Cool Trivias!!

polskie · Carpooler

RE: Cool Trivias!!

sublimeabsurdity · Senior

polskie wrote:

chocolates are deadly for dogs...they might get hyperactivity

it's because of theobromide in chocolate.

pigs are also capable of being sun burned.

You actually lose more calories than you get from a stick of celery

-- Edited by lei at 16:36, 2008-07-11

Fraggle Rock · Hiro Nakamura's boyfriend

did you know na kapag hindi ka natulog sa tamang oras ng pagtulog maaaring madapuan ka ng bulutong.

sublimeabsurdity · Senior

in the 1500's houses had thatched roofs --- thick straw piled high, with no wood
underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the
dogs, cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof.
When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip
and fall off the roof. Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

polskie · Carpooler

thanks for the additional clarifications doc,

nice one with the " cat and dogs"

sublimeabsurdity · Senior

In the olden times, most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath
in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

polskie · Carpooler

another one of my fertility trivia...

if you smoke for about 4x a day, you loose 14 minutes of your life (per stick) and get lower sperm count.. spermcells reacts to nicotine so the more you take, the shy-ier they get

sublimeabsurdity · Senior

Elephants are the only land animals that can't jump

polskie · Carpooler

have we duplicated the human foot? i mean mechanically?

sublimeabsurdity · Senior

There has been recent developments in terms of biomechanics and prosthetics, but it's still a far cry from actually being able to replace a human limb like that of Elric of Full Metal Alchemist.

bowen · Beerkadet

sublimeabsurdity wrote:

Elephants are the only land animals that can't jump

They're also the only ones with four knees

polskie · Carpooler

sublimeabsurdity wrote:

There has been recent developments in terms of biomechanics and prosthetics, but it's still a far cry from actually being able to replace a human limb like that of Elric of Full Metal Alchemist.

ive been studying biomedical electronics and they seems to havent making SUMTHING AS GOOD AS THE HUMAN LEG.
ive read that its too complicated of a design,
asimo by honda said to have come close but man look at it wiggle.

prostethics is a good thing but not half as good as the real one..hmm, maybe its just not right to remake sumthing of such a grand design like a human body.

BTW thanks doc.

sublimeabsurdity · Senior

What the? Why is it I never got to study any cool subjects when I was in college?

Anyway, there are only nine (9) animals which are monogamous - content with only one mate - by nature. These faithful few are:

ducks

eagles

foxes

geese

lynx

mountain lions

marmosets

swans

wolves

Happycat · Senior

oh there will be.I'm always go to japanese websites about this biotechnology along with stem cell research and they keep a mum about it until now for i'm sure Americans wanted that piece of breakthrough like they created 3G phones as early as 1997 and hybrid cars as of 2000.

roachy · 10CM - nurse bassist

does penguins count on that monogamous thinggy? plus yung crabs? or yung ibang preying mantis na minamalas na madeds after mkipagmate ...

eastydie · Fagazi's Advocate

pano din ung black widow? hehehe

Compaq is considering changing the command "Press Any Key" to "Press Return Key" because of the many calls asking where the "Any" key is.

polskie · Carpooler

cguro the black widow would find another mate IF and only IF the dude escaped...
poor thing, ang liit nya kasi compared to the female,

oH!! and ducks arent monogamous!!

back in bulacan, a sick young turkey of ours was gang raped by chickens, turkey and our old duck!
she died.. i dunno..std? well, whatever....

its hard to be monogamous in the animal kingdom. most of em look alike! yeah they use the smell thing, but there are chances that 2 out of a million may be of the same scent!

its funny, if an insect lost its mate in a SWARM, how the heck can he find her? y bother?get another one tee hee. no offense to monogamous people here and scientists. im just getting the humor on the subject

sublimeabsurdity · Senior

I will not comment on the monogamy thing anymore (hindi rin kasi alam ang sagot) biggrin

There is no specific living fish that is called sardine. A sardine is simply anything you get out of a sardine can, the term applying to any of several small fish suitable for preserving. Fere in the Philippines, sardine cans offer tunsoy, alumahan, hasa-hasa and galunggong.

s2chard · KONOHA VILLAGE - Jounin

about the monogamy thingy...

How about the Lovebirds. If one of the couple dies, then the other would die as well... emo ata? hehehe. joke

Cows can climb a stair but cannot come down.

Honeybees have a one heck of a political system. If there would be a potential Queen in the colony, she will be exterminated by the colony.

sublimeabsurdity · Senior

There was once a so named Modern Kissing School in Schagen, Holland. It's owner and lone tutor, Tom Zwagg, offered 10 minute lessons for $1, including kissing from three angles -- vertical, 45 degrees and horizontal. the school was closed in 1966 on the orders of Zwagg's new bride.

KenMikaze · Enigbaboykage-ANBU

World's Largest High School
The Rizal High School in Caniogan, Pasig City (eastern Metro Manila) is said to be the world's largest high school in terms of student population. The school has more than 20,000 student

roachy · 10CM - nurse bassist

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

sublimeabsurdity · Senior

It used to be that England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer."

roachy · 10CM - nurse bassist

waw thats nice and scary at the same time.. :D

uhm egyptian women before put stones in their vajayjay for them not to be pregnant.

yani · BEERKADET

Summer is here and we need our parasols.

Parasol is from the Latin word parasole, combining parare, to protect, with sole, sun.
Parapluie from the French, meaning against the rain.

sublimeabsurdity · Senior

One of the most unusual sound in human language may be found in the dialect of Khoin-Khoin tribe of South Africa. The language consists of harsh, staccato clicks, clacks, and kissing sounds. These sounds are made by the tongue, similar to the way we say "tsk, tsk". What makes the language truly distinct is that it is spoken by breathing in rather than out.

tenkouken · Carpooler

...There was a Japanese live action version of "Spiderman"?! (aired in 1978) And he even has his own robot?! (They named it "Leopardon".)

roachy · 10CM - nurse bassist

Glass isn't solid, but liquid.

sublimeabsurdity · Senior

Filipinos of yesteryears used the language of leaves in expressing love or rejection: singkamas ("you've captured my heart"); cadena de amor ("I'm yours"); chico ("let's be friends"); alibangbang ("I need you"); adelfa ("please forgive me"); dama de noche ("you are provocative"); upo ("I do not love you")

polskie · Carpooler

@s2chard: man! the cow trivia is soo funny!

the word "ken" that is added in japanese attacks means that its describing a strike, an attack or a stance

hadou-ken
ketketbarou-ken
and stuff

(from my friend the half-half who loves balot)