moik
when white light hits a yellow surface (cheese) it absorbs everything but the yellow light, which is refelected, makeing cheese yellow.
The sea is blue because it reflects the sky?? well the sky is blue because of the light refracting in the dust in the atmosphere and the atmosphere itself, much like the way white light is split through a prisim. This is also why the colour of the sky changes at night as the angle of the sun causes different colours to be shown
( SiX and his hat, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 12:09, Reply)

ms7821
its "port out starboard home"

proof here you pedantic bastard twat

www.wordorigins.org/wordorp.htm
( SiX and his hat, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 12:03, Reply)

Let's see, what else...
DNA helices have a right-handed twist. You can make left-handed DNA (Z-DNA), but it doesn't spiral very well, and as far as we know, doesn't appear in nature.

E.coli has 4 genes involved in the regulation of intake and breakdown of lactose to glucose and fructose.

The guy out of Tool who does all their videos can be seen in the background of one of the Jurassic Park extras, painting a dinosaur (apparantly he's actually a special effects guy who's in Tool for fun).

Professor Harry Kroto, Nobel Prize winner for disovering another allotrope of carbon (C60, the Buckminster Fullerine Ball thing) has recently resigned from his previous post at Sussex University, and moved to America.

I have a brass goose looking at me.

A bulimic girl once died before she could regurgitate the industrial size bag of almonds she had just gorged on. Almonds contain cyanide, which incidentally gives them their typical flavour. Only 50% of people have the gene which allows them to taste cyanide (under such circumstances - if exposed to just raw HCN gas you'd pretty much be dead instantly), and apparantly several incidents have been recorded whereupon poisoning someone's food with cyanide just before they die, have been noted to say "can anyone taste almonds?". Says my old chemistry teacher.
( jme, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 11:45, Reply)

Champaign anyone?
Most people assume that Moet is French and therefore, don't pronounce the "t" at the end. In fact, Moet Et Chandon were one of several GERMAN-FRENCH wine partnerships. Moet was German (note the umlauts on the bottle label) and so the "t" should be pronounced!

It's not the length of the nail... it's the hammer that drives it in...and so it shall come to pass with this, my first posting!
(IcePimp, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 11:39, Reply)

citadel90
wrote that a male blue whale produces 400 gallons of sperm. Is that why the sea is salty ???

I'll get me coat
(bear trappers hat, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 11:34, Reply)

If...
... you force-feed a vole 100Kg of sausages, it will probably die.

... foxes could jump, pound-for-pound, as high as a flea, they'd avoid a lot of trouble

... you laid 1 million pennies end to end, you problably dont have a girlfriend

... all brides are beautiful, where the fcuk do ugly wives come from ?
(bear trappers hat, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 11:29, Reply)

99.9% of fish can swim
The others are merely floating with style.
The characters in popular eighties cartoon Superted Bulk and Skull were named after characters from even more popular eighties animation 'Trapdoor'.
My ex girlfriend had a growth on her left breast, it was very off-putting. Especially during Ramadan.
(Jam Mister Geordie wants to build bridges, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 11:28, Reply)

23.94%
of all statistics are made up

TRUE
(bear trappers hat, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 11:16, Reply)

mmm........... yummy!
1 in 3 new fathers in the uk have tasted their partners breast milk.
Tis true.


i am in fact not one of them.
(funkie, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 10:49, Reply)

and America
consumes 18 ACRES of pizza EVERY DAY.

No wonder they're all fat cunts.
( mrlogic is copying your beard, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 10:36, Reply)

you're more likely to be killed
by a cow than a shark

yes, you, you cow taunting mutha
( mrlogic is copying your beard, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 10:34, Reply)

wrong wrong
Noah Webster is not the forefather of the modern dictionary because he is an american. An AMERICAN writing an ENGLISH dictionary, no wonder he missed out all those "U"s. I think you will find it was Samuel Johnson........SAUSAGE. PERICOMBOBULATE, FRASMODIC, EVEN COMPUNCTUOUS
(dukefukem, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 10:33, Reply)

NASA didn't develop a space pen...
...they used pencils, just like the Russians.

Then, one day a bloke called Paul Fisher came along and developed a pen that can write in zero gravity, extreme temperatures etc. It cost him over $1M to develop, not NASA. He sold 400 pens to NASA for $2.95 each.

A simple search for NASA Space Pen gives you the Snopes article for this.
(Oberleutnant von Genschler, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 10:32, Reply)

MFI
This is an utterly useless piece of information but I cherish it because my Dad, my husband and me seem to be the only people that know it. I urge you to cherish it too:

MFI stands for Mullard Furniture Industries.

Not, as previously thought, Much Furniture Inside.

Utterly, utterly useless.
( mother inferior - now fully in compliance with the Trades Descriptions Act, being both a mother and inferior, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 10:17, Reply)

high place
The highest capital city in the world is not Mexico City as is the popular belief. It is in fact La Pas which is the capital of Bolivia. Fact. Oh, and for some reason I have a bit of an itchy ring piece this morning...any suggestions or reasons for this would be much appreciated.
(dukefukem, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 10:14, Reply)

According to the bible
(Genesis 1:20-22), the chicken came before the egg!
(Amazing Mr Strange, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 9:07, Reply)

the average-sized human body
contains enough fat for 7 bars of soap, enough iron to make a nail and enough sugar to fill a jar.

And enough shit to shit out a big shit.
( dotmund .co.uk, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 8:14, Reply)

Koalas have two thumbs on each hand.
( Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 8:08, Reply)

Why I will never smoke...
Hardened long-term smokers (usually elderly men) have thick hair growing on their tongues. Actual hair. This is completely true - my sister is a dental nurse.
(Mmm...minky, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 7:59, Reply)

mouthwash
my mouthwash ("Colgate Plax" for any one playing at home) smells like jagermeister

true story
(dawa, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 7:02, Reply)

Undercovercarrot
Damn you - you are so right. I shat myself when I put a cardiac monitor on a very dead patient to demonstrate to my rookie that there would be only a silent flatline. The pacemaker beep beep freaked me out for about 2 seconds...
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 4:14, Reply)

third time lucky
the word "sinister" (evil, badness etc... )comes from the latin word "sinistra" meaning
left handed.

birds cannot burp, hence they explode when fed alka-seltzer

NASA developed a pen to write in zero gravity for the space program (no doubt spending silly amounts of money in the process) but the Russians just took a pencil
(fade101, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 3:24, Reply)

ego sum via veritas et vivet
numquam otio torpebat
(fade101, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 3:18, Reply)

a peice of string
is twice as long as it is from one end to its centre
(fade101, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 3:07, Reply)

Waxy
People of Asian and American descent have dry scaly earwax. Those from Africa and Europe have a more moist earwax and it darkens when exposed to air.

I'm half Asian and European, so I guess mine is juuuust right.
(luckylucky, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 3:03, Reply)

Fascinating fact
Badgers are actually an illusion caused by light refraction in car headlights so don't worry if you run one over - it was all a trick of the light you can hose off later.
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 2:49, Reply)

Pacemakers...
...will keep working until the battery dies in a patient who has died. Although usually removed at post mortem, the dead patient will continue to show a cardiac output of some variety until the heart tissue becomes so necrotic that it cannot conduct signals. This is a REALLY good way of freaking out ambulance crews. I know....
( Undercovercarrot got done for gross misconduct on..., Mon 21 Mar 2005, 2:31, Reply)

Siemens
I thought this was an urban myth, but it checks out - Siemens has an office in Staines.

Made me happy that it is true.
( Strangey is present at, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 1:42, Reply)

if there are loads of unusual facts in the b3ta newsletter
people will have less stuff to post on here.
( krang, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 0:16, Reply)