Random weekly facts/comments

[Kuroos]

A full moon always rises at sunset.

A bowl of lime Jell-O, when hooked up to an EEG machine, exhibited movement which is virtually identical to the brain waves of a healthy adult man or woman.

If the world were tilted one degree more either way, the planet would not be habitable because the area around the equator would be too hot and the poles would be too cold.  

[Kuroos]

In 1980, Namco released PAC-MAN, the most popular video game (or arcade game) of all time. The original name was going to be PUCK MAN, but executives saw the potential for vandals to scratch out part of the P in the games marquee and labeling.

Clothes that are dried outside DO smell better because of a process called photolysis. What happens is this: sunlight breaks down compounds in the laundry that cause odor, such as perspiration and body oils.

Clouds fly higher during the day than the night.

Dirty snow melts faster than clean.  

[Kuroos]

If you stand in the bottom of a well, you would be able to see the stars even in the daytime.  

[Kuroos]

A downburst is a downward blowing wind that sometimes comes blasting out of a thunderstorm. The damage looks like tornado damage, since the wind can be as strong as an F2 tornado, but debris is blown straight away from a point on the ground. It's not lofted into the air and transported downwind.

On December 2, 1942, a nuclear chain reaction was achieved for the first time under the stands of the University of Chicago’s football stadium. The first reactor measured 30 feet wide, 32 feet long, and 21.5 feet high. It weighed 1,400 tons and contained 52 tons of uranium in the form of uranium metal and uranium oxide. Although the same process led to the massive energy release of the atomic bomb, the first artificially sustained nuclear reaction produced just enough energy to light a small flashlight.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top. This is because the carbonation in the drink gets pockets of air stuck in the wrinkles of the raisin, which is light enough to be raised by this air. When it reaches the surface of the champagne, the bubbles pop, and the raisin sinks back to the bottom, starting the cycle over.

Bacteria, the tiniest free-living cells, are so small that a single drop of liquid contains as many as 50 million of them.  

[Kuroos]

i was that bored...  

[Sash0]

You must have been lol ^^  

[kagenotenshi]

eek That's a lot of facts...  

[kagenotenshi]

One pound of peanut butter can contain up to 150 bug fragments and 5 rodent hairs.

Almost 99 percent of imported food is never checked by the FDA or USDA, the two agencies responsible for protecting Americans from tainted products.

According to government and industry estimates, almost 40 percent of bottled water is ordinary tap water.

A medium fruit and yogurt smoothie at Dunkin' Donuts contains four times as much sugar as a chocolate-frosted cake doughnut.  

[kagenotenshi]

About 100 people die every year by choking on ball-point pens.

A retired teacher in California admits that he taught high school for seventeen years without knowing how to read or write.

40 percent of women have admittedly thrown footwear at a man.

Purdue University researchers say most drivers have no problem exceeding the speed limit by 20 mph and see no problem doing so.

The Bible is the most shoplifted book.  

[kagenotenshi]

If you sneeze hard enough, you can fracture a rib. However, if you try to hold it in, you might rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck.

The acid in your stomach is so powerful it can dissolve a razor blade in less than a week.

By the time you are an adult you will have about 5 million hairs growing out of your skin.

Continuously farting for six years and nine months would create the same amount of energy as an atomic bomb.  

[kagenotenshi]

The average human swallows about a quart of snot every day.

Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

The human brain stops growing at around the age of 18.

A person can live without eating for weeks but will only survive 11 days without sleep.  

[kagenotenshi]

Of people who are using dating personal adds, around 35 percent are married.

The sale of sex toys is banned in Alabama and Mississippi.

As much as 6 percent of the world's population, about 400 million people, suffer from sex addiction.

Incidentally, on any given day, about 400 million people across the globe will have sexual intercourse. This means about 4,00 people are having sex right now.  

[kagenotenshi]

Office desks have about 400 times the amount of bacteria than a toilet seat.

An estimated 1 million workers are assaulted on the job each year.  

[kagenotenshi]

Up to 8 percent of American adults suffer from toenail fungus.

If you wear a ring, the number of bacteria beneath it could be as high as the population of Europe.

60 percent of sporting injuries happen during practice.

Collisions with motor vehicles cause over 90 percent of fatal bicycle accidents.  

[kagenotenshi]

In some instances, someone's first use of cocaine can be fatal.

Two-thirds of the worlds executions happen in China.

Up to 30 percent of Britain's rat population carry Weil's disease, which can be fatal in humans.

Ursodiol, a component made from bear bile, is used to dissolve gall stones and treat cirrhosis of the liver.