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If you mix alcoholic drinks with mixers which contain artificial sweetener rather than a 'full fat sugar' ones you will get drunk more quickly and for a longer period of time. [Dr Karl, Radio5Live, 3:35am 11/4/2013]
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There seems to be varying answers when googled.I guess some of these will be disputed.
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Microsoft have created a software that can automatically identify an image as child porn and they partner with police to track child exploitation.
Viruses can hijack bacterial immune systems and use it against them. There is an exoplanet roughly two times the size of earth,55 Cancri E,that has a crust made of diamond 2500 miles thick. |
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Not your fault but there is no way its a one in Five thousand chance you die in a car accident imo of course.
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And even if you are involved in a plane crash,statistically you have a 76% chance of survival.
That really just depends on how you classify what constitutes a crash. Most air incidents involve either loss of all souls, or of none. For what it is worth, my dad was on the outbound Comet flight to Calcutta which crashed killing all on board on the way back. |
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Peter the Great created The Council of Drunken Fools,whose sole job was to drink and party.
Dave Thomas (creator of Wendy's)once worked for Colonel Sanders (creator of KFC) and gave him the advice to: create signature KFC bucket,reduce number of items in menu,focus on a signature dish and have Colonel Sanders appear in adverts. In 1942 a British forest guard in Roopkund India made an alarming discovery. Some 16,000 feet above sea level, at the bottom of a small valley, was a frozen lake absolutely full of skeletons. That summer, the ice melting revealing even more skeletal remains floating in the water and lying haphazardly around the lakes edges. Something horrible had happened here. |
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In North Korea,distribution,possession and consumption of cannabis is legal,and is recommended as a healthier alternative to tobacco."Visitors tell stories of marijuana plants growing freely by roadsides."
A teenager invented a quick-release ratchet and offered the patent to Sears.Sears told him the patent was valueless and gave him $10,000,then went on to make $44 million selling the ratchets. If you could drive a car straight upwards at 60 mph,you could reach space in about an hour,and the moon in about 6 months. |
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Meteorites are not necessarily hot when they reach the Earth.In fact,many meteorites are found with frost on them.A meteorite has been in near-absolute zero temperature of space for millions of years,so the interior of it is very cold.
There is a Counterfeit Museum of Paris,where they display the most impressive and accurate knock-offs of popular goods. You can remember the value of Pi (3.1415926) by counting each word's letters in "May I have a large container of coffee?" |
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bigmo spends 23 hours a day researching the 'did you know' thread on chit chat. The other hour he spends copying and pasting.
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Absolutely spot on Joel.
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Violence has steadily declined over the course of human history,and we are currently in the midst of the most peaceful era yet.
It is illegal for a teacher to keep the class after the bell as punishment. It violates the Geneva Convention’s laws on collective punishment. A teen secretly lived in AOL’s HQ for 2 months, eating free food, using gym & showers, sleeping in conference rooms while working on his start-up. Everyone assumed he worked there. |
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If you could drive a car straight upwards at 60 mph,you could reach space in about an hour,and the moon in about 6 months
The largest known star, VY Canis Majoris, is so large that a jet plane travelling at 500 mph would take over 11 years to complete one orbit. |
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Using standard A4 lined paper, with the gap between each line scaled down to 30 million miles, (3 gaps from our Sun to Earth) it would take 450,000,000 sheets of A4 paper to equal the scaled down distance of one light year.
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Brings a whole new meaning to the term " Gap year "
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If you put a mirror half a light year away from Earth and you looked at it through a telescope you could see a year into the Earth’s past.
In exchange for Pepsi products, Russia gave Pepsi 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate, and a destroyer. At the time, it was 7th largest submarine fleet in the world. Bone is five times stronger than steel. |
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Tiger shark embryos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
You grow by about 8mm (O.3in) every night when you are asleep, but shrink to your former height the following day. "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters. |
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Major League Baseball requires that all the umpires working in the league must wear black underwear at every game.
Facetious and abstemious are the only words that contain all the vowels in the correct order. "Almost" is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. |
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"Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
"Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u. In medieval England, pots and dishes were made from a clay called "pygg", and spare change was often saved in such a pot. Around 1600, an English potter unfamiliar with this custom was asked to make a "pygg bank". Misunderstanding the instructions, he created a clay vessel in the shape of a pig. This is how the piggy bank came to be. |
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When you crack your knuckles the pop you hear is a bubble of gas bursting
Just 20 seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon. The Australian emu holds the land speed record for birds at about 50 kilometres per hour. |
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In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The number of births in India each year is greater than the entire population of Australia. Cocaine,Heroin and LSD are 3 of the 10 most expensive materials in the world. |
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An idiot is a stupid person with a mental age below 3 years,while a moron is a stupid person with a mental age of between 7 to 12.
In the German version of Die Hard,all the terrorists are given English names. When Washoe (the first chimpanzee to use sign language) was told that her caretaker's baby had died,she signed "CRY" [ This image is no longer available. ] |
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Tripping on LSD has aided at least 2 Nobel prize winners in their scientific discoveries.
There was a chimpanzee who drank gin and masturbated to porn. A man on death row escaped from prison the night before his execution only to be killed in a bar fight the following night. |
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There are more variations in the game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
"Warchalking" is the practice of writing symbols in chalk on sidewalks and walls to indicate the presence of an unsecured Wifi network. There was a band of 150 gay couples from Thebes,who defeated a Spartan army,and went undefeated for 30 years.The Sacred Band of Thebes. |
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A popular slang in Danish for having your period is "Der er kommunister i lysthuset",or "There are communists in the funhouse".
Japan,India and a few other countries have women-only sections in sky trains/subways to control and avoid groping activities from men. Having a swimming pool at home is 100 times more likely to lead to an accidental child death than having a gun at home. |
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There was a Russian game show that would have you steal a car and if you didn't get caught by the police within 35 minutes,you won the car.Otherwise you would be arrested.
Benjamin Franklin,after conceiving an illegitimate son,advocated sexual affairs with older women,claiming that "it is less sinful to have sex with an older woman than to debauch a virgin. Dogs can see in color but see red as a shade of grey. |
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An Olympic rower stopped mid race to let a family of ducks pass and still won.
The founder of match.com,Gary Kremen,lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com. Almost 10 years ago,PETA offered $15k to the town of Hamburg to change it's name to Veggieburg. |
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There is a town called Okay,OK.It has a population of about 600.
Dr,Seuss,despite being an internationally renowned children's author,never had children of his own,and even admitted that,"in mass,they terrify me." The acronym OMG has been used for 95 years.The first person to receive a letter with OMG was Sir Winston Churchill. |
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The Daily Mail has a team of fully qualified property valuers who provide information for their news reports.
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The logo of the Royal New Zealand Air Force is the kiwi,a flightless bird.
Singing birthday cards have more processing power than the combined computers of the Allied Forces in World War II. Dinosaurs had giant fleas with beaks the size of modern syringe needles. |
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Margaret Thatcher invented Mr Whippy ice cream
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Isaac Newton stuck a needle in his eye,placing pressure on the eyeball,to study the human eye as a lens and how it perceives color.
German pilots intentionally ruptured their eardrums during WW2 to prevent air pressure issues.The Bajau people of the Pacific rupture their eardrums to facilitate diving and hunting at sea. When you apply pressure directly to the eyeball it can decrease your heart rate. |
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Isaac Newton invented the cat flap
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With reference to an above post. The persons who in the past called "Idiots" were in fact people whose thyroid gland was not functioning since birth, i.e. they suffered from Congenital Hypothyroidism. This is now tested for on day 5 of life, if the baby has the problem he/she is then treated with thyroxine for the rest of their lives.
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One of Switzerland's main defense strategies is to demolish every main access into the the country via roads,bridges,and railways.There is at least 3,000 locations currently prepared to blow at a moments notice.
Notorious BIG's interlude on Ready to Die of him getting a bloww job was a real audio of him getting a bloww job in the recording studio. There's a thing called "Rubber duck debugging"in which a programmer explains the code to a rubber ducky in hopes of finding the bug. |
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When asked to comment on the contentious grammar law which states that one is not to end sentences with prepositions,Winston Churchill replied,"that is nonsense,up with which I shall not put."
A scorpion's anus is at the end of it's tail,not on it's butt. In 2005 a man landed a helicopter on the summit of Mount Everest.Two days later he did it again,proving he didn't just get lucky the first time. |
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Hydrogen in Saturn gets so dense toward the core that it turns into a metal.
The Vatican has an astronomical department staffed with Jesuits and runs one of the worlds largest telescopes called LUCIFER located in Arizona. There was a program in WW2 that disguised a plastic explosive as flour.It was such a good disguise,baked goods could be made with it..which could then be used to blow things up. |
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John McEnroe had a small part in Ryan's daughter.
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Actor Morgan Freeman has been nominated for or has won more awards than movies he has starred in.
Waldo of "Where's Waldo" fame's real name is actually Wally and is only called Waldo in the US and Canada. Nestle tried to sue the famine-stricken country of Ethiopia for $6m to compensate for assets seized in the 1970s,but backed down after receiving 40,000 letters of complaint.$6m represented one hour's turnover for the company. |