Random Facts.

[Aerowaves]

From what I heard, in York, England, it's legal to shoot any scotsman caught out after dark with, wait for it, a bow and arrow! AWESOME!!

There's a similar law pertaining to Welshmen found inside the walls of Chester after midnight.

I think these are both overriden by modern murder laws though

 

[BlueberryMUNCH]

The only retro-mingent mammal on the planet?

The cow.

 

[Deadlock Radium]

22% of the US population still sit on the toilet when they flush to feel the water tickle their arse.

The most popular car colour is red.

 

[crudus]

In the dictionary, yes. In the language, no. The longest word is the chemical name of titin, the largest known protein in existence, which has over 180,000 letters (I forget the actual number)

It is 189,820 letters long. It takes up 50.5 pages of a word document and takes 2,016 lines. Yes I have it on a word document on my computer.

 

[CouchCommando]

From what I heard, in York, England, it's legal to shoot any scotsman caught out after dark with, wait for it, a bow and arrow! AWESOME!!

There's a similar law pertaining to Welshmen found inside the walls of Chester after midnight.

I think these are both overriden by modern murder laws though

what if you only wing them?

 

[Captain Pancake]

Hold on, I have a book full of these...

-49 different kinds of food are mentioned in the bible.

-Christopher Lee served in the RAF as a flight lieutenant and with Intelligence and Special forces in the Western Desert, Malta, Sicily, Italy and Central Europe. He was mentioned in dispatches in 1944.

-Arm wrestling is one of Helene Bonham Carter's favourite pastimes

-Britain has the highest (joint) percentage of the population that is literate in the world.

To name a few out of thousands.

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

Cornflakes were invented by accident, and an early use was stuffing them into mattresses so you could hear it when people tried to masturbate.

lolwut? Where'd you hear that?

 

[captaincabbage]

From what I heard, in York, England, it's legal to shoot any scotsman caught out after dark with, wait for it, a bow and arrow! AWESOME!!

There's a similar law pertaining to Welshmen found inside the walls of Chester after midnight.

I think these are both overriden by modern murder laws though

hmm, that sounds like the talk of a scotsman! Where's my bow!

 

[Three Eyed Cyclops]

Pnemonoultramicroscopicsilivolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English language, It is the practice of studying the cancer that can be contracted by breathing in silica dust from volcanoes.

In the dictionary, yes. In the language, no. The longest word is the chemical name of titin, the largest known protein in existence, which has over 180,000 letters (I forget the actual number)

If you want to include chemical names, then at any point someone could just make up a molecule that is arbitrarily long and then just use IUPAC rule to name it thus beating any previous claims to longest word.

 

[Ekit]

Sex on the beach can be dangerous at night.

Why?

OT: Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

 

[crudus]

Pnemonoultramicroscopicsilivolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English language, It is the practice of studying the cancer that can be contracted by breathing in silica dust from volcanoes.

In the dictionary, yes. In the language, no. The longest word is the chemical name of titin, the largest known protein in existence, which has over 180,000 letters (I forget the actual number)

If you want to include chemical names, then at any point someone could just make up a molecule that is arbitrarily long and then just use IUPAC rule to name it thus beating any previous claims to longest word.

I'm ending this argument <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_Englishnow. You are both right and are both wrong. Plus that chemical name isn't just made up on the spot. It tells you where each atom is and how the atoms are bonded. So unless you find a bigger molecule then that will be the longest "word".

Sex on the beach can be dangerous at night.

Why?

I would imagine a lot of animals come out then. I know turtles eggs hatch at night. Sand crabs come out at night(those are worse than the normal version). Place sand gets in uncomfortable places at night which causes bad things to happen, like tearing. Sex on a beach is just a bad idea in general.

 

[Badong]

The 'gay gene' for mice is FucM (fucose mutarotase)

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

If you take all the capillaries (small blood vessels) in an average human's body as one continuous strand, it would be long enough to fully wrap around the earth. Twice.

 

[Daverson]

There is a protein called Sonic Hedgehog.

A chemical capable of inhibiting this protein has been named "Robotnik" ^^

Several species of scorpion glow blue in black light.
Sloths always climb down their tree to defecate, which they only do once every two weeks.
Anteaters and Platypuses walk on their knuckles, like a gorilla.
The moon doesn't orbit the Earth, rather, they both orbit a fixed point between the two.
The Earth will likely exist for another 5.5bn years.
All quantum energy transfer can be modelled using a quasi-particle known as a "Phonon".
The United Kingdom and Israel are the only countries without codified constitutions.
Monaco doesn't tax individuals, only businesses.

 

[Guest_Star]

OT: Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

Not a fact [http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/finland.asp].

Port Salut smell like feet cuz it's fermented with the same bacteria that produce feet smell.

 

[Jack_Uzi]

The 'gay gene' for mice is FucM (fucose mutarotase)

Hehe. Reminds me a bit of an article I once read about gay fruit flies. They altered the genes so that a bunch of flies went gay. To test if they were correct, they unleashed female fruit flies with them and the males didn't go: "Hey, wazzup?! Anything to do tonight?"
So after that, they put in some non-altered male fruit flies and for some reason, the non-altered males went for the gay fruit flies. Nature has it's own sence of humor I guess.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

Pnemonoultramicroscopicsilivolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English language, It is the practice of studying the cancer that can be contracted by breathing in silica dust from volcanoes.

In the dictionary, yes. In the language, no. The longest word is the chemical name of titin, the largest known protein in existence, which has over 180,000 letters (I forget the actual number)

If you want to include chemical names, then at any point someone could just make up a molecule that is arbitrarily long and then just use IUPAC rule to name it thus beating any previous claims to longest word.

The molecule has to exist first. This one does, and it's huge (by molecular standards), as proteins tend to be.

 

[SonicWaffle]

Cornflakes were invented by accident, and an early use was stuffing them into mattresses so you could hear it when people tried to masturbate.

lolwut? Where'd you hear that?

On QI, from the Master Of All Knowledge, Stephen Fry.

John Kellogg also wrote a book about wanking, and how dangerous it could be. The man was fucking obsessed with people bashing the bishop. From Wikipedia (and bolded for ease of finding the insanity);

He was an especially zealous campaigner against masturbation; this was an orthodox view during his lifetime, especially the earlier part. Kellogg was able to draw upon many medical sources' claims such as "neither the plague, nor war, nor small-pox, nor similar diseases, have produced results so disastrous to humanity as the pernicious habit of onanism," credited to one Dr. Adam Clarke. Kellogg strongly warned against the habit in his own words, claiming of masturbation-related deaths "such a victim literally dies by his own hand," among other condemnations. He felt that masturbation destroyed not only physical and mental health, but the moral health of individuals as well. Kellogg also believed the practice of "solitary-vice" caused cancer of the womb, urinary diseases, nocturnal emissions, impotence, epilepsy, insanity, and mental and physical debility ? "dimness of vision" was only briefly mentioned.

 

[Alon Shechter]

Did you know?....

You will swallow an average of 8 Spiders while you sleep during 1 year?

Great.
I'll never sleep again because of you.

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

Did yo know?

I am legend.