[Monika Fiolek]

What is the definition of a moon, and why does that definition cancel out the assertion that there is more than one moon?

A natural satellite with an identified orbit relatively close to a planet. There isn't an official definition on how large they can be but there are no confirmed moons that I know of with a radius of less than 500m.

[Chris Cross Cabaret Man]

A natural satellite with an identified orbit relatively close to a planet. There isn't an official definition on how large they can be but there are no confirmed moons that I know of with a radius of less than 500m.

What is "relatively close"? Because there are objects circling Earth that are large (I don't know if they have a 500 m radius).



Confectionary companies that operate within the EU are not allowed to label their products "chocolate" unless those products contain at or above a certain concentration of cacao. They must, instead, label such products "candy".

[Jessica Lloyd]

One more and then I'm done for now.

Paris Syndrome: The disappointment a non-French tourist feels when the city of Paris doesn't meet up to their lofty expectations and the resulting depression that follows. For example the Japanese are taught that Paris is at the centre of sophistication, art and elegance and when they arrive in Paris they discover that nearly everything the French do is either offensive or difficult for them. This has gotten so serious that up to 12 people a year have to be expensively repatriated to Japan. There's even a help line in the Japanese Embassy in Paris for people who are traumatized by their disappointment.

[Cody Banks]

To get George C. Sccott to act in Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick told him it was a drama. He got him to do the silly stuff by telling him it was just to entertain the cast and their families, and that it wouldn't end up in the final version of the movie. It did.

[Hannah Whitlock]

One more and then I'm done for now.

Paris Syndrome [snip].

I know this is supposed to be a real thing, and I've heard it's a real thing, but some part of me still can't quite grasp that it's a real thing. Is this really a real thing?

Speaking of Japan. While this condition certainly occurs elsewhere, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori is almost exclusive and unique to Japan. The speculation is that societal pressure and (the perception of) underachievement, as well as an over-supportive family environment, combine to create a psychological handicap which sufferers of this condition find difficult to overcome. The condition seems to be confined to A-type, close-knit families/societies/communities. Click the link. It's totally fascinating (and, warning: kind of depressing) reading.

[Dark Mogul]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCzXZfNIu3A

[WYatt REed]

Funny, Jerhicco.



There is no such thing as "dog fleas", "cat fleas" and "human fleas". They're all the same species.

[Eve Booker]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCzXZfNIu3A

More than 8 spiders, what?! I was hopping it was a misconception...

[Melanie]

Ketchup was originaly used as a pharmaseutical product.

Abigail Adams introduced the United States to ice cream. her favorite flavors? Ketchup, and Oyster.

Mark Twain's real name is Samuel clemens, but he got the pseudonym from the terminology used by sailors to signal it is deep enough to pass through a channel.

If the brain were a computer chip, the estimated clock speed would be 100 Ghz to complete all basic functions of life and everything that we do.

The pilot space program for a manned mars landing is named ARES.

WEP encryption is standard among routers, but is extremely easy to crack and is being replaced with heavier-duty WPA2 encryption.

The first lightbulb was made with a piece of cardboard placed in a vacuum. It burned for roughly 22 hours continuously. It was eventually replaced with tungsten.

And more to come.

[Chloé]

I just saw this on TV, so it's not original at all.

Ancient Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt, which was more valuable back then. This is where we get the word "salary" from.

[christelle047]

Last I checked, sheep outnumber people in New Zealand 10:1.
There are exactly 216 noodles in every can of Cambell's chicken noodle soup.
There is such a thing as fossilized lightning, in a manner of speaking. The scientific term for it is "fulgurite".
Harry Potter, who died in 1939, is buried in Israel.
James Madison was the shortest U.S. president.
One in seven Americans claim they (or someone they know) had an experience involving a UFO.
For a time, Sigmund Freud prescribed cocaine to his patients.

[Mylizards Dot com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCzXZfNIu3A

I saw that video a couple of weeks ago. I love it, but my mouth was firmly shut during the spiders section.

Last two for today:
Before it was a mouth wash, Listerine was originally used as, among many other things, a cure for gonorrhea. Eventually the company that made it realized that, without changing the formula, it made your breath smell nice, but this was nearly useless to them because while people have tried to sweeten their breath before it wasn't something that would fly off the shelves. They then decided to make up a new illness that came from having bad breath and pay some doctors to verify its existence. This is how halitosis was invented.

If the entirety of the Earth's existence was represented in a year, humans come in a few minutes before midnight on December 31. The dinosaurs lived for over 200 million years and even they would only come in at about the second week of December.

[Sophie Louise Edge]

The phrase :

"Watch "Jeopardy!", Alex Trebek's fun TV quiz game."

...contains every letter of the alphabet.

???

[emma sweeney]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCzXZfNIu3A

I'll never sleep the same way again.

[Dominic Vaughan]

???

? is a ligature and the other two, I believe, contain diacritical marks...but I'm not familiar with their uses in Norwegian or other Northern European languages.
You may as well have posted a character containing an Umlaut.


Then a later edit...
So I did my homework and discovered that the characters ? ?, ? ?, & ??...do have the distinction of being considered full letters in Norwegian & Danish. Icelandic has the ? ?.

However, to be fair, one might translate the phrase "Watch "Jeopardy!", Alex Trebek's fun TV quiz game" into any of the above languages and demonstrate how it likely does not contain every letter of the alphabet in that language...

This phrase does in Norwegian:
H?vdingens kj?re squaw f?r litt pizza i Mexico by.

This phrase does in Danish:
Quizdeltagerne spiste jordb?r med fl?de, mens cirkusklovnen Walther spillede p? xylofon.

And how could we dismiss Icelandic?
K?mi ny ?xi hér, ykist tjófum nú b?ei víl og ádrepa.

[Nicole Elocin]

Aquan, you're scary, in a good way.



Some prosttutes on the border between South Africa and Mozambique are immune to HIV. They'll contract it, they'll even test positive for it, but a few months thereafter any trace of it simply disappears from their bodies.

[brandon frier]

The Lyle's Golden Syrup logo is a dead lion with bees buzzing around it because of a biblical passage - "from the strength comes forth sweetness" (or something like that). In the story one character kills a lion and then some bees come and make its' corpse their home.

[R.I.p MOmmy]

Your body renews itself every 7 years.
Does not apply to every single cell of your body, but most.

[Stephanie Nieves]

Italians were not the first to invent pasta or spaghetti. That honour goes to the Chinese.

[Pawel Platek]

Teddy Roosevelt was the youngest president ever (Kennedy was the youngest elected).

Teddy Roosevelt was the first American to win the Nobel peace prize.

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright Brothers first flight.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called "aglets"

[Ross Thomas]

Cool stuff guys. MOAR!

[CSar L]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVWfHbbkxOg
My favorite Downfall parody

[Vickey Martinez]

The lion that roars in the MGM title card mauled it's trainer to death the day after that was filmed. I've yet to verify that, but screw it, it's late.

[Tracy Byworth]

Teddy Roosevelt was the youngest president ever (Kennedy was the youngest elected).

Teddy Roosevelt was the first American to win the Nobel peace prize.

Teddy bears are named after Roosevelt, which I think is way cooler than anything else he did.

[Lily]

Teddy bears are named after Roosevelt, which I think is way cooler than anything else he did.

You should read an article on him on a site called badass of the week.