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I caught this in my morning feed:

BBC NEWS | Magazine | 100 things we didn't know this time last year

Some of my faves:

5. Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies. "I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies," she says.

6. WD-40 dissolves cocaine - it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub's toilets.

11. One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.

19. The = sign was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing "is equal to" in his equations. He chose the two lines because "noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle".

37. Cyclist Lance Armstrong's heart is almost a third larger than the average man's.

45. C3PO and R2D2 do not speak to each other off-camera because the actors don't get on.

53. It takes 75kg of raw materials to make a mobile phone.

62. MPs use communal hairbrushes in the washrooms of the Houses of Parliament.

67. Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex.

71. Jimi Hendrix pretended to be gay to be discharged from the US Army.

78. One in 18 people has a third nipple.

89. Spanish Flu, the epidemic that killed 50 million people in 1918/9, was known as French Flu in Spain.

92. You are 176 times more likely to be murdered than to win the National Lottery.

93. Koalas have fingerprints exactly like humans (although obviously smaller).

94. Bill Gates does not have an iPod.

Date: 2005-12-30 08:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mh58.livejournal.com
I liked this one.

44. Rubber gloves could save you from lightning.

Uh....

Date: 2005-12-30 09:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fj.livejournal.com
69. First-born children are less creative but more stable, while last-born are more promiscuous, says US research.





Note: I am the youngest of four.

Re: Uh....

Date: 2005-12-31 03:06 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] perlcub
I'm wondering if that's exponentially true for each sucessive child birth. Does each sucessive child become more and more promiscuous and more and more creative as that statement implies?

Note: I too am the youngest child... ;) Yet I'm monogamous... go fig!

Re: Uh....

Date: 2005-12-31 05:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theotherqpc.livejournal.com
i'm the first born to my mother, but my father's last son.

at least in this family.

Date: 2005-12-31 05:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theotherqpc.livejournal.com
[livejournal.com profile] themonkeybear is also deathly afraid of butterflies

*wave*
[livejournal.com profile] badfaggot spoke of you quite a bit as we walked and talked around the city yestiddy.

Date: 2005-12-31 06:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theoctothorpe.livejournal.com
Ah yes, he mentioned hat you were going to be in town for Jim's party thing. Very cool, although I am sorry I missed you.

Perhaps next time.

Date: 2005-12-31 10:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] badfaggot.livejournal.com
67. Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex.

*spontaneous jism explosion*

Happy New Year!

Date: 2006-01-01 02:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theoctothorpe.livejournal.com
And to you!

Mmmm cephalopod spunk ;-)

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