ITT you tell us 1 fact we don't already know

AJUK · 10 Mar 2006 at 13:48

There are not four different taste senses but five. There is sweetness, sour, bitter, salty that we all know but there is also umami (difficult to explain but savouryness comes close)

Borris · 10 Mar 2006 at 13:56

AJUK said:
savouryness

Warm Meatiness. Think of good quality soy sauce.

MSG (monosodium glutimate) enhances umami.

And casues strokes, and gives me a migraine.

Borris · 10 Mar 2006 at 13:58

Matblack said:
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Say hello

To my leeetle fren'

AJUK · 10 Mar 2006 at 13:58

Borris said:
Warm Meatiness. Think of goog quality soy sauce.

MSG (monosodium glutimate) enhances umami.

And casues strokes, and gives me a migraine.

Oh yeah, MSG is pretty bad for you.

/starts to recall another fact

Moonpie2 · 10 Mar 2006 at 13:59

Don't know if its been posted yet, but glass is a liquid.

Mr Man · 10 Mar 2006 at 14:05

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Mr. Man

Borris · 10 Mar 2006 at 14:14

VeNT said:
also he was jewish

I'll be damned if I'm ever going to one of them thar picture houses again.

Berserker · 10 Mar 2006 at 14:20

Garp said:
It landed at Fairford air strip, not far from Cirencester in Gloustershire, Apparently I saw it but am too young to remember it. Have photographs of the shuttle on approach though. Very cool.

Same, except for the lack of pics.

callmeBadger · 10 Mar 2006 at 14:21

clearcut said:
When counting, you will not see the letter A until you reach 1000

Rubbish, One Hundred And One.

Wasn't this the point of an argument on "Monday Night Pub Quiz" a few tuesdays ago on the Chris Moyles show?

EDIT: Spelling

AJUK · 10 Mar 2006 at 14:30

Moonpie2 said:
Don't know if its been posted yet, but glass is a liquid.

I knew that. WHich is why very old panes of glass are often distorted due to the 'flow' of the liquid over time.

Borris · 10 Mar 2006 at 14:33

AJUK said:
I knew that. WHich is why very old panes of glass are often distorted due to the 'flow' of the liquid over time.

Uh-uh.

WikiP

(Not the WP is necessarily the definitive truth on any subject).

Dutch Guy · 10 Mar 2006 at 14:48

A strawberry is the only fruit that has it's seeds on the outside

JollyGreen · 10 Mar 2006 at 15:38

Dutch Guy said:
A strawberry is the only fruit that has it's seeds on the outside

Not true, I once smashed a watermelon on the floor, definitely had its seeds on the outside then!

Redwalar · 10 Mar 2006 at 15:51

Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.

Pumpkinstew · 10 Mar 2006 at 16:09

The only word in the English lexicon of Haitian origin is Barbeque.

1/0.81=?

-Laser- · 10 Mar 2006 at 16:16

Stellios said:
You only breathe through one nostril at a time, and your body switches between the two every 20 mins or so.

Did you get that from today's metro?

Pigeon_Killer said:
Bulls are colour blind.

what i want to know is, how can they prove that? it may not be black and white, it may be slighty differnet to the colours we see, but they can never actually see how a bull's brain interprets things. also does this not apply to cows too?

VeNT · 10 Mar 2006 at 16:35

-Laser- said:
Did you get that from today's metro?

what i want to know is, how can they prove that? it may not be black and white, it may be slighty differnet to the colours we see, but they can never actually see how a bull's brain interprets things. also does this not apply to cows too?

they only have rods in their eyes, no cones

Squark · 10 Mar 2006 at 16:48

Melm0 said:
Tomatoes kill cats. FACT!

Our cat likes tomato soup, how strange

Redwalar · 10 Mar 2006 at 17:13

British ships bombed the island of Zanzibar at 9 am on August 27, 1896. At 9.45 am Zanzibar surrendered, after the shortest war in history

Berserker · 10 Mar 2006 at 17:16

Dutch Guy said:
A strawberry is the only fruit that has it's seeds on the outside

Also, using the botanical definition of berry, this means that a strawberry is not a berry at all, and neither is a blackberry or a raspberry. However, a tomato is a berry.