Random possibly useful fact

[odeon]

How do you know Caligula & Co didn't mix their wine with water?

[TheoK]

How do you know Caligula & Co didn't mix their wine with water?

I can't know for sure, it's just a feeling I have. It doesn't seem like Caligula's style to dilute his wine.

["couldbecousin"]

How do you know Caligula & Co didn't mix their wine with water?

I can't know for sure, it's just a feeling I have. It doesn't seem like Caligula's style to dilute his wine.

  Maybe he diluted it with ... something else.     

[TheoK]

The Romans used horse piss as mouthwash, because they were 

[Jack]

Ew.

[Queen Victoria]

It cost just under $10 in poll commissioner costs for each vote cast in our precinct.  92 voters and $850 dollars in pay.

[TheoK]

Medical Latin is usually false. Oesophagus for instance is just a latinized form of Greek οἰσοφάγος but not just that: the Romans called the food pipe fistula cibalis, which actually means just "food pipe". οἰσοφάγος on the other hand is a glutination of φέρω + ἔφαγον="I carry"+"I ate".

[TheoK]

Tomorrow it's the last Sunday in October, so it will be Central European Winter Time again. Good.

[Queen Victoria]

Medical Latin is usually false. Oesophagus for instance is just a latinized form of Greek οἰσοφάγος but not just that: the Romans called the food pipe fistula cibalis, which actually means just "food pipe". οἰσοφάγος on the other hand is a glutination of φέρω + ἔφαγον="I carry"+"I ate".

And stethoscope is a rough translation of Greek "chest looker"

[TheoK]

"Prostate" is prostata in Swedish and pronounced próstata by doctors. It's also Greek in origin, though, and the Greek pronunciation is prostáta which ironically is the pronunciation often heard from laymen here.

[TheoK]

Just like you say "thee" instead of "the" in English when you want to stress something, you can say si in French instead of oui and zwo in German instead of zwei.

[Bastet]

Corn in cat and dog food makes their poo smellier. Try pet food without corn fillers. More expensive, but less smelly. There are forums dedicated to making homemade petfood that is healthier than the storebought kind and possibly cheaper. At least cheaper than the natural ones that are prepackaged.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/homemade-dog-food/

http://www.almanac.com/content/dog-treat-recipes-make-home-reader-submitted

http://www.catinfo.org/?link=makingcatfood

[Queen Victoria]

Don't work for someone who's looking for a "hard worker."  Work for someone who's looking for a "smart worker."

[Parts]

JB Weld epoxy is magnetic and will coat neodymium magnets while it's still wet making a mess and possibly drawing it away from what your gluing the magnets to. 

[Semicolon]

JB Weld epoxy is magnetic and will coat neodymium magnets while it's still wet making a mess and possibly drawing it away from what your gluing the magnets to.