1. in order for a british train to be oficially “late”, it must arrive more than 10 minutes after it should have. in order for a japanese train to be oficially “late”, it must arrive more than 1 minute after it should have.

2. apparently, in some parts of canada, you can stop your mom from being an idiot by throwing a knife at her. link

3. you can’t bribe people into going to church any more. link

4. you should never try to go head-to-head with a giraffe. link

5. in saudi arabia, in 2009, at least 69 people were executed by either beheading or crucifixion. (in saudi arabia, a crucifixion is performed by beheading the person, sewing his head back on his body, and then hanging the re-assembled corpse on a pole for public display for a while.) link

6. saudi arabia is not a recommended vacation destination for self proclaimed psychics. link

7. toads don’t like earthquakes. link

8. shakespeare might have been half-french – but only on april 1… link

9. facebook was someone else’s idea. link

10. magnets can be used to disrupt moral judgements. link

11. dr. seuss usually wrote in anapestic tetrameter, although he occasionally slipped into amphibrachic tetrameter or trochaic tetrameter.

1. it is now legal for children to make noise in berlin. link

2. some people just don’t know when to keep their pants on. link

1. the telephone was invented by the queen of england, luke skywalker was the first man on the moon, and newton invented fire and the internet, he also discovered the solar system and america. link

2. drinking makes you thin. link

3. you can buy sex at an auction. link

4. depression might be good for you. link

4a. typically, mental illnesses affect about 1% of the population. depression, however, affects between 20% and 40% of the population.

5. although the united states is not the land of the free, it is certainly the home of the brave… link

1. time really does go by faster as you get older… the recent earthquake in chile moved the earth’s centre of gravity by about 8 cm, thus shortening the length of a day by 1.26 microseconds. link and link

1a. the effect of wind has a similar effect on the length of the day, but it’s 3oo times greater. link

2. the large hadron collider gathers 40 terabytes of information per second during an experiment. link

3. sony finally figured out that 2010 is not a leap year… link

4. there is water on the moon. link

5. the story of lucy temerlin is worth learning. link

6. if you plan to overthrow the united states government, it will cost you at least $5. link

7. if the loonie that tried to blow up a plane landing in detroit at christmas had been successful, he wouldn’t have done much damage to  the plane. link

8. the rate of birth defects in fallujah are incredibly high, regardless of what the official reports tell you. link

9. you have between 5,000 and 35,000 species of bacteria living in your intestines, but only 120 or so on your skin.

10. one profitable way to dispose of toxic and/or nuclear waste is to put it on a ship, and then scuttle it, claiming that the ship sank. there are people who track suspicious sinkings in an effort to follow this trend. link