What interesting fact did you learn recently?

something like 125 people are awake during their surgeries each day

When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of the German physicists Max von Laue and James Franck in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from confiscating them. The German government had prohibited Germans from accepting or keeping any Nobel Prize after the jailed peace activist Carl von Ossietzky had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1935.

De Hevesy placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was subsequently ignored by the Nazis who thought the jar — one of perhaps hundreds on the shelving — contained common chemicals. After the war, de Hevesy returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The gold was returned to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation who recast the medals and again presented them to Laue and Franck.

One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do. Two can be as bad as one, it's the loneliest number since the number one.

LOL ok~

On a serious note, I just figured that cookies literally can crumble due to human error and a string of bad luck.

Phinn wrote:

When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of the German physicists Max von Laue and James Franck in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from confiscating them. The German government had prohibited Germans from accepting or keeping any Nobel Prize after the jailed peace activist Carl von Ossietzky had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1935.

De Hevesy placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was subsequently ignored by the Nazis who thought the jar — one of perhaps hundreds on the shelving — contained common chemicals. After the war, de Hevesy returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The gold was returned to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation who recast the medals and again presented them to Laue and Franck.

wow that is amazing

there was a german doctor Josef Mengele who was knicknamed the angel of death he headed some experiments on twins in ww2 when the war was over he fled and no one knew where he was as he had been to other places in west europe and south america.
there is a town in south america where there is a high porportion of twins blonde hair blue eyed it was beleived that he infact had 'created' not only that cows in that area also birthed a high porportion of twins. they were over seen by a dr of german decent that looked like Mengele
i got it from here it is longer and the second page has videos
www.weirdworm.com/th...s-of-auschwitz/

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A GrandPa who prefer Chicken than chick

Apparently "dork" means a whale's penis lol

The wax that coats apples to keep them fresh is discharged from a lac bug.... yuck
they use the same stuff to polish wood

Basically, I'm used to it.

But I wish I weren't.

Also, people take things way, WAY too seriously. Live a little. Have FUN. Only take things seriously when need be. If people can't, well then, I cannot get along with them.

Something interesting I learned today was that South Korea is so amazing.. I was watching these videos on youtube & its interesting.. Look up 'eat your kimchi' It should be a guy named Simon & his wife * which name i fogot :/ but it starts with an M

the average head weight 8 lbs.