Top ten things you did not know

These are all things crack teams of scientists...or perhaps crack-snorting, I don't know...have worked on and won (Ig) Nobel Prizes for;

7) British radiologist has won an alternative Nobel prize for discovering that sword swallowers suffer "major complications" when distracted.

6) How to build a bomb to cause gay behavior by enemy troops

5) The effects of Viagra on jet-lagged hamsters

4) How sheets become wrinkled

3) How many invisible beings are in beds.

2) Making vanilla perfume from cow poop.

But as mighty as these 7 discoveries are...or will be, if and when they are successful...there is one that, for sheer usefulness and necessity has been long overlooked and is finally getting it's due. Oh, sure, there are a lot of things it could be...whether Penguins that watch Happy Feet 495 times in one Arctic night begin tap-dancing, how far a trained monkey can hurl a rock that is 4 ounces compared to a rock that is 9 ounces, how to train ants to wear rubber pants, and hundreds of others...the greatest, most magnificent bit of award-winning research is so obvious, so self-evident that I hesitate to mention it...but I will anyway.



The linguistics prize went to a team from the University of Barcelona for their discovery that rats cannot tell the difference between Japanese being spoken backwards and Dutch being spoken backwards.