I dunno about you lot but I know quite a few (not so) interesting facts, so I thought I'd share them with you. Here you can share all the little things you know.
Dunno if this belongs here so if the mods feel it should be moved elsewhere, then feel free to do so and if a similar thread already exists, apologies in advance cos I couldn't find it.

Did you know:

Snot moves through your breathing tubes at 1.5cm an hour

You recycle about a litre of snot a day by swallowing it

Your ears have 2000 glands for making ear wax

Sneezing throws your head back with more force than a rollercoaster does

People say 'bless you' when you sneeze because in medieval times it was thought to be a sign of the plague - so it meant you were about to die.

The world sneezing record is held by 12 year old Bristish girl Donna Griffiths, who sneezed 1 million times in a row

When you sneeze, air and snot hurtle out of your nose at 160 km/h

You pee between 1 and 2 litres of urine per day

The average human spends between six months and a year of their life on the loo

A "good" poo is about 75% water

About a third of the non-watery part of poo is dead bacteria

Another third is stuff you can't digest like cellulose, fibre which helps move the turd along ;)

The final third is a slurpy mixture of fats, dead cells, salts, mucus and live bacteria

Poo with a lot of fat or gas in it floats

Newborn babies' poo is green because they couldn't poo inside the womb, so bile digestive juices have been building up for months with nowhere to go.

Enjoy your dinner

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Have you ever wondered why brides carry a posie when they get married or why many weddings are in june.????????.
Well in old age times/ medevil ect, washing wasent a big priority so yes sweat built up and stunk to high heaven, yuk.
Anyway people in those times usually got married in june because they had had a bath or major wash in say march april time and by june they were starting to get a bit smelly again but not so bad.
Thats where the posie of flowers comes in they was carried to mask the body odour smells omfg thank the lord for right guard.
This is so unbeliveable but also very true.

Pffffffffft, the real reason many marriages happen in June is cause the Football season has finished, leaving Saturdays free for weddings.....

Cherry wallops eric with a lead pipe and gives him concussion, dont you dare talk football to me lol.

Did you know in 1150 an early version of football was introduced to England by the Romans and that it was a girl's game?

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aww bless his delusional lil head!!!

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nice factoids there AJ

Postit notes were invented by a guy who was trying to make the world's strongest glue.. and evidently failed miserably.

Well said Eric - but what about the Cricket Season? Surely spending 5 days on the sofa watching a Test Match isn't conducive to wedding plans?

If you mean Association Football (ie soccer) then it still is isn't it?

ALBERT EINSTEIN FACTOIDS:

He Hated Scrabble
Aside from his favourite past-time sailing ("the sport which demands the least energy"), Einstein shunned any recreational activity that required mental agility. As he told the New York Times, "When I get through with work I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind."

He Equated Monogamy With Monotony
"All marriages are dangerous," he once told an interviewer. "Marriage is the unsuccessful attempt to make something lasting out of an incident." He was notoriously unfaithful as a husband, prone to falling in love with somebody else directly after the exchanging of vows.

His Memory Was Shot
Believing that birthdays were for children, his attitude is summed up in a letter he wrote to his girlfriend Mileva Maric: "My dear little sweetheart ... first, my belated cordial congratulations on your birthday yesterday, which I forgot once again."

His Cat Suffered Depression
Fond of animals, Einstein kept a housecat which tended to get depressed whenever it rained. Ernst Straus recalls him saying to the melancholy cat: "I know what's wrong, dear fellow, but I don't know how to turn it off."

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As males age, the lobe of their brain that has to do with consequence wears away. (That explains a lot.)

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Yep - that would explain a helluva lot.

The “57″ on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.

Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually. On average, that’s 3 pounds a day per person. (That probably explains a lot too )

40% of McDonalds profits come from the sale of Happy Meals (apparently the other 60% is from unhappy meals).

There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.

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