Useless fact of the day!

[Merlin the Elder]

Do you know if that still holds true under the latest (the ninth) re-authorization of the HEA (1965)?

[Lady Kett]

TSA rules prohibit gel inserts on your shoes, but allow you to travel with a monkey helper.

(as a side note, I couldn't actually find an airline that would allow a monkey...)

[Valiss]

Playing Tetris after a traumatic event reduces the occurrence of negative flashbacks.

[Valiss]

In 2009 a Canadian secondary school student submitted to NASA a detailed 92-page proposal for a permanent 1,700-meter space settlement, with the estimated cost as just over 2/3 that of the Iraq War.

[Rowan MacD]

Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.

[Merlin the Elder]

Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.

Cheap whiskey has the same effect on me...

[Rowan MacD]

  So you're saying this is a good test for bad alcohol? 


In Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.

[iain robb]

  So you're saying this is a good test for bad alcohol? 


In Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.

Aye, but not if you get the cow drunk too ...

[Merlin the Elder]

  So you're saying this is a good test for bad alcohol? 


In Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.

Aye, but not if you get the cow drunk too ...

Sure...then the DUI becomes a MooI..

[Lady Kett]

  So you're saying this is a good test for bad alcohol? 


In Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.

Aye, but not if you get the cow drunk too ...

Sure...then the DUI becomes a MooI..

LOL

The Grinch's dog is named Max.

[Rowan MacD]

Kermit the Frog is left-handed.

[Rowan MacD]

In the 1800's, rum was considered excellent for cleaning hair and keeping it healthy. Brandy was believed to strengthen hair roots.

[Rani Zemirah]

In the 1800's, rum was considered excellent for cleaning hair and keeping it healthy. Brandy was believed to strengthen hair roots.

From the inside!   

[Merlin the Elder]

If memory serves, Brandy ... was a fine girl.

[iain robb]

If memory serves, Brandy ... was a fine girl.

Ah, such a good wife she would be. Her eyes could steal a sailor from the sea.

Back in the olden days (into the 1990s), newspapers measured column width and headlines and the like not in inches or millimeters, but in picas and points. There are approximately 6 picas to an inch and ... drat, I think it was about 72 points to an inch. I used to have to know that stuff. Column and story lengths, however, were measured in inches.