- Who first thought of milking cows
and what the hell did they think they were doing ?
- actually, finding that information could prove quite useful for those studying in anthropology, history and, of course, nutrtition...
My pittance of a contribution:
- a squid's brain is wrapped around its esophagus. If it attempts to swallow something too large it will die.
- the brown colour of shit comes from digestive enzymes, not the shit itself.
- the "sin of Onan" is a misnomer. Onan did not masturbate but
pulled out after having sex with his brother's widow. God punished him for failing to fulfil his duty to father an heir for his dead brother,
not for masturbation (which "might" fall in the category of "sexual immorality" as translated by the NIV). (should be common knowledge but it still surprises me how few people seem to know this.
)
- the "leather" look of heavy metal was taken directly from the gay club scene of the '70's.
- the frontal walking animation of the Spider Mastermind refers to half the frames you actually see - the frames are mirrored when the other leg raises.
- in a normal temperate-and-warmer setting one is almost never more than three feet away from a spider.
- in China they have a dish whose name I roughly translate as "three calls." The baby mouse squeaks once when the chopsticks close in on it, once when it is dipped into the sauce and once when one's molars crush it.
- pigs are more intelligent and emotionally sensitive than dogs. But guess which one most Gentile Westerners are more comfortable with eating.
- the classical Greeks regularly practiced man-boy love, and it was considered perfectly decent and acceptable, and was even encouraged, for a youth to engage in regular sex with an older mentor. (well,
I was pretty shocked when I first learned this.)
- earthworms take a long, long time to drown. Nasty business.
- it is illegal to portray the genitals in Japan, no matter how explicit the material is otherwise. Any uncensored hentai you see is either drawn by foreign artists or artists working abroad, or was illegally obtained underground.
- a long, long time ago, Quake was originally intended to be a huge, highly interactive RPG starring a Thor-like warrior with a huge hammer of thunderbolts and a ring of regeneration. The subtitle, "Fight for Justice," was mentioned as early as one of the older Commander Keen games.
- Latin has no definite article.