Things you did not know

[Niccolo]

Another fun fact; eating fat food makes you dumber. Significantly. Eating a diet of only fat food vs only healthy food slows down read and calculating speed to almost a half.

How the devil did they test that?

1) The laws of physics are utterly absolute. Until the berk next to you in the lab somehow proves that none of them apply and achieves results that break the fundamental law "Light is the fastest thing"
--Explanation: God-damned physics labs! Just cheesed off with uni, sorry.

Fact: The eye is partially polarised in some areas.

Fact: If our tongue was as sensitive as our hormonal receptors, we could detect the taste of a pinch of salt... in a half-size olympic swimming pool.

Fact: If you took all of the compounds in the human body and calculated their worth, you'd have approximately five dollars American. That's right, FMA wasn't lying in that first episode.

Fact: A human tissue cell is really, really, really tiny. Microscopic. The nucleus of said cell is tinier still, one twentieth of the size.
Within that is the DNA of our body. Each strand of DNA packed into this thing so small that one can only just see it under an optical microscope is roughly one metre long.

Fact: You can lose up to eighty percent of your liver and it'll still grow back... but God help you if the hepatic vein within the liver ruptures...

Fact: there was once an experiment done using the auroras. While the details aren't totally clear, for several hours two radios used for communications were powered solely by the electromagnetic (it was a combination of electric and magnetic) storms that were the auroras. They worked better off the induced currents than they did off the batteries (only during the aurora. After that the batteries were better)

 

[cleverlymadeup]

The Kinsey Institute reports finding that only 54% of males think about sex more often than once a day, while 43% think about it "a few times a week", so nearly half of all men can get through the course of the day without thinking about sex at all. This jibes with other studies, which find on average men think about sex about four to five times a day, and women two to three. How often these thoughts segue into sexual fantasy doesn't seem to differ between males and females, with each having 2-3 sexual fantasies per day.

So thoughts centered around sex seem to enter men's heads a bit more often than they do women's, but seem to linger in the minds of both sexes with equal frequency. In neither sex do lustful thoughts seem to be so intrusive they're debilitating, which they would be if they were that frequent.

actually there was another couple studies i read about where the amount of observation done in a test varied a woman's response (25% or so), men's stayed generally the same (5% variation)

they tested under these conditions

1 tester asking question, testee saying answer and tester writing answer
2 tester asking question, testee writing answer
3 observer in room, testee reading and writing answers
4 no one but testee in the room, testee read and answered questions on paper and gave person outside room
5 no one but tesee in room, testee read and answered questions on paper and deposited paper in box before leaving room

i do believe they also added anonymity to it as well but i thought it was kinda neat and wasn't surprised by it.

also another fun fact, a woman is more likely to sleep with a complete stranger if one party is in a different city.

both are genetic throwbacks to show how likely it is she will conceive a child, more partners means less likely she will make a good mate

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Seriously though, if someone came up to you and asked you how often you thought about sex; would you be able to give an honest answer?

 

[Anarchemitis]

Francium is the most hazardous element there is, and likely the most dangerous anything that we know of, by itself. It burns violently in contact with air, water and most anything other than vacuums and magnetic force, Highly Radioactive, melts at 27 °C and has a half-life of 22 minutes at it's most stable isotope.

 

[AndiGravity]

I thought briefly about throwing something in my post about the accuracy of people's answers, Cleverly. That's something else which has been studied quite a bit. You can generally assume men are going to give you a straight answer except to questions where the reality of the situation is inadequate to the social exaggerations of it. That means you can expect them to lie about the size of their penis (no, really?!), tack on a couple of sexual partners to the number they've really had, and tack on a few minutes to how long it takes them. Other than that, they tend to be pretty honest once you assure their anonymity.

On the other hand, women lowball most things when it comes to sex.

That said, I would be willing to bet males and females think about sex with equal frequency, since there's no reason for them not to evolutionarily or otherwise.

Oh, and stompy, yes there are good points to it. You'd be amazed at how many ways I know to curl your toes (not yours personally, but people's in general).

Hmmm... facts you may not know in this area. How about this one?

In Indonesia, it's popular for males to permanently insert pearls under the skin of their [yes, yes, you're the king, baby, you're the king] to enhance the pleasure for the woman.

 

[zacaron]

the MMO world of warcraft makes aprox $1800000000 a year thats 1.8 bil a year with an avrage of 10 mil players

dude that means that. blizzard has grossed enough money to buy a fleet of b-2 bombers or 1 nimitz carrier.

omg its true. blizzard is building an army to topple the government.!!!

lol thats just 1 game from blizzard you need to count the millions of copys of warcraft and starcraft and there other games.

 

[Girlysprite]

You can test the effect of food on intelligence by making people follow diets for a period of time and then run intelligence tests.

Another fun fact; the women clitoris also swells when the woman is aroused. You could say it kinda works as a mini-penis. It can double its size, or even more.


and:More people die of coconuts falling on their heads then white sharks.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Hokay, that's enough sex-related anything.

 

[werepossum]

Teddy Roosevelt kept a crocodile as the white house pet.
Or maybe it was a bear...

You're mostly correct. It was actually an alligator surgically grafted to the back of a bear. And it was mean as HELL.

It was manbearpig. (Someone had to say it.)

EDIT: In the early 60s (1961 - 1964) Oldsmobile built an all-aluminum V8 engine, 215 c.i. in displacement, that in its hottest trim produced 225 horsepower. It was used in '62 and '63 by Pontiac and Buick as well. In the eighties the rights were sold to British Leyland, retooled with metric fasteners, and used to power the Triumph TR8 among others. The American models are mostly the consistency of oatmeal now, due to running water or mixed coolant in an all-aluminum engine requiring pure antifreeze as a coolant.

(3,500 cc and 168 kW. Yes, we use stone-age units.)

 

[the monopoly guy]

I was right about the tuatara though, they are the last remaining sphenadons, they originated 200 million years ago, and are equally related to lizards and snakes alike.

Yeah, Tuatara maybe. But I mean strictly a lizard, that's my point. (and yes, you're right about the Tuatara)

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congratulations, you get a cookie...now go make one...or buy one
the kinsey project was a best selling book
dr. kinsey originally studied gal wasps
242 days left of bush's bullshit

 

[werepossum]

congratulations, you get a cookie...now go make one...or buy one
the kinsey project was a best selling book
dr. kinsey originally studied gal wasps
242 days left of bush's bullshit

You know, there can be life after BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome.) With intensive therapy you can recover and perhaps one day find fulfilling work in either the housekeeping or restaurant industries.

 

[AndiGravity]

congratulations, you get a cookie...now go make one...or buy one
the kinsey project was a best selling book
dr. kinsey originally studied gal wasps
242 days left of bush's bullshit

You know, there can be life after BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome.) With intensive therapy you can recover and perhaps one day find fulfilling work in either the housekeeping or restaurant industries.

Someone remembers their Ghostbusters.

 

[the monopoly guy]

You all seem to forget, Bush has a brother. You're in for two terms of him once Hilldog or Iraq Osama have their 4 years.

jeb bush has showed no interest what so ever in being president and we arent making the same mistake 3 times! oh wait damn...I mean 4 times! anyway the democratic party is too split right now to ensure a victorey come fall. and if they don't win they might as well pack up and go home becuase they just lost the game. they should just nominate someone else

I'm not saying al gore because had he wanted to run he would have done it when he still had the momentum from hit nobel prize to push him ahead of the fog that was every other candidate in fall late summer, my memory fails me often.

 

[the monopoly guy]

Doesn't matter if Jeb WANTS to be president, Papa Shrub and Haliburton want another patsy,

good point, jebs week minded enough to fall for their mind tricks. but my other points remain valid

 

[Leonhardt93]

I feel sorry for Jeb Bush, i mean with that kind of DNA, you're bound to be an idiot. Think about it. Born a moron, it's unfair isn't it?

 

[elffymon]

Honey is the only food that doesn't go bad, it has even been found in the prymids of Egypt still in an edible state.

The Kiwi is the only bird with nostrils at the tip of its beak.