Quite Interesting

[OllieMartin]

Carrots do not improve your night vision. Their Vitamin A content can help to build healthy vision, but not in a person who already has healthy vision. The misconception arose when the RAF attempted to hide their discovery of radar by claiming their pilots had gained vastly improved night vision as a result of eating carrots!

[Nicos]

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

..anyone tried that???

[Nicos]

It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

[OllieMartin]

There are two actors who have been 'killed' by a Terminator, Predator and an Alien:
Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen

[Jeanied]

It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

Nicos: Back to work!!
* at this point, folks, Jeanied got confused and sent the wrong person back to work - and guess what she should have been doing as well...

[Rhona]

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

..anyone tried that???

...or stuffing a piece of bread under your top lip. I wear contact lenses - they do the trick!

You can fashion your own 3D specs from the side of a Dorset cereal packet and some Quality Street wrappers if you forget to go to go to Sainsburys for your free pair during 3D week on Channel 4. Apparently.

[OllieMartin]

Nicos: Back to work!!

Don't send Nicos back to work. We're having a 'fact-off'!

The most prolific mother was the wife of Feodor Vassilyev of Russia, her name is unknown. She gave birth to 69 children including 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 quadruplets between 1725 and 1765m in total 27 births.

[Nicos]

Nicos: Back to work!!

I'll have you know I'm doing my best to avoid the ironing!!!...but now I need to nip out to get some copper joints for the plumber!

[Nicos]

back in a jiffy.....

A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.

..well- a bit longer!!

[RedThorn]

Drinking 16 ounces of ice water(0 degrees Celsius), requires the body to burn 17.5 Calories to warm the water up to body temperature. The recommended daily intake of water is 64 ounces (eight 8-ounce glasses). The body will burn 70 Calories if this amount is consumed as ice water.

[OllieMartin]

The Nokia mobile phone ring, popularised by Dom Jolly's "HELLO" sketch and the cinema's "please turn your mobile phones off" advertisments, is the most prolific peice of music in the world.

[RedThorn]

The average human emits approximately 95 watts of energy as heat in the form of infrared light. A standard 100 watt incandescent light bulb emits only about 5% of its energy as visible light, the rest is given off as heat in the form of infrared light. This means the average human produces the same amount of heat as a 100 watt light bulb.

[RedThorn]

Between 50 billion and 70 billion cells die each day due to apoptosis(a genetically determined process of cell self-destruction) in the average human adult. In a year, this amounts to the proliferation and subsequent destruction of a mass of cells equal to an individual's body weight.

[RedThorn]

Human fingers do not contain any muscles other than the small muscles attached to each hair follicle, which contract to make the hairs stand on end, causing goose bumps. The muscles that move the finger joints are in the palm and forearm. The long tendons that deliver motion from the forearm muscles may be observed to move underneath the skin at the wrist and on the back of the hand.

[RedThorn]

The human body contains 10 times more bacteria cells than it does human cells.