new version
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2012/04/10_things_we_didnt_know_last_w_224.shtml

the one about the baboons is interesting

Interesting stuff. But I already knew about the sunscreen, the tweet and the holding a gun makes you taller.

Didn't know my girlfriend can make amazing Portuguese bean soup(she is Chinese with mostly chinese and Hawaiian culinary influences so it was unexpected)

Didn't know Blunt Cuts body-boarding fins on my feet for 4 hours of surfing would cut the crap out of my feet when the Tech2 brand is fine on my feet all damned day. Blunt cuts give more propulsion though. The name of the fins is very ironic in this case lol.

Did not know I weigh 185 lbs again. Dammit gained 5 lbs. I am 6 ft so it is not too bad.

Did not know I am too lazy to come up with 10 incredibly interesting things about myself for this thread. --cop out--

Ah, a different version of the old Friday threads

1) Ice fingers from under pack ice can freeze on their way down to the bottom and run along the bottom, freezing anything in its way (Frozen Planet, article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15835017)

2) My daughter likes to play soccer

3) Concentrated Round-up will kill box elder when applied to a stump

4) Organizing 10 field trips and 30 activities for 750 middles schoolers takes waaaaay to much time!

5) The "link" button on googlemaps can give you a direct link to a zoomed-in aerial map/photo, which makes nervous a bit more confident about their field trip locations

6) School district administration may frown about allowing a teacher to bring in his skidsteer to aide with service projects

7) Deviled eggs can be made to look like hatching chicks (and taste better!....not that i've ever eating a hatching chick...)

8) The M110 is a POS...well I knew that, but now have a good primary source to back it up

9) Ramps, spring beauties, trout lillies, and most everything else in the woods are running 3 weeks early

10) There's more support for my program/position than I thought.

I didn't know The Beatles had 5 of the top 15 albums of all time according to Rolling Stone.

I didn't know that 1 teaspoon of a neutron star(5 milliliters) would weigh 5.5billion tons. Still boggles my mind! (It's the most densest thing in the universe).

That's mindboggling indeed. I am by means a physician or anything, so what would happen if you brought that teaspoon in your house? (Ignore the fact that it's impossible to bring it). Would it fall down through the floor and fly towards the core of the earth, or would it implode and svck everything with it or any strange stuff like that?

Reminds me a bit of the Discovernator.