lessons of the day...

[one]

well aparently you learn something new everyday, so i have decided to make a thread for people to post what they learnt that day. It can be sooooooo random like my one (look down a bit on this post ) or actually serious. and please say FACT!: before each fact. so ill start off: today i learnt 2 things, 1. FACT!: if you are a retard you may be able to choke on the skins of dead racoons. 2. FACT!: pine-o-clean kills 99.9% of germs.

[one]

FACT!: this is getting no replies.

[Michael]

about 100 people die each year from choking on ball point pens.

[one]

really?

[Michael]

yea, and i learned this today, lol.

[one]

omg it is to! also: Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. just to name a few

[one]

the next few are for cat lovers (burns), and a few TV ones In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. MTV first aired at 12:01 AM on August 1, 1981. The first video was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. The mother's purr acts as a homing device, announcing to her babies that nursing time has arrived. Kittens begin to purr in return at about one week of age - perhaps as a gesture of gratitude, or maybe as a request for milk - and continue to purr for the rest of their lives. The reason for the lack of mouse-flavored cat food is due to the fact that the test subjects (cats, naturally!) turned up their noses at the formula! The infamous Black Plague in Europe was due in part to the fact that people believed those with cats were witches. So all the cats were rounded up, caged and burned, leaving the rats (with their disease causing parasites) to run free and multiply. Those harbouring cats were often those who survived. dont you just love your cat now

[badassbob]

The monarchy costs british tax payers 60p a year. That's a lot of money that could be put to far better use. Other little facts that I found on the Guardian website: Q)How far did a £24,000 return train journey take the Prince of Wales from London? -Newcastle Q)How much was the Queen's phone bill last year? Between GBP650,000 and GBP700,000

[Merlock]

FACT! Chuck Norris sleeps with a night light. Not because Chuck Norris is afraid of the dark, but the dark is afraid of Chuck Norris.

[Keeper]

Fact: Shakespeare plays where not originally divided into Acts. That was only done recently for some reason ...

[one]

Women blink nearly twice as much as men. No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH". *im preety shure orange asswell* The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (hmmmmmmm) In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

[wendylove]

*im preety shure orange asswell* Wrong, borange rythms with orange. The infamous Black Plague in Europe was due in part to the fact that people believed those with cats were witches. So all the cats were rounded up, caged and burned, leaving the rats (with their disease causing parasites) to run free and multiply. Those harbouring cats were often those who survived. cats had little effect on black plague. Leaving the rats free to mulitply, a simple biological graph would show that a population of a animal with no predator does not go infintly up. Getting a reliable food source is more of a factor, plus cats have little effect on rat population. Also harbouring a cat Bubonic plague was transmitted to a 10-year-old girl in Oregon by a scratch wound inflicted by a domestic cat. The cat probably was infected by contact with infected wild rodents or their fleas. Yersinia pestis was identified in Diamanus montanus fleas collected from an abandoned burrow near the patient's home. Domestic cats may infect humans with Y pestis by inoculation from a scratch. http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/251/7/927 So unless you want the bubonic plague then have cats. Also the dirty cat could have the fleas that cause bubonic plague in them or their smell can attract the fleas. If you want to get the plague own a cat. Many modern researchers have argued that the disease was more likely to have been viral (that is, not bubonic plague), pointing to the absence of rats from some parts of Europe that were badly affected and to the conviction of people at the time that the disease was spread by direct human contact. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic...e_of_Justinian In some cases rats didn't have much of a affect and their was still plague. Not only that you're likely to catch the black death from your cat. Fact Cats are rubbish.

[Keeper]

Lice prefer clean hair to dirty

[wendylove]

Lice prefer clean hair to dirty It’s often said that head lice prefer clean, short hair. In fact, they probably don’t much care whether hair is dirty or clean, short or long. Short hair may make it easier for them to get from one head to another. http://www.phmeg.org.uk/Documents/Headlice/hl-myths.htm Keeper don't you look you're facts up. Ironically, I head from the radio I think BBC radio 1 that the NHS spread this myth during the 50's. Like how the NHS still spread the turn you're mobile phone off rubbish, you don't have to turn your mobile phone off as they don't effect no equipment. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1774 NHS they can't do anything right!

[Keeper]

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[AlternateReality]

about 100 people die each year from choking on ball point pens. christ, i chew on pens every day...

[NeAvO]

FACT: Although Shakespeare is seen as a genius and to watch his plays makes you classy, he is in fact a playwright that has plays full of sexism and crude jokes.

[ExoByte]

FACT: It takes exactly one Ninja to screw in a lightbulb. The real question is; why the hell would he want to do that? FACT: Throwing stuff and yelling at your PC makes it run faster.

[docKnubis]

FACT: Throwing stuff and yelling at your PC makes it run faster. this is very true..... the only problem is catching the computer once it has ran away Fact i have 8 fingers and 2 thumbs also fact if you poke your eye with your fingers your eye will hurt later

[peppy]

Fact: This fact is not very useful

[Michael]

a 2x4 (wood) is actually 1-1/2'' x 3-1/2'' on average, 12 newborns are given to the wrong parents each day.. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes long... bastards.

[Wavefunction]

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes long... bastards.

[Keeper]

Snails are neither male nor female ...

[badassbob]

on average, 12 newborns are given to the wrong parents each day. I've heard that before, but I never believed it. If that really was true I'm sure there'd have been a huge fuss about it on the news ages ago when that "fact" first started going round. FACT: God created the universe in the dark!! The bible says "God created the heavens and the Earth" then it says "and God said let there be light".

[pj]

This may be pure crap, and I don't care if it is. I found it worthy amusement for a few minutes: http://www.magicstu.dsl.pipex.com/cards.html A brief rundown of the "general origins" of standard playing cards.