What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Anomalocaris]

During wwii the US developed a bat bomb to drop on Japan.    The bomb contained dozens of live bats each with a tiny clockwork incendiary device strapped to its body.   Before flight the bats are chilled to make them sleepy.     they are loaded into the bomb in the drowsy state.   During the bomber’s flight to Japan the cold of high altitude would keep them sleepy.    Once the bomb is released the spring loaded casing would snap open, sprinkling drowsy bats over Japan.    The theory is as the bats fall into lower warmer air, they will wake up and seek to roost inside the attic of flammable wood and paper traditional Japanese houses, where their attached incendiary devices will spring to life and burn down the houses.

During tests it was found the very fast passage of free falling cold bats through warmer air wasn’t sufficiently lengthy to warm the bats.   Instead of reviving and resuming normal bat flight during decent, they plunge like frozen chickens to the ground, not helped by the weight of their attached parasitic pyrotechnic devices.

Several test drops were conducted in California,  then the program was quietly shelved.

[Fake Messiah]

In the US the price of a college textbook increased 90% from 1998 to 2016, while recreational book prices fell by more than 35% over the same time period.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

In the US the price of a college textbook increased 90% from 1998 to 2016, while recreational book prices fell by more than 35% over the same time period.

When I was at uni, it was common to buy used textbooks, both to save money and because the previous owner would have highlighted or underlined all of the important bits.

One of my flat mates bought an organic chemistry text in which everything, except words like ‘the’, ‘and’, ‘for’, etc had been underlined. He wasn’t half pissed about it.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Two actors have died while playing Judas in live Biblical plays by accidentally hanging themselves for real during the death scene.

Which is probably a great honor for Christians dying in a play about Jesus, just like when Jim Caviezel wanted to die during the making of "Passion" because he "knew" he would go straight to Heaven.

[Fake Messiah]

Norway will allow any student from anywhere in the world to study at their public Universities tuition free.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Norway will allow any student from anywhere in the world to study at their public Universities tuition free.

The downside being, of course, living in Norway. Bloody Vikings.

Boru

[Anomalocaris]

Two actors have died while playing Judas in live Biblical plays by accidentally hanging themselves for real during the death scene.

Which is probably a great honor for Christians dying in a play about Jesus, just like when Jim Caviezel wanted to die during the making of "Passion" because he "knew" he would go straight to Heaven.

getting himself killed is much less hard than he is pretending it to be,  which speaks to how sincere his desire really was. 

Like most christian’s, his commitment to his faith seem to be very but as complete as “do nothing and and hope what is bad would become good instead” would allow it to be.

[Fake Messiah]

Dysentery and chronic diarrhea were so prevalent during the American Civil War that there was an honor code among soldiers: you couldn't shoot a man while he was defecating.

Too bad they never show this in movies.

[Fake Messiah]

Thomas Hargrove, who works with the non-profit Murder Accountability Project (MAP), estimates that some 2,000 serial killers are at large in the United States.

[Fake Messiah]

A few years ago, a man took his girlfriend on a tough, twisty 15-mile bicycling path that spelled out "marry me" when she checked her GPS map at the end of their ride.