Daily Facts

[Funkadelia]

Every day, I will post a tidbit (or maybe a few) of information that you never wanted or needed to know.

For instance, Pope Innocent IV supposedly often used torture to extract confessions.

Also, 35 Million pounds of candy corn is produced in America each year, which is enough to encircle the moon 9 times.

[Letonna]

What happens if I want to post random facts?

Hey kids! Did you know that making vitamin D is rather hard for your body? This usually take about 12 days to complete.
     This starts with the UVB alkene benzol ring destabilization from sunlight. This will form a rather linear molecule which will immediately lose a an alkel bond. This isonimerization will allow anartificial sigmatropic. After this process, we have a vitamin D molecule which will later have complex enzyme processing in the liver!

[Cozulul]

RUBBER BANDS LAST LONGER IN THE FRIDGE!

[Funkadelia]

RUBBER BANDS LAST LONGER IN THE FRIDGE!

D: You broke the rules. That's useful!

[Wast]

I suppose everyone is posting facts now. If Funkadelia allows it, I will give a special prize to the person presents the best fact, judged by me.

-Wast
Minister of Silly Threads

[Funkadelia]

I consent to this. Have at it. Just no double posting, one fact per post.

[McMasterdonia]

During the Spanish Inquisition, which began in 1231, cats were considered representatives of the devil, and anyone known to harbor or aid a cat was punished by death. Cats were sometimes tortured and buried alive.

[Myroria]

The famous 1970s heavy metal progenitor Led Zeppelin got its name from a discussion between Keith Moon of the Who and Jimmy Page, formerly of the Yardbirds. Moon remarked that the supergroup of some of the 60's best musicians would go over like a "lead balloon". They initially wanted to name their band "Lead Zeppelin", but dropped the a in "lead" at the urging of its manager, who assumed that many Americans would pronounce it "leed zeppelin".

Led Zeppelin would also be well known for their various Tolkien references, each made about thirty years before the movies would make it cool.

[Gulliver]

Cantaloupes are apparently known as "rockmelons" in Australia.

[Letonna]

Diphenhydramine, known as the primary ingredient in Benadryl in the United states, and Unisom in various international countries, is a class 1 antihistamine. It was released in 1946 from a Cincinnati chemist. Although used for sleep and allergy relief, it is now a cheap recreational drug. If injected in some form, usually is a hydrochloric solution, it can give the user a unique high. Due to the extreme danger and toxicity of this, some countries have either controlled the drug, or banned it. Once such country in Africa, The Republic of Zambia, discourages tourists from bringing it into the country, and many have faced criminal offences for having it on their person.

[Wast]

The barnacle has the longest penis relative to its body size of any animal.

[Funkadelia]

In 1937 the tiny asteroid Hermes passed close to the Earth, at a distance of less than twice that of the moon. Astronomers later discovered that in 1942 it passed even closer. In 1989, a Thousand-foot-wide asteroid missed impacting the Earth by only 400,000 miles, passing through the exact position the Earth was just 6 hours previously. Had it hit Earth, it would be the largest impact in recorded history. In 2002, yet another asteroid missed impacting the Earth by even less, 75,000 miles, or 1/3 the distance of the moon. Astronomers did not even discover the near-impact until 3 days later.

[Myroria]

In 1950, a Russian psychiatrist named Immanuel Velikovsky published a book detailing the story of how Venus was ejected from Jupiter in the 15th century BCE and passed close to earth, causing several familiar mythological disasters. It was met with immense hostility from the scientific community at the time of its release, prompting Carl Sagan - Velikovsky's most famous critic and debunker - to comment that the attitude of "suppression" rising from the ranks of the scientific community was the "worst aspect" of the Velikovsky affair.