I bet you didnt know that

Quazzie

sbsquarepants wrote: »

it's not often you hear someone use the word fact to discuss a 930 year old man and his incestuous kids!

It's a fact that the story states he lived to 930 and that he had 7 children minimum. I never stated any of the story is true.

bnt

Quazzie wrote: »

Adam and Eve had many more kids than is commonly known. The exact number is unknown, the minimum is 7. 5 son and 2 daughters. Adam lived to be 930 years old so it's reasonable to expect the number to be much higher.

You shouldn't represent your ignorance of a subject as fact.

Read what I wrote again: do you see the word "fact" in there? I called it a "story", to match the rest of the fable.

MonkieSocks

lmimmfn wrote: »

Maybe they had extra ribs too.

With Barbecue Sauce :pac: nom nom nom

Oldtree

lmimmfn wrote: »

Maybe they had extra ribs too.

Wonder what they made out of his sac that he wasn't using? A nice handbag maby

deise08

I didn't know anti biotics could make you feel so sick. 😞

Riva10

Oldtree wrote: »

Wonder what they made out of his sac that he wasn't using? A nice handbag maby

Waaay tooo much optimism. He wore a monocle and he made a very small purse to carry the monocle .;) Bet you did'nt know that.
Same source as for how long he lived.

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deise08 wrote: »

I didn't know anti biotics could make you feel so sick. ��

Look up "Clostridium difficile"... and that's not taking into account any allergic reactions.

Duckworth_Luas

I've never met someone who doesn’t like the 1980 movie Airplane!.

The common misconception is that it is a parody of the popular 1970s Airport film series, based on the original novel by Arthur Hailey.

However, Hailey had an earlier teleplay and novel which he adapted into the 1957 movie Zero Hour!.

Airplane! is in fact an almost shot-for-shot parody of this film.

The Airplane! writers actually bought all the rights to Zero Hour! to be certain they could not be sued for copyright infringement.

Here's the proof.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-v2BHNBVCs

Another interesting movie fact involves Stella Adler, a New York acting teacher and a proponent of the Stanislavski system of acting. She had many successful students including Harvey Kietel, Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando.

I remember De Niro recounting in an interview how, in one of his classes, he had to act out being a cup of tea.

However, this story involves Brando and, despite numerous variations existing, was told by Adler herself.

She asked her students to react as a chicken would if a Cold War era air-raid siren had just gone off.

All the students mimicked a confused chicken flapping their "wings" in a state of panic. That is until it was Brando's turn.

Marlon just portrayed a chicken doing what chickens normally do, and then he acted out laying an egg.

Adler asked him to explain, to which Brando responded, "I'm a chicken, I don't know what an air-raid is!".

Methemoglobinemia is a condition where the blood carries a much reduced amount of oxygen around the body due to abnormally high levels of methemoglobin, a non-oxygen binding form of hemogloblin. People with methemoglobemia have methemoglobin levels of 15 -20% compared to the usual 1 -2% in the general population. In isolated rural Kentucky of the early 20th century, a family called the Fugates became known as the Blue Fugates because of a combination of inbreeding and recessive genes.

Martin Fugate married Elizabeth Smith in the late 1900's and both of them carried the recessive gene that causes methemoglobinemia which should have ended there, but in an isolated area like East Kentucky of the time inbreeding wasn't uncommon and when cousins starting marrying each other, the symptoms of methemoglobemia became visible as the children of these unions were born with 'blue' skin. Methemoglobemia colors the blood a dark brownish red, causing the skin to look blue and the lips purple. This outwardly visible sign of inbreeding caused the few neighbours to shun the Fugate family and caused fear of being 'contaminated' with the blue skin disease, and so they moved into further rural isolation to avoid conflict, settling in the aptly named Troublesome Creek.

In the mid-twentieth century, a Dr Cawein from Kentucky University got wind of the Blue Fugates of Troublesome Creek, tracked them down and eventually established they were suffering from an enzyme deficiency, which he remedied by injecting them with a dye called methelyne blue which in turn triggered a response that led to an almost immediate result - the Blue Fugates suddenly turned pink. The result wasn't permanent, but supplies of the dye in tablet form were secured and the family said goodbye to the Avatar look.

In the decades that followed, the isolated area where the Fugates lived was discovered to have reserves of coal, and as it became much more populous the effects of inbreeding became less and less prounounced as people married outside the family.

The last of the Blue Fugates was born in the late Seventies, a much less impressive colour than his unfortunate ancestors, which happily faded over a few years. It's still possible that recessive gene could pop up again.



tl:dr Smurfs are real.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Following the Blue Blood theme.

Nobility were and are often referred to as blue bloods, or blue blooded. In medieval Europe the elite had enough power and wealth that they could afford to have peasants do all their work for them, so the the aristocrats were able to stay inside and avoid work & sunshine. They were often so pale that their blue veins showed under their skin, leading people to believe that their blood was blue.

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Carbon monoxide primarily causes adverse effects by combining with hemoglobin to form carboxyhemoglobin (HbCO), thereby preventing the blood from carrying oxygen.

In 1932, Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks (1888–1981) discovered that methylene blue works as an antidote for both carbon monoxide and cyanide poisoning. If I remember correctly, in the former it binds with hemoglobin thereby preventing the carbon monoxide from doing the same (or something along those lines).

[Partially taken from Wikipedia and then paraphrased]

Greybottle

L'Inconnue de la Seine (English: The Unknown Woman of the Seine) was an unidentified young woman whose putative death mask became a popular fixture on the walls of artists' homes after 1900. Her visage inspired numerous literary works.

According to an often-repeated story, the body of the young woman was pulled out of the Seine River at the Quai du Louvre in Paris around the late 1880s. Since the body showed no signs of violence, suicide was suspected.

A pathologist at the Paris Morgue was, according to the story, so taken by her beauty that he had to make a wax plaster cast death mask of her face. It has been questioned whether the expression of the face could belong to a drowned person. According to other accounts, the mask was taken from the daughter of a mask manufacturer in Germany. The identity of the girl was never discovered. Claire Forestier estimated the age of the model at no more than 16, given the firmness of the skin.

In the following years, numerous copies were produced. The copies quickly became a fashionable morbid fixture in Parisian Bohemian society. Albert Camus and others compared her enigmatic smile to that of the Mona Lisa, inviting numerous speculations as to what clues the eerily happy expression in her face could offer about her life, her death, and her place in society.

The popularity of the figure is also of interest to the history of artistic media, relating to its widespread reproduction. The original cast had been photographed, and new casts were created from the film negatives. These new casts displayed details that are usually lost in bodies taken from the water, but the apparent preservation of these details in the visage of the cast seemed to only reinforce its authenticity.

Critic Al Alvarez wrote in his book on suicide, The Savage God: "I am told that a whole generation of German girls modeled their looks on her." According to Hans Hesse of the University of Sussex, Alvarez reports, "the Inconnue became the erotic ideal of the period, as Bardot was for the 1950s. He thinks that German actresses such as Elisabeth Bergner modeled themselves on her. She was finally displaced as a paradigm by Greta Garbo.

The face of the unknown woman was used for the head of the first aid mannequin Resusci Anne. It was created by Peter Safar and Asmund Laerdal in 1958 and was used starting in 1960 in numerous CPR courses. Therefore, the face has been called by some "the most kissed face" of all time.

Capt'n Midnight

the British Army used to wear red coats to hide the blood.

Legend has it is the Royal Air Force used a blue uniform for the same reason. :pac:

porte

54 million people around the world will die in the next 12 months.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

the British Army used to wear red coats to hide the blood.

Legend has it is the Royal Air Force used a blue uniform for the same reason. :pac:

The RAF uniform was designed in 1920 and choice of blue uniforms was the result of a surplus of inexpensive medium sky blue coloured herringbone twill in the United Kingdom, which had been intended for use in the uniforms of Czarist Russian imperial cavalrymen until the Russian Revolution killed cancelled the order.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

porte wrote: »

54 million people around the world will die in the next 12 months.

And over 130 million will be born. Or 250 per minute.

Capt'n Midnight

An Irish inventor Louis Brennan built a full sized working gyro stabilised monorail.

Capt'n Midnight

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

the British Army used to wear red coats to hide the blood.

Legend has it is the Royal Air Force used a blue uniform for the same reason. :pac:

Related but not related, surgical scrubs are green or blue because they're the opposite of red on the color wheel and this apparently makes it easier for the surgeon to see detail among the red blood during surgery, as having too much red in their field of vision can cause green or blue floaters against other colors and so sharpens their visual acuity.

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Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

the British Army used to wear red coats to hide the blood.

I was told by someone who worked in a hospital many years ago that surgeons and nurses working in the operating theatres used to wear green scrubs because the blood stains would look brown and therefore less gruesome when the surgeons had to go and talk to the families.

porte

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

And over 130 million will be born. Or 250 per minute.

No wonder there is a housing crisis.

Greybottle

porte wrote: »

54 million people around the world will die in the next 12 months.

5.2 million will be below the age of 5.
About 1.4 million will die in vehicle accidents.
130,000 will die in an armed conflict. (This does not include deaths from secondary causes such as famine).

biko

Boobytrap spelled backwards is partyboob

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New Home wrote: »

I was told by someone who worked in a hospital many years ago that surgeons and nurses working in the operating theatres used to wear green scrubs because the blood stains would look brown and therefore less gruesome when the surgeons had to go and talk to the families.

That's what I always thought, I was only told of the visual thing over last weekend. Apparently a famous surgeon in the US switched to colored scrubs because he found it easier on his eyes early in the last century and it spread as a fashion at first.

Ted_YNWA

biko wrote:

Boobytrap spelled backwards is partyboob

Some things you can never unsee.

porte

biko wrote: »

Boobytrap spelled backwards is partyboob

And racecar spelled backwards is racecar.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Ever have a cup of cha? The Chinese symbol for tea is written 茶.

That symbol is pronounced cha in mandarin and in fact that, or a close derivative like chai, is what it is called in most countries in the world (try google translate tea into Russian or Portuguese)

The same symbol is pronounced teey in Fujian which is where historically a lot of British tea originated.

The use of cha in England possibly comes from people returning from India, or merchants who had been to other parts of China where the more common cha pronunciation is used. It’s usage now dying out in English except perhaps ironically.

retalivity

On inbreeding, its common knowledge that all of europe's royalty are related through familial marriages, however Charles II, the last hapsburg king of spain, was the most extreme example. His parents were uncle and niece, and he was born severely disabled, physically and intellectually, due to the excessive generational imbreeding. His most noticeable feature being the hapsburg lip, which was a massive chin that made it difficult to talk or eat. He didnt speak til he was 4, didnt learn to walk til he was 8, was regent at 3 and king at 14. His mother, and later 2 wives who were provided to him to unsuccessfully try for a heir ultimately ruled the country with him as a puppet, and drove spain in the ground for the 35 years he was on the throne.

He died at 38, and the doctor who did the autopsy said that he "did not contain a single drop of blood; his heart was the size of a peppercorn; his lungs corroded; his intestines rotten and gangrenous; he had a single testicle, black as coal, and his head was full of water." Also, (from wiki) American historians Will and Ariel Durant described Charles II as "short, lame, epileptic, senile, and completely bald before 35, he was always on the verge of death, but repeatedly baffled Christendom by continuing to live."

The belgian city of charleroi was named after him, as it was then part of the Spanish Netherlands. So if you ever go thru there with ryanair, think of the inbred incompetent whose name lives on in the city!

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The poor man, all the same...

mzungu

The Romans used human urine as mouthwash. Urine decomposes into ammonia, which is a great cleaning product that takes out stains easily. Roman authors like Catullus attest to people using both human and animal urine as a mouth rinse that helped whiten their teeth.

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It was also used in more recent times, in a less disgusting fashion, to remove mould stains from fabric.