What interesting fact did you learn recently?

Outerlimits wrote: When you see ambulance rushing by..and the lights are flashing.then suddenly they go out.means the person died @_@...................

Uhm.. I never thought of that.. It's obvious, but...kind of bitter

A lethal dose of caffeine is about 10 grams (10,000mg) - or about 50 double espressos.

Phinn wrote: A lethal dose of caffeine is about 10 grams (10,000mg) - or about 50 double espressos.

Our coffee in the morning is made by my boss, he makes it from our Starbucks machine with espresso roast. We usually drink it twice a day. No wonder we are zombies at work.

I learned that the Brits call French Fries... "chips". I was having a conversation with someone from the UK and I was talking about chips in a bag and she thought I was talking about fried potato strings (French Fries in the USA). I never realized it until I thought about Fish and Chips.

Carrots did not become orange until the 17th Century. They were originally purple on the outside & yellow inside.

Orange carrots were developed by the Dutch as a patriotic gesture towards their royal House of Orange.

i recently learned that i have an insanely high pain tolerance. just stretched my ears and skipped a few sizes. at size double 0 before, and now i had to re-do it all over again. but im stretching it to an inch and a half, or maybe something like this;

www.deviantart.com/d...8s_by_NETH7.jpg

If everyone washed their hands properly, a million lives could be saved each year.

grayphotos wrote:

Phinn wrote: A lethal dose of caffeine is about 10 grams (10,000mg) - or about 50 double espressos.

Our coffee in the morning is made by my boss, he makes it from our Starbucks machine with espresso roast. We usually drink it twice a day. No wonder we are zombies at work.

Where do you work? o-o

@Phinn
oh man where do you find all these interesting facts or funny pics and gifs (in the other thread) lolol
i always enjoy reading your posts

Phinn wrote: If everyone washed their hands properly, a million lives could be saved each year.

what really?

I guess it's quite true. I really dont like touching things in the public because you never know who touched it.. and I found out a lot of guys dont wash their hand after taking a leak.. cause my friend asked me one time if I wash my hand. I was like yeah of course why wouldn't I? and he said he wash his hands too but he was relaly pissed off at his roomate because the guy doesn't wash his hand after using the bathroom so he has to like wash his hand after opening the door each time lol... then he asked all his friends and so I got curious about this and started asking a lot of my friends too.. well the interesting thing is... i found out that most of the guys that don't wash their hands are my caucasian friends and few friends from china.all my other friends from Hong Kong taiwan etc all wash their hands each time.. I guess it's because their parents are really strict about this since they were little.. so it's a basic habit...one of my white friend name Brian said "no why would I? real mens don't wash their hands after we pee, and none of my friends do either" i was pretty shocked..
Normally i don't like to generaliz and im sure there are a lot of white guys that wash their hands too but the ones from my circle don't seem to do it for some reason... culture maybe?

xarthurx wrote:

Phinn wrote: If everyone washed their hands properly, a million lives could be saved each year.

what really?

I guess it's quite true. I really dont like touching things in the public because you never know who touched it.. and I found out a lot of guys dont wash their hand after taking a leak.. cause my friend asked me one time if I wash my hand. I was like yeah of course why wouldn't I? and he said he wash his hands too but he was relaly pissed off at his roomate because the guy doesn't wash his hand after using the bathroom so he has to like wash his hand after opening the door each time lol... then he asked all his friends and so I got curious about this and started asking a lot of my friends too.. well the interesting thing is... i found out that most of the guys that don't wash their hands are my caucasian friends and few friends from china.all my other friends from Hong Kong taiwan etc all wash their hands each time.. I guess it's because their parents are really strict about this since they were little.. so it's a basic habit...one of my white friend name Brian said "no why would I? real mens don't wash their hands after we pee, and none of my friends do either" i was pretty shocked..
Normally i don't like to generaliz and im sure there are a lot of white guys that wash their hands too but the ones from my circle don't seem to do it for some reason... culture maybe?

I feel quite nauseous when I see men leaving the bathroom still doing up their flies... as I know they haven't washed their hands. :sick:

Thank you Cheeselol, it is a fact that I spend too much time on the internet!

Just when I thought these creatures couldn't get ant weirder... The Platypus has no nipples so it secretes milk through its skin.