Steve Tidbits

[Steve]

1. Due to human artificial selection, dogs are evolving eyebrows.

2. There are about 40 supervolcanoes in the world that have yet to erupt. One supervolcano is in Yellowstone National Park and has a magma chamber that is large enough to fit the entire city of Tokyo inside it.

3. Cotard's syndrome is a condition where you just think you're dead or don't exist. People who have it sometimes stop eating because they think they're dead.

4. When a star dies it explodes and releases a gamma burst and it destroys all in its path, if one goes off near Earth it'll lead to extinction and there's no warning because it happens immediately.

5. Hundreds of people die every year ... from being strangled by their bedsheets.

[T.T.]

5. Hundreds of people die every year ... from being strangled by their bedsheets.

How unusual Steve.

[Steve]

Yea, that one surprised me.

[Steve]

1. The Philippines is 1 out 2 countries in the world that still doesn't allow divorce. It also has the 10th highest number of child brides globally, with 100,000 women married before their 15th birthday.

2. The eunuchs of the last Chinese emperor wore their severed testicles and penises in jars around their necks when working.

3. Street food in Vietnam is so convenient, healthy and cheap; Mcdonalds and Burger King have both failed in the country.

4. A nursing home for people with dementia in Dusseldorf, Germany set up a fake bus stop to prevent dementia patients from just wandering off. The program was so successful, other homes started copying and expanding on the idea.

5. A man paid a traffic fine by presenting the police with 137 one dollar bills folded into origami pigs that he placed inside of donut boxes.


That last one cracks me up.

[T.T.]

Agree Steve that is a good one.

[Steve]

1. Sewer treatment plants have lifesaver rings around the treatment tanks, in case someone falls in.

2. In a strange and semi creepy coincidence, Robert Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, was saved from falling off a train platform and being run over by Edwin Boothe, brother of John Wilkes Boothe.

3. Box Jellyfish are not only the most venomous jellies to humans, but they also possess at least 24 functional eyes (of various degree) on its body despite having no centralized brain. Four of its eyes always peer up out of the water regardless of the animal's body position; some eyes can make out images, others are more primitive.

4. Last year in the US alone over half a million people were reported missing. About 1% are found.

5. Free range Turkey and Chicken farms often include Alpacas as part of their flock to help protect the birds from predators.

[T.T.]

5. Free range Turkey and Chicken farms often include Alpacas as part of their flock to help protect the birds from predators.

Isn't the above a great idea. Thanks Steve.

[Steve]

You're welcome sis.

[Steve]

1. In the first Polish encyclopedia published in 1746, if you looked up the word HORSE, the definition said "Everyone knows what a horse is."

2. The Netherlands is banning artificial soccer fields and mandating all soccer fields be made from real grass from 2030 onwards due to the cancer risks associated with artificial grass.

3. Some supermarkets in the UK have started selling "ugly" produce at slightly cheaper prices to try and combat food waste. Farmers have to throw out so much veg because the supermarkets won't accept it if it's not perfect.

4. A tire shop in Fort Worth, Texas was being robbed at least once a month so the owner bought a guard dog to protect the property. The next time the thieves came, they stole the guard dog.

5. Until 1822, we had absolutely no idea what happened to birds in the winter.

[T.T.]

I like the ugly produce idea the cost of living is ridiculous.

[Steve]

1. The reason water bottles have an expiration date is not because the water goes bad, it's because the bottle does.

2. Researchers in Japan found that cows painted with zebra stripes were nearly 50% less likely to be bit by horseflies compared to normal cows.

3. An 82 year old man in India who was urinating near some train tracks was instantly killed when a cow fell from the sky and landed on him.

4. The boardgames Snakes and Ladders originated around 2 B.C and was originally used to teach Hindu religious beliefs.

5. Michel Lotito aka Mr Eats Everything was a French performance artist who once ate an entire Cessna 150 airplane.

[T.T.]

The boardgames Snakes and Ladders originated around 2 B.C and was originally used to teach Hindu religious beliefs.

Who would have thought that game would be that old.

[Steve]

1. If your cat chews on fresh eucalyptus, they might start hallucinating and fall over repeatedly, leading to a $400 emergency vet bill just to be told she's just kinda high.

2. A pigeon will only eat a Starburst if you chew it up a little bit first. Just to clarify chew the Starburst not the pigeon.

3. There's a guy in Germany who has a 1 year waiting list and makes 6 figures making leather harnesses and masks for people who like to roleplay as horses.

4. Old human bones are very porous so if you lick them, they'll stick to your tongue.

5. The antidote if you drink antifreeze (ethylene glycol) is whisky (or any hard alcohol).

[T.T.]

That was interesting about cats Steve. Expensive Vet bill.

[Steve]

1. If you are ever trying to survive in the arctic, don't eat polar bear liver. It is so high in vitamin A it will kill you.

2. During the 1969-71 occupation of Alcatraz by Native American protestors, a drunken Richard Nixon ordered a nuclear strike of the island, but the order was ignored.

3. Hershey's chocolate has the strong smell of vomit or feces to some people, and that's because they use butyric acid as a preservative. Butyric acid is the compound that makes vomit smell so bad.

4. Wikipedia has shockingly accurate nuclear munitions counts for locations and weapon types.

5. There is a species of turtle that can breathe through its butt.

[T.T.]

I like No. 5. Some humans can talk out their butt, so I have heard.

[Steve]

[Steve]

1. If you work 40 hours a week and spend 10 minutes a day pooping it equals a whole week of paid vacation per year.

2. The act of cannibalism is not illegal in the Netherlands. If you were to aquire human flesh in a legal way, you are allowed to eat it.

3. Earthworms, specifically nightcrawlers are way crunchier than you think.

4. The "ALS Icebucket Challenge" actually raised enough money to create treatments for the disease (that work). It wasn't just a social media trend that went nowhere.

5. That monkeys in Ethiopia have managed to "domesticate" wild wolves by helping them hunt small rodents. The wolves now coexist with (even baby!) monkeys without ever attacking them, instead going for smaller, harder-to-catch prey!

[T.T.]

Steve like number one may to poop longer.

[Steve]

1. An orangutan named Fu Manchu figured out how to escape his enclosure at a zoo by picking the lock on a door. He did it repeatedly for weeks as zoo staff was stumped about how and tried every measure to prevent it only to finally catch Fu Manchu in the act using a piece of wire he kept hidden.

2. In 2019, basketball player DJ Cooper was suspended for two years after using his girlfriend's urine to attempt to cheat a drug test. The test "discovered" that he was pregnant.

3. There was a study in Africa that showed that cows with large eye painted on their butts would not be attacked by ambush predators.

4. A New Zealand woman was detained in Kazakhstan because they did not believe New Zealand was a real country. When they asked her to show the country on a map, their map did not include New Zealand.

5. There are virtually zero commercial planes that fly over Tibet, one of the reasons being that in the event of depressurization/engine failure, planes cannot descend to 10,000 feet because the Tibetan Plateau has an average elevation of 14,370 feet.

[T.T.]

2. In 2019, basketball player DJ Cooper was suspended for two years after using his girlfriend's urine to attempt to cheat a drug test. The test "discovered" that he was pregnant.

Be careful Steve..

[Steve]

[Steve]

1. Tennis balls used to be black and white, but changed to yellow for TV viewers thanks to David Attenborough's suggestion.

2. The largest air force in the world is the US Air Force. The second largest air force in the world is the US Navy.

3. While many animals run faster than humans, the strength and positioning of our butts (gluteal muscles) gave humans the endurance to keep running and chasing prey when other animals had to stop.

4. Many choking deaths happen in bathrooms. It turns out that people who start choking often feel embarrassed and rush to the bathroom for privacy, only to end up dying alone, often next to a toilet.

5. Frankincense and myrrh are the dried sap of trees, also known as resin.

[T.T.]

I am that old I remember when tennis balls changed to yellow, sure made a difference/

[Steve]

1. The "seductive nature" of the Green M&M is a reference to an urban legend during the 1970s that green M&Ms were aphrodisiacs.

2. Citizens of Monaco are banned from gambling or working at casinos. The famed Monte Carlo Casino is strictly for foreigners only.

3. The Milky Way Galaxy is being pulled toward a mysterious area in space called "The Great Attractor" at about 6000km/s. Whatever it is, we can't see it from Earth because it's obscured the hub of our galaxy.

4. The longest prison sentence ever given was 141,078 years, given to a Thai woman in 1989. She was released 4 years later.

5. It would take 18 months to walk the great wall of China.

[T.T.]

Thanks Steve.

The Great Wall is very hard the steps are high, I really can imagine they would take that long if not longer.

[Steve]

1. The severed head of Mata Hari was embalmed and kept in the Museum of Anatomy in Paris. In 2000, archivists discovered that it had disappeared.

2. America was almost named "Amerige" meaning "Land of Amerigo", but was changed to the feminine form America, following the naming convention of Asia and Europe.

3. To stop cannibalism among poultry in the 1940s thought to be due to natural instinct, "Anti-Pix" sunglasses were developed to prevent birds from seeing "raw flesh or blood" due to their rose color. They worked!

4. Japan has several "Nose Tombs" which contain tens of thousands of severed noses from Korea.

5. Mao Zedong gave out a box of mangoes gifted to him by Pakistan. A cult formed in China for the unfamiliar fruit. Replicas were made and publicly displayed. One man said that the fruit didn't look like anything special, and was shamefully paraded around his town and then publicly executed.

[T.T.]

"Anti Pix" that was amazing it worked.

[Kerri]

"The severed head of Mata Hari was embalmed and kept in the
Museum of Anatomy in Paris.
In 2000, archivists discovered that it had disappeared."

Yikes! Who steals a severed head?

Who keeps a severed head!

[T.T.]

I agree Kerri.