10 things we didnt know last week.

[Lamb]

1. An egg can be unboiled.

*Just learned I can highlight what I want and click Quote to pick a certain part

For everyone who does not understand how ground breaking this is, let's start by explaining what this will do.
When eggs are boiled, the proteins within them become unfolded.
In order for Chemist to fold proteins it can cost millions upon billions of dollars and the process is extremely tedious.
The process that has now been discovered in unboiling an egg folds the proteins back in the egg, and it's far cheaper (Talking dirt cheap in comparison to the previous) and faster in comparison.
This will benefit the fields of biological and chemical research, for example, better, more effective medicine.

[Dr Frook]

annnnd for this weeeeek:

1. Saying "ow" makes immersion in very cold water less painful.

2. A 51-year-old software engineer named Bryan Henderson has edited Wikipedia 47,000 times to remove the ungrammatical term "comprised of".

3. The Archbishop of Canterbury is allergic to garlic.

4. Cats are significantly less stressed when they have a cardboard box to hide in.

5. Some 15,152 types of life forms have been identified on the New York subway.

6. A baby is born on its predicted due date just 4% of the time.

7. It costs £3.20 ($5) to commission a spear from a Ugandan blacksmith.

8. The world's largest crane ship is named after a Nazi war criminal.

9. Chinese internet users are banned from posting messages using the names of famous people.

10. Dutch and Scottish chimps have different grunts to signify the word "apple", and the former can pick up the latter's accent.

[Flobalob]

2. A 51-year-old software engineer named Bryan Henderson has edited Wikipedia 47,000 times to remove the ungrammatical term "comprised of".

Apparently it's not that ungrammatical. Anyone up for doing the exact opposite?

[Dr Frook]

2. A 51-year-old software engineer named Bryan Henderson has edited Wikipedia 47,000 times to remove the ungrammatical term "comprised of".

Apparently it's not that ungrammatical. Anyone up for doing the exact opposite?

You're right, its not. This guy needs to be taught a lesson... lets undo his 47K changes.

[Flobalob]

2. A 51-year-old software engineer named Bryan Henderson has edited Wikipedia 47,000 times to remove the ungrammatical term "comprised of".

Apparently it's not that ungrammatical. Anyone up for doing the exact opposite?

You're right, its not. This guy needs to be taught a lesson... lets undo his 47K changes.

Let's.

[Lamb]

2. A 51-year-old software engineer named Bryan Henderson has edited Wikipedia 47,000 times to remove the ungrammatical term "comprised of".

Apparently it's not that ungrammatical. Anyone up for doing the exact opposite?

You're right, its not. This guy needs to be taught a lesson... lets undo his 47K changes.

Let's.

Is that a let's as in go or as in correction?

[Flobalob]

2. A 51-year-old software engineer named Bryan Henderson has edited Wikipedia 47,000 times to remove the ungrammatical term "comprised of".

Apparently it's not that ungrammatical. Anyone up for doing the exact opposite?

You're right, its not. This guy needs to be taught a lesson... lets undo his 47K changes.

Let's.

Is that a let's as in go or as in correction?

Both.

[Dr Frook]

I say we kill any grammar police... kill them dead.

[Dr Frook]

1. Before 1939, the home secretary was the only UK minister to get an official motor.


2. Only one stained glass window in the UK is thought to depict Jesus with ginger hair.


3. Penguins can't taste fish, only bitter and umami (meaty) flavours.


4. Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams trampolines naked with his dog.


5. Limpets' teeth are made of the strongest biological material ever tested.


6. Roughly 56% of average monthly earnings in Malawi are spent on mobile phone charges, compared to about 0.11% in Macau, China.


7. Tea should be brewed for six minutes, according to the organisation responsible for safety kitemarks in the UK.


8. Spotify's shuffle is not truly random but sprinkles different genres evenly across a playlist and alternates songs by the same artist.


9. John Frenchman is likely to have been the most common name given to medieval migrants coming to England.


10. Only one person has applied to move to the Pacific island of Pitcairn despite a government offer that new settlers will be provided with a plot to build their own house.

[Dr Frook]

1. Mares prefer stallions with deep whinnies.

2. UK Chancellor George Osborne is amused by the idea of visiting a hard hat factory.

3. Scotland has the terroir for growing the world's finest tea.

4. Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela has more lightning strikes than anywhere else in the world.

5. Winston Churchill tried to give Lincoln Cathedral's copy of Magna Carta to the US to help convince the Americans to join World War Two.

6. Putting a lightbulb inside a fruit or vegetable shows that they all emit light differently - rough surfaced items like cauliflower create the most interesting effect.

7. A man-sized lobster lived 480 million years ago.

8. At Hotel Football, run by ex-Manchester United players, Gary Neville is represented in the bathroom by blackcurrant extract shampoo while brother Phil is a bar of soap.

9. Chameleons change colour by rearranging crystals rather than dispersing pigments.

10. The Finnish prime minister has a 95-year-old great uncle who skis every Saturday and Sunday.