Weird Stuff
 

Basically a thread for strange things you have learned that have surprised you(though you know not facts that would probably merit a thread in themselves, like government corruption or something).

For instance I found this out yesterday. A second set of jaws, Alien style just to kill you quicker when you're already bitten and struggling. That is just awesome.

They're are currently enough nukes in the west alone to do destroy the earth 10+ times.

Talk about over kill. :\

Probably not as awe-inspiring as the others since it's in the vein of stem cell use and everything, but two years back I read somewhere that a man's jaw was grown on his back as a replacement for the original that decayed or something due to some sort of disease. Cancer, I think it was.
Anyway, I thought it was pretty cool. I mean, who else can say they've had their jaw grown on their back?

i was cooking stakes when the grill started to smoke i ran out there and the meat was yellowish green with bubbles on it. a guy that was a much better cook then myself said that its the fat that's falling of the stake.
it was creepy looking

Tell me you didn't eat that. If you were using any sort of charcoal you shouldn't have eaten it. If you were using any sort of gas grill you shouldn't have eaten it. Out of curiosity, what cut was the steak?

I agree with Demetrius. That sounds less like fat and more like pus. =X

Also, I got a funny mental picture when I read your post. I know you were really cooking steaks, but the idea of someone grilling stakes still made me giggle. Those darn homophones!

In the realm of weird, I live on Illinois-Indiana border. When my street crosses over into Indiana, the house numbers switch sides. In Illinois, the even numbers are on the north side, and the odd numbers are on the south side; in Indiana, the odd numbers are on the north side, and the even numbers are on the south side. I guess they figured that the signs that say "Welcome to Anytown, IN" or "Welcome to Anytown, IL" weren't big enough clues that someone had crossed the border to another state.

i don't know the stake cut but the bubbly stuff fell off by the time i got back
my cook buddy said i put the side with the most fat up
and it was deli-fucking-cious

Quantum mechanical experiments we do today are effecting both the past, present and future quantum states of the universe to an equal degree. That is to say that its just as impossible to determine the history of the universe as it is to predict its future. Kinda puts a whole new spin on time paradoxes.

In situations such as this, I think it's good to just nod and say "I hate time travel."

Hydras are real...but there not giant two headed dragon things...there not even as big as a dime! I was saddend that day...last year in Science class...sigh.....