George HW Bush, the future President of the United States, narrowly avoided a diabolical fate when his plane was shot down during a bombing raid against Japan. He was picked up by the Allies, but all the other men on the same raid were captured by Japanese officers who proceeded to torture, execute, cook and eat them, in one of the grisliest war crimes of the whole conflict.

I recently found out that a lot of insects are disgusted by us. If for example you touch a roach and it escapes alive it will spend a long time washing the human stink off of itself. Kind of puts is all in perspective, huh?

well i think most people found this out recently. but owls having long legs and knees. didnt quite understand what i was seeing at first but yeah learn something new every day. still love owls though even though they dont look right anymore.

You can actually always see your own nose and your own tongue doesn't fit in your mouth properly, now they will bug you for hours your welcome.

Michael Crichton died in 2008. I thought he was still alive. I was reading one of his books thinking, Gee, it's been awhile, and thought it was new, but it was just 'new to me'

Amazing storyteller - something we all know for sure. Random I am just picking this up. More sad. I can do better.

Humans are the only animals that blush. WE are also the only ones that 'feel' embarassement. It's something to do with needing to understand other peoples emotions and reactions that leads to both. Charles Dareins said that blushing was the most peculiar and human of all expressions.....

You can boil water using, in effect low air pressure

Water with a head of pressure somewhat lower than that of atmospheric pressure will boil at room temperature.

For example. Place a bucket of water at ground level run a hose up 3 stories (say 25m or so) and connect it to a bottle.

Make sure there are no air voids, the water in the bottle will start to boil.

Found out there is town in Chile desert called Calama and apparently it never ever rained in that city. Not sure if its only place since its mentioned as fun fact that people usually dont know

Today i discovered we are all stuck in the matrix. Today is tomorrow and yesterday is this afternoon. I strongly urge us to group up and plan our escape back into the real world.

There are jelly fish in the sea down in Cornwall however the white ones don't sting, but the ones that have blue running through the top of them do. Oh and the blue ones look really pretty 

duh man you gotta be original

that on the island of sipan, there is the biggest ratio of olive trees to inhabitants. Apparently with 450 inhabitants and a large olive tree plantation that is 1 of the major olive oil producing areas of croatia. Didn't get to buy it though, no shops were open :(

Cheese is the most shoplifted food in the world.

I'm curious, though, if they mean high-end pricey stuff, or that processed crap lovingly labelled as 'cheese food'.