Useless Facts

The juice of a poison hemlock plant will make your lips and tongue numb. I googled it to make sure I wasn't going to die and evidently 6-8 leaves is a fatal dose

 

My husband is Roy. Roys can do anything.

 

I just microwaved some frozen chicken taquitos. A customer comes in and says ‘wow, that smells really good. What is that, curry?’

Apparently chicken taquitos and curry smell alike

 

Upping your poison tolerance?

 

@Friedrich Kugelschreiber might be anticipating getting the Socrates Treatment.

 

slowly but surely

 

Mithradatism. Word for the day.

 

The Bismarck was sunk in the North Atlantic on this day in 1941. (Cue Jimmy Horton music.)

 

UK got nil poi @ Eurovision but did you know the UK judges scored Abba the same for Waterloo....

 

Henry VIII introduced a beard tax in 1535

 

The boiling point of iron is 2862 degrees Celsius.

 

0 degrees isn’t freezing point, it’s the point at which ice melts.

Or something like that.

 

Isn't that also the point at which water freezes though? Or would that be minus 1?

 

Schrödinger's puddle.

 

It is both, but only pure water. Adding salt or other minerals alters the temperature at which it melts/freezes

 

Oh yeah, Eurovision. Was a bit surprised at the winner this year, but the only time the band I liked won was in 2006, so whatever. Iceland was my pick this year, though admittedly mostly for last year's song.


Apparently there is historical evidence for Venus not being a part of the Solar System until the second millennium BC. There have been records in ancient Babylon and India mentioning planets like Jupiter and Saturn, but no Venus. They claimed it was a "four planet system" for the planets they knew of - Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter. Apparently the arrival of Venus as a comet is a possible explanation for several historical natural disasters, as well as during the time it took to settle into a normal orbit. Of course, all of this depends on how much you trust the work of Immanuel Velikovsky, but in my opinion it's either good science or good science fiction, so either way worth reading.

 

He and von Däniken oughta jam sometime.

 

My favourite shade of red is carmine.

 

My favorite shade of red is apparently really green.

I dunno.

 

The afterimage of red is green.

 

My favorite shade of red is pink. Or Coke can red.

 

That opens the terminological question of whether we consider pink a shade or tint of red or separate colour. I feel like most of the time is considered a separate colour.

 

Giraffes have dark purple pigment on the end of their tongue (like black people have high melanin) because they stick their long tongue out so much while feeding they need it to avoid getting tongue sunburns. Which raises the interesting question of how long the phase in between developing a long tongue and evolving the pigment was, and whether there was a period with an epidemic of giraffe tongue cancer. Lol

 

Shade: a saturated color mixed with black.
Tint: a saturated color mixed with white.
Tone: a saturated color mixed with gray.

Pink is a tint of red.