Interesting facts...well, ok , I'm bored!

LilMissTragic · Expert User Joined: Sep 05, 2004 Posts: 803

In Ancient Greece, slaves were traded for salt, which gave us the expression 'not worth his salt'.

On a beach holiday, you are more likely to die from a coconut falling on your head than a shark attack.

There are 6,500+ species of fly living in Britain alone.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.

Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine.

A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.

A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

More to come...anyne else got any interesting ones?

wistful_dementia · Intermediate User Joined: Sep 28, 2004 Posts: 173

oh wow! those are interesting facts... I remember hearing something on the tube the other day ago saying that salt was such a precious resource that it was used as money, but I didn't know that it was specifically started by the Greeks- neat. Really, the Neanderthal's had bigger brains?.... one moment while I look it up.... you are right! I had been under the assumption that they just had bigger craniums and jaws as well as muscles and tendons that attach their jaws to their sculls. You know, eventhough they had slighly larger brains, the human learned how to process information more efficiently due to language... oops the dork in me is coming out Embarassed

Ahhh... bordom... one person's trash pile another person's gold mine. Besides only boring people get bored, right? Shocked

wistful_dementia · Intermediate User Joined: Sep 28, 2004 Posts: 173

I got these from bored.com:

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life. (I wonder if anything that has cartilage continues to grow?)

Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

I should stop reading these useless facts now, before my mind ends up in the gutter...

LilMissTragic · Expert User Joined: Sep 05, 2004 Posts: 803

OMG by the time I'm 40 i'm gonna look like Dumbo then!!!

JWH · Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 1:14 am Post subject: