml

[iamnobody]

I'm sorry but number 6 is absurd, and so is stating it as if were "fact"! I don't know where that comes from but they're clearly insane.

[Scheherazade]

1. Chickens feel empathy.

2. Elephants are good at teamwork.

3. The lifespan of the average British person increases by five hours a day.

4. About 40% of skyscrapers due to be completed in the next six years will be in China.

5. Half of all Pakistani children cannot read a sentence.

6. Tigers kill lions.

7. Leeds has more councillors over the age of 80 than under the age of 35.

8. Car use is falling.

9. When potatoes were first introduced to Britain, they were used to make desserts.

10. A soldier's starting salary is nearly £8,000 less than a police officer's.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/03/10_things_we_didnt_know_this_t_23.shtml

[papayahed]

I'm sorry but number 6 is absurd, and so is stating it as if were "fact"! I don't know where that comes from but they're clearly insane.

erm, it kinda is a fact:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/8359474/Parenting-pressures-Couples-exaggerate-joy-of-being-parents-to-hide-cost.html

[Helga]

I'm sorry but number 6 is absurd, and so is stating it as if were "fact"! I don't know where that comes from but they're clearly insane.


I think there is a little truth in this fact. My son is the best thing in my life and I would never want to change anything about his part in my life. But he is SOOOOO expensive, I even suggested a new word in the icelandic vocabulary about expensive things, roughly translated child-expensive, but sounds a lot better here on the ice.

[Scheherazade]

1. Monkeys recognise faces.

2. Hearing aids can work on teeth.

3. St Patrick's Day is a national holiday in Montserrat.

4. The last British tsunami to register a verified height was in 1975, and it reached 6cm (2.3in).

5. Sharks go to the cleaners.

6. Picking daffodils could count as criminal damage.

7. Elephants respect their elders.

8. Birds crash into wind turbines because they aren't looking where they're going.

9. Just 3% of UK cash machines dispense £5 notes.

10. Whales are scared of sonar.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/03/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_176.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. More than 70% of banknotes initially reach the public via cash machines.

2. Tennis Girl doesn't like tennis.

3. YouTube's first video was called "Me at the zoo".

4. Booking fees can be as much as £26.

5. Ian Fleming created Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

6. More than a fifth of the world's population live in the time zone GMT+8.

7. Russell Brand gardens.

8. The baby son of physicist Brian Cox, George, has the middle name Eagle, named after the first spacecraft to land on the moon.

9. More than 90% of schoolchildren study Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck.

10. The first text message ever sent read: "Merry Christmas".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/03/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_177.shtml

[papayahed]

8. The baby son of physicist Brian Cox, George, has the middle name Eagle, named after the first spacecraft to land on the moon.


Brilliant!!

[Scheherazade]

1. When Prince Albert - the future George VI of The King's Speech fame - wanted to marry Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (aka the Queen Mum), she only said yes on his third proposal.

2. Their wedding breakfast comprised of dishes named in their honour - a royal tradition continued into the 1980s.

3. The average person only uses 20,000 words, with another 40,000 in reserve.

4. One in six people live in India.

5. Dark birds are healthier.

6. Sleep affects weight.

7. The first Eddie Stobart truck was called Twiggy.

8. The T. rex had a cousin.

9. More than 100,000 Americans lied about their age in the 1970 census.

10. The numbers attending huge street protests are estimated using the size of the streets involved.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/04/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_178.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. The word "loo" dates from medieval times, derived from the warning shout of "gardez l'eau!" given by those tipping chamber pots out the window.

2. George and Laura Bush are fans of BBC costume drama The House of Eliott (pictured).

3. Actor Tom Wilkinson's real name is Geoffrey.

4. An American aircraft carrier weighs more than 100,000 tonnes.

5. The average UK household spends about 60p a week on stamps.

6. Early cosmonauts were fairly short, as spacecraft were a tight fit for anyone tall.

7. There were gay cavemen.

8. The acronym "lol" is "mdr" in France.

9. Seat belts are banned on some roads.

10. Half of girls aged 15-17 in Liverpool and Sunderland use sunbeds.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/04/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_179.shtml

[Calidore]

1.
10. Half of girls aged 15-17 in Liverpool and Sunderland use sunbeds.


Also known as hammocks.

[Scheherazade]

1. Ducks' bills reveal whether they have sexually-transmitted diseases.

2. The average British home had 5.34 rooms.

3. Dogs watch how how nice people are to others to work out who to approach to beg for food.

4. Time travel storylines are officially discouraged in China.

5. The first Dulux dog was called Dash.

6. More girls than boys became scouts in the past year.

7. Some dinosaurs did their hunting at night.

8. The world's smallest ever music instrument is a guitar the size of a single blood cell.

9. There are 8.5 million football-related words in English.

10. Male humpback whales play "Chinese whispers" across 6,000km.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/04/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_180.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. Planets may have black plants.

2. Chimps give birth like humans.

3. Dinosaurs suffered from toothache.

4. Swearing relieves pain.

5. Cuckoos copy hawks.

6. Supermarkets still give away cardboard boxes for nothing.

7. The world's smallest caravan measures 6ft 7in (2m) by 2ft 6in (75cm) and has a top speed of 5mph.

8. A rare version of God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols is the most valuable record of all time.

9. Spies used to engrave messages on toe-nails.

10. Soap and water can be better than hand gels and wipes at tackling germs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/04/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_181.shtml

[Calidore]

2. Chimps give birth like humans.


Screaming and cursing out their husbands?

[Scheherazade]

1. There is a camel-mounted bagpipe band.

2. Transparent typewriters are manufactured for sale to prisons, to avoid the risk of contraband being hidden.

3. City dwelling birds have larger brains than those that live in the countryside.

4. CDs were designed to be 12cm (4.8in) in diameter, because it provided sufficient capacity at 75 minutes to store all of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

5. Bonobos share eating-out tips.

6. Litter and graffiti could cause racism.

7. A taxi ride from New York to Los Angeles cots $5,000 (£3,000)

8. Deer win respect by breaking up fights.

9. French police are currently allowed 25cl of wine or a small beer with their lunch while on duty

10. Rabbit jumping is a sport.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

1. There is a camel-mounted bagpipe band.

2. Transparent typewriters are manufactured for sale to prisons, to avoid the risk of contraband being hidden.

3. City dwelling birds have larger brains than those that live in the countryside.

10. Rabbit jumping is a sport.


1. There is a camel-mounted bagpipe band.
Do they prefer dromedary or bactrian?

2. Transparent typewriters are manufactured for sale to prisons, to avoid the risk of contraband being hidden.
I assume they require invisible ink

3. City dwelling birds have larger brains than those that live in the countryside.
Either from radiation and PCB's or from all the garbage they read strewn about the streets

10. Rabbit jumping is a sport.
Jumping over a rabbit doesn't seem like much of a challenge unless it's one of these babies! -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s9nKzmbndA&feature=related

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[Bluehound]

8. Deer win respect by breaking up fights.


Hehe I love the idea of this.

“Now come on lads what’s this all about? Seriously Prongs your misses would never go off with him, No offence Pokey, but you’re just not as statuesque as Prongs ‘ere. Now lets all go down to the watering hole and get us a drink. They have a lovely new barmaid.”
"You are so right Deer, I always respected you."

[Scheherazade]

1. New York taxis used to be red and green, but in 1907 were all repainted yellow to be visible from a distance.

2. Philtrum is the name of the groove on your top lip that lies just beneath your nose.

3. The perfect nap lasts 26 minutes.

4. Kate Bush writes songs more easily with a bag of bone meal - yes, the garden fertiliser - on her piano.

5. Marlon Brando, Liz Taylor and Michael Jackson shared a hire car on 9/11.

6. A "Spanish plume" is a weather system that sucks warm - and perhaps thundery - air up from Spain and North Africa.

7. European brands that succeed in the US tend to be at the luxury end of the market - as Tesco is finding to its cost.

8. Delilah became the anthem of Stoke City FC fans after police officers asked them not to sing any songs with swear words. Next up on the pub jukebox was the Tom Jones hit...

9. Left-handed people are more fearful than right-handers.

10. Kate Middleton - the Duchess of Cambridge - has never been to the United States

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/05/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_183.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. French time used to be nine minutes ahead of GMT, based on the time in Paris.

2. Sugar level in strawberries is calculated on the Brix scale.

3. The first known use of the word "slut" in printed English was from 1402.

4. The hemlines of school skirts in South Korea have risen 10-15cm (4-6in) in the last decade.

5. The first British Tupperware was held in Weybridge, Surrey in 1960.

6. A Christian doomsday group in the US is warning that the end of the world - or the Rapture - will occur on Saturday 21 May.

7. It costs $60,000 to train a Navy Seal dog - like the one that accompanied US special forces on the Bin Laden operation.

8. Goats are able to recognise the voices of their very young kids, and differentiate them from other animals' offspring

9. Humans are naturally predisposed to believe in gods and life after death.

10. The government's wine cellar contains about £2m worth of wine and spirits

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/05/10_things_you_didnt_know_this.shtml

[Ecurb]

1. French time used to be nine minutes ahead of GMT, based on the time in Paris.

2. Sugar level in strawberries is calculated on the Brix scale.

3. The first known use of the word "slut" in printed English was from 1402.

4. The hemlines of school skirts in South Korea have risen 10-15cm (4-6in) in the last decade.

5. The first British Tupperware was held in Weybridge, Surrey in 1960.

6. A Christian doomsday group in the US is warning that the end of the world - or the Rapture - will occur on Saturday 21 May.

7. It costs $60,000 to train a Navy Seal dog - like the one that accompanied US special forces on the Bin Laden operation.

8. Goats are able to recognise the voices of their very young kids, and differentiate them from other animals' offspring

9. Humans are naturally predisposed to believe in gods and life after death.

10. The government's wine cellar contains about £2m worth of wine and spirits

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/05/10_things_you_didnt_know_this.shtml

Number 4 seems like good news!

I don't buy #9, though. Humans may very well have lived on this earth for 800,000 years without believing in God or life after death (of course we don't know for sure). Surely if anything about humans is "culturally consitituted" rather than "naturally perdisposed", it is their religious beliefs.

[Scheherazade]

1. Watermelons can explode.

2. The Queen is apparently not a Guinness drinker. Or at least not in the morning.

3. The hardiest animal on Earth is known as a "water bear".

4. Humans stare longer at people with bad reputations.

5. Parrots are good at teamwork.

6. "Highly cheerful" people die younger.

7. A good sense of smell helps mammals' brains get bigger.

8. The internet craze of planking started in the UK and in Australia.

9. Tarantulas shoot silk from their feet.

10. There are only two beret factories left in France.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/05/10_things_you_didnt_know_this_1.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. Fifa is a charity.

2. Vultures are better than sniffer dogs at searching large, overgrown areas for dead bodies.

3. A Devon cream tea has scones with cream first then jam on top, while a Cornish cream tea has scones with jam first then cream on top.

4. You can see the shockwaves from a trombone. On video.

5. Shale gas drilling can cause earthquakes.

6. Heart disease is less common among religious people.

7. Among certain early humans, the women left home and the men stayed behind.

8. Penguins do a Mexican wave to stay warm.

9. An intense fear of dying can make a heart attack worse.

10. It's possible for a horse to paint.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/06/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_184.shtml

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

...4. You can see the shockwaves from a trombone. On video.

I believe you can, starting at about 4:15:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIQq1j1-AQU&feature=related




...10. It's possible for a horse to paint.



They’re just now realizing this? Have they not heard of Edouard Manet, aka “Mr. Ed”?

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_26qDKCIi5Gg/THqYGtD_NQI/AAAAAAAADoQ/aCiiELZVcsY/ed6.jpg


For the sake of the uneducated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsuohepbVk


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[Scheherazade]

1. The Rotary club is an enemy of Palestine, according to Hamas.

2. Spiders use their webs to breathe underwater.

3. Michael Caine was nearly sacked from the film Zulu for standing like Prince Philip.

4. The Wombles have had four gold albums.

5. Cow hooves are used to make the foam in fire extinguishers.

6. Wearing high heels could increase the risk of arthritis.

7. Chimps can outperform eight-year-olds in tasks.

8. The odds of scoring two holes-in-one in the same round of golf are 67 million-to-one .

9. Elephants can flirt.

10. Zebras can do showjumping.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/06/10_things_you_didnt_know_this_2.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. The yellow brick road leads to a car park.

2. Iron age man was into home brewing.

3. Astronauts get travel sick.

4. Women don't see Porsche drivers as marriage material.

5. Magpies can scold humans.

6. Men are the first to say 'I love you' in a new relationship.

7. There is no music chart in India.

8. Britain's most stolen vehicle is white-van-man's Ford Transit.

9. Tinkering with certain proteins could stop hair going grey.

10. Britain's youngest undertaker is 16 years old.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/06/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_185.shtml

[Calidore]

1. The yellow brick road leads to a car park.


Makes sense, the Emerald City probably became a big tourist attraction (and expensive--they want all your green) after the movie. What, you didn't know it was a documentary?



6. Men are the first to say 'I love you' in a new relationship.


I had two thoughts when I saw this:

* Who's the first to mean it?

* Does that mean gay men say it simultaneously? And gay women never do?

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

2. Iron age man was into home brewing.

and they still are in the backwoods of the deep south, only they refer to it as "moonshine"




3. Astronauts get travel sick.

How can that be since, according to at least one Forum member, they never left God's green earth?




10. Britain's youngest undertaker is 16 years old.
Let me guess...his name is Oliver.

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[Scheherazade]

1. Vincent Van Gogh looked a lot like his brother Theo.

2. Urban pigeons remember who will feed them and who will chase them away.

3. Women have gaydar.

4. There are ants that carry a friend so they can deal with big bits of food.

5. It's very difficult to urinate in a treated water reservoir in the UK.

6. Half of Britons are, in fact, Germans.

7. Sonic the Hedgehog's shoes are based on Michael Jackson's footwear in the Bad video.

8. British taxpayers own 200,000 paintings - including multi-million pound works by the likes of Titan, Monet and Picasso.

9. A female tennis player's grunts can reach 95 decibels.

10. Chocolate milkshake is the ideal post-workout recovery drink.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/06/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_186.shtml

[MystyrMystyry]

1. Makes sense

2. Birds have brains

3. But which do they prefer?

4. The more the merrier

5. Huh?

6. This I find interesting - the word Briton comes from some Latin word meaning 'those of the design' referring to their painted faces, while the word Pict comes from the Latin for 'those with painted faces'. The Angles and Saxons didn't just migrate, they were invited by the Brits (who later became the Welsh) and paid in land to help defend against the Norse (or so I've been told)

7. What were Michael Jackson's shoes based on?

8. I wonder how many they own privately - it'd have to be in the billions...

9. Unless you're Maria Sharapova who can reach decibels that interfere with the measuring equipment - I have to turn the sound completely OFF when she's playing

10. Chocolate milkshake is yummy, and also the ideal pre-workout and no-workout recovery elixir - I might have one right now...

[Scheherazade]

1. The ideal slice of toast should be cooked for exactly 216 seconds.

2. Stick insects can go without sex for one million years.

3. The key to a happy marriage is based on the wife remaining slimmer than the husband.

4. People working out in a gym can cause tremors in buildings.

5. Lions will most likely attack humans just after a full moon.

6. Tall people are at greater risk of cancer.

7. Jalfrezi is now Britain's favourite curry.

8. Diamonds are not forever, they evaporate under exposure to light.

9. Mount Everest is getting higher.

10. The Speaking Clock still receives 30 million calls each year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/07/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_189.shtml

[faithosaurus]

1.Venus apparently is supposed to resemble Hell

2.Jupiter has storms in its atmosphere, and perhaps life on Europa

3.Along with the Great Red Spot, there are also the Great White Spot and the Great Dark Spot

4.It's pretty much a drug once you begin writing angst stories, especially when people are on the edge of their seats wanting more

5.My sister can actually be pleasant when she's not around her friends (even though she's only 8)

6.There are 400 active volcanoes on one of Jupiter's moons, Io

7.Ryan Higa (nighahiga on youtube) is actually becoming so big that he's going on TV shows...I love him

8.Kim Kardashian had psoriasis

9.That I can actually write comedic pieces, even though I suck at humor

10.Mercury has no atmosphere, just an exosphere

...I've been having fun and researching the planets.

[Virgil]

3. The key to a happy marriage is based on the wife remaining slimmer than the husband.


:yikes::yikes::yikes:

Shush. I didn't say anything.

[Scheherazade]

1. Spider-Man has died.

2. Margaret Thatcher did not pioneer the Right to Buy scheme for social housing.

3. Almost as many people get married on a Thursday as on a Sunday.

4. A web address can cost nearly £1 million.

5. Suicide bombers are considered a suitable subject for Afghan satire.

6. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin cannot bend frying pans with his bare hands.

7. A hole in the ground can qualify as a private members club.

8. It was illegal to sign a football player on a Sunday in the 1950s.

9. Local councils in England own 40 hotels and around 20 cinemas.

10. There are poisonous rats.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/08/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_191.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. Mr Men author Roger Hargreaves was the third best-selling author of the last decade, topped only by JK Rowling and Dan Brown.

2. The prison system in Brazil holds an annual Miss Penitentiary beauty contest.

3. TV's Mork and Mindy visited a mother and daughter in Dulwich, south London, in 2003.

4. BBC Radio 4 deters foxes from attacking swans.

5. Sparrows' birdsong has a lot in common with the profanity-strewn bragging of rappers.

6. A shorter than average tongue is not good if you're learning to speak Korean.

7. The Redneck Olympics contains sports such as armpit serenade, watermelon seed spitting contest and bobbin' for pigs feet.

8. Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger can sing in Sanskrit.

9. Most of the 3.5m people who visit Liberty Island each year do not climb the Statue of Liberty.

10. A thin belt of antimatter envelops the Earth.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/08/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_192.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. Apple founder Steve Jobs patented designs for two glass staircases.

2. Almost a quarter of new words added to the Chambers Dictionary come from internet culture.

3. Female birds like confident males.

4. Col Gaddafi's compound contained a photo album filled with pictures of former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

5. "Astoundingly thick" is an acceptable description of someone who performs badly on Mastermind.

6. Our ancestors began cooking 1.9 million years ago.

7. Stress really does make hair turn grey.

8. A planet 4,000 light years away from earth is made almost entirely of diamonds.

9. Getting married increases the risk of putting on weight.

10. Britons are now twice as likely to be bitten by a mosquito in the UK than in the 10 years to 2006.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/08/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_194.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. Harrogate is the only postcode in Britain without a Tesco store.

2. Coral could be the key to stopping sunburn.

3. We nearly always pick items from the middle shelf in supermarkets.

4. A German city has started taxing prostitutes by installing a ticket machine.

5. An officially hot day in the UK - as classified by the Met Office - is when temperatures reach 30C.

6. Domino's pizza chain is planning to open a restaurant on the moon.

7. In 1941 the government in the UK wanted to know how many bras women owned.

8. The first fluorescent clothing was made from the inventor's wife's wedding dress.

9. The world's atmosphere is worth £4.3 quadrillion, going by the air we breathe in and the price of CO2

10. Britain has 800 major self-storage units, the same as the rest of Europe put together.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/09/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_195.shtml

[Calidore]

9. The world's atmosphere is worth £4.3 quadrillion, going by the air we breathe in and the price of CO2


That's right, give Haliburton more ideas.

[Scheherazade]

1. Female fiddler crabs are attracted to males who can wave well.

2. The size of the ring finger is linked to the size of your sex drive.

3. The Queen's swans get flu jabs.

4. Lack of sleep leads to sugar cravings.

5. You need apermit to bring more than 2.2Ibs (one kilogram) of meat into Israel.

6. Some people fear spiders, but spiders fear assassin bugs.

7. Crocodiles go off their food when they're stressed.

8. There is a one in 3,200 chance that a Nasa satellite could hit you this month when it plunges from orbit.

9. Cliff sold more calendars than any other male celebrity last year.

10. Forty percent of of active Twitter users do not tweet at all, they just follow other people.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/09/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_196.shtml

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

1. Female fiddler crabs are attracted to males who can wave well. ...and to those with a well endowed Pizzicato.


7. Crocodiles go off their food when they're stressed.
and like alligators you need to watch out for that medulla oblongata...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfC4u5GCy3I

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[Scheherazade]

One should learn how to cause crocodiles stress... In case we meet them.

[papayahed]

I've always like a good waver.

[papayahed]

One should learn how to cause crocodiles stress... In case we meet them.


That's why all women should have at least one crocodile handbag.

[Scheherazade]

That's why all women should have at least one crocodile handbag.I like the way you think!

:p

[Scheherazade]

1. A planet can orbit two suns.

2. Women remember men with a deep voice more than those with a high voice.

3. Britons contact friends and family via Facebook an average of 3.2 times a week.

4. Escaped pet parrots can teach wild birds to say phrases learnt from their owners.

5. The steel used in the construction of the new Westfield shopping mall in Stratford is equivalent to the weight of 80 million medals.

6. New homes in Denmark are 80% bigger than new homes in the UK.

7. Cavefish can keep time without the sun.

8. Green belts in England cover 13% of total land.

9. Panda poo can reveals a lot about their sex lives.

10. Australians have a third choice when describing their gender on passport applications.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/09/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_197.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. MI5 used to have special kettles kept solely for steaming open envelopes.

2. Only one in every 250 million births is a case of conjoined twins.

3. Bill Clinton was invited to appear on Dancing with the Stars, the US version of Strictly Come Dancing.

4. Penguins find their family members by sniffing them out.

5. The world's smallest aquarium contains just two teaspoons of water.

6. Elephants can paint.

7. Red-haired donors are being turned away by the world's largest sperm bank because there is a lack of demand for their "product".

8. Facebook hosts 4% of all photos ever taken.

9. Yawning cools down the brain.

10. Crows can find food with the aid of mirrors.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/09/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_198.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. TV satellite dishes in the UK mainly point southeast - and so can be used to orientate the lost.

2. Hummus comes in pizza, peanut butter and chocolate mousse flavours in the US.

3. A typical restaurant throws away 21 tonnes of food every year - partly because Brits are loath to ask for doggy bags.

4. Preston bus station joins the Nazca Lines in Peru and a Greek cemetery on this year's list of at-risk cultural heritage sites.

5. Steve Jobs studied calligraphy.

6. Doritos take their name from the Spanish for "little golden".

7. Cream tea in Devon is scone topped with clotted cream then jam. In Cornwall, the order of jam and cream are reversed.

8. Dancing With The Stars contestants in Argentina can get naked.

9. The optimum cooking time for a soft boiled egg suitable for dunking toast soldiers is a full six minutes.

10. The first e-book, back in the 1970s, was the US Declaration of Independence.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/10/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_200.shtml

[Calidore]

1. TV satellite dishes in the UK mainly point southeast - and so can be used to orientate the lost.


Or, the lost can just knock on the door of the house and ask to use a phone.

[Scheherazade]

1. Piranhas bark.

2. Brunettes make better friends.

3. Self-made millionaires are more likely to have gone to state school.

4. One in six mobile phones in Britain is contaminated with poo.

5. Penguins rescued from oil slicks get knitted jumpers to keep them warm.

6. There will be more people in the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on Saturday to watch the Wales v France World Cup semi-final on video screens than there will be at the actual match in New Zealand.

7. Meerkats recognise each others' voices.

8. Lady Gaga doesn't like Lady Goo Goo.

9. Babies know if someone is being unfairly treated at just 15 months.

10. Really good sex can wipe your memory.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/10/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_201.shtml

[Scheherazade]

1. Footballs were called "fut ballis" in 1497.

2. Flying racehorses long distances to competitions in other countries can actually make them faster.

3. William and Kate use Boris bikes.

4. There is a decrease in natural births on Halloween and an increase on Valentines Day.

5. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch, Wales's longest
place name, fits onto a single Monopoly square.

6. The average wait before getting in contact with someone after a first date is now 1.52 days.

7. The most relaxing song ever - called Weightless - is 11% more soporific than any other song.

8. The world's largest family has 181 members - one husband, 39 wives, 94 children, 14 daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren.

9. Former scouts volunteer more than people who weren't in the scouts.

10. Alice Cooper runs a Bible class.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2011/10/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_202.shtml

[86.5parker]

Me i did not know that i am going to having a vippi or VIP in some loan in Helsinki Finland this week and it is really a good news.