Random Fact!

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
 
how about - the idea that people use only 10% of their brain is nonsense. everybody uses 100% of their brain otherwise it wouldn't be there. some use it better than others ;)
 
semi-pro waster said:
Err, are you sure about that random fact? I reckon there is a green ring in there although you are correct if you include the white background. :)

Random fact: Poison arrow frogs as a grouping covers anywhere in the region of 170 separate species and they don't create the poisons for which they are named themselves but instead concoct them from chemicals in their prey.
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Created by Pierre De Coubertin in 1914.

“ The Olympic flag [...] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red [...] This design is symbolic ; it represents the five inhabited continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colors are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_symbols#Flag
 
DampCat said:
Random Facts please!


##Spiral Staircases in the UK always spiral upwards to the right (clockwise).

Originates from the days of defending castles from an attack. Attackers would be forced to use their left hand for their sword when ascending the stairs, whilst defenders would have full use of their right hand to swing downwards with.

Possibly true with all countries, however i'm not qualified to suggest it as a fact.
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The castle here has anticlockwise spiral stone staircases
 
Despite his genius, Darwin and his followers could never understand the evolution of flowering plants - "how do you go from a pine cone to a co-sexual flower?". It was cited by Darwin that it simply made no sense and that it was "an abominable mystery".

Over the past 20 years, using out knowledge of genetics, we have identified that flowers grow depending on the location of expression of a set of genes, the ABC genes and their relatives, which are found in very specific locations (expressing A alone gives petals, A+B gives Petals etc):

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By genetic tinkering (over expressing A, inhibiting the expression of B etc) we could shape flowers how we wanted (just petals, just carpels...). Experiments took place on the ancestral non-flowering plants which confirmed a similar set of genes existed in these groups. Accordingly, a series of transcription mutations (changing the domains in which the flower genes are expressed) could easily explain the origins of the flower.

Hence, one of Darwin's greatest struggles, with the help of genetic analysis, how now been solved :)
 
I don't need my brain.

Ref Lorber.
"a colleague at Sheffield University became aware of a young man with a larger than normal head. He was referred to Lorber even though it had not caused him any difficulty. Although the boy had an IQ of 126 and had a first class honours degree in mathematics, he had "virtually no brain". A noninvasive measurement of radio density known as CAT scan showed the boy's skull was lined with a thin layer of brain cells to a millimeter in thickness. The rest of his skull was filled with cerebrospinal fluid. The young man continues a normal life with the exception of his knowledge that he has no brain."
 
Thierry Henry only has 4 1/2 fingers on his left hand, he trapped a finger in the door of a Clio when doing the Renault adverts years ago.
 
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