Fact Of The Day

[partisan]

If you believed the sci-fi movies terrible things would happen if pushed from a spaceship without a suit, of course it wouldn't be nice but nothing like the exploding body parts of Hollywood, the blood would be kept under pressure by your circulatory system and would be fine,the survival limit is 1-2 minutes and its the lack of air that would kill

[Rainbowmum]

The first sighting of Nessie was in 565, by Irish monk and missionary St. Columba.:biggrin:

[monk]

More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.

[Lalo]

According to recent research, most modern day humans have between 1%-4% DNA from Neanderthals, indicating that Cro-Magnon man didn't conquer the Neanderthals with their superior brain. We actually slept our way to the top!

[partisan]

Squirrels forget where they hide 50% of there nuts

A group of owls is called a parliament

Humans share 75% DNA with slugs

[Rainbowmum]

In Plato’s Dialogues, Socrates talks to his friend about the best way to seduce a “good-looking boy” named Lysis. His friend is head over heels for Lysis and is boring his friends with long poems praising the boy and his ancestors. Socrates tells his friend to drop the flattery, which will swell Lysis’ head, and instead engage him in philosophical dialogue.

[Chase]

In the Middle Ages, often when a woman was being tried for witchcraft, her husband would tell the clergy she could not have done the reported sorcery (been seen consorting with the devil, flying on a broomstick, etc) during the reported hours as he had seen her sleeping in his arms the night of the alleged witchery. The clergy would say she must have used her magic to have a demon shape-shift as herself and sleep next to him.
(fact taken from Carl Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World")

[monk]

The worlds fastest magician is Eldon D. Wigton (Dr. Eldoonie). He performed 255 tricks in 2 minutes on April, 21 1991.

[Lalo]

The glue used to adhere credit cards to a letter actually has its own name. It is called Fugitive glue.

[Rainbowmum]

In 610, a monk-baker in northern Italy wanted to reward local children for learning their prayers. So he twisted unleavened dough so it looked like arms crossing the breast in supplication. He baked it and named it “pretiola,” Latin for “little reward”. Voila… the pretzel was born.