the mind blown thread

a cockroach can detect movements as small as 2000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom

a chimpanzee can learn to recognize it self in the mirror, but a monkey cannot

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Sex.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold: for $14 million.

You cannot tickle yourself. The cerebellum, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain already knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation, hence you can’t tickle yourself.

Chicken liver can be used to change A type blood to O type blood.

"Why are Violets are Blue?" the liar said

HELL YEAH

THE MORE YOU KNOW ALL UP IN THIS THREAD

there is a girl that will suck yours and you will get horny instantly

Sucking junk? What a dirty girl.

What do schools teach our children nowadays!?

this^

http://teamvanilla.wordpress.com/category/learning-japanese/

hurray once again to the vanillas!

This is how magnets work

Sex can relieve up to 6 hours of arthritis. Something to keep in mind when you get older. :P

There is a sign where I live on a traffic light post that tells you how to cross the
road. The funny part is it is officially issued by the city so it's legal stupidity
bolted to a metal post.

This thread needs some most excellent bumpage

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this song blew my mind

I'd avoided this until Kuro recommended it, because it looked meh. This is my kind of thread. :P These are a few of the facts from a TV series called QI (Quite Interesting). They are, if not completely mind blowing, still incredibly cool.


7/10ths of the Earth's surface is covered in water, but it accounts for less than a 50th of one percent of the total mass.

Around 120 years ago, 80% of France didn't speak French; it was merely a regional dialect.

Contrary to popular belief (although obvious if you think about it), you don't shoot upwards when you open a parachute, you merely begin to slow down. It looks that way because the cameraman in films etc. is still in free-fall.

Only two people are recorded to have died in 150 years of bare-knuckle prize fighting. Since the introduction of boxing gloves, an average of four people a year have died in the US alone.

Viking sailors would take ravens with them to help find new lands. When they were released, they would fly up thousands of feet, spot land and head straight for it. A raven called Floksi helped them locate Iceland in this manner.

The French have, in fact, won 109 and drawn 10 of 168 battles since 387 BC.

A full suit of medieval armour weighed 55 pounds, about the same as a fireman's breathing apparatus, and so they most definitely didn't need a winch to get onto a horse. In comparison, a modern soldier's pack weighs around 150 pounds.

Lightning strikes the Earth around 17 million times a day. Men are also 6 times more likely to be struck than women.

The 1927 Nobel Prize for Medicine was given for the discovery that malaria would cure syphilis. The bacteria of the latter couldn't survive the body temperature resulting from the former.

One in eight people who are recorded to have tried climbing Everest have died.

There is a 24 hour emergency hotline at the Japanese Embassy in Paris for people traumatised by the walking, language and bastard Parisians, having thought of it as the cultural centrepiece of the world. The condition is seriously known as 'Paris Syndrome', and as many as 12 people a year are repatriated.