Also A Fact: You Are My Favourite Person Right Now.

[rionaleonhart]

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Dear whoever just anonymously bought me paid time: who are you? You are the best, that's who you are. Thank you so much! ♥!

I'd like to do something in return, but obviously as I don't know who you are I don't know what you'd like. What I've decided to do, therefore, is make a new Entry of Interesting Things ( here is the one from last year,

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[y2jdingo]

Australia gets more snow cover than Switzerland.

The highest point in Australia was said to be Mount Kosciuszko, in the Snowy Mountains, before different measurements said a nearby Mount Townsend was higher. Being Aussie, the Lands Department just swapped the names of the mountains so the new Kosciuszko's still the highest.

-and human body ones, which my past-midnight brain posted in your other post...

There's enough iron in the 'average' human body to make a nail about 3 inches long.

Only about a third of people have 'perfect' 20/20 vision. Two thirds should ideally wear glasses or contacts.

A cremated human body weighs about 9 pounds/4 kilos.

[clo]

If you take any random article on Wikipedia, click on the first link in the article text not in italics or parenthesis, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy".

(I stole this from http://xkcd.com but as far as I can tell, it works. It's brilliant.)

[littlered2]

I tried it and got caught in a recurring loop.

[rionaleonhart]

MY MIND. That is awesome; thank you!

[derryderrydown]

Which is why oldie style currency was written as 'lsd' - libra, sestercii, denarii, as opposed to pounds, shillings and pence.

[chamekke]

There's an enormously popular Japanese good-luck charm that's in the shape of a golden poo. Here's an example:

[rionaleonhart]

This is delightfully silly and I am very pleased to know it. (I'm a bit worried by the fact that the page for the one made of actual gold describes it as 'genuine gold poo'.)

[chamekke]

Fortunately it comes in a "gorgeous wooden box". With a lid. (Although probably not as effective as this lid.)

I love how Strapya can't decide how to describe this stuff. Depending on the page, it's variously called poo, poop, "Pooh", crap or excrement. See, this is why people have trouble learning English, we have too many damn words!

P.S. I will confess to finding this one rather pretty.

[rionaleonhart]

Oh, my God, this is the best GIF I've ever seen.

[totaldrwhofreak]

Here are some things I learnt while watching Inside The Human Body on BBC2:

-Humans in the womb grow 8000 new brain cells every second
-Babies in the womb can see in black and white, as their eyes are sensitive enough to detect the dim light passing through their mother’s belly.
-The area of the brain devoted to balancing and coordinating the body contains as many cells as the rest of the brain put together.

[totaldrwhofreak]

Oh also I learnt this yesterday:
"Pop a cap in your ass" was prison slang for anal sex until Tarantino misused it in Pulp Fiction. It then became slang for shooting someone.

Also for a satellite to be geostationary (i.e stay above the same place on earth) it has to be 35,786 km up

This is not really a proper fact, but if you press an arrow key while a youtube video is buffering you can play snake with the dots.

[totaldrwhofreak]

The Catholic Church’s restriction on eating meat during Lent does not apply to the capybara, as early missionaries gave a faulty description to the Pope, leading him to declare it a fish.

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you for all of these! I knew that the Catholic Church classed the beaver as a fish, but I hadn't realised the same applied to the capybara.