Posted: 10/2/2007 6:14:16 PM EDT
| Did you know that the average growing rate of fingernails are 1.5-2mm a month, while the hair grows 1.5-3 inches a month? |
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Water or Wine As Ben Franklin said: In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in Water there is bacteria. In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. coli) - bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop. However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine & beer (or tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting. Remember: Water = Poop, Wine = Health There fore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of shit. There is no need to thank me for this valuable information: I'm doing it as a public service. |
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It's 74 hours+, one particually horrible weekend when I was active duty (I really should say that dramatically, like "Back when I was a Navy Seal" like that guy on Discovery... but I wasn't a SEAL  ) Anyways, bad weekend = I'm up for 72-76-ish hours to fix shit because none of the other R-tards knew WTF they were doing. Fixed it a few hours before the contractor's plane touched down... which made me kinda sad cuz I knew I was getting close to the hallucinations and figured it'd probably be kinda neat... but no dice  On the other hand: Don't test this, you feel like  for days afterwards.
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If you fall into a pool of gasoline or diesel that is deeper than you are tall, you will drown, as the fuel's density is too low to allow you to swim. Gasoline weighs about 6.15 lbs/gallon, while water weighs 8.33 lb/gal. Thus a 200 lb man would seem to weigh 52 pounds more if he tried to swim in gasoline. (this is only useful if you work in a refinery or a large storage facility.)
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The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper. ETA: The numbers “172″ can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”, Humphrey Bogart NEVER said “Play it again, Sam” in Casablanca, and they NEVER said “Beam me up, Scotty” on Star Trek. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words “North” and “South). Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck. |
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Mike Nesmith's mom invented Liquid Paper. Who is Mike? Of the Monkees. Beams of equal strength made of weaker materials are stiffer. Heat is work is energy. Objects on a clear night can become COLDER than the air temperature. You can safely submerge your hand in liquid nitrogen for short periods of time with no danger of being frozen...your hand is too hot and become shielded by a blanket of nitrogen gas...this is called the Liedenfrost effect. The same thing causes water drops to dance over a hot skillet without immediately turning into steam. |
Holy Bible 1st Timothy Chapter5 verse 23 reads "Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your often infirmities." Why Christians teach that drinking wine is sinful is beyond me. There is no way to know how many good Christians died before their time from strokes and heart attacks because they didn't drink a little vino with their supper. |
That may be useless but incredibly interesting. |
We need to request a government grant to research this. We need to get another grant to determine if this new word is indeed a word and yet another grant to determine the environmental impact of this word. |
Well, it isn't that the photons weigh that much by volume, as much as they exert force upon striking a surface. Kinda. Or something, without getting too technical. Damn man I read it in a book! Stop freaking out on me! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! ETA: Page 2 is owned by weight, not volume..some settling may occur. |
Half of the Earth's atmosphere by mass is at altitudes of 18,000 feet and lower. |
Swimming in water? Sure you can swim with a weight vest (to a degree). You exhibit some buoyancy in water, which allows you to swim. Too much weight, however, and you are going on a one way trip. When it comes to gasoline things change. You do not exhibit much natural buoyancy due to the density difference, and down you go. As for useless knowledge- if you get a tub of water and dump a bunch of different kinds of cans of soda into it, the diet drinks float above the full sugar varieties. |