10 things we didnt know last week.

[Flobalob]

8. Obesity could lower the risk of developing arthritis in men.

how even..?

Pretend that there are a million men and million women, all obese, all with the same Body Mass Index (a high one, obviously). The men will often have more abdominal fat than the women. There's a connection between a high Body Mass Index and hormones, where pathways related to the fat and hormone-related factors could have a protective effect against arthritis.

I'm totally not one of those people who go to the weird medical side of the Youtubes.
*shifts uncomfortably*

so.. cushioning?

[Icamenal]

8. Obesity could lower the risk of developing arthritis in men.

how even..?

Pretend that there are a million men and million women, all obese, all with the same Body Mass Index (a high one, obviously). The men will often have more abdominal fat than the women. There's a connection between a high Body Mass Index and hormones, where pathways related to the fat and hormone-related factors could have a protective effect against arthritis.

I'm totally not one of those people who go to the weird medical side of the Youtubes.
*shifts uncomfortably*

so.. cushioning?

I guess saying that abdominal fat affects hormones. in men. and those hormones have a positive effect against arthritis would have been clearer.

[Dr Frook]

1. A seal can surf on a humpback whale.


2. Liberals swear more on Twitter than conservatives.


3. Portsmouth is the luckiest city in the UK.


4. Giraffes spend their evenings humming to each other.


5. Bill Cosby was the first choice to play Sam Malone in Cheers, ahead of Ted Danson.


6. An "invisibility cloak" has been invented that could turn beer bellies into six-packs.


7. Coffee drunk late at night resets the internal body clock and can give you jet lag.


8. The nostril is one of the most painful places on the body for a bee sting.


9. The company which owns the rights to Happy Birthday To You makes an estimated $2m per year from usage fees.


10. In their spare time, US fighter pilots play a mash-up of pool and rugby called crud.

[Flobalob]

6. An "invisibility cloak" has been invented that could turn beer bellies into six-packs.

my whole life has led to this

[Dr Frook]

1. Quentin Tarantino still records films from TV on VHS cassettes.


2. People tweet more egocentrically from phones than they do from computers.


3. Gay, lesbian and bisexual people in the UK are more likely to smoke than heterosexuals.


4. Getting into an ambulance to celebrate scoring a goal will earn you a yellow card in Argentina.


5. More than one person every minute is arrested for marijuana possession in the US.


6. Ten boroughs account for a quarter of all stamp duty collected in the UK - nine of them are in London.


7. Cyclists in a peloton school like fish.


8. The English composer Benjamin Britten wrote a national anthem for Malaysia, only for it to be rejected in favour of a cabaret tune.


9. Interstate 19 in Arizona is the US's only interstate highway where distances are measured in kilometres rather than miles.


10. The odds of developing cancer go up by 10% in men and 18% in women for every 10cm above 1m they are tall.

[Connor]

4. Getting into an ambulance to celebrate scoring a goal will earn you a yellow card in Argentina.

I'm gonna try this in FIFA

[Dr Frook]

1. Elephants almost never get cancer.


2. Actor Brian Blessed delivered a baby in a park, bit through the umbilical cord and then licked the infant's face clean.


3. Fire ants are surviving historic floods in South Carolina by making rafts.


4. Jeremy Corbyn is a life-long reader of Rail Magazine.


5. A third of vegetarians eat meat when drunk on a night out.


6. Sea anemones could hold the key to immortality.


7. Lakes on Mars might have existed long enough for life to evolve.


8. The suffragettes learnt the ancient martial art of jiu-jitsu.


9. Britain is the best country in the world in which to die.


10. The best way to remember a name is to say it to someone else.

[Tycoon]

9. Britain is the best country in the world in which to die.

why is this, i wonder?

[Dr Frook]

because they give the best care to people who are dying...

[Dr Frook]

1. Crocodiles can sleep with one eye open.


2. Biff Tannen's older self, as portrayed in Back to the Future Part II, was based on Donald Trump.


3. The US used to relocate beavers by parachuting them out of planes.


4. Eating a Mediterranean diet may slow the ageing process by five years.


5. Using long, complicated words makes you appear less intelligent than if you use simple language.


6. Iceland is the most peaceful country in the world.


7. Parents are four times more likely to tell their daughters than their sons to be careful in future following an accident.


8. Howler monkeys with the loudest voices tend to have smaller testicles.


9. Cambridge spy Guy Burgess's mother discovered that he had defected to the Soviet Union by reading about it in a newspaper.


10. China's best Obama impersonator cannot speak English.