Fact O' The Day

[Colorado700R]

^^^^Only been Pucked a few times

[disco]

^^^^Only been Pucked a few times

In before the quote change!   

[Krandall]

'The Hima people of Uganda have a unique way of measuring a woman's beauty. '


In stark defiance of much of the world -- and certainly most of the West -- when Ugandan Hima males see a group of women together, it shouldn't be difficult to ascertain which of the women they're coveting the most: it will inevitably be the heaviest woman, as among the Hima, the measure of female beauty is obesity. In fact, as young girls reach marrying age, their families, their future spouses, and the families of the future spouses will actively encourage the girls to pack on the pounds.


Aaron? Is this where your old wife came from?  

[Krandall]

'The smallest known genome belongs to the microbe Mycoplasma genitalium.'

Featuring a mere 580,000 base pairs in its DNA code, the microbe Mycoplasma genitalium has the smallest known genome of any independently replicating cell. By way of comparison, the human genome includes about 3 billion base pairs. There are about 30 million known microbial species on Earth -- and about 1,000 of those species make their home on the surface of human skin. All told, the average human body is home to as many as 70 trillion individual microbes.

[Krandall]

'About 30 times each year, aircraft flying over U.S. airports come within seconds of colliding.'


These near-collisions occur during takeoff and landing. Air traffic controllers, responsible for coordinating the careful madness at major U.S. airports, claim the problem is bad and is only going to get worse in the coming years: U.S. skies are becoming congested with more flights and more passengers, but the number of skilled air traffic controllers on hand is not keeping up.

[Krandall]

'Reebok withdrew its Incubus women's athletic shoe in 1997 when they learned what an Incubus was. '


It's really quite shocking that a product could get as far as the Incubus athletic shoe without anyone at a company the size of Reebok raising a red flag. What's an incubus? Counterpart of the succubus, in Medieval Europe an Incubus was an evil spirit that people believed would climb into the beds of (mostly) women late at night and in essence rape them in their sleep. Reebok said they need to find 1,500 new, non-trademarked product names each year, limiting the time to research what they mean. "Obviously it became very apparent to us why nobody else was using the name," a company spokesman told Reuters.

[kdanderson5]

^^^^^Holy shat that is awesome! 

[Krandall]

no doubt. I laughed.

[Peelz]

Just call that shoe "the Socal"

[Krandall]

'The most remote island in the world lies over 1,400 miles from the nearest inhabited land. '


Bouvet Island is an uninhabited icebound piece of volcanic rock, no bigger than 20 square miles in area and located in the South Atlantic Ocean. It's considered a nature reserve and features only a Norwegian Automated Weather Station. The nearest inhabited land is 1,400 miles away, the volcanic archipelago Tristan de Cunha, a British dependency with a population of less than 300. The archipelago itself happens to be the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, over 1,700 miles from South Africa.

[Krandall]

'Nintendo was founded 120 years ago as a maker of playing cards.'


Founded in Kyoto under the name Nintendo Koppai, Nintendo's first products were handmade cards to be used in a game called Hanafuda, which became a very successful business. The founder was a man named Fusajiro Yamauchi, and when he retired in 1929, his son-in-law took over Nintendo. Every future president of Nintendo would in some way be related to Fusajiro Yamauchi except the current president and CEO, Satoru Iwata, who took over in 2002 from the founder's great-grandson, Hirosho Yamauchi.

[Peelz]

'Nintendo was founded 120 years ago as a maker of playing cards.'


Founded in Kyoto under the name Nintendo Koppai, Nintendo's first products were handmade cards to be used in a game called Hanafuda, which became a very successful business. The founder was a man named Fusajiro Yamauchi, and when he retired in 1929, his son-in-law took over Nintendo. Every future president of Nintendo would in some way be related to Fusajiro Yamauchi except the current president and CEO, Satoru Iwata, who took over in 2002 from the founder's great-grandson, Hirosho Yamauchi.

I <3 nintendo right now.  Got a pretty good thing going with the WII and DSi. 

Also. Incredible customer service. Colin, My 2 year old son decided one of our DS's need a bath in the pool. I didn't even think about sending it in. 2 months later went to register a new game. Saw that it was still under warranty. Sent it in ON THEIR DIME fixed no questions asked. now, we have four of them   The newest is the DSi wifi with two cameras, wifi, and internet browser. Pretty killer little toy.

[Krandall]

'Diphallia occurs in 1 of 5.5 million male births in the U.S. every year. '

Diphallia -- also known as penile duplication -- is the condition of being born with two penises, generally side by side, and the disorder is an extremely rare one. It was first described in reliable medical literature in 1609, and only an estimated 1,000 cases have been documented since then.

[Krandall]

'The word "filibuster" derives from the Dutch term for "pirate."'


Derived from the Dutch term vrijbuiter, the legal maneuver of filibustering -- a means of legislative obstruction, of "pirating" the legislative body to prevent them from voting on a bill -- is no longer the marathon ordeal that it once was. The late Senator Strom Thurmond once spoke on the Senate floor for 24 hours straight in an effort to filibuster Civil Rights legislation, but as of 1975, a Senator can filibuster a bill simply by declaring that he or she is filibustering a bill -- the declaration is enough. Little wonder these days that it happens with such frequency, as many as 15 to 20 times as often during a single legislative session as it did prior to 1975.

[Peelz]

'Diphallia occurs in 1 of 5.5 million male births in the U.S. every year. '

Diphallia -- also known as penile duplication -- is the condition of being born with two penises, generally side by side, and the disorder is an extremely rare one. It was first described in reliable medical literature in 1609, and only an estimated 1,000 cases have been documented since then.

how would that be? Some days it would be awesome, others...not so much Keep both hands busy