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[Azazel]

An old bloke at the pub this morning filled my head with interesting facts and trivia, so much to remember but can't. The one thing he said that did stick in my brain was, "Did you know a snail can fuck itself but doesn't."
Are there other illuminating facts and trivia that you have heard and remembered.


Listening to the Ramones at the moment, great band.

[GreenFroggie]

that's because snails are hermaphrodites. Continuing with the animal theme, did you know crocodiles cant stick out their tongue?? Interesting.   

[Corducci Enterprises]

An old bloke at the pub this morning filled my head with interesting facts and trivia, so much to remember but can't. The one thing he said that did stick in my brain was, "Did you know a snail can fuck itself but doesn't."
Are there other illuminating facts and trivia that you have heard and remembered.


Listening to the Ramones at the moment, great band.

Mr Corducci saw the Ramones at CBGB'S in 1976. Johnny was the only one he liked.

Intersting trivia fact: P.Mcgees merchandise is shit.

[Chromefox]

Cat urine glows under a black light, and horses shit an average of about 35 pounds per day.

[Azazel]

I wonder if cat piss and scorpians are related?

[Frazzy?]

well, you don't want to get either of them in your eye.

[Lexii-]

- Ancient Romans believed chickpeas to be a powerful aphrodisiac, especially for men.
- The size of your foot is approximately the size of your forearm.
- The only thing that can destroy a diamond is intense heat.
- On average, women dream more than men.
- There are 34 bathrooms in the White House.
- The largest member of the cat family is the male lion weighing 240kg.
- Candles burn slowly and evenly with little wax drippings if placed in the freezer an hour before using.
- Embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born.
- An average person sheds about 750g of skin per year.

[Thaluikhain]

- The only thing that can destroy a diamond is intense heat.

Rubbish.  There are lots of other things.

[Lexii-]

Such as?

It's a known fact that the only thing that can scratch diamond is diamond.

[Azazel]

Such as?

It's a known fact that the only thing that can scratch diamond is diamond.

Try a big hammer.

[Thaluikhain]

Such as?

It's a known fact that the only thing that can scratch diamond is diamond.

So...you've just listed one.  Diamond.

And then, other substances harder than diamonds...we don't have many around but they do exist.

Intense pressure.

Probably rapid temperature changes.

The intense gravity of a black hole.

I'm not sure how chemically resistant diamonds are, either.

[Truckarella]

Other things not quite as hard as diamonds can still scratch diamonds.

A bitter divorce could probably destroy some, if not all of your diamonds.  So could a heroin addiction.

[hammer]

Other things not quite as hard as diamonds can still scratch diamonds.

A bitter divorce could probably destroy some, if not all of your diamonds.  So could a heroin addiction.

No, a heoin addiction merely de-values them at shops like 'Smack Converters'

Try a big hammer.

One type of big Hammer will merely convert a beautifully cut large diamond, into several smaller, randomly cut diamonds,

After that, the other type of Hammer will then just convert their street value into currency wherever he can sell them! 

Hey Az? Wanna but something sparkly?

[Lexii-]

I don't know anything about what pressure would do to a diamond, but I know that no matter how hard you smash a diamond with any object, it's not going to shatter. I used to be a jeweller, so my head is full of pointless information about precious stones & metals.

[Thaluikhain]

but I know that no matter how hard you smash a diamond with any object, it's not going to shatter. I used to be a jeweller, so my head is full of pointless information about precious stones & metals.

Well, a jeweller isn't going to have every conceivable object with which to hit diamonds with.

I mean, if you have a diamond, and hit it with some (probably highly expensive) harder object at half light speed, the diamond will shatter.  Relativistic impacts might not be part of a jewellering degree, as if you were to do that, you'd cause an explosion that would cause untold damage to the area, and kill hundreds of thousands of people if you did it in an inhabited area...which isn't exactly my field either...more of a hobby.