Things you should have known about but until recently, you didn't.

Here's one I discovered today that had literally never occurred to me: The Beatles band name is a pun on beats and beetles. A terrible terrible pun.
 
Found a good one that i needed to share. Not quite a should have known but a mind blowing fact none the less!

We have been genetically modifying plants and animals for years now with other organisms not genetically related to create transgenic organisms. This has been used to get around a huge problem of producing a spider silk from a golden orb weaver. The silk is several times stronger than steel for its weight, is flexible and stretchy and has uses in advanced sporting gear, armour, medicine (as replacement to ligaments) and other uses. Unfortunately you cant farm the silk as the spiders are cannibals making it incredibly impractical.

For several years some goats have been genetically modified with this spider DNA to produce this silk. These goats are literately milked for silk. It seemed like an April fools joke or something but a little googling came up with a company who trademarked the silk and a pair of shoes Adidas made from it.
 
The first ever moon landing is a lie ! The sky isn't really Blue. We are not real we are all in a VR world with a headset we just don't know it yet.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
Found a good one that i needed to share. Not quite a should have known but a mind blowing fact none the less!

We have been genetically modifying plants and animals for years now with other organisms not genetically related to create transgenic organisms. This has been used to get around a huge problem of producing a spider silk from a golden orb weaver. The silk is several times stronger than steel for its weight, is flexible and stretchy and has uses in advanced sporting gear, armour, medicine (as replacement to ligaments) and other uses. Unfortunately you cant farm the silk as the spiders are cannibals making it incredibly impractical.

For several years some goats have been genetically modified with this spider DNA to produce this silk. These goats are literately milked for silk. It seemed like an April fools joke or something but a little googling came up with a company who trademarked the silk and a pair of shoes Adidas made from it.
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Old news! I'm sure there was even a bbc article on it a few years back.

Saying that I only knew this because I love goats. Just look at their little faces! And hooves. Aww.
 
Dis86 said:
Old news! I'm sure there was even a bbc article on it a few years back.

Saying that I only knew this because I love goats. Just look at their little faces! And hooves. Aww.
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To be fair, the thread is about old new you should know about.

Also goats have freakishly evil devil eyes :p

chris.tarry85 said:
World = Blown!
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I cant comfortabley use any browser without this function
 
I have a memory from a very old TV show where Chris Tarrant was showing the audience a "bum bin" which was basically a plastic bin in the shape of a human bottom. He then said that this one was a reject as it had a crack in it.

I'm ashamed to say I got that joke about 15 years later.
 
that towie is the same as the only way is essex - i just assumed they were different pieces of garbage but they are they same (that it is an acronym didn't occur to me)
 
Angilion said:
The feeling that you're short of air and need to breathe is not triggered by you not having enough oxygen. It's triggered by you having too much carbon dioxide. That's why gases that don't have a smell or taste and which don't cause any irritation are particularly dangerous - since you're breathing fine and thus getting rid of excess carbon dioxide you won't feel as though there's a problem until you start suffering from oxygen deprivation and by then it's probably too late. If you're asleep, you probably won't notice anything before you die.
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Also why when you hold your breath it feels horrible until you start breathing out. Then the Co2 reduced and you feel better even although you have not increased oxygen levels yet.

Very useful for swimming
 
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