The "Did you know" thread.....

[ManofKent]

Originally Posted by rosestone

If we're sticking briefly with biology, there is a type of sea squirt called a Tunicate, which after it is fully developed and finds a place to take root, it eats its own brain.

I've had hangovers where I've felt like that.

[DTravel]

Originally Posted by rosestone

If we're sticking briefly with biology, there is a type of sea squirt called a Tunicate, which after it is fully developed and finds a place to take root, it eats its own brain.

Sounds like many politicians.

[Numerous One]

Originally Posted by rosestone

If we're sticking briefly with biology, there is a type of sea squirt called a Tunicate, which after it is fully developed and finds a place to take root, it eats its own brain.

(This has to be the most cited VEF post ever. Nice job, rosestone )

That's a well thought out plan of action. Wait, the thought and the execution here are the same... Arghhh, my brain's gonna explode here! Or eat itself.

Dictionary entry:
Recursive loop: see Recursive loop.

[Dr Pepper]

Originally Posted by mixerdlb

Did you know that all matter is mostly empty space. If you remove the empty space from the atoms that make up the human body, the entire population of earth would fit in a shot glass.

It'd be a very HEAVY shot glass..........

[Dr Pepper]

Originally Posted by xyzde69

Did you know that one in 10,000 people has all the internal organs on the wrong side of the body?
Situs inversus (also called situs transversus or oppositus) is a congenital condition in which the major visceral organs are reversed or mirrored from their normal positions. The normal arrangement of internal organs is known as situs solitus while situs inversus is generally the mirror image of situs solitus.

I had a schoolmate who had this condition (I almost said 'suffered from'-but it didn't cause him any problems) ....one interesting snippet though-it gave him negative buoyancy-in other words-most humans will naturally float in water if you simply lie there and completely relax-when he did this he would sink to the bottom of the swimming pool. This was a favourite piece of entertainment for the rest of us during school trips to the pool. He was of average height, and average build-perfectly normal looking. I ran into him again as an undergraduate at university but have long lost touch with him. I have no idea whether the condition has any longer term medical outcomes associated with it-he would be ca 58-60 years old now, if he's still around.

[Numerous One]

Originally Posted by xyzde69

Did you know that one in 10,000 people has all the internal organs on the wrong side of the body?
Situs inversus (also called situs transversus or oppositus)

Originally Posted by Dr Pepper

I had a schoolmate who had this condition (I almost said 'suffered from'-but it didn't cause him any problems)

There was one episode of "Dylan Dog" describing a person with such condition. I have a vague memory that I've stumbled upon an article about it some time ago, but I was too lazy to check it further, and instead always considered it to be a fiction. Every day a VEF member learns something new, be it a new favourite pubic-hair trim style, or an interesting fact.

Now I'll let it flow naturally to a related topic, by a seamless blend-in transition.
- For those unfamiliar, "Dylan Dog" is an excellent Italian horror comic series by Tiziano Sclavi, comic book author, journalist and writer of several novels. There is a movie "Dellamorte Dellamore" (1994, directed by Michele Soavi), starring Rupert Everett. It's USA title was "Cemetery Man". And movie is loosely based on the "Dylan Dog" comics and Sclavi's novel from 1991. But the graphic representation of the character of Dylan Dog in the comics was elaborated by Claudio Villa, and was in fact inspired by English actor Rupert Everett and his role in "Another Country" (1984). The comic book character was named after the poet Dylan Thomas.

[Roubignol]

Originally Posted by Dr Pepper

I had a schoolmate who had this condition (I almost said 'suffered from'-but it didn't cause him any problems) ....one interesting snippet though-it gave him negative buoyancy-in other words-most humans will naturally float in water if you simply lie there and completely relax-when he did this he would sink to the bottom of the swimming pool.

Very strange, because mechanically speaking, there are no reason for that. Isn't it?

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Did you know that between 0.17 and 0.2 % of the population is intersex.
Still now, in a lot of "civilised" countries the integrity of their own body is not respected.

Here is an interesting report about this problem. (lenght: 9:23 minutes)

Intersex Children: Waiting to Decide on Sex Surgery?
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[Numerous One]

Originally Posted by xyzde69

Did you know that between 0.17 and 0.2 % of the population is intersex.[/B]
Still now, in a lot of "civilised" countries the integrity of their own body is not respected.

Here is an interesting report about this problem. (lenght: 9:23 minutes)

Intersex Children: Waiting to Decide on Sex Surgery?
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Good for a TV presenter that he has a "Nightline co-wanker"
(at ~00:20):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dJd...=youtu.be&t=19

Would it be less problematic and less confusing for a developing person to have two sets of reproductive organs? That would most probably lead to a development of the human being with no conflicts at all.

Or, let's say, one set of organs is underdeveloped (we hear urologist saying "microphallus" at one point in the article), or even worse, one set of organs is completely dysfunctional.

When you hear the "Nightline anchorwoman" (or should I say "the anchor-person"?) saying: "The very definition of gender normality is evolving", what else a reaction could be rather than: "Oh, come on! Cut the crap already!"

The corpus of human rights today is the name for a basket many heterogeneous things are crammed into: gay rights, "gender sensitive" linguistics issues, etc.... you get the picture. All the political correctness nonsense. And many of the things that have nothing to do with "rights".

[Welderman]

If you draw your curtains. You can protect yourself and your cherished vinyl albums from direct sunlight..

[rosestone]

Famous 19th century Prussian chancellor Otto Von Bismarck would regularly eat six buttered boiled eggs for supper, and on one occasion he ate sixteen squab in a single sitting.