Odd factoids

[Ming the Merciless]

Enough Kinder Eggs have been sold worldwide to give everyone currently alive on Earth, five each. Obesity crisis, what crisis?

 

[classic33]

Chocolate contains both tryptophan and phenylethlamine, both of which have some feel good impacts on the body.

Tryptophan increases the production of feel good serotonin, while phenylethlamine is the chemical that your brain releases when you are falling in love.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

View attachment 446000 Crickey @classic33. You are looking good these days. Whatever your taking I'll have some.

I was thinking 'Transfats' ?

Or maybe oestrogen?

 

[Drago]

Oestrogen is extracted from male ostriches.

 

[david k]

Using Veet style hair removal cream to remove unwanted hairs is very effective.

The optimum time for leaving it on delicate areas is 0.5 seconds, so be quick as the results are disastrous if left to long

Ps. On an unrelated note, I shall not be riding my bike for a few days due to an errr....injury

Out of interest, how long does it take for the burns to improve? I'm asking for a friend

 

[classic33]

Out of interest, how long does it take for the burns to improve? I'm asking for a friend

Talking to and answering yourself is seldom a good sign.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Ostriches can jump 12 vertical meters after a suitable run up.

 

[classic33]

Ostrich races are conducted in a style called "featherback," where jockeys ride on the backs of the ostriches and try to hold on as the animals sprint at speeds of up to 30 mph.

 

[NorthernDave]

Ostrich races are conducted in a style called "featherback," where jockeys ride on the backs of the ostriches and try to hold on as the animals sprint at speeds of up to 30 mph.

Bernie Clifton was a former Commonwealth champion at the sport, but gave it up for a career in comedy.

 

[classic33]

Bernie Clifton was a former Commonwealth champion at the sport, but gave it up for a career in comedy.

Then into bridge building. Leaving us with the famous Clifton Suspension Bridge.

 

[classic33]

Bernie Clifton began his teenage career singing with a Gleenogs dance band before working the pubs and clubs in Blackpool Before moving onto Crackerjack as the prize giver. Usually cabbages in an attempt to get kids to eat their greens.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Cabbage patch dolls were invented by a Hungarian immigrant who was found as a baby abandoned in a cabbage patch.

 

[classic33]

Sam Widdowson, Nottingham Forest, is credited with inventing football shin pads in 1874 when he cut down a pair of cricket pads and strapped them outside his stockings. Initially, the concept was ridiculed but it soon caught on with other players following his lead.

 

[roadrash]

oranges were originally called yellows until someone invented the colour orange which just happened to be the same colour as oranges and so the name was changed

 

[classic33]

Carrots were origionally yellow, but in a move to please the Dutch royalty(At the time, the House of Orange) the carrots were bred to an orange colour.

An early GM food in a way.