Interesting facts that sound like utter bollocks

Kellogg's Corn Flakes were in part originally created to discourage masturbation.

Because they're a terrible lubricant?

That's not a growth wrote:Because they're a terrible lubricant?

John Harvey Kellogg was a fanatical christian who was involved in the creation of anaphrodisiac foods. He believed tasty, spicy or exotic foods were sexually stimulating so specifically had an incredibly bland food developed to counter this.

And yet ironically these days I find the only way I can actually achieve climax is to smother myself in Corn Flakes and shove a Rice Krispie cake where the sun doesn't shine

Jenuall wrote:And yet ironically these days I find the only way I can actually achieve climax is to smother myself in Corn Flakes and shove a Rice Krispie cake where the sun doesn't shine

Switch to Frosties. The sugar makes all the difference.

Moggy wrote:
Jenuall wrote:And yet ironically these days I find the only way I can actually achieve climax is to smother myself in Corn Flakes and shove a Rice Krispie cake where the sun doesn't shine

Switch to Frosties. The sugar makes all the difference.

Baywatch had a spin off series called Baywatch Nights which turned into an X-Files clone in the second season featuring things such as Underwater monsters, aliens, apocalyptic parallel universes, slime blob monsters, vampires, resurrected ancient mummies and a revived viking warrior.

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Moggy wrote:
Ironhide wrote:
Knoyleo wrote:What's heavier, 1kg of sun, or 1kg of atoms?

1kg is the same weight regardless of what you're weighing.

Depends when it was weighed.

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/why ... 51.article

That's actually my day job (I'm part of a team developing the UK's realisation of the new kg) when I'm not just browsing a gaming forum . This is clearly fate's way of telling me to stop skiving off and get back to work.

This is amazing that you're part of this!

I mean, it's incredible how much work goes into something like this, it's really important, really precise science.

But also, seems like the kind of thing you could spin out for a very long time.

"We're almost there but just need to check a few more things, this is really important and has to be right."

*opens up GRCade*

Would totally milk that situation.

I have some scales I can send over that will give you 1kg if you need it.

Edit- make sure it's on stable surface

Can you make the kilogram weigh more so the numbers are smaller when I step in the scales?

Cumberdanes wrote:
That's not a growth wrote:Because they're a terrible lubricant?

John Harvey Kellogg was a fanatical christian who was involved in the creation of anaphrodisiac foods. He believed tasty, spicy or exotic foods were sexually stimulating so specifically had an incredibly bland food developed to counter this.

Religion

No fun allowed.

If you divide 1/998001 the answer includes every number between 1 and 999, except 998.

more heat than light wrote:If you divide 1/998001 the answer includes every number between 1 and 999, except 998.

Found it!

Ha, I should have said consecutive numbers. But yeah, that's fair. :lol:

It is a really interesting fact though, numbers can be genuinely crazy at times with things like this!

No number (in words) before 1000 contains the letter A

Lime wrote:No number (in words) before 1000 contains the letter A

cuatro

Lime wrote:No number (in words) before 1000 contains the letter A

One Hundred and One

twitter.com/richjolly/status/1277617483638288389

PatSharpsMullet wrote:
Lime wrote:No number (in words) before 1000 contains the letter A

One Hundred and One

ah crap

Turns out I should have also said "excluding the optional 'and' ".

Too many qualifying provisos. Interesting fact rejected. Sorry all!

Interesting facts that sound like utter bollocks

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