INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY

Originally Posted by cuffy

For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more.

They just need to hire my local barmaid!

My ones are:

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

Angel Falls is sixteen times the height of Niagara Falls.

Originally Posted by mysteryjimbo

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

Are the US aware of this?


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Do you remember the Michael Palin Pole to Pole series when they wouldn't let him on the base at the South Pole.

Originally Posted by jonboy

Are the US aware of this?


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Possibly not as they believe anything outside the planets atmosphere belongs to them......

The term nonce is an acronym, it stands for

Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise

It was written on the doors of sex offenders cells in Victorian prisons to let the warders know not to let them out for exercise with the other inmates to stop them getting beaten up or worse.

Its correct usage in the english language means "for the time being", "the present"

todays fact of the day:-

I couldn't get out of bed this morning.

that is all.

[Viney]

Horse hair brshes are made from Squirrel Fur

From the world of medicine

The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.

It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.....and it takes just 3 pints of stella to **** it all up...

The right lung takes in more air than the left lung.

A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.

Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.
During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged.

A passionate kiss uses up 6.4 calories per minute.

Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second.

Originally Posted by cuffy

Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second.

This is an interesting one. So, what they are measuring of course is the rate that an electrical pulse can propagate down a nerve cell, into a synapse, and have the signal jump over into the next nerve cell via a chemical signal.

Very good. And, these things all happen at measurable rates.
So, this number should be constant from animal to animal.
So, the guys in track running use it to define the quickest possible time an athlete can react to something (ie a gun in this case).
This means that if the athlete runs, after the gun goes off, and before this reaction time has passed, they are done for a false start.

Lovely.

Here is the thing though.
F1 drivers continiously react faster than this "fastest possible reaction time". Or, they have tested certain F1 drivers (M Shumacher for instance), and found that they are reacting to things impossibley quickly.

So... yeah. I thought that was interesting.

I suppose they are reacting to things before they happen. I suppose, they know that in *this* situation, *this* outcome is probable, and they react pre-emptively...

Don't know about pain travelling at that speed banged my shin when I got home from the pub lastnight didn't hurt till this morning that's a good 6 hours