Today I Learned General Chat Golden Threads

[Crabtree]

More people were killed in developing the V1 and V2 terror weapons in WW2 than were killed by them.

 

[David76]

People still catch the Bubonic Plague. About 7 cases a year are detected in the USA and several have died in the Congo.

 

[Ginger Ted]

People still catch the Bubonic Plague. About 7 cases a year are detected in the USA and several have died in the Congo.

Thousands of cases every year across the world. One outbreak in Madagascar 5 years or so ago killed more than 100 people if I remember rightly.

 

[Gemma]

A cinema in Switzerland has double beds instead of seats.

 

[Nadine]

A cinema in Switzerland has double beds instead of seats.

That would be no good for me, I normally fall asleep within 20 mins of the film starting as it is

 

[Nadine]

You can walk from Magadan in Russia to Cape Town in South Africa. It requires no flying or sailing - just bridges and open roads.

 

[Ghost]

Dinosaurs and humans never walked the Earth at the same time. It was just invented for films and cartoons. In paleontological circles, this is referred to as the 'Flintstone Fallacy'!

 

[Heather]

Today I learned that my seat on the sofa isn't mine anymore and it's been taken by Teddy the teddy bear (I learnt this when I sat down and my little girl said NO! Grabbed my hand, pulled me up and went 'teddy's chair' and put her teddy bear down instead)

 

[EmmaDot]

There aren't an infinite mixture of gene types, so there's at least seven people around the world who look just like you.

 

[Amelia]

Bone marrow or stem cell transplants (treatments for cancers like lymphoma or leukaemia) can turn humans into chimeras - meaning they 2 sets of DNA. If you tested the recipients blood, it would have the DNA of their donor, whereas something like a cheek swab would have the persons own original DNA. It can also change a persons blood type to a different one than they had previously.