Post random interesting trivia

[Frolic_Fun]

Humans have 4 nostrils. 2 external, 2 internal.

[Parts]

Americium is the only synthetic (man-made) element that can be purchased at Walmart it;s in smoke detectors

[odeon]

The three-strip Cinemiracle large-screen film format used mirrors to avoid patent infringement.

[McGiver]

The three-strip Cinemiracle large-screen film format used mirrors to avoid patent infringement.

in this case, odeon was a thread killer. 

["couldbecousin"]

I got a mental block after reading Shleed's four-nostril post. Can't quite figure it out! 

[odeon]

The three-strip Cinemiracle large-screen film format used mirrors to avoid patent infringement.

in this case, odeon was a thread killer. 

No-one is interested in old cinema technology these days.

[Frolic_Fun]

I got a mental block after reading Shleed's four-nostril post. Can't quite figure it out!  

Two of them are internal, near the throat. They enable you to breathe though the nose when your mouth is closed. When you have a blocked nose, these usually get swollen which cause difficulty when breathing through the nose.

["couldbecousin"]

I got a mental block after reading Shleed's four-nostril post. Can't quite figure it out!  

Two of them are internal, near the throat. They enable you to breathe though the nose when your mouth is closed. When you have a blocked nose, these usually get swollen which cause difficulty when breathing through the nose.

Fascinating, who knew? I must look up a diagram so I know where mine are!

["couldbecousin"]

Speaking of anatomy, I have very large sinuses! My right sinus shows up in my dental X-rays. Since the sinuses in the head are filled with AIR, I reckon I have more air in my head than any of you!  :1st:

[Icequeen]

Four people are killed a year by randomly falling vending machines.

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes.

Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.

['andersom']

Four people are killed a year by randomly falling vending machines.

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes.

Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.

Now I feel forever young. 

[TheoK]

Sweden never signed the peace treaty with San Marino in the Westphalian Peace in 1648. According to Swedish officials and diplomats that doesn't mean anything since Sweden and San Marino never were in war de facto.

Unlike this, the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, which has a kind of autonomy within the UK, signed a separate peace treaty with Russia in 1966, which ended the Crimean War. The British ambassador at the time said to his Russian counterparts that "Now you can tell the Russian people that they can finally sleep peacefully in their beds".

[Blasted]

In Ireland there's a town called Muff.

[Peter]

Four people are killed a year by randomly falling vending machines.

Do vending machines often fall over randomly?  I thought they were pretty good at staying upright when not in an earthquake or being deliberately shaken and tipped by people trying to get products out of them.

[renaeden]

I bet those people were rocking the vending machines on purpose to get their food that got stuck. It has happened (food stuck) to me before but I didn't rock the machine. I just kicked it.