The "Did You Know?" Thread

[MJ DeMarco]

Post your interesting tidbits of facts here ...

The "Did You Know" facts ....


Ill start ...

Did you know Bruce Lee majored in Philosophy?

 

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[Jill]

It's impossible to lick your elbow.

 

[CarrieW]

your foot is the size of your forearm from your wrist to your elbow.

the legnth of your arms when stretched out to the side(think flapping like a bird lol)is equal to your height.

hmmmmmmmm I know theres more in my head somewhere lol

 

[Russ H]

Jill-

I'm pretty sure my brother can do this.

He used to pick up girls in bars by talking w/them for a while, then licking the bridge of his nose on a bet (he has an extraordinarily long tongue).

-Russ H.

 

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[Knowledge Kick]

Post your interesting tidbits of facts here ...

The "Did You Know" facts ....


Ill start ...

Did you know Bruce Lee majored in Philosophy?

lol you must've just watched the "How Bruce Lee Changed The World" documentary on the History Channel. That was awesome wasn't it?

Did you know? Most elephants weigh less than the TONGUE of a Blue Whale?

 

[G-99]

More people die from falling coconuts then from shark attacks.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

The leading cause of divorce is marriage. (he he)

 

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[wildambitions]

Did you know...

you guys have too much superfluous information retained in you brains! LOL, JK.


...talking to yourself is a sign of intelligence. (rumor)
...an espresso has less caffeine than a cup of coffee.

 

[TaxGuy]

scary thread- while I can't think of anything off the top of my I have so many of these that pop into my head on a given day it is...well... SCARY

I guess this counts though- Andrew Ridgeley, was the "other" guy in Wham!

 

[neverfastenough]

The building blocks of Aspirin (and many other pharmaceuticals) are made from petroleum.

 

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[dkt91]

...There is a city called Rome on every continent.
...You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
...Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

 

[LaughedAt]

Courtesy of [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Book-Useless-Information-Noel-Botham/dp/0399532692/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243024804&sr=8-1]Amazon.com: The Book of Useless Information: Noel Botham: Books[/ame]


- Napoleon and Hitler both had only one testicle!

- The longest word in English is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA, oh and btw here's the word:
Methionylglutaminylarginytyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglut-
aminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalanylphenylalanyvalyl-
prolylphenylalanylvalythreonylleucylglycylaspartylprolyglycylisoleucylglut-
amylglutaminylserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleucylglut-
amylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucylglutamylleucylglycylglycylisoleu-
cylprolylphenylalanylserylaspartylprolylleucelalanylaspartyglycylprolythreo-
nylisoleucylglutamiylasparaginylalanylthreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalan-
ylalanylglycylvalyltheonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphenylalanygllutam-
ylmethionylleucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglutaminyllysylhistidylprolylthre-
onylisoleucylpriIylisoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparag-
inylleucylvalyphenylalanylasparaginyllysylgyycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylph-
enylalanyltyrosylalanylgutaminyllcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylglycylavlylaspart-
ylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalyprolylvalylglutaminylglutamyllserylal-
anyprolyphenylalanylarginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylaspara-
ginylvaylalanylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylprolylaspart-
ylalanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginyglutaminylisoleucylalanyyls-
eryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylserylarginylal-
anylglycylvalythreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginylanylalanylleucyl-
prolylleucylaspaaginylhistidylleucylvaylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosyla-
saraginylglycylphenylalanylglycylisoleucylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyl-
lysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalanylalanyglycylalanylalanyglycylalanylisol-
eucylserylglycyserylalanylisoleucylbalyllsylisoleucylisoleucylglutamyyylgluta-
minylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylprolyglutamyllysylmethionylleucyla-
lanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalabylvalylglutaminlylprolylmethionyllysylala-
nylalanylthreonylarginylserine

(This is true, look it up)


- The University of Alaska stretches across four time zone.


- Indian Railway is world’s largest employer with 1,646,704 staff.


- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.


- A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.


- More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.


- The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Did you know that drinking 9 LITRES OF COLA A DAY is not healthy for you? Gee thanks for the tip! The pregnant woman should have her child taken away for endangerment. 7 LITRES PER DAY? Why subject your unborn child to some experiment? What is wrong with people? Guess I should stop smoking 162 cigars a day too? IDIOTS.

Too Much Cola Can Cause Muscle Problems on Yahoo! Health

 

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[Luke12321]

I just read that on aol as well MJ. I mean, WTF should someone expect if they chug soda all day. People....

 

[Russ H]

Back when I was in sales (and younger), I used to drink a 2L of Jolt cola every day . . .

-Russ H.

Peter2, this one's for you . . .



.

 

[Rawr]

Going off what some of you posted:

Da vinci used to hold a spoon over a metal tray/plate when he fell asleep to wake himself up after a little bit - early alarm clock.

drinking a lot of caffeine daily will make it hurt to pee. Know first hand.

 

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[CarrieW]

Did you know that drinking 9 LITRES OF COLA A DAY is not healthy for you? Gee thanks for the tip! The pregnant woman should have her child taken away for endangerment. 7 LITRES PER DAY? Why subject your unborn child to some experiment? What is wrong with people? Guess I should stop smoking 162 cigars a day too? IDIOTS.

Too Much Cola Can Cause Muscle Problems on Yahoo! Health

HOLY SHIT!

I knew they say its not good for you but I didnt know It was really really bad lol. does that make sense??

i read just a little bit of that link and you have changed my life forever!

I have (several times) had severly low potassium. I do drink alot of coke a cola in a day.(at least a 2l bottle) the first time was when I was pregnant with my daughter. I had to take vit k supplments for 6 months. again multiple doctors(obgyn perinatologist and nephrologist) all knew my preferred drink was coke a cola and noone ever told me that could be the cause! reading that link Im convinced!

I never heard an argument convincing enough to make me want to drink anything else. (even from my new doctor who knows about the low potassium issues ive had and didnt connect the dots just told me it maybe the reason for some of my headaches)that is untill now!

I am now convinced and will cut down my intake of cola to 1-2 glasses a day. (maybe after awhile I can quit cold turkey!)

thank you for this!(my heart and potassium levels thank you too!):yourock:

 

[yveskleinsky]

Diet soda is even worse for you (but I am hopelessly addicted to it.)

"False sweeteners, especially Aspartame are especially harmful to your body. When we drink a diet soda, we take in aspartame. It then goes to our liver and turns into formaldehyde. Remember those preserved lizards and snakes in the science lab? Formaldehyde is used to preserve them. It is also an ingredient in embalming fluid (used to preserve dead bodies). So…every time you drink a diet soda, you are embalming yourself. Is that enough information to make you never touch another diet soda as long as you live? If not…the nutritionists told us that diet soda is so unnatural and contains many chemicals that our bodies cannot break down properly. It takes a woman’s body 18 months to break down the ingredients in one can (that’s 12 oz) of diet soda. A man’s body takes 12 months to break down one can of diet soda. Notice the “12 ounces.†How many of us come into work every day carrying one of those colossal supersize sodas from the local mini mart? If you are drinking a 32 ounce diet soda every day and it takes your body 18 months to break down 12 ounces." --www.WebMD.com

 

[ITA]

Potassium aside, you might want to check just how much sugar there is in just ONE GLASS of Coca Cola (google it, it's scary).

I probably drink 2-3 glasses of Coke/Sprite a year MAX - only when I'm stuck somewhere and can't get anything else. This stuff is BAD. Stick to water or fresh vegetable juices.

 

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[CarrieW]

yeah but im less afraid of sugar then I am of artifical sweetners. your body turns almost everything in to glucose anyway... i just skipped a few steps lol. I used to joke that i had more soda in my body then blood and that my body couldnt function without a base level of coke a cola lol.

Like I said I read and heard alot of things reguarding cola intake. nothing up till today has ever "scared" me into wanting to adjust my lifestyle.

even knowing that if I quit the cola id prolly lose 20-40lbs in a few months time.

the potassium thing is different. if you dont have enough potassium your heart stops working. thats scary shit. especially when you go to the er for something totally different and they do routine blood work and then they refuse to let you leave untill you have chewed 4 supplments...then they direct you to go to your doctor asap.

I never had a reason before. it was a big scary unknown. well now I know!

I bet my next bloodwork is much better!(oh and even tho I drink that much sugar my a1c is always perfect)

 

[G-99]

[FONT=verdana,arial]If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. [/FONT]

I was talking to my brother about this the other day and he told me these.
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A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
[/FONT][FONT=verdana,arial]A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge. [/FONT]

 

[MJ DeMarco]

I won't touch Aspartame ... pulled this from another website. Obviously, the "pay off" contention is debatable.

Aspartame banned in Europe for children's products

On the European Common Market, Aspartame is banned for all children's products. Why is this not the case in Canada and the U.S.? Because Monsanto - which owns the NutraSweet Company which manufactures Aspartame - pays off the FDA, the American Medical Association, The American Dietetic and Diabetic Associations, Congressmen and Senators and virtually anyone who gets in the way, and in other countries too. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation caught them red handed and aired a program where Monsanto was trying to bribe Canadian Doctors at Health Canada.

 

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[yveskleinsky]

Yeah, it's crazy when you find out that products that are so freely given over here are banned elsewhere--and for good reason.

Maybe I will revisit cutting diet coke out of my diet--it really is my only vice left, and would be good to cut it out of my life completely.

Another product that is available in the US that isn't in Europe is a birth control called Depo Provera. It's a shot that women take every three months, so it sounds pretty cool in theory. Turns out the side effects are AWFUL. I was told everything I was experiencing was normal (no sex drive, spontantous throughts of suicide, nightmares so bad I would wake up every one in the house screaming), until I moved to Italy, and when it was time to get my shot, my doctor over there was floored that I was on Depo. He told me it was banned there because the suicide rate was so high--and the chemicals in Depo were the same chemicals that were given to chemically castrate sex offenders! Sheesh. Why is it legal here? Well, like everything else--follow the money trail.

 

[CarrieW]

dont even get me started on birth control.

for example... did you know that most women spend years and years of their lives trying not to get pregnant because its soo soo easy to and then when they want to have kids they cant? and alot of it has to do with the birth control they were on...

also theres a reason its called birth control and not a pregnancy preventitive. I will leave that right there...

 

[TaxGuy]

Yves- after reading your above post I decided NOT to have any Diet Coke today and will hopefully stick with my "cold shoulder" quitting. Now I gotta find a caffeine alternative :smxB:

On top of that, been listening to a lot of Chris Rock, Bill Maher and George Carlin lately, all of whom I feel are geniuses(and hilarious of course ) all have bits on FDA related stuff and how unhealthy a lot "OTC" stuff is for us whether it's food or "medication"

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

I found "Honest Tea" a great replacement to the sugar shit ... made with honey and green tea.

Honest Beverages

 

[Jill]

Maybe I will revisit cutting diet coke out of my diet--it really is my only vice left, and would be good to cut it out of my life completely.

Yikes. Same here. Well, that and sunglasses!

 

[CarrieW]

very cool company... too bad its not readily available near me

Im gonna drink sugar free lemonaide. its the only other drink I can stand besides homemade sweet tea(which prolly has more sugar then soda lol) and of course my fav coke! I will not lie and say I wont drink it anymore cause I know I will lol, instead of it being what I drink all day long it will be an occasional treat!

 

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[Rawr]

I do not buy into the aspartame anti hype. I've discussed this diet soda issue and when push comes to shove, the only real explanation for why it could be bad is this:


diet soda tricks your mind it is getting sugar, because of the sweet taste. but the body doesn't get it, so it start craving sugar - making you more likely to eat cakes, cookies, ice cream, etc.

 

[Russ H]

Now I gotta find a caffeine alternative

Green tea.

Great stuff-- but watch the caffeine-- it can have lots.

-Russ H.