Why do we need to even know this.

OK, I was looking at a area TV web site and found a list of 50 things that we did not know this time last year. Some of the 50 are interesting facts and some of them are probably important things to have learned. But come on now.... Let's look at just a few of them here.

#7. "Scientists have figured out that a unique bacterium is what makes the sea smell like the sea. They've also found a way to capture the aroma and bottle it. "

So what are they going to make a perfume that smells like the ocean???

#10. "Owls try to sound more macho by lowering the tone of their hoots."

Sounds like a lot of men I know too..

#11. "Electronic noses used in the food industry and for sniffing out explosives can perform better with the addition of artificial "snot.""

Now I think natural snot is disgusting as I am sure most people do so why do we want artificial snot???

#17. "Dolphins living off the coast of Wales whistle, bark and groan in a different dialect from dolphins off the western coast of Ireland.'

Some people really have tough jobs

#25. "Fish use the threat of punishment to maintain stability in their social order. Small goby fish at Lizard Island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef use the threat of expulsion from the school as a powerful deterrent to keep subordinate fish from challenging those more dominant."

This is an idea for punishment to the children in the house. OK so not really a good idea.

#26. "Ape-men ancestors began walking on two legs 6 million years ago because it used far less energy than clambering on all fours."

What they found a 6 million year old ape that was able to tell them about this?

#31. "Sex among African bat bugs is a violent affair. During copulation, males of the species pierce the abdomens of their mates with their genitals and ejaculate directly into their blood."

Sounds kind of kinky to me.

#37. "Fruit flies love the carbon dioxide fizz from beer. The insects have special taste receptors that are sensitive to the gas."

So now not only does Florida have to worry about drunk drivers we have to worry about drunk fruit flies.

#43. "It takes business people twice as long to enter text messages on an iPhone as on conventional cell phones."

Who cares?????

#49. "The parasitic jewel wasp uses a venom injected directly into a cockroach's brain to inhibit its victim's free will and its motivation to walk. Unble to fight back, the "zombie" cockroach can be pulled into the wasp's underground lair, where an egg is laid in its abdomen. The larva later hatches and eats the still living but incapacitated cockroach from the inside out."

So there is a way to get rid of the common cockroach.