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The reasoning behind the QWERTY layout was typwriterists (a word? Now it is.) would type way too fast when it was alphabetical and the bar thingies would jam together, meaning one had to reset the machine, thus wasting time.
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Cornflakes were originally made to stop masturbation.
Mr Kellog was a wank-nazi and tried to develop a formula that would curb the urges a man feels...toward himself
- I may have heard that he was in some way involved in trying to stop soldiers doing it in WW1 or 2 or both, so they'd concentrate on their jobs, but I could be mixing up half-facts there with something else.
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A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds. Hmmmmm that's almost as long as my attention span
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Bananas are sterile. They come from the mixing of two other tropical plants and the fruit produced is "impotent" for lack of a better word. However, one can get a genetic clone quite easily by "suckering" the shoots and cuttings from the underground stem.
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The historic reason for "clinking" glasses together before drinking is the host visibly proving that the beverage was safe to drink by letting everyone's liquid flow into each other's glasses/flagons. Something to do with poison.
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The pyramids of Giza were white and shiny when they were new. They were covered in smooth limestone and could be seen for miles around. Especially at night under a full moon I'd imagine, contrasting white with the dark desert must've looked pretty cool.
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