I bet you didnt know that

Mister Vain wrote: »

A man in Afghanistan farted in front of his family, and out of disgust left the house for 20 years.

The 'oul Afghani Guinness must be some potent stuff if the fart lingered in a room for 20 years.

youngblood wrote: »

There is a Rhubarb triangle (9 sq miles) in West Yorkshire in England which is world famous for growing forced rhubarb and produces 90% of the worlds winter forced rhubard. In 2010 Yorkshire Forced Rhubard was given Protected Designation of Origin status similar to Champagne, Parma ham etc

Its forced so much, in their darkened sheds, you can hear it grow, it grows that fast.

Before the Yorkshire Triangle, most rhubarb came from China. In 1839, the imperial Chinese commissioner Lin Zexu wrote a letter to Queen Victoria warning that, unless the British stopped supplying opium to China, he would cut off rhubarb supplies to Britain, killing everyone through mass constipation.

It seems that the Queen never had the letter translated, and so remained unaware of the danger.

The area of Edinburgh that is fabulously well populated with titty bars is called the pubic triangle.

Richard Branson can fly.

Cartouche wrote: »

Bats are the only mammals that can fly

R. Kelly believes he can fly and indeed touch the sky. I read somewhere that he thinks about it every night and day, he spreads his wings and fly away.

Kat1170 wrote: »

€735,840 give or take a few yoyo's. Near enough. You can make my cheque payable to Cash

You can add the guts of €2000 to that, as he was born around 6bc

Cartouche wrote: »

On August 15, 1977, a strong narrowband radio signal was received by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope, in the United States, then assigned to a SETI project. The signal appeared to come from the constellation Sagittarius and bore the expected hallmarks of alien origin

WOW!

Mouseslayer17 wrote: »

Warm water freezes quicker than cold
Mindblown

DOES HOT WATER FREEZE FASTER THAN COLD WATER?
It’s an age-old question with a simple answer: no.
Since the time of Aristotle, researchers and amateur scientists alike have batted about the counterintuitive theory that hot water freezes faster than cold. The notion even has a name: the Mpemba effect, named for a Tanzanian schoolboy who in 1963 noticed that the ice cream he and his classmates made from warm milk froze quicker than that made from cool milk.

“No matter what the initial temperature of water is, it must be brought to the freezing point before it will change state and become ice,” says Prakash Govindan, a postdoctoral associate in MIT’s Mechanical Engineering department. It will actually take more time and/or energy to freeze hot water because it must be brought down further in temperature until it reaches the freezing point, about 0°C.

Govindan suggests conducting a simple experiment to demonstrate that hot and cold water will behave as logic predicts. “Fill two identical containers with hot and cold tap water from the kitchen sink and see which freezes first,” he says. Interestingly, he points out, the rates of change in this experiment will not be the same. “When you set them in the freezer, the freezer will work harder to bring the temperature of the hot water down, so initially the rate of heat transfer will be faster in the hot water.” However, the other container will be cooling at the same time (if not at quite the same rate).

When the temperature of the water in each container reaches just about 0°C it will undergo the same changes as it moves from a liquid to a solid, and it will take the same amount of time to begin forming tiny ice crystals. At that point, each mixture of liquid and ice will be at a uniform temperature, and as more heat is taken from the mixtures, the thermodynamic principle of latent heat kicks in: The water continues to convert to a solid state, but no longer changes in temperature. “As long as you have a mixture of liquid water and solid ice, the temperature will remain at 0 until all the water is frozen,” says Govindan.

It’s never been convincingly proven than hot water and cold water behave differently from each other at any step of the freezing process, despite the ongoing fascination with the Mpemba effect. In early 2013, Europe’s Royal Society of Chemistry even held a competition for the best explanation of the theory. The winner speculated that hot water indeed freezes more quickly if the cold water is first supercooled. But logic triumphs when it comes the plain ordinary water that comes from the household faucet. Most likely to impact the freezing point of water is the presence of impurities such as salt, dissolved solids and gases—and the ingredients of homemade ice cream. —Sarah Jensen

Cartouche wrote: »

Bridget Dowling was a Dublin native who married Alois, Adolf Hitler’s half brother. She bore a son, Patrick who had four children himself, two of whom survive. The sons grew up on Patchogue, Long Island.

The sons are among the only remaining blood links to Adolf Hitler and the two surviving brothers have no children so if they remain that way the Hitler Irish and American link will die out.

There were quite a few people with the surname Hitler in the New York phone book before the war. They all changed their names or moved, because there were none after!

The song "Push It" by Salt 'n Pepa" was released nearer in time to "Be Bop a Lula" by Gene Vincent than the present day. (1986 & 1956)