I'm a sponge

[ifihadahifi]

just waiting to be educated.
Teach me something I don't know yet. Like fractions or something.

I'll got first. Recently I learned the chinese were the first to use cups and saucers for tea. They didn't use the saucers to stop small spills but rather to regulate the temperature of the tea. If the tea was too hot, the would pour a small amount into the saucer to cool. Or they would set the saucer on top of the cup to keep the tea warm.

[KathrynTheGreat]

1. Back in ye olden days, a jolly old fellow by the name of Vlad Ţepeş derived happiness from torturing his victims by imobilizing their feet in the stocks while a steady supply of salt water dripped from above. Goats, liking the taste of salt, would be allowed to lick the soles of the poor prisoner's feet with their rough tongues until all flesh was stripped and they wore down to the bone.

2. Uroscopy was the diagnostic method of choice for doctors back when they had no earthly idea what they were doing. It involved analyzing the color, odor, and taste (yes, you heard me correctly, taste) of a patient's urine. Later on, doctors who failed to embrace more modern diagnostic techniques were reffered to as "piss prophets."

See, these are the sort of things that happened when people got bored and there weren't any Gameboys.

[eebs]

the word honeymoon comes from an old tradition where the newly married couple would drink a glass of mead every day for a lunar month.

[pipit]

The yorkshire dialect and scandinavian languages are quite similar. Once when some Yorkshire lads went to Denmark they were having trouble trying to get a room for the night at a hotel, when the lads started to get impatient one said in yorkshire that he wanted to 'lig aht fo't neet' (he wanted to sleep for the night) the Danish people understood and the lads got a room.

[Steveums]

The creature with the largest penis in proportion to its overall body size is the barnacle.

[ifihadahifi]

The creature with the largest penis in proportion to its overall body size is the barnacle.

Oddly enough, I knew that already.