Things that you've learned recently

[FishburnMackem]

bumboys stick together not only in real life but also on football forums

 

[the boot]

All tinned food is cooked in the tin.

Corned beef?

 

[admwil]

If the history of the universe was condensed in to one calendar year running from 1st Jan to 31st December, we have only been here for about 14seconds before midnight on 31st Dec!

 

[Ricci's Special Kebabs]

Seaweed from a chinese takeaway isn't actually seaweed.

 

[Wilfy]

All tinned food is cooked in the tin.

In a device called a continuous retort.

 

[Dagzd1973]

In a device called a continuous retort.

I never knew that.

 

[The Archer]

The Maori weren't the original inhabitants of New Zealand.

Not that I'd argue with them about it.

Any more interesting revelations?

The Native Americans are in fact descended from Russian tribes who populated the continent thousands of years ago.

 

[Dagzd1973]

The Native Americans are in fact descended from Russian tribes who populated the continent thousands of years ago.

Proof? Sounds like bullshit to me.

 

[Hair Flick]

Seaweed from a chinese takeaway isn't actually seaweed.

I make my own with spring greens

The Native Americans are in fact descended from Russian tribes who populated the continent thousands of years ago.

I thought they were more Asian / Mongol tribes? Lots of similarities certainly between the Northern tribes like the Inuit

 

[The Archer]

Proof? Sounds like bullshit to me.

One wave of migration from Siberia populated the Americas, DNA shows

 

[SAFCOldie]

Proof? Sounds like bullshit to me.

The fact he said Russian (which didn't exist) rather than Siberian is the confusion.

 

[Dagzd1973]

One wave of migration from Siberia populated the Americas, DNA shows

Interesting.

I knew about the Bering Strait migration but I thought North Africans had also reached the Americas around the same time.

 

[the boot]

Every healthy son grow will grow taller than his mother.

 

[The Archer]

The fact he said Russian (which didn't exist) rather than Siberian is the confusion.

I like to keep everyone on their toes

 

[nahwee]

Sherlock Holmes did'nt know the Earth revolved around the Sun until he was told by Dr. Watson.

 

[Purrfect South]

do you have any proof that the Polynesians were'nt the first settlers of New Zealand

(i cant find anything apart from a few spurious links that say their oral history possibly mention previous inhabitants..and white ones at that - but not much more than that)



same as Hawaii i believe

I’ve read the same about there being earlier white inhabitants in the US too. I’ve a mind to dispel much of it, as it appears to be rather the fashion of late. I wonder why?

 

[muggboots]

The fact he said Russian (which didn't exist) rather than Siberian is the confusion.

The fact @Dagzd1973 is a bit of a divvy was more of a problem.

 

[The Sinful Dwarf]

The planet Pluto is not the outermost point of our solar system, the Oort cloud is.

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, will reach it in 300 years, and take 30,000 years to pass through it.

Sort of knocks on the head any idea of humans ever getting there let alone ``outer space``

Pluto is no longer classed as a planet, but has been downgraded to a dwarf planet.

 

[Deleted member 36123]

That I should have put more sun cream on whilst sitting by the pool in Cyrus today - look at me etc.

 

[Deleted User 11453]

I’ve read the same about there being earlier white inhabitants in the US too. I’ve a mind to dispel much of it, as it appears to be rather the fashion of late. I wonder why?

Interesting stuff.

New book reveals Ice Age mariners from Europe were America's first inhabitants