Worthless (but interesting) Factoid of the Day...

Damocles

Damocles

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Where does the saying "Piss Poor" come from?

Well...

Way back in the day, tanners used urine to tan hides. So, families would have a "piss pot" which they would use solely for urine, which would be taken once a day to the tanners and sold to them. If a family was so poor this was the means they used to feed themselves they were called "Piss Poor"... And if you were so poor you didn't have a pot?

Well then you "didn't have a pot to piss in"...

And that is our worthless but interesting factoid of the day.
 
if you put the queen on someones face, all the other bees dry hump the queen bee and they end up covering your whole face making a bee beard.
 
Here's an interesting factoid about bees. The queen is the only bee in a hive that can sting a mammal multiple times without dying. It is also the least likely to sting you after the drones (which have no stinger at all).
 
Damocles said:
Here's an interesting factoid about bees. The queen is the only bee in a hive that can sting a mammal multiple times without dying. It is also the least likely to sting you after the drones (which have no stinger at all).
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Why is that?
 
The King of Proles said:
Why is that?
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The queen's stinger doesn't have the barbs that cause the other bees to pull out their guts when they try to move away from you after they sting you. The queen will usually run from trouble rather than towards it, and if you capture one will continue to try to escape. It takes a ton of messing with a queen to get her to sting you. Another interesting factoid. They can sting other types of creatures multiple times, but not mammals as our skin holds the stinger in with the barbs while other creatures that are not mammals, their skin won't hold the barbs...
 
You'd think that bees would've evolved a way to not die while defending themselves by now. It would pretty much be mandatory that the queen evolve it, though, because she's such an important part of the hive.
 
Damocles said:
Where does the saying "Piss Poor" come from?

Well...

Way back in the day, tanners used urine to tan hides. So, families would have a "piss pot" which they would use solely for urine, which would be taken once a day to the tanners and sold to them. If a family was so poor this was the means they used to feed themselves they were called "Piss Poor"... And if you were so poor you didn't have a pot?

Well then you "didn't have a pot to piss in"...

And that is our worthless but interesting factoid of the day.
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Here's the definition of "factoid"

"A factoid is a questionable or spurious—unverified, incorrect, or fabricated—statement presented as a fact, but with no veracity."

Hmmm. Worthless factoids. Yep, that's pretty much all the cons post. At least Damo let's you know right up front.
 
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