Tell me something I don't know...

[nick n stuff]

for the rock and roll fan: Aerosmith's "dude (looks like a lady) was written about Motley Crue's Vince Neil.

for the botanist: apple seeds contain arsenic or cyanide (i forget which)and peanut shells are an ingredient in dynamite.

 

[Skeleton Jelly]

The amount of iron you digest throughout your entire lifetime, is enough to build the frame of a small child's bike.

On average, throughout a normal humans life spam, you DO INDEED swallow 5-8 spiders in your sleep.

The dot over the stick the the letter "i" (and maybe j) is called a "Tittle"

 

[Mechsoap]

the longest native ritual ever made lasts for 20 years jumping and dancing from town to town and its celebraited evry 60 years to share the knowledge of the elders to the young ones
it has been there unchanged for many thousends of years

 

[Quaxar]

for the botanist: apple seeds contain arsenic or cyanide (i forget which)and peanut shells are an ingredient in dynamite.

I do not know about apple seeds, but almonds contain a relatively high amount of hydrogen cyanide, although you'd probably throw up before ingesting a lethal dosis.

 

[nick n stuff]

for the botanist: apple seeds contain arsenic or cyanide (i forget which)and peanut shells are an ingredient in dynamite.

I do not know about apple seeds, but almonds contain a relatively high amount of hydrogen cyanide, although you'd probably throw up before ingesting a lethal dosis.

almonds are a yes. it's why cyanide smells of almonds. just googled it. definitely cyanide in apple pips

 

[nick n stuff]

my bad double post. let's not waste.
wombats lose pursuers by stopping immediately, the predator smashes their face of the wombats huge pelvis.
Churchill gave birth to the famous 'i may be drunk but in the morning i will be sober and you will still be ugly' quote

 

[Benjamin Grin]

the longest native ritual ever made lasts for 20 years jumping and dancing from town to town and its celebrated every 60 years to share the knowledge of the elders to the young ones
it has been there unchanged for many thousands of years

What people are that?

On topic: The reason certain types of plants contain cyanide is because (If I remember my learnings correctly) it is used in the process of 'deciding' how high the plant should grow. I can't for the life of me remember the correct term, but essentially the plant grows away merrily until it reaches a point where it would be unfeasible to grow taller (It may be unable to support itself, or it simply doesn't need to to contend with local competition), at which point the levels of natural cyanide are increased until the top of the tree dies (At a cellular level).

I will edit if I recall the name of the process.

 

[Nikajo]

let's see, useless information....

If you shave a siamese cat and keep it in a fridge until it's fur has grown back then it will grow back all black. I can explain why if anybody cares

 

[Brandon237]

Hmmm, to all those who brag about insomnia: Lack of sleep for 10 days is lethal, and the number can be as low as 7 if you're unfit or have medical conditions.

Co2 has no liquid phase.

Russia created the most powerful nuclear weapon the world has ever seen.

And considering that this is a gaming site: Command and conquer 4 was never made! [small] that game was not part of the series, I swear it...[/small]

 

[Tonimata]

Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres

It took me 4 years of Pokemon to figure that out. =/

What about the years of Spanish studies ?

 

[savandicus]

not everything times zero equals zero. here are some random cases where math is broken

∞ * 0 ≠ 0

∞/∞ ≠ 1

∞-∞ ≠ 0

1[sup]∞[/sup] ≠ 1

This is wrong on so many levels, infinity is a concept not a number and as such it cannot be used in the same way as a number. You can say a variable tends to infinity and use that, for example as x tends to infinity x/x = 1 1^x = 1 x*0 = 0 x-x = 0 to find actual solutions to each of the equations. Maths only breaks when your doing something wrong.

 

[Stillve]

I watched that only a few days ago. Interesting stuff.

This blew my mind. More people need to see this, and its sequel.

 

[Blueruler182]

Cracking your knuckles doesn't cause arthritis, a man won a Nobel for cracking one hand and not the other and proving it.

There were designs for a computer one hundred years before the first computer was released, but because of lack of funding and political interest, it was never made. We're one hundred years behind technologically because of it.

Peter Parker was very nearly molested as a child, the story was told after he heard his neighbor being molested by his babysitter and went over as Spider-man to tell the kid how he told his aunt before the creepy old man took it any further.

Iron Man currently has a suit that acts like a technological version of Carnage. Thinking of it in terms most people would understand, Carnage is the bad Terminator from T2, the liquid-metal one, and Iron Man is the Terminator from T3, shapeshifting to make energy projectile weapons along with the blades. Anyone who reads the book and read Iron Man/Thor on free comic book day would know this, but it still makes me happy.

Super Hero Squad was in the works before Disney bought Marvel. Would everyone stop bitching about Disney ruining Marvel with it, because I've actually seen nothing but positives with the whole ordeal.

That's all I can think of right now. I'm sure you didn't know at least one of those things.

 

[Blueruler182]

Defenestration: The act of throwing something out a window

You got that off of Spectacular Spider-Man. I respect you for that.

 

[afroforce69]

ehhhmm
the model of which the united states are organised came from the Netherlands.
The old Netherlands(De Republiek der Nederlanden) existed from 7 different provinces or 'states' working together. Since it worked awesome for a while in holland(golden century and such), they copied en changed it into the current United States of America.
There's a fact i was pretty shocked by at history class

 

[KAPTAINmORGANnWo4life]

I open-mouth kissed a horse once. That's something you don't know.

DAMN IT.

I was still the first one to post a picture of him.

 

[Lamppenkeyboard]

Echidnas have four penises, each moving independently. Seriously.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3o2Q-YLPw

EDIT: excuse me, four HEADS

I just got soul raped watching that video. Happy holidays.

 

[new_age_reject]

There were designs for a computer one hundred years before the first computer was released, but because of lack of funding and political interest, it was never made. We're one hundred years behind technologically because of it.

You on about the Charles Babbage Analytical Machine?
I wouldn't necessarily say we are 100 years behind, I highly doubt it would have sped up the creation of the transistor, if you mean 100 years behind computationally.

 

[Tharwen]

Once you reach 11,004 posts, the Escapist servers eat your soul and use that to fuel your next 20,000 posts. They automatically ban you if you pass 35029 because that's when the soul runs out of energy.

Also, In Canada, milk comes in bags.

[sub]It's true. Milk really does come in bags.[/sub]

 

[Lamppenkeyboard]

That I have a mole on my knee.

Didn't know that, did ya'?

You would be surprised.

Mwahahahahaha...

You require more Vespene Gas. I bet you didn't know that.

Why would you even bother saying that? I didn't spend thirty seconds making a clever thread idea for people like you to just come in here and [alt tabs back onto Starcraft] OH MY GOD YOUR RIGHT!