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Riddle101

prinzeugen wrote: »

In the event of a nuclear war, France would use its weapons against any invading force that threatens French soil.

If that should be the Russian army in Germany, then France would nuke Germany to protect itself.

Really makes you think how far a country is prepared to go to protect itself. I mean I reckon it's not just France who would do that. Pretty sure you could expect the same from Russia, China, USA, and Britain as well.

Noo

prinzeugen wrote: »

Indian Railways are the largest non military employer in the world.

They're up there alright but i thought it was Walmart.

Chancer3001

The guy who plays Sick Boy in trainspotting used to be married to Angelina Jolie

Tokyo

Half of all humans who have ever lived, died from malaria.

AndyBoBandy

Chancer3001 wrote: »

The guy who plays Sick Boy in trainspotting used to be married to Angelina Jolie

He also stared with her in the movie Hackers

Malari

Chancer3001 wrote: »

The guy who plays Sick Boy in trainspotting used to be married to Angelina Jolie

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

He also stared with her in the movie Hackers

Jonny Lee Miller! I thought this was a pretty well known fact!

AndyBoBandy

I never knew he was married to her (although, I think I remember reading it somewhere),

eviltimeban

When the oldest living person on earth was born, there was an entirely different set of people living on the planet than there is now.

Squall Leonhart

eviltimeban wrote: »

When the oldest living person on earth was born, there was an entirely different set of people living on the planet than there is now.

Obvious as day when you read it, but quite an amazing thing if you actually think about what it means. Very cool.

jimgoose

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

Obvious as day when you read it, but quite an amazing thing if you actually think about what it means. Very cool.

Doesn't sound so good to me - poor sod doesn't know anyone! :pac:

Omackeral

twinytwo wrote: »

-Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump

Apart from White Men.


My fact; You've never touched your right elbow with your right hand.

Red Kev

Bruce Forsyth is married to the 1975 Miss World (she's 29 years younger than him), previous to that he was in a relationship with the 1964 Miss World.

George Best is the only other known person to have been in a relationship with two Miss World's.

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

They did, two very funny lads.

I love the thought process by some lads to work out a fantastic nickname like that so fast:)

Professional footballer Fitz Hall has the nickname "One Size" as in "One size fits all".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitz_Hall

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Noo wrote: »

They're up there alright but i thought it was Walmart.

Yes, Walmart 2.3 million, Indian Railways 1.4 million.

McDonald's 1.9 million.

Tokyo

eviltimeban wrote: »

When the oldest living person on earth was born, there was an entirely different set of people living on the planet than there is now.

Thanks to population growth, more than 6% of all humans who have ever lived are alive today.

Red Kev

Sean Connery wore a hairpiece in every Bond film. He started going prematurely bald in the late 1950's.

Capt'n Midnight

If you divide the second half of 11355 by the first you get 355/113

It's close enough to Pi that if you used it to measure the equator you'd only be out by 10 feet.

DEFTLEFTHAND

James Buchanan (1857-1861) is the only American President who never married. His niece served as the hostess in the White House in the First Lady role.

Rumours about Buchanan's sexuality circulated at the time. He had previously lived with his best friend William Rufus DeVane King who served as Vice President in the Franklin Pierce administration. It's said that the two were more than just friends, although King had died by the time Buchanan became President.

stimpson

The following terms are banned from being used in the Dail:

Brat, buffoon, chancer, communist, corner boy, fruit booty, west middleton towel dropper, dunny dancer, morton's steam peddler, cab stander, uptown nightie boy, old farmer's hand warmer, batty boy, lucker tucker, coward, fascist, gurrier, guttersnipe, hypocrite, rat, scumbag, scurrilous speaker, or yahoo; or to insinuate that a TD is lying or drunk; or has violated the secrets of cabinet, or doctored an official report.

StupidLikeAFox

stimpson wrote: »

The following terms are banned from being used in the Dail:

corner boy, fruit booty, west middleton towel dropper, dunny dancer, morton's steam peddler, cab stander, uptown nightie boy, old farmer's hand warmer, batty boy, lucker tucker

I want to hear the background to these ones in particular

Chancer3001

Sharks don't have bones. That's why there's never any skeletons from sharks. Just their teeth.

They have stuff like cartilage, like what we have in our ears and the tips of our nose - that's why skulls have no ears or noses on themy

Might be very obvious or might be something you've never thought about!

Malari

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Sharks don't have bones. That's why there's never any skeletons from sharks. Just their teeth.

They have stuff like cartilage, like what we have in our ears and the tips of our nose - that's why skulls have no ears or noses on themy

Might be very obvious or might be something you've never thought about!

Same as all other cartilaginous fish. And no bones mean no bone marrow so they need other organs to manufacture red blood cells.

Lawlesz

Chancer3001 wrote: »

The guy who plays Sick Boy in trainspotting used to be married to Angelina Jolie

The guy who played Tommy later became a priest. He suffered a breakdown in Irelands largest lingerie store, I understand, when several priests became trapped there during the Christmas period in the 90s

Wibbs

Malari wrote: »

Same as all other cartilaginous fish. And no bones mean no bone marrow so they need other organs to manufacture red blood cells.

It also apparently protects them from cancer as cartilage is harder for tumours to attach and get a decent blood supply from.

cdeb

West Germany won the 1954 World Cup, having beaten Saarland in qualifying. Saarland was temporarily a separate country, a French protectorate, after the war, but the population saw themselves as German. They were managed by Helmut Schön, later West German manager, and some of their players played for West Germany after Saarland merged with West Germany in 1956. Their players supported West Germany during the 1954 World Cup, and one or two would have played had they not already played for Saarland. All Saar teams, were even playing in the German regional leagues at the time. (Germany didn't have a top flight until 1963.)

So West Germany qualified by beating themselves (and Norway, who were crap)

When Saarland played their first international in 1950, they realised they had no national anthem, and so had to come up with one for the match.

Thargor

cabledude wrote: »

The most widely used (and highest earning in dollar terms) bio pharmaceutical drugs are manufactured using cells from the ovaries of Chinese hamsters. CHO (Chinese Hamster Ovary) cells are the best producing cell lines known to biologics and in dollar terms 5 out of the top 6 biologic medicines are developed from CHO. This is a very specific and complicated process which makes it extremely expensive.

In a similar vein, Henrietta Lacks was a random African American steelworker in Virginia who died of cervical cancer in 1951. Before she died a biopsy of the tumor on her cervix was given to a researcher at the hospital. He found the tumor was like no other cells they'd ever seen before back then, cancerous or otherwise, they were ridiculously tough and practically immortal, he managed to grow them into the HeLa (named after their owner) cell line and it revolutionised biotech research because now scientists had an unlimited supply of human (-ish) cells they could do whatever they want with.

Jonas Salk wouldn't have had any way to grow live Polio for his polio vaccines without HeLa so they saved millions of lives just a couple of years after she died, and literally millions of similar experiments have been done with them, thousands and thousands of patents have been granted off the back of them and they're still growing strong today, in fact they grow so well they're prone to contaminating laboratories and production facilities, theres a good chance they'll play a major role in whatever the eventual cure for cancer turns out to be.

IvyTheTerrible

Thargor wrote: »

In a similar vein, Henrietta Lacks was a random African American steelworker in Virginia who died of cervical cancer in 1951. Before she died a biopsy of the tumor on her cervix was given to a researcher at the hospital. He found the tumor was like no other cells they'd ever seen before back then, cancerous or otherwise, they were ridiculously tough and practically immortal, he managed to grow them into the HeLa (named after their owner) cell line and it revolutionised biotech research because now scientists had an unlimited supply of human (-ish) cells they could do whatever they want with.

Jonas Salk wouldn't have had any way to grow live Polio for his polio vaccines without HeLa so they saved millions of lives just a couple of years after she died, and literally millions of similar experiments have been done with them, thousands and thousands of patents have been granted off the back of them and they're still growing strong today, in fact they grow so well they're prone to contaminating laboratories and production facilities, theres a good chance they'll play a major role in whatever the eventual cure for cancer turns out to be.

Controversy about how her cells were taken without her informed consent also lead to changes in research ethics.
(I recommend heartily the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks).

steddyeddy

Thargor wrote: »

In a similar vein, Henrietta Lacks was a random African American steelworker in Virginia who died of cervical cancer in 1951. Before she died a biopsy of the tumor on her cervix was given to a researcher at the hospital. He found the tumor was like no other cells they'd ever seen before back then, cancerous or otherwise, they were ridiculously tough and practically immortal, he managed to grow them into the HeLa (named after their owner) cell line and it revolutionised biotech research because now scientists had an unlimited supply of human (-ish) cells they could do whatever they want with.

Jonas Salk wouldn't have had any way to grow live Polio for his polio vaccines without HeLa so they saved millions of lives just a couple of years after she died, and literally millions of similar experiments have been done with them, thousands and thousands of patents have been granted off the back of them and they're still growing strong today, in fact they grow so well they're prone to contaminating laboratories and production facilities, theres a good chance they'll play a major role in whatever the eventual cure for cancer turns out to be.

The tragedy is that they didn't ask Miss Lacks' permission to harvest and grow her cells.

steddyeddy

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Controversy about how her cells were taken without her informed consent also let to changes in research ethics.
(I recommend heartily the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks).

Snap! African Americans have often been the losing party in American medical research.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Irish Home Ruler John Redmond's family once owned the infamous Loftus Hall in Wexford, known as Redmonds Hall at the time.

They were ran off during the Cromwellian conquest and the Hall and surrounding lands were taken over by the Loftus family. A bunch of aristocratic planters.

Dufflecoat Fanny

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Irish Home Ruler John Redmond's family once owned the infamous Loftus Hall in Wexford, known as Redmonds Hall at the time.

They were ran off during the Cromwellian conquest and the Hall and surrounding lands were taken over by the Loftus family. A bunch of aristocratic planters.

well aware of them. loftus surname must have the most ugly women ive ever seen.