Keep control, keep track
Brian Witcombe and Dan Meyer won an Ig Nobel prize for their extensive medical survey of sword swallowing injuries. Nearly half of the interviewed sword swallowers complained of sore throats, but more serious injuries included perforation of the gullet and intestinal bleeding. (…)
Toast has a tendency to land butter-side down because it rotates as it falls off the edge of the table. If the table was higher (three meters high, for example), the problem would disappear because the toast would be able to make a full rotation before hitting the floor.
