Saturn In A Bathtub? Just One Of Today’s Facts!

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Yes, the usual unusual mixture of facts for you today.

You’ll have a job trying to get Saturn into a bathtub, but in the meantime there are a lot of other facts to explore.

Enjoy.

If you could put Saturn in a bathtub it would float.

(But you will need a very large bathtub.)

If saliva cannot dissolve something,

you cannot taste it.

Your brain accounts for about 2% of your mass

but uses up to a quarter of your oxygen and energy

Chocolate contains phenylethylamine,

a naturally occurring amino-acid

which is believed to have aphrodisiacal effects

and is even said to be able to “cure” hangovers.

Roger Woodward goes down in history

as the youngest person to go over the

Niagara Falls unprotected and survive.

It was unintentional and happened

after a boat he was in capsized.

Marc Okrand, the linguistics professor responsible

for coming up with the fictional language of Klingon,

spent 3 years teaching his son when he was little.

His son went on to forget everything.

At its height in 480BC the first Persian Empire

covered 44% of the world’s population.

This is the largest percentage of any empire in history.

By comparison the British only had 20%

Life expectancy in the middle ages wasn’t as low as you think.

The average age was brought down

but that was mostly because of a high infant mortality rate.

Most adults lived well into their 60s.

Animal Kingdom was supposed to have had

a land devoted to mythical creatures,

but it was abandoned at the last minute.

However, no one thought about

changing the Animal Kingdom sign,

which still includes a dragon

Gorgias of Epirus, a Greek teacher

was born in his dead mother’s coffin.

The pallbearers heard him crying during the burial.

Heresy comes from a Greek word meaning choice

JFK was a huge James Bond fan.

He first met the author of the series,

Ian Fleming, at a dinner party in 1960.

They allegedly bounced around ideas

about how to get rid of Fidel Castro.

The world’s highest road is the Aucanquilcha mining road.

This mining road was once used by trucks

to climb this Chilean volcano to an altitude of over 6,000 meters.

In ancient Rome, urine was used as mouthwash.

(Now that really is taking the piss!)

The musical Grease is one of the highest grossing of all time

with receipts Worldwide of $394,955,690.

I think this is the one that you want….

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I’d Say 6:30 Is The Best Clock Time, Hands Down.

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And the best time for puns is today!

By the way, no liability accepted, so try not to hurt yourselves laughing.

Enjoy or endure!

I threw out my vacuum cleaner last week.

It was just gathering dust.

I work for the hospital dealing with

moving patients between different areas.

It’s a rewarding job.

I’ve had to break up with my imaginary girlfriend.

I’ve started seeing someone else.

My wife always cooks our Christmas Ham in a bottle of wine.

I have no idea how she gets it in there, but it tastes brilliant.

What’s the difference between ‘Approximately’ and ‘Roughly’?

Men are never accused of treating women approximately.

After battling for years to overcome

my addiction to alcohol gel,

I’m finally clean.

Grandad was talking about getting

a hip replacement for my Grandma.

“Someone younger and trendier,” he said,

“Like Megan Fox or Mila Kunis.”

I wasn’t always into peer pressure……

My friends got me into it.

Ever since I took the rear view mirror out of the car

…..I’ve never looked back

I sat down on the settee today to relax and watch a bit of football,

but the picture on the telly was so terrible I couldn’t bear it.

I hate wedding photos.

I typed an essay in Word about a concerned Bugs Bunny.

I then saved it as ‘Whats Up.doc’

If you like wordplay jokes about pissing

then urine for a treat.

I’ve been offered a job by the government’s Department of New Words.

It’s a fantastic opporchancity.

I’ve just opened a casino for dogs.

They can play roulette, poker, blackjack

and a host of other games all under one roof.

They have to go outside for craps though.

Finally for this week,

and with a certain blog friend in mind,

what did the three campanologists who

fell off a bridge in Paris, France start playing?

“I’m ringing in the Seine, just ringing in the Seine…”

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Did You Know? Another Fact Feast.

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Another fact feast today.

Fifteen more random pieces of trivia to store away in your mind just ready to impress when you get the chance. (If you get the chance!)

As always, enjoy.

The Playboy bunny costume was the first service uniform

to be registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Chickens with white ear lobes lay white eggs,

whereas chickens with red ear lobes lay brown eggs.

Alexander H. Stephens was the only Vice President

of the Confederate States of America

In 1897, Indiana tried to pass a bill stating that pi is equal to 3.2,

as opposed to its truly infinite value,

but it never became law due to intervention

by a Purdue University professor

The urine of patients with diabetes tastes sweet

because the extra sugar in a diabetic’s bloodstream

overwhelms the kidney’s ability to reabsorb it.

The total cost of WWI for all involved is an estimated $185 billion.

When indirect costs are factored in, it was even greater.

During the shower scene in Psycho,

what looks like blood funneling down the drain

is actually Bosco chocolate syrup.

Hitchcock thought it looked more real in

black-and-white than the fake red stuff.

Morse Code was made for letters, not numbers.

In fact, signaling the number “one” requires a dot and four dashes.

In horse racing the Preakness Stakes doubles as

the Run for the Black-Eyed Susans.

Freddie Mercury,

the lead singer of British music group Queen,

was born in Zanzibar as Farrokh Bulsara.

Jerry Lynn Ross and Franklin Chang-Diaz hold

the record for most spaceflights by an astronaut.

Habitual singing causes the lungs to release leptin,

a protein manufactured by the body’s fat cells

that is involved in the regulation of appetite.

This may partially explain why in operas

the fat lady does sing.

When Mario made his debut in the original Donkey Kong in 1981,

he was known as Jumpman.

Trees do not grow higher than 130m as it is

physically impossible for the water to rise higher.

Despite his amazing success as a songwriter in the early 60s,

Paul McCartney wanted to test the theory whether it was

the Lennon-McCartney name that made hit songs.

He wrote “Woman” for Peter & Gordon using the pseudonym “Bernard Webb.”

The song became a hit.

I wouldn’t have bought it, but here it is anyway.

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Did They Really Mean To Say That? – Newspaper Headline Nightmares, Part Sixteen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Believe it or not, part sixteen of the newspapers headline nightmares series.

Just goes to prove that these are not isolated incidents and that stupidity doesn’t go away.

As always, enjoy.

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Time To Put The Fears Behind Us

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Yes, time to put the fears behind us. This is the final selection of curious and sometimes amusing fears and phobias that affect some people. Irrational but very real to them. Irrational and very silly to the rest of us.

So here we go, ‘T’ thru ‘Z’.

Enjoy.

Tachophobia ……….fear of speed.

Taijin Kyofusho ……….a phobia which occurs most typically in Japan, is the fear of offending others by one’s inappropriate social behavior or appearance

Taeniophobia or Taeniophobia ……….fear of tapeworms.

Taphephobia Taphophobia ……….fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries.

Tapinophobia ……….fear of being contagious.

Taurophobia ……….fear of bulls.

Technophobia ……….fear of technology.

Teleophobia ……….fear of 1) definite plans; 2) religious ceremony.

Telephonophobia ……….fear of telephones.

Teratophobia ……….fear of bearing a deformed child or fear of monsters or deformed people.

Testophobia ……….fear of taking tests.

Tetanophobia ……….fear of lockjaw, tetanus.

Teutophobia ……….fear of German or German things.

Textophobia ……….fear of certain fabrics.

Thaasophobia ……….fear of sitting.

Thalassophobia ……….fear of the sea.

Thanatophobia or Thantophobia ……….fear of death or dying.

Theatrophobia ……….fear of theatres.

Theologicophobia ……….fear of theology.

Theophobia ……….fear of gods or religion.

Thermophobia ……….fear of heat.

Tocophobia ……….fear of pregnancy or childbirth.

Tomophobia ……….fear of surgical operations.

Tonitrophobia ……….fear of thunder.

Topophobia ……….fear of certain places or situations, such as stage fright.

Toxiphobia or Toxophobia or Toxicophobia ……….fear of poison or of being accidently poisoned.

Traumatophobia ……….fear of injury.

Tremophobia ……….fear of trembling.

Trichinophobia ……….fear of trichinosis.

Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia ……….fear of hair. (Chaetophobia, Hypertrichophobia)

Triskaidekaphobia ……….fear of the number 13.

Tropophobia ……….fear of moving or making changes.

Trypanophobia ……….fear of injections.

Tuberculophobia ……….fear of tuberculosis.

Turophobia ……….fear of cheese

Tyrannophobia ……….fear of tyrants.

Uranophobia or Ouranophobia ……….fear of heaven.

Urophobia ……….fear of urine or urinating.

Vaccinophobia ……….fear of vaccination.

Venereophobia ……….fear of catching a venereal disease.

Venustraphobia ……….fear of beautiful women.

Verbophobia ……….fear of words.

Verminophobia ……….fear of germs.

Vespertiliophobia ……….fear of bats.

Vestiphobia ……….fear of clothing.

Virginitiphobia ……….fear of virgins.

Virginitiphobia ……….fear of rape.

Vitricophobia ……….fear of step-father.

Vokephobia ……….fear of returning home.

Walloonphobia ……….fear of the Walloons.

Wiccaphobia ……….fear of witches and witchcraft.

Xanthophobia ……….fear of the color yellow or the word yellow.

Xeniaphobia ……….fear of foreign doctors, usually having to do with strong foreign accents making it difficult to understand their English. Also, if travelling in a foreign country, the fear that doctors may have inadequate medical skills.

Xenodochiophobia ……….fear of foreign hotels that could include the fear that there won’t be soap, the kind of toilet paper that you like, clean towels, or good maid service.

Xenoglossophobia ……….fear of foreign languages.

Xenonosocomiophobia ……….fear of foreigners who are pick-pockets.

Xenophobia ……….fear of strangers or foreigners.

Xerophobia ……….fear of dryness.

Xeroxophobia ……….fear of using anything made by Xerox, or fear of office equipment in general.

Xylophobia ……….fear of 1) wooden objects; 2) Forests.

Xyrophobia ……….fear of razors.

Zelophobia ……….fear of jealousy.

Zemmiphobia ……….fear of the great mole rat.

Zeusophobia ……….fear of God or gods.

Zoophobia ……….fear of animals.