What do you know today, that you did not yesterday?

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Fragile Do Not Bend Jul 2018 7:48pm, 28 Jul 2018 3,206 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend # is actually called an octothorpe
DocMoye Jul 2018 7:51pm, 28 Jul 2018 23,286 posts	0 DocMoye Yes that was news to me too. But even more surprising my daughter did know that !
Surrey Phil Jul 2018 8:53pm, 28 Jul 2018 2,533 posts	0 Surrey Phil The White Stripes are not siblings after all. It might be old but it was news to me.
Fizz :-) Jul 2018 9:44pm, 28 Jul 2018 2,878 posts	0 Fizz :-) The Atlantic Ocean is more salty than the Pacific. And no-one knows why.
GlennR Aug 2018 10:31am, 1 Aug 2018 36,928 posts	0 GlennR That a locust has a greater number of muscles than the human body.
Cyclops Aug 2018 10:56am, 3 Aug 2018 3,519 posts	0 Cyclops The average weight of poo is 1 oz per pound body weight, per day.
Dvorak Aug 2018 11:15am, 3 Aug 2018 16,432 posts	0 Dvorak Human poo, cyclops? I contend that that is a completely non-true fact. Let's have a bit of a think about the maths of that, for a moment. How big a pile of poo someone would generate, and how much food they would need to eat to produce that.
Fragile Do Not Bend Aug 2018 11:44am, 3 Aug 2018 3,229 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend That means I would generate about 10lb of poo a day which I’m pretty sure I don’t. Maybe if you could measure the weight of poo before most of the water is removed in the large intestine.
Dvorak Aug 2018 12:30pm, 3 Aug 2018 16,433 posts	0 Dvorak Still no. What looks like a reasonable source gives the amount as around an ounce per twelve pounds of body weight. Britannica, however gives an amount which would equate to around half of that. The latter does seem a bit low; the former about right. A bit will depend on your solidity - standard poo is around 75% water. medicaldaily.com
Cyclops Aug 2018 4:55pm, 3 Aug 2018 3,520 posts	0 Cyclops Ha! Shouldn't copy something someone else told me.