In the spirit of injecting a bit of fun into the forum, I thought I would start a "Random fact of the day".
This will make us a better informed group of people who will appear more interesting and knowledgeable to the outside world. Eventually our combined information base will become so large and so powerful that we will become a threat to small nations and world leaders will tremble before our might....MWAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!!! ahem, let's just forget that last bit for now.....
Here are the rules; 1) Needs to be interesting - your fact may be technically true but does it pass the "well I never!" test (ie if you mentioned this at work would the overall response be "well I never!") 2) Only one fact of the day. Additional posts may be made to debate the fact in question or to add extra commentary. To many facts in one day leads to information overload (fact!) and inability to process other actions (aka work). Based upon the time of this post, the next fact is allowed at 1:05 tomorrow.
Here is today's random fact: The Scoville Scale is a measure of how "hot" a chilli pepper is. Although a scientific method is now used, the original method was to dilute the pepper until it wasn't hot anymore.
Jalapenos rate between 2,500 to 10,000 on the scale. The hottest pepper on record is a "Red Savina" Habanero which tested at over 577,000 units.
Pure capsaicin (the chemical that gives a pepper its hotness) runs to 15-16 million units.
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