Quite possible the best link I've ever found on the internet

[Woodson]

The Tree of Knowledge

Wow moment x a thousand.

John Tyler, 10th president of the U.S., born 1790, has 2 currently living grandsons.

 

[kickserv]

Number of bridges that cross the Amazon: Zero.


:com:



That can not be correct:scared

 

[kickserv]

Finnish sniper Simo H?yh? had 505 confirmed kills with a sniper rifle and 200+ with a Soumi KP//-31 submachine gun during World War 2 and was known to the Russians as "White Death". Some reports put the kill rate at over 1000.

He used iron sights, no telescope, and in the end got half his face shot off. He later became a successful moose hunter.



I feel sorry for the Moose...talk about no chance:scared

 

[kickserv]

"Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a clean pillow-case will make a difference... Indeed, if your pillow is six years old--which is apparently about the average age for a pillow--it has been estimated that one-tenth of its weight will be made up of sloughed skin, living mites, dead mites and mite dung."

:0023



The Wonder Years aired from 1988 to 1993.

The series was set in 1968 to 1973.

It is currently 2011.

The modern Wonder Years equivalent would be us watching a show about 1991.


No matter what year it is.......Winnie is fucking hot:142hump:

 

[Hashish]

"The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won a World Series."

:sadwave:

 

[JOSHNAUDI]

IplaywithmypNES 1352 points 19 hours ago

It surprised me when I first learned where cashews come from

itsjero 649 points 18 hours ago

Not only that, but in this stage of their existence, cashews are actually poisonous to consume.

I've always wondered how foods that are poisonous at different stages come to be edible at one point or another, often with great results.

I mean honestly, a few folks died figuring out how to eat a cashew. It probablly took a long time to find out how to refine the nut, find out that if you add fire and some salt you get something that is fucking fantastic.

But you have to start out with a crazy looking apple-nut thing that can kill you.



[?]kaizenallthethings 923 points 18 hours ago

A friend of mine was hospitalized after eating a raw cashew. The toxin that surrounds the nut is related to poison ivy, and after ingesting, he had a systemic break-out. He said that the itching was fiercest in his genitals, and they had to strap him down to keep him from scratching his balls off.

What stuns me about his story is that the first guy that tried a raw cashew probably DIED from scratching his balls off. Yet we eat cashews today, which means that some other dude, looked over at his friend bleeding out and thought, well, perhaps if I ROAST it first it will be tasty. I mean, holy shit! How hungry do you have to be for that to seem like a good idea?!

 

[hedgehog]

:scared

If the female clownfish is removed from its group, such as by death, one of the largest and most dominant males will become a female.

 

[SixFive]

I did know cashews were related to poison ivy. MD told me that once when I had a horrible allergic reaction from eating them. I still eat them now too. Only thing I can figure is the bunch I ate had some of the raw oils in it?

 

[Blitz]

Make a fist with your left hand, squeeze your left thumb, then put your right index finger down your throat. NO GAG REFLEX.

has something to do with your mind being focused on squeezing the left thumb, if i recall correct

also, porn stars often use this method...im sure you can figure out why

 

[comfortable1]

There's enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America with one foot of water.


Even crazier is that Lake Baikal (in Russla) has almost twice as much water!



There's enough water in Lake Baikal to cover all of North and South America with two feet of water.


:mj07:

 

[comfortable1]

magnetar, essentially a giant iron ball in space that has magnetic forces so strong that the surface ripples. They're only about 10-20 miles in diameter but they have more mass than the sun.

"Magnetar" Freakin' awesome:0074