Groucho's Fact Hunt



Toxoplasmosa Gondii is a parasite that infects a large percentage of humans, but it is basically harmless outside of immune-weakened people. The only animal the parasite can reproduce in is the cat - the parasite will cause rats infected with it to become far bolder and more risk taking when there are cats around [so the cat can prey on the rat and become infected].

There is speculation that TG+ humans are also bigger risk-takers - so leaders, entrepreneurs etc are more likely to have the parasite in their brains.
 
Black Belt Jones said:
Toxoplasmosa Gondii is a parasite that infects a large percentage of humans, but it is basically harmless outside of immune-weakened people. The only animal the parasite can reproduce in is the cat - the parasite will cause rats infected with it to become far bolder and more risk taking when there are cats around [so the cat can prey on the rat and become infected].

There is speculation that TG+ humans are also bigger risk-takers - so leaders, entrepreneurs etc are more likely to have the parasite in their brains.
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an acquaintance of mine got toxoplasmosa (from her cat- as you said)...she nearly died.
 

Not bothering to go back 207 pages to see if here...

The famous Hollywood sign was in a state of serious decay around Hollywood's 75th birthday. Alice Cooper stepped up, found out how much it would cost to repair it by letter $27,000... and bought the first "O" to dedicate to his friend, @Groucho Marx, who had recently passed away. (Groucho the actor, not GOT poster.)

 
the official measure of 1 metre is : the distance light travels (in a vacuum)in 1/300,000,000* of a sec (i.e a three hundred millionth of a second)


*it's a tad less than 300 mio.........299,792,458 metres per second to be exact
 

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