Post your Intresting Facts

[forntida]

Anything put in this or any other post is not necessary fact if it came from the net or is 'handed down myth'. e.g.

Alexander Fleming, a Scottish bacteriologist in London, discovered penicillin by mistake when he was trying to study staphylococci bacteria in 1928. He was running experiments with the bacteria in his laboratory at London's St. Mary's Hospital, and set a laboratory dish containing the bacteria near an open window. Upon returning to the experiment, he found that some mold blown in through the open window onto the dish, contaminating the bacteria.(TRUE)

Alexander fleming found Penicillin from cheese mold(FALSE)The myth about the cheese was brought about by bad teaching and not explaining in more detail. Teachers saying that the penicillin mold is similar to the one you find on cheese, which it is. But people being what they are put two and two together and get five. Fleming and cheese have no connection unless he liked it. Which is possible as he came from a farming community about 3 miles from where I stay.

Having said all that here is another quote that will set you thinking again;

Ernest Duchesne was a French Biologist who noted that certain moulds kill bacteria. He made this discovery thirty-two years before Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin a substance derived from those molds, but Dechesnes' research went unnoticed.(TRUE)

Alexander Fleming did not discover penicillin he re-discovered and named it, because the first person to discover the mold was Dechesne.(TRUE)

Sorry about the long post, if you read it you had nothing else to do anyway.

[zaphodbb]

ok this one came to me when i got up this morning dont know why but, when a male has had a serious accident and goes to hospital and he has a boner it is more than likely he has broken his back when i worked in the hospital they called this "custer syndrome" because if his back was broken that would be the last boner he would ever have ie last stand, dont know if this is true or i just made it up cant be arsed checking it out

[forntida]

ok this one came to me when i got up this morning dont know why but, when a male has had a serious accident and goes to hospital and he has a boner it is more than likely he has broken his back when i worked in the hospital they called this "custer syndrome" because if his back was broken that would be the last boner he would ever have ie last stand, dont know if this is true or i just made it up cant be arsed checking it out

Do they did they not hit it with a wet cloth at one time? Or is my memory disappearing.

[Mr Pumpy]

You can get a good hacksaw from B & Q for less than ?10.

[forntida]

You can get a good hacksaw from B & Q for less than ?10.

Would that not cause a lot of bleeding. blood could damage your new saw.

[sandiemag]

Turtles can breathe through their arses

[RedSpider]

so can i. man my breath stinks

[forntida]

so can i. man my breath stinks

I did not want to say. I just thought you were laying the wrong way round in bed.

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

[forntida]

Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don?t.

I don't read them. I want to know who she is having half her sex with.

[stephne]

the most amazing fact of life is life sucks big time on the whole and not feeling bad about something shitty makes u feel worse and feel bad all over again

[jasbo7]

often wondered why one hangs low

[forntida]

often wondered why one hangs low

So do I. I think they need to heat the water in the toilet and try and make it shallower.

Back on thread(Good boy! Ed)


It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

Who times these things?

[jasbo7]

Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.


Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)



If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle;
if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle;
if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.

[666lucifer666]

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

[RedSpider]

batman don't turn left. he drives forward