The Interesting Facts Thread

[joedamas]

Aspartame is the sugar sustitute that is used in many things like chewing gum.

The interesting fact is that Aspartame is made from the feces of the ecoli virus after it has been fed toxic waste.

[Dangerzone]

Aspartame is the sugar sustitute that is used in many things like chewing gum.

The interesting fact is that Aspartame is made from the feces of the ecoli virus after it has been fed toxic waste.

Wow. Just wow.

[bergstein]

Sharks have been around for about 400 million years - long time before dinosaurs have even existed.

[mtbeauty]

[SABIGDOG]

Most new trucks are equiped with more luxuries than "reasonebly priced cars". So the guy holding you up in the morning is more comfotable than you.

[KronarTheBlack]

Atoms are made up of 99.9999999999999 empty space. Every object that you think is solid actually actually only has the illusion of being solid. Electromagnetic force fields of each object you see like your fingers hitting your keyboard are just two of those force fileds interacting with each other. You never actually touch the keyboards atoms or use your fingers atoms your force fields just hits another one. That is why x-rays and neutrinos and such pass right through you.... because they hit nothing on the way through.

[Wiska]

As opposed to popular belief, Chocolate doesn't worsen or cause Spots and Acne! (Doctor)

[salty]

Before 1903, Coca-Cola contained ~9 milligrams of cocaine per glass.

[pulser]

*chuckle*

[A_J]

Some facts about the 1500s

You have probably heard it but i think it's worth another look???

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature
Isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be..

Here are some facts about the 1500s

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May,
And they still smelled pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell,
Brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor.
Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water.
The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water,
Then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children.
Last of all the babies.
By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.
Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!"

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath.
It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals
(mice, bugs) lived in the roof.
When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof.
Hence the saying, "It's raining cats and dogs."
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.
This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings
Could mess up your nice clean bed.
Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection.
That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt.
Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery
In the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing.
As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door,
It would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way.
Hence: a thresh hold.

(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.
Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables
And did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers
In the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day.
Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while.
Hence the rhyme:
“Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.”
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.
When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off.
It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon."
They would cut off a little to share with guests
And would all sit around and chew the fat.

Those with money had plates made of pewter.
Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food,
causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes,
so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status.
Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle,
and guests got the top, or the upper crust.
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky.
The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days.
Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.
They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around
and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up.
Hence the custom; “of holding a wake.”

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people.
So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave.
When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks
on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive.
So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin
and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.
Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.)
to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be,
“saved by the bell” or was “considered a dead ringer.”

And that's the truth.
Now, whoever said History was boring!!!
So get out there and educate someone! ~~~

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering,
'What the heck happened?'

We'll be friends until we are old and senile.
Then we'll be new friends.
Smile,
it gives your face something to do!



SO ENDETH THE FIRST CHAPTOR

source : http://www.history-magazine.com/facts.html