Fun Facts We Didn't Need To Know

[Nells250]

Google tobacco smoke enema and prepare yourself to be well and thoroughly weirded out .

Uuuuuuummmmmmm... I think I'll "pass" on that one!

 

[Back in the fold]

Uuuuuuummmmmmm... I think I'll "pass" on that one!

“Pass” - I get it “butt” it’s not that type of enema .It was thought that drowning victims could be revived with this procedure by warming them internally . This was 18th century Britain so go figure .

 

[WhistlingBadger]

This was 18th century Britain so go figure .

...the same country and general era that gave us arsenic, mercury, and ammonia as beauty aids.

 

[Nells250]

Speaking of poisons... here's another one:

There was an era when GREEN WALLPAPER was poisonous.

 

[Essjay]

It was the green in the wallpaper that is thought by many to have poisoned Napoleon Bonaparte.

 

[Nells250]

Hey that's right, I think I remember that detail being mentioned!

 

[Fishmanic]

Mom always said "eat your greens". Was she trying to kill me

 

[MuddyWaters]

“Pass” - I get it “butt” it’s not that type of enema .It was thought that drowning victims could be revived with this procedure by warming them internally . This was 18th century Britain so go figure .

then bleed them out to remove all the bad "vapors" and "humours"

 

[Sir Guppy]

GREEN WALLPAPER

Wasn’t that Emerald Green?

 

[Ichthys]

Mom always said "eat your greens". Was she trying to kill me

Yes. Mine tried for years to kill me with brussel sprouts, cabbage and cauliflower but I was wise to her game, and never ate a fatal dose.

 

[gwand]

Interesting fact

Flea toad may be world's smallest vertebrate

A trio of biologists at Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, in Brazil, has verified that a tiny frog, Brachycephalus pulex, also known as the Brazilian flea toad, which is found only in southern Brazil, is not only the world's smallest amphibian, it is also the world's smallest vertebrate...

phys.org

 

[gwand]

Zebra fish help out Science again.
https://www.psypost.org/unlocking-t...l-effect-of-psilocybin-revealed-in-new-study/y

 

[MuddyWaters]

Zebra fish help out Science again.
https://www.psypost.org/unlocking-t...l-effect-of-psilocybin-revealed-in-new-study/y

Some scientists out there must be like me. "Hey, man let's study shrooms." "Why? "What do you mean, 'why'?"

 

[jaylach]

Some scientists out there must be like me. "Hey, man let's study shrooms." "Why? "What do you mean, 'why'?"

 

[jaylach]

Did you know that ice cubes evaporate? Actually it's called sublimation..

Why do ice cubes shrink in the freezer?

OK before you all yell "EVAPORATION", I know that's the boilerplate answer, but why and how. Back in high school we were taught water, and most other elements and compounds, have three states, sol...

physics.stackexchange.com