DUers, please tell us ONE bizarre fact you never knew of until today. I'll start:

[Deja Q]

A "capon" is a neutered rooster. :(

He ain't gettin' no chicks tonight...

:hide:

[geardaddy]

1. You didn't know that until today?

I guess if you're not into food, you wouldn't necessarily know that. :)

[Deja Q]

5. No, I only eat food. It gets into me. And not in the way South Park once described...

that show is weird.

[taterguy]

2. That there's a Hilton in Paris

[Deja Q]

6. I know colloquialisms and euphemisms change over time,

but that one is just too weird. :rofl:

[taterguy]

7. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro

That's actually a fact that I've known a long time

[tandot]

3. That some DUers are obsessed with Paris Hilton.

:shrug:

[Maddy McCall]

4. Obsessed with loathing Paris maybe.

:D

[Bicoastal]

10. Here's what I learned: your froggie picture creeps me out...

If frogs actually HAD teeth, they'd rule the world.

[Maddy McCall]

11. Thanks.

I think.

:D

[geardaddy]

13. I'm with you on that one.

:shudder:

[Deja Q]

8. But, for which reason?

And even one reason may not be for the right reason...

I pity the lady, but it's the legal proceedings that have had me intrigued.

[tandot]

15. I guess she is the poster girl for the inequalities in our justice system

Most of the time, people who are rich and famous will have it a little bit easier than us regular folks.

[SarahB]

9. I have three.

1. The increasing levels of CO2 that causes vasoconstriction can lead to intercranial hemorrhage.

2. There is a 6 hour window for fibrolytics in the case of myocardial infarction as opposed to a 3 hour window for an ischemic cerebral vascular accident.

3. Lopressor can be used to control blood pressure in asthmatics because it is a heart sensitive beta 1 blocker as opposed to the more systemic beta 2's. (Always though all beta blockers were no-nos for asthmatics.)

Was that fun? :P

[MistressOverdone]

12. I never knew what milf is

oh..and it is really hard to neuter a rooster

[tandot]

16. "...and it is really hard to neuter a rooster" is another fact that I just learned today

:evilgrin:

[Initech]

14. GD does exactly what the media tells them sometimes.

It's true - they complain about when the media distracts us with unimportant crap like Paris Hilton, yet, there's at least 100 threads on the subject right now while this little nugget slipped out from under us:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2873658

:popcorn:

[idgiehkt]

27. um, wow.

You are right, I missed that but I am GD avoidant as a matter of course

"Registration records show that Eric Linden, who portrays Adam taking his first breath in a film at the newly opened Creation Museum, owns a graphic Web site called Bedroom Acrobat. He has been pictured there, smiling alongside a drag queen, in a T-shirt brandishing the site's sexually suggestive logo."

Unbelievable.

:spray:

[Parche]

17. Bizarre Fact

A Hypnotoad is a DU'r :evilgrin:

[Deja Q]

18. Well, if I should be banned...

:evilgrin:

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. That some women are quite furry

And not just in areas you'd think of.

:scared:

[conscious evolution]

20. That Paris has a mom

She must be real proud of her daughter right now.

[northzax]

21. I am unable to speak Tagalog

sure, I kinda guessed this was the case, but I had never really had the opportunity to try. And you never know...

ever wondered how to caponize a rooster?

[Joe Fields]

22. I found out Jimi Hendrix was on the Lulu Show, in 1969. Bizarre...

[Dervill Crow]

32. I found out that there WAS a Lulu show in 1969. n/t

[BlueIris]

23. Men with their astrological Sun signs in Libra often prefer

to have sex that begins with a sideways entry. Who knew? Not I. And now that I do know, well, that explains a lot.

[idgiehkt]

24. if you count the wee hours of last night as today

I learned that blood packs in mafia movies are called "squibs", from Starbucks Anarchist.

[Roon]

25. Not bizarre

but I learned that Billyskank can build computers.

[Adsos Letter]

26. That being a spoiled, self-indulgent , promiscuous, self-absorbed

immature, attention-freak, mega-millionaire may now be re-categorized as "claustrophobia" in in respect to legal considerations.

I find that bizarre...

:D

[ashling]

28. I learned that from Julia Child

30 years ago

[Bjornsdotter]

29. I learned that if you

....leave your sunroof open during a rainstorm the inside of your car will be soaked.

Not a happy thing to learn....

Cheers

[u4ic]

30. There is an earwig sanctuary in Borneo

One place I'll never, ever find myself...

[racaulk]

31. I have a tough time pronouncing any form of the Spanish verb "ahorrar."

Don't know why. Can't get it. :shrug: