Total Trivia

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Before the dawn of civilization, war likely consisted of small-scale raiding. One half of the people found in a Nubian cemetery dating to as early as 12,000 years ago had died of violence. Since the rise of the state some 5,000 years ago, military activity has occurred over much of the globe.

Hmm... gives pause about the nature of the state, eh?

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Before the dawn of civilization, war likely consisted of small-scale raiding. One half of the people found in a Nubian cemetery dating to as early as 12,000 years ago had died of violence. Since the rise of the state some 5,000 years ago, military activity has occurred over much of the globe.

Hmm... gives pause about the nature of the state, eh?

Time the 'state' grew up.

 

[fire_breeze]

Time the 'state' grew up.

Agreed .

And a kick in the arse.

 

[Sienna]

An Indian father of two had a hysterectomy after doctors found a full female reproductive system in his lower abdomen.

Ryalu, a farmer, was admitted to a hospital near Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, after complaining of severe stomach pains, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Doctors suspected a normal hernia, but when they carried out an exploratory operation they were shocked to discover a female uterus, ovaries, Fallopian tubes and a cervix.

Dr Pramod Kumar Shrivastava, a surgeon at the Chhindwara district hospital said the patient had external male organs, was fit from working in the fields, and lived a normal life.

"Usually the contents of the Hernia Sac are abdomen organs like large intestines and small intestines but when we operated on the patient we were surprised to find female reproductive organs," he said.

"We have removed the organs through a hysterectomy and repaired the hernia.

"The sac contained quite developed uterus, both the ovaries, Fallopian tubes, cervix and a tissue which is undeveloped but apparently looks like vaginal tissue," he explained.

The man had not suffered any problems until the stomach pains which led him to hospital. Although he is medically a hermaphrodite, his hormones and sexuality are clearly male, he said.

"The external reproductive organs of the patient were masculine and he has no problems whatsoever with his sexuality," added Dr Shrivastava.

The patient, who was said to be as "stunned" as his doctors at the discovery, is recovering in hospital and is being supported by his family.

Courtesy of Orange News

 

[fire_breeze]

I just saw Mackers in Shakespeare in the Park, so here's a few trivia about The Scottish Play.

Several superstitions surround this infamous (and Shakespeare's shortest) tragedy. The most famous one is that if you say the M word in the theatre, you will have bad luck. In order to counter the curse, you have to go outside, do a cleansing ritual (usually spinning around three time, cursing), spit and then be invited back in. One such reasons is that some believe that Shakespeare used actual spells. Even worse, he apparently stole them and the witches got pissed off and cursed the play.

Productions of this play are said to have been plagued with accidents, many ending in death. According to legend, this dates back to the premiere of the play: an actor died because a real dagger was mistakenly used instead of the prop. The play does include more fight scenes and other such opportunities for accidents than does the average play, and the atmosphere in the backstage area of old-fashioned theaters was a prime setting for disasters, especially when dealing with potentially dangerous equipment

Some people think that the origin of this superstition is that the M play, being a popular play, was commonly put on by theatres in financial trouble, or that the high production costs of Macbeth put theatres in financial trouble, and hence an association was made between a production of The Scottish Play and theatres going out of business.

Your kilometrage may vary. I still think it's a damn fun play despite the fact that each and every time I worked on the production, something out of the ordinary happened

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

London Underground, Facts and figures

- Number of miles/km travelled by each Tube train each year: 76,800 miles/123,600km

- Total number of passengers carried each year: 1,065 million

- Average train speed: 33km per hour/20.5mph

- Length of network: 402km/249 miles

- Proportion of the network that is in tunnels: 45 per cent

= Longest continuous tunnel: East Finchley to Morden (via Bank) - 27.8km/17.25 miles

- Total number of escalators: 422
- Station with most escalators: Waterloo - 23 plus two passenger conveyors
- Longest escalator: Angel - 60m/197ft, with a vertical rise of 27.5m/90ft
- Shortest escalator: Stratford, with a vertical rise of 4.1m

- Total number of lifts: 141
- Deepest lift shaft: Hampstead - 55.2m/181ft
- Shortest lift shaft: King's Cross - 2.3m/7.5ft
- Vertical lifting platforms highest rise: Walthamstow 1.98m/6.5ft
- Vertical lifting platforms shortest: Hainault 0.64m/2.1ft

- Carriages in London Underground's fleet: 4078

- Total number of stations served: 260

- Total number of staff: 19,000 approx


- Stations with the most platforms: Baker Street - 10. Moorgate has 10 platforms but only six are used by LU (two are used by First Capital Connect and two were formerly used by Thameslink services)

- Busiest stations: During the three-hour morning peak, London's busiest Tube station is Waterloo, with 49,000 people entering. The busiest station in terms of passengers each year is Victoria with 77 million

- The Underground name first appeared on stations in 1908

- London Underground has been known as the Tube since 1890, when the first deep-level electric railway line was opened


- The Tube's world-famous logo, 'the roundel' (a red circle crossed by a horizontal blue bar), first appeared in 1908

 

[JSensei]

Unless an appropriate release of testosterone is released, a baby will be born with female features regardless of chromosomal gender.

 

[arnoldlane84]

A diagram 1039 road marking (otherwise known as a bifurcation arrow) comes in three lengths, depending on the speed of traffic - 8m, 16m and 32m.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Out of the 260 London Underground stations "Bank" is the only one with a single syllable.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

13% of the world's population have a Facebook account

(I'm one of the 87% who hasn't)

 

[Sienna]

Sex Change Plot Against Adolf Hitler

Britain came up with a bizarre plot to win the Second World War - by turning Hitler into a woman.

The Allies hoped to smuggle female sex hormones into the Fuhrer's food in an attempt to curb his *aggression.

It was just one of a number of outlandish ideas to break the war's stalemate, according to a new book by a leading academic.

Others included *dropping glue on Nazi troops in an attempt to stick them to the ground and disguising bombs in tins of fruit being imported to Germany.

They are revealed for the first time in Secret Weapons: Technology, Science And The Race To Win World War II by Professor Brian Ford, a fellow at Cardiff University.

He said: "There was an allied plan that they would smuggle oestrogen into Hitler's food and change his sex so he would become more feminine and less *aggressive.

"Their research had showed the importance of sex hormones - they were beginning to be used in sex therapy in London.

"The plan was to give sex hormones to Hitler and counterbalance his *unnecessary aggression."

Professor Ford said the plan was perfectly feasible because British spies were in place to lace his food.

He added: "There were agents who would be able to get it into his food - it would have been entirely possible."

Courtesy of Orange News

 

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On August 17, 1601, Pierre de Fermat was born. A French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France, he was also an amateur mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his adequality. In particular, he is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of the then unknown differential calculus, as well as his research into number theory. He made notable contributions to analytic geometry, probability, and optics. He is best known for Fermat's Last Theorem, which he described in a note at the margin of a copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica.

Fermat's Last Theorem states that no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation an + bn = cn for any integer value of n greater than two. This theorem was first conjectured by Pierre de Fermat in 1637, famously in the margin of a copy of Arithmetica where he claimed he had a proof that was too large to fit in the margin. No successful proof was published until 1995 despite the efforts of countless mathematicians during the 358 intervening years. The unsolved problem stimulated the development of algebraic number theory in the 19th century and the proof of the modularity theorem in the 20th. It is among the most famous theorems in the history of mathematics and prior to its 1995 proof was in the Guinness Book of World Records for "most difficult math problem".

Pretty cool, eh?

 

[Sienna]

A merkin (first use 1617) is a pubic wig. Merkins were originally worn by prostitutes after shaving their genitalia, and are now used as decorative items, erotic devices or in film making by both men and women.

In Hollywood film making, merkins are used in films where they are worn by actors and actresses to prevent inadvertent exposure of the genitalia during nude or semi-nude scenes. If a merkin were not worn, it would be necessary to restrict the shot to exclude the genital area; with the merkin in place brief flashes of the crotch can be used if necessary. The presence of the merkin protects the actor from inadvertently performing 'full-frontal' nudity – some contracts specifically require that nipples and genitals be covered in some way – which can help ensure that the film achieves a less restrictive MPAA rating.

Courtesy Of Wikipedia

http://crabbygolightly.com/images/butterfly_merkin.jpg​

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

"Moron" is the Welsh word for carrot

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

New photographs taken of a vast glacier in northern Greenland have revealed the astonishing rate of its breakup, with one scientist saying he was rendered "speechless."

 

[Stryderthorongil]

New photographs taken of a vast glacier in northern Greenland have revealed the astonishing rate of its breakup, with one scientist saying he was rendered "speechless."

Nice pictures ((((Lorraine))))

 

[akaSol]

New photographs taken of a vast glacier in northern Greenland have revealed the astonishing rate of its breakup, with one scientist saying he was rendered "speechless."

Sadly these prove zero , according to Archimedes Law http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/1/b/1/1b1f31cf2eac2ba8a85bb5599ac1bd1f.png this means nothing

Sol

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Sadly these prove zero , according to Archimedes Law http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/1/b/1/1b1f31cf2eac2ba8a85bb5599ac1bd1f.png this means nothing

Sol

Correct, it proves nothing in itself. The Earth is warming anyway as we are still in an an interglacial period which is not of mankinds making.
The one and only trouble is that we are exacerbating the rate of of change that (scientists believe) do not allow time for plants and animals to adapt quick enough.

We are in an era of mass extinction, the question is is this due to mankind or nature? Who knows, who cares? as long as we.......

 

[fire_breeze]

Correct, it proves nothing in itself. The Earth is warming anyway as we are still in an an interglacial period which is not of mankinds making.
The one and only trouble is that we are exacerbating the rate of of change that (scientists believe) do not allow time for plants and animals to adapt quick enough.

We are in an era of mass extinction, the question is is this due to mankind or nature? Who knows, who cares? as long as we.......

As long as we what?

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

13 Pups Set World Record for Most Dogs Skipping Rope at Once [VIDEO]

Guiness Book of Records

Related video... Amazing Puppies...

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Chanel Tapper has the world's longest female tongue which measures 3.8in from tip to top lip.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Christine Walton has the world's longest nails at 10ft 2in on her left hand and 9ft 7in on the right

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Elvis Presley wrote to President Nixon in 1970: 'I would love to meet you just to say hello if you're not too busy'

ELVIS PRESLEY AND PRESIDENT NIXON
The White House, December 20, 1970

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Christine Walton has the world's longest nails at 10ft 2in on her left hand and 9ft 7in on the right

Christine Walton... the Guinness Book of Records video...

Longest fingernails in the world

 

[fire_breeze]

Christine Walton... the Guinness Book of Records video...

Longest fingernails in the world

How can she function with those nails?!