fun facts

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fun facts
* sodium is extremely toxic, chloride is extremely toxic. together they form table salt.

* while processing alchol, the liver generates pure ammonia, a very deadly substance.

* muscles move by mean of calcium salts that are created by the body.
that is why you need a constant soruce of calcium in the blood.
if you don't have enough in your bloodstream and your muscles need it they will steal it from your bones.

* even if you drowned in the dead sea you would never sink or rot because of the concentration of minerals in the water.

* everything we see is actually entered into our brain upside down. our brains turn it right side up for us to understand what we are seeing.

* if you fall from something you fall at a rate of 32 feet per second squared until you reach a maximum velocity of 240 miles per hour. once you reach maximum velocity you will not accelerate any more.

* if there were no atmosphere you would continue to accelerate indefinitely.

* what makes any motion cease? friction.

* matter can neither be created nor destroyed merely changed in form.
basic chemistry rule.

* latex is a type of tree sap. that is used to make all latex paints, and when vulcanized becomes the rubber for our tires and any other rubber items.

* dogs are right and left handed just like humans.

* animals with fur change their coats twice a year, in the spring to less dense, and in the fall to more dense.

* there is a chemical principle called the hydrogen bond that causes hydorgen atoms to have an attraction for each other. if it were not for the hydorgen bond effect water would be a gas and not a liquid.

* soap is made from fat that has a hydroxy molecule attached to the end. that is half a molecule of water. so it can be dissolved in water or any fatty substance. that is how it removes dirt. the fat end attaches to the soil and the hydroxy end attaches to water and it all goes down the drain.

* chicken is actually more fattening than red meat
unless you take the skin off.

* hans christan anderson always carried a rope ladder with him while traveling, he was scared of being in a fire and not haveing a way out.

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* if you rub a sewing needle on a magnet and gently place it in water it will float and one end will point north and the other south. it becomes a compass.
it floats by means of water tension.

* there is more oxygen at sea level than any higher area.

* billions of tons of dust bombard the earth every year from space. slowly increasing the mass of the earth.

* nitrogen is very similar to oxygen in it atomic makeup. so if you breath to much nitros-oxide you will eventually suffocate because the nitrogen will prevent your lungs from absorbing the oxygen that is present.
nitrogen bonds to the blood cells and blocks the oxygen.

* there was a strain of cotton developed prior to the civil war that was the largest boll ever produced. it was called sea island cotton because it was developed in sea island georgia. shortly after the civil war, boll weavils attacked the cotton crops of the south and destroyed crop after crop. eventually cotton was wiped out of the southern united states.
sea island cotton has never been seen since or able to be reproduced.

* people with dark colored eyes can sustain bright light damage with out permanent effects beter than people with light colored eyes.

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* you burn more calories sleeping than you do watching
television.

* apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in
the morning.

* the king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

* the liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute
for blood plasma.

* the first product to have a bar code was wrigley's gum.

* american airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1)
olive from each salad served in first-class.

* donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

* oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50)
years of age or older.

* the first owner of the marlboro company died of lung cancer.
so did the first "marlboro man."

* walt disney was afraid of mice.

* pearls melt in vinegar.

* a duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

* dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least
six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from theflush. (i keep my toothbrush in the living room now!)

* richard millhouse nixon was the first u.s. president whose
name contains all the letters from the word "criminal."
the second? william jefferson clinton.
(don't tell me you're suprised!?!!)

* "clinton lied. a man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is." barbara bush
(former u.s. first lady, and you didn't think barbara had a sense of humor)

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* at funerals in ancient china, when the lid of the coffin was closed, mourners took a few steps backward lest their shadows get caught in the box.

* catherine II of russia kept her wigmaker in an iron cage in her bedroom for more than three years.

* in turkey, the color of mourning is violet. in most muslim countries and in china, it is white.

* a ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. a ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.

* if u break a lightbulb in its socket and cant get it out, cut half a potatoe, shove it in there, and twist, and it will come out.

* it isn't good to cut cats whiskers because they use that to see if they can fit into places and for scent.

* "hockey is a sport for white men. basketball is a sport for black men.
golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps." tiger woods

* "see, the problem is that god gives men a brain and a thingy, and only enough blood to run one at a time." robin williams