The BBC carried out experiments to see if food changed the taste of semen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/humanbody/truthaboutfood/sexy/spermtaste.shtml

Sholin monks were called in to fight off Japenese Pirates when nobody else could.

http://asianhistory.about.com/od/warsinasia/a/shaolinvpirates.htm

Pakistan is the largest contributer of troops to UN Peacekeeping missions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_Armed_Forces#UN_peacekeeping_forces

I'm going to break the rules here and award points for that SqueezeFirmly.



There is a snowy park in Austria that melts into a lake in the summer
where people scuba dive on the underwater hiking trails.

http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/austrian-lake-is-also-a-popular-hiking-spot.html

In the middle ages cats were connected with the Devil and were killed in their masses.
Had this not happened,local rodent populations would have been kept low and the spread
of the Bubonic Plague lessened.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_cats#Middle_Ages

20% of children hear voices in their head.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9198107/Fifth-of-children-hear-voices-in-their-head.html

There is a device that can permanently replace the function of your heart.Side effect - you have no pulse.

I've got to get points for this.

The illusion of being dead.

Over the years, various magicians have performed on stage with audience members who are asked to hold the magicians wrists as though taking his pulse.

I first saw Robert Harbin do this when I was about 9 years old.

They are given a baton, and they have to tap their own microphone each time they feel the pulse.

They obviously start to tap at the same speed, then one of them will start to slow down while the other one carries on at normal pulse speed, much to the amusement of the audience.

Soon, the second participant will also start to slow down the taps on the microphone, and the audience are now bemused.

Eventually they will stop tapping as they feel no pulse at all.

You are now 'dead'.

The audience members really are picked at random, they are not stooges.

I have done this sevaral times at parties, and have completely fooled medical people as well, including my sister-in-law, who is a senior midwife of 20+ years experience.

Is it some mystical oriental meditation merhod of stopping your pulse completely while staying alive?

Of ocurse it isn't, but that's what you tell your audience. 


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The only props you need are two golf balls.

Out of sight of your audience, place one in each armpit before you start to perform, and gently grip it with your arm to your side. You will have to keep your elbows pinned to your side throughout, but you move your lower arms where you want. 

To get your pulse to slow down, simply grip the ball a bit tighter to your side, doing just one arm at first, which will give a different pulse count to your other arm.

Squeeze as you see fit, and eventually, if you squeeze the balls as hard as you can to your side, you will have no pulse at all.

I have no idea if this can harm you medically, but it has never harmed me.

Have fun.

Harvard University approved a BDSM student sex club.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/29/harvard-bdsm-club_n_2212806.html

United States founding father John Dickinson was nearly unanimously elected
as President of Delaware;the only dissenting vote was from himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dickinson_(politician)#President_of_Delaware

When the French king Jean Jean II was prisoner of the English,he was allowed to
return to France to raise money for his ransom,leaving his son as a replacement
hostage.When his son escaped,he voluntarily returned to England,citing reasons
of "good faith and honor".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_II_of_France#Prisoner_of_the_English

In Italy the number 17 is considered unlucky.

This is probably because in Roman digits 17 is written XVII, that could be rearranged to "VIXI", which in Latin means "I have lived" but can be a euphemism for "I am dead"

HOWEVER, Italy played away to Scotland in a crucial EURO 2008 qualifier which was played on 17 November 2007, kicking off at 17:00. Italy won 2-1 scoring the winner in injury time

A group of monks can increase their body temperature enough to dry
soaking sheets in a freezing room.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/04.18/09-tummo.html

Soldiers of the Israeli Army who admit to playing Dungeons & Dragons
are immediately sent to a military psychologist and risk expulsion.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3052074,00.html

The term sideburns came from Ambrose Burnside a civil war general with outstanding facial hair.

http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/ambrose-burnside.html

The most massive star now known is 265x our sun,8.7 million times brighter and blue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R136a1

Multiple cast and crew members were struck by lightning during the filming of
The Passion of the Christ,including the actor who played Jesus.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3209223.stm

The U.S. has 5% of the worlds population yet nearly 25% of the world's prison
and jail population.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/americas/23iht-23prison.12253738.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2&

A series of events happened during the making of The Omen (October 1975 to January 1976) that caused some speculation as to whether or not the film was "cursed".

Separate flights for both actor Gregory Peck and executive producer Mace Neufeld were struck by lightning when flying between the USA and England, and producer Harvey Bernhard was barely missed by a lightning bolt in Rome.

A restaurant that Neufeld and Peck were to eat at in England was bombed by the IRA.

A plane hired by the studio to take aerial shots in Israel was switched at the last moment by the airline, and the clients who took the original plane were all killed when it crashed on takeoff.

A zookeeper who was helping the studio with handling animals was attacked and eaten alive by lions.

After working on The Omen, stuntman Alf Joint went on to work on A Bridge Too Far where he was pushed off a building during a stunt gone wrong.

On Friday, August 13, 1976, special effects artist John Richardson was in an accident in the Netherlands while also working on A Bridge Too Far, after work on The Omen was done. Less than a year after designing the deaths for The Omen, Richardson's car was involved in a major accident which killed and decapitated his female companion, in a way similar to David Warner's death in The Omen. It is rumored that upon stumbling out of his car he saw a road sign that said he was near the town of Ommen.

The largest known star is so big that a jet plane flying at a non-stop speed of 500 m.p.h. would take just over 11 years to complete one orbit.

SqueezeFirmly     25 Jun 13 14:37 
The largest known star is so big that a jet plane flying at a non-stop speed of 500 m.p.h. would take just over 11 years to complete one orbit.


I would hate to be in economy class for that flight

On a small Pacific island in 1917,the entire population of men died except
one.This remaining man proclaimed himself "king",thus beginning an orgy of rape and
murder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipperton_Island#Guano_mining_and_the_tragedy_of_1917

Doritos was he first company to send an advertisment into space towards potential
extraterrestrial life.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080612122817.htm

Egypt owes New York City $1.9 million in parking fines,while the USA owes London
£5m parking fines.

http://diplomaticbriefing.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/newsline-u-s-embassy-owes-london-5m-parking-fines/

He never said.

Jiminy Cricket is killed by Pinocchio with a hammer in the original Italian story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio

In 1964,a 17-year-old high school student in San Diego California stayed awake for
eleven days,demonstrating that sleep deprivation has little effect,other than
the mood changes associated with tiredness.He currently holds the
scientifically documented record for the longest period a human has gone without
sleep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_%28record_holder%29

A lawyer agreed to buy a ladies flat,and paid a monthly sum in order to obtain the
flat upon her death.The lady lived to 122 and a half years old and outlived the
lawyer.The lawyers family continued paying and ended up paying twice what the flat
was worth.

http://www.supercentenarian.com/oldest/jeanne-calment.html

The idea that eating carrots helped you see in the dark was a lie invented by the British Airforce
in WWII,in order to explain how British air raids were so successful in the dark without tipping
the Germans off on the existence of radar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARROTS#Nutrition

In the past 9 years of it's existence,the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) hasn't
caught any terrorists.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2010/11/does_the_tsa_ever_catch_terrorists.html

Domino's Pizza dropped their "30 minutes or it's free" campaign in 1993 due to the auto-wrecks
it caused.

http://pizza.wikia.com/wiki/Domino%27s_Pizza

There's an Annual World Gangbang Championship?!

95% of people in the UK who buy organic said their main reason was to avoid pesticides
and had no idea organic farming can and does use pesticides.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/2011/07/18/mythbusting-101-organic-farming-conventional-agriculture/

Economic researchers at Yale managed to successfully train Capuchin monkeys to understand
and use currency.The result? The monkeys used it to buy sex.

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2008/07/the_inevitable_profession/capuchin-monkeys/

In 2006 a duck egg was discovered with 3 live fish inside it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5367432.stm

Will Shortz,the New York Times crossword puzzle editor,is the only person in the
world to have a degree in enigmatology,the study of puzzles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Shortz

Average German eats 114 chocolate bars a year,whereas an average American eats 51.

http://onegoldenticket.blogspot.ca/2011/01/chocolate-consumption-statistics.html

The longest coma ever recorded is 37 years and 111 days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Esposito

Send them over and I'll get them posted.

When you remember a past event,you are actually remembering the last time you remembered it,not the event itself.


I can understand that if your remembering a phone number for instance or a vague memory of something you did   but not when remember an event vividly  as you can remember different things from it  at different times so I disagree with that statement.