I bet you didnt know that

PowerToWait · 16-01-2017 8:35pm

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 8:55pm

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 9:05pm

A pigs orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

A Battered Mars Bar · 16-01-2017 9:27pm

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

pickarooney · 17-01-2017 12:04am

Permabear wrote: »

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Hmmm. Is there anything to support this?

Mister Vain · 17-01-2017 12:13am

The average man produces a pint of farts every day. The average woman just coughs in her knickers.

maudgonner · 17-01-2017 12:17am

pickarooney wrote: »

Hmmm. Is there anything to support this?

Bra, do you even lift?

themagiconion · 17-01-2017 12:19am

Mr Vain... The average man produces a pint of farts every day. The average woman just coughs in her knickers.

It must be adding a lot to man-made global warming?

17-01-2017 12:19am

Permabear wrote: »

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That sounds horrific! I think I'd have paid a surgeon a visit long before they reached that size, if I were that poor woman.

My back aches just thinking about it.

mzungu · 17-01-2017 12:58am

The "Wild West" had precious few bank robberies.

In 40 years, across 15 states in the frontier period there was a grand total of eight bank robberies. The reason nobody ever tried to rob them was because it was a suicide mission. The banks had reinforced back walls and were always right next to saloons, general stores and of course the sheriff's office. Hard to get in and hard to get out without being noticed. Butch and Sundance (and other household name outlaws) did rob banks, but they have become famous because they were the only ones loopy enough to try.

Despite the reputation of places like Tombstone and Dodge as being lawless free for alls, they had the most restrictive gun laws at that time and were far more restrictive than they are in the US today. When entering town you would had to surrender your weapons at police headquarters and then collect them when you were leaving.

harry Bailey esq · 17-01-2017 2:26pm

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

Have a look to see do the carpets match the curtains?

I meant pre coitus,to minimise the chances of producing one

foxy farmer · 17-01-2017 7:36pm

In 1987 Matthew Broderick and Jennifer Grey who he was secretly dating at the time was involved in a head on collision with another car near Enniskillen. A mother and daughter were both killed in the crash. Broderick was driving when he veered across the road. He was charged with dangerous driving causing death and faced 5-10 yrs in prison. He was convicted of careless driving and fined $185. He claimed to have no recollection of the days events until he woke in hospital after the crash.

Mister Vain · 17-01-2017 7:42pm

If your brain was a hard drive it could store up to 3000 terabytes.

If your eyes were a camera they would be 576 megapixels.

runawaybishop · 17-01-2017 8:11pm

With a sufficiently large piece of paper and assuming you can fold it as much as you want you would only have to fold it 42 times and it's thickness would reach the moon.

Skerries · 17-01-2017 8:33pm

how to make a Plumbus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJk4y9NGvE

Elemonator · 17-01-2017 8:36pm

If you put rice in boiling water, it will cook.

I know its my second post, but I had to add to the humour

Widdershins · 17-01-2017 9:56pm

You can knit socks without knitting needles.

17-01-2017 10:16pm

runawaybishop wrote: »

With a sufficiently large piece of paper and assuming you can fold it as much as you want you would only have to fold it 35 times and it's thickness would reach the moon.

Is the thickness of paper folded 35 times not the same as just putting like 1,000 sheets of paper on top of each other (can't be assed working out the actual amount of folds in there).

runawaybishop · 17-01-2017 10:27pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Is the thickness of paper folded 35 times not the same as just putting like 1,000 sheets of paper on top of each other (can't be assed working out the actual amount of folds in there).

It's 42 times I was in error before. And no, it's exponential growth and gets very very high very very fast

https://youtu.be/AmFMJC45f1Q

Red Kev · 17-01-2017 10:31pm

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.

Most of BMW is owned by the Quandt family. There are 8 grandchildren of BMW founder Gunther Quandt living today who control most of the company. Gunther was married twice and bore a son with each wife. Both these sons went on to make the company what it is today.

His second wife was Magda Ritschel. He divorced her and she went on to marry again and have 6 more children. The man she married was Josef Goebbels and all 6 children were poisoned by her in Hitlers bunker on May 1st 1945, the day before the Russians arrived.

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%)

Spoken on the album by an Irish doorman called Gerry O'Driscoll.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 17-01-2017 10:44pm

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.

Strictly speaking it stands for Bayerische Motoren Werke it just translates to the same initials.

Cartouche · 17-01-2017 10:45pm

There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic ocean

fleet_admiral · 17-01-2017 10:48pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

One of the Luas lines used an existing rail route.

We could be here all day

Uses the route but the original rails were lifted a long time ago

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 17-01-2017 10:56pm

Even though atoms are 99.9999999999999% empty space things don't pass right through them.
Things don't fall through other things because they are levitating on an electrostatic field. When you sit on a chair, you are not really touching it because every atom is surrounded by a cloud of electrons. When two atoms approach each other, their electron clouds push back at each other,

jimgoose · 17-01-2017 11:24pm

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

Even though atoms are 99.9999999999999% empty space things don't pass right through them.
Things don't fall through other things because they are levitating on an electrostatic field. When you sit on a chair, you are not really touching it because every atom is surrounded by a cloud of electrons. When two atoms approach each other, their electron clouds push back at each other,

And you're now all chuffed because it turns out your arse is magnetic, like one of them Marvel blokes!

DEFTLEFTHAND · 17-01-2017 11:36pm

Off the back of the success of Ace Ventura Jim Carey was paid 7 million dollars for 'Dumb and Dumber' in 1994.

His co-star Jeff Daniels was paid $50,000.

'New Line Cinema' didn't want Daniels but the directors the Farrelly brothers did. The studio decided to make an insulting offer to Daniels in the hope that he'd turn it down. To everyone's surprise he accepted it.

Cartouche · 18-01-2017 12:25am

The known universe is made up of 50,000,000,000 galaxies. There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy. In the Milky Way alone there might be as many 100 billion Earth-like planets. Still think you’re alone?

Dexter Bip · 18-01-2017 12:35am

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

Even though atoms are 99.9999999999999% empty space things don't pass right through them.
Things don't fall through other things because they are levitating on an electrostatic field. When you sit on a chair, you are not really touching it because every atom is surrounded by a cloud of electrons. When two atoms approach each other, their electron clouds push back at each other,

It's called the Pauli Exclusion principle - two electrons can't occupy the same space within an atomic quantum level. I once knew a bloke called Pauly who was barred from every pub he'd ever been into in Cork over fifty years. He'd been excluded from everywhere on the basis of being an obnoxious so and so.
I tried to explain this principle to him in one of the remaining pubs that served him but he hit me....:)

HiGlo · 18-01-2017 12:53am

The glasses in hotel bedrooms are washed in the bathroom sinks and dried with the dirty towels.

KKkitty · 18-01-2017 12:59am

HiGlo wrote: »

The glasses in hotel bedrooms are washed in the bathroom sinks and dried with the dirty towels.

If this is true I'm bringing disposable cups next time I'm staying in a hotel.

wiz569 · 18-01-2017 1:32am

KKkitty wrote: »

If this is true I'm bringing disposable cups next time I'm staying in a hotel.

Its certainly not true for them all, if they are obviously dirty they are replaced,otherwise they would get rinsed in the sink and dried with paper towel or napkins.

Skerries · 18-01-2017 1:45am

tips and tricks PC users should know

http://www.techspot.com/guides/676-best-computer-tricks/

one not there is if you want to see all the pages you have looked in a tab is to hold the back button down

D0NNELLY · 18-01-2017 7:15am

Cartouche wrote: »

There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic ocean

Low tide or high tide?

Malari · 18-01-2017 10:03am

The number of trees on earth is greater than the number of stars in the galaxy.

Mini850 · 18-01-2017 10:18am

Malari wrote: »

The number of trees on earth is greater than the number of stars in the galaxy.

I find this hard to be-leaf................

Ill get my coat..........................:pac:

Malari · 18-01-2017 10:22am

Mini850 wrote: »

I find this hard to be-leaf................

Well, you only said that to be poplar. :cool:

I checked it out and it seems legit!

BrokenArrows · 18-01-2017 10:28am

Malari wrote: »

Well, you only said that to be poplar. :cool:

I checked it out and it seems legit!

Im assuming you're taking the piss.

If you're not....:eek::eek::eek:

Malari · 18-01-2017 10:30am

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Im assuming you're taking the piss.

If you're not....:eek::eek::eek:

http://www.nature.com/news/trillions-of-trees-1.18333

Bandana boy · 18-01-2017 11:25am

Malari wrote: »

The number of trees on earth is greater than the number of stars in the galaxy.

What the hell is Sting harping on about then !

GBX · 18-01-2017 11:31am

If you email your boss "suck my balls" you wont have to go to work anymore.

Winterlong · 18-01-2017 11:48am

GBX wrote: »

If you email your boss "suck my balls" you wont have to go to work anymore.

Unless your boss is happy to take you at your word...

A Neurotic · 18-01-2017 12:15pm

Contrary to popular usage, the term 'psychotic' doesn't mean, of itself, that someone is violent or dangerous.

Kat1170 · 18-01-2017 12:17pm

GBX wrote: »

If you email your boss "suck my balls" you wont have to go to work anymore.

If she is beautiful, you might even 'get a raise'

Ooh-err, missus, fnarr fnarr :P

steddyeddy · 18-01-2017 12:20pm

Malari wrote: »

http://www.nature.com/news/trillions-of-trees-1.18333

That's a brilliant paper.

I bet you didnt know that

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