I bet you didnt know that

Permabear · 16-01-2017 11:33AM

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Big Nasty · 16-01-2017 11:38AM

Permabear wrote: »

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Link?

steddyeddy · 16-01-2017 11:46AM

dar100 wrote: »

No evidence to support any of this

Hang on I thought structural changes in the brain were fairly well correlated with PTSD and chronic stress. The hypothesis was certainly put forward and I thought there was evidence to back it up. Has this been rejected?

BattleCorp · 16-01-2017 11:50AM

Permabear wrote: »

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Big Nasty wrote: »

Link?

Actually, I'd rather not see that if that's ok with you guys. 25kg breasts don't really cut it for me.

Maximus Alexander · 16-01-2017 11:52AM

mzungu wrote: »

The woolly mammoth was still knocking about when the pyramids were being built and for a sort time thereafter.

And at that stage they were restricted to a single, miserable island off the coast of Russia in the Arctic Ocean.

BrianBoru00 · 16-01-2017 12:46PM

Shannon757 wrote: »

The word "SWIMS" upside down is still "SWIMS"

No it's not - its 5MIW5

Riddle101 · 16-01-2017 12:48PM

Cleopatra lived closer to our time than to the building of the Great Pyramid.

The Late Late Show is the world's longest running talk show.

Not sure if it can be considered fact, more of a rumor but, after WWI Lawrence of Arabia allegedly paid a fellow soldier to give him beatings on several occasions because he enjoyed pain.

gramar · 16-01-2017 01:21PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

Actually, I'd rather not see that if that's ok with you guys. 25kg breasts don't really cut it for me.

They don't cut they crush.

pedigree 6 · 16-01-2017 02:12PM

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

The original irish word for car was gluaistean so i looked this up. Don't think you are correct:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car#Etymology

I wish the term "horseless carraige" had stuck tbh

Gluaistean is a modern word.

Satriale · 16-01-2017 04:06PM

Permabear wrote: »

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Pics or gtfo!

mcmoustache · 16-01-2017 05:04PM

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Gluaistean is a modern word.

"Carr" is more widely used in connemara than "Gluaisteán". In fact, I don't think I've ever used the word "Gluaisteán" out loud since primary school reading exercises.

Parchment · 16-01-2017 05:23PM

BMW stands for Bavarian Motor Works and their logo is a propeller (the white) in front of the sky (the blue) as they originally made airplanes.

16-01-2017 05:29PM

The words silent and listen use the same letters.

Mini850 · 16-01-2017 05:40PM

The swimming pools on the sunken ship Titanic are all still full of water!!!

BrianBoru00 · 16-01-2017 06:19PM

Parchment wrote: »

BMW stands for Bavarian Motor Works and their logo is a propeller (the white) in front of the sky (the blue) as they originally made airplanes.

Nope . . . as it turns out its just the blue and white colours of Bavaria. That "spin" on the story was added later . . .

https://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/bmw-roundel-not-born-from-planes/?_r=0

Capt'n Midnight · 16-01-2017 06:47PM

There is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact it's all dark

It's got an Albedo of 0.1362 (±2–3%)

Skylinehead · 16-01-2017 07:01PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

There is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact it's all dark

It's got an Albedo of 0.1362 (±2–3%)

pavb2 · 16-01-2017 07:13PM

Cartouche wrote: »

In the 1730s, a group of printing apprentices massacred “every cat they could find” on Paris’ Rue Saint-Séverin. The cats were subsequently tried (in a mock trial, BUT STILL), found guilty of witchcraft, and hanged.
The popular belief is that the cats were treated better by the masters than the apprentices were. This was an early precursor to the French Revolution

In a similar vein during the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th century, a shipwrecked monkey was hanged by the people of Hartlepool, believing him to be a French spy! To this day, people from Hartlepool are affectionately known as 'monkey hangers'.

chakotha · 16-01-2017 07:19PM

The pacific end of the Panama Canal is further east than the Atlantic end.

Cartouche · 16-01-2017 07:51PM

Lord Byron kept a pet bear in his college dorm room.

PowerToWait · 16-01-2017 08:35PM

Cartouche wrote: »

Your body sees alcohol as a poison, or at least as something it doesn't actually want inside it. To fight back, and sober you up, humans produce an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase.

That enzyme gets its shot at your alcohol when it attempts to pass through the stomach lining, and when it reaches your liver, primarily. On contact, it snatches a hydrogen atom off the ethanol molecules in your drink, rendering it into non-intoxicating acetaldehyde. Humans can then use aldehyde dehydrogenase as a kind of clean-up crew, breaking down the acetaldehyde that's sometimes considered a cause of hangovers, along with dehydration.

Why doesn't 'the human body' do this ninja shlt with actual poisons accidentally ingested for example?

Wibbs · 16-01-2017 08:55PM

PowerToWait wrote: »

Why doesn't 'the human body' do this ninja shlt with actual poisons accidentally ingested for example?

Because we adapted to alcohol over a very long period of time. Some populations today never have, so some Asian populations find it very hard to metabolise alcohol and it can cause a bad reaction in such people. One theory holds that in Europe brewing was the popular method of sterilising drinking water, whereas in Asia teas were, hence they didn't need the alcohol genes nearly as much. If we ingested other poisons in trace amounts over a similar period of time we would likely adapt to them. IIRC we have? There are some substances in grains IIRc that would be poisonous.

On sterilising water… in Rome and onwards the rich drank from silver vessels as silver is a natural antiseptic and antibiotic.

Mister Vain · 16-01-2017 09:05PM

A pigs orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

A Battered Mars Bar · 16-01-2017 09:27PM

Being a president can nominate one day a week to sleep until noon and be awoken by scrambled egg of duck, juice of orange and a fig leaf

Dexter Bip · 16-01-2017 10:20PM

You can't sneeze with your eyes open.
Or Fart without laughing.

Outlaw Pete · 16-01-2017 10:24PM

In Apollo 13, nobody said: "Houston, we have a problem."
In Field of Dreams, nobody said: "If you build it, they will come."
Darth Vader never said: "Luke, I am your father".
In no movie has James Cagney ever said: "You dirty rat!."
The line "Beam me up, Scotty" appears in no Star Trek episode or movie.
Pacino didn't say: "I'm out of order! You're out of order! This whole courtroom is out of order!"
Bob Geldof never said “Give us your fucking money”
Bogart never said: "Play it again, Sam."

Not a lot of people know that... to quote Michael Caine.

Well, to misquote Michael Caine, as he never said that either :P

Cartouche · 16-01-2017 11:14PM

The universe is 13.8 billion years old, give or take. If we compressed that into a year – with the Big Bang happening at 00:00:01 on 1 January – then the dinosaurs would be wiped out on 29 December, and modern humans would appear on the 31st at 11:54pm. Christopher Columbus would sail across the Atlantic one second before midnight.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 16-01-2017 11:22PM

Cartouche wrote: »

The universe is 13.8 billion years old, give or take. If we compressed that into a year – with the Big Bang happening at 00:00:01 on 1 January – then the dinosaurs would be wiped out on 29 December, and modern humans would appear on the 31st at 11:54pm. Christopher Columbus would sail across the Atlantic one second before midnight.

I think we all knew that one.

pickarooney · 16-01-2017 11:45PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

and those who use ternary.

This one... goes up to 102

pavb2 · 16-01-2017 11:46PM

Bob Holness didn't play the saxophone solo on Gerry Raffertys Baker Street.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12120809

I bet you didnt know that

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