##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and Other Interesting Blood and Body Related Facts Text Version Veins are very close to the surface of skin, which helps them play a role in heat dissipation. Due to this closeness to the surface, they are very visible through the skin. This near-surface location is largely why veins often appear blue despite the fact […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why Blood Turns Dark Red, Not Blue When De-oxygenated Text Version Cyanide poisoning works by not allowing the body to use oxygen. So the blood remains oxygenated after it passes through your body and back to the lungs. Thus, it causes the body to suffocate, even though the lungs are working properly.
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##EMBED## Click Here to Read More Interesting Body Facts Text Version Bone cells burn about 2.3 Calories per kilogram. If you are a man, on average about 15% of your body mass is made up of bone. For women, that number is around 12%.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn if It is Really Possible to Swallow Your Tongue or Not Text Version As you age, the number of taste buds you have tend to diminish. An average child is born with about 10,000 taste buds. An average elderly person only has about 5,000. This is partially why many kids hate vegetables […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and More Daylight Saving Facts Text Version Daylight saving time once single handedly thwarted a terrorist attack, causing the would-be terrorists to blow themselves up instead of other people. What happened was, in September 1999, the West Bank was on daylight saving time while Israel was on standard time; West Bank terrorists prepared bombs set […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and More Interesting Facts About Marie Antoinette Text Version Marie Antoinette’s last words were “pardon me sir, I meant not to do it.” She had accidentally stepped on the foot of the executioner and was apologizing for it.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why You Can’t Tickle Yourself Text Version It turns out, the panic response when a tarantula is crawling on your leg or the like is exactly what is happening when you are getting tickled. The body’s response to being tickled is panic and anxiety. It is thought that this is a defense […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources Text Version The type of spelling error based on a mishearing of a word or misunderstanding of its context, such as with “just deserts”, which is often misspelled as “just desserts”, is called an eggcorn.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn About Where the Term “Pipe Dream” Comes From Text Version “Operation Pipe Dreams” was a 2003 nationwide United States investigation which targeted business selling drug paraphernalia. In the end, hundreds of businesses and homes were raided nationwide. Fifty-five people were charged with trafficking of illegal drug paraphernalia and eventually fined and generally […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn How Many Senses Humans Have, which is Much More than the Traditional Five Text Version Cattle tend to align themselves north-south, which leads some researchers to believe they have a strong magnetoception sense.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn What Causes Ice Cream Headaches Text Version The scientific name for an ice cream headache is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia”. This basically just means “nerve pain of the sphenopalatine ganglion”.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn How Deaf People Think Text Version Deaf people typically clap by striking their hands together only when surrounded by hearing people. Otherwise, they use the more expressive motion of raising their hands and twisting their wrists rapidly to “clap”.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Where the Words Geek and Nerd Came From Text Version Before “geek”, “nerd”, “dork”, etc, the proper terms for these same ragamuffins were “Dewdroppers”, “Waldos”, and “Slackers”. Other common old slang words that were somewhat similar in meaning: pantywaist, oil can, drip, stinkeroo, mullet, roach, schnookle, kook, dimp, dorf, squid, auger, square, […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Civil War Related Facts Text Version General Lee was offered the position of the head of the Union army by Abraham Lincoln, but decided to lead the Confederate army instead as he couldn’t bring himself to lead troops against his native Virginia. Despite the Confederates being vastly outnumbered and not […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Find Out How “Spam” Came to Mean “Junk Message” Text Version Before it was called “spamming”, as referring to unsolicited messages in a chat room or forum or the like, the generally used terms for these actions were “flooding” and “trashing”.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Nimoy and Star Trek Related Facts Text Version Leonard Nimoy was the one to come up with the Vulcan nerve pinch. In the first episode this pinch showed up, Spock was originally supposed to club evil Kirk over the head, knocking him out. Nimoy thought this was inconsistent with Spock’s […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why You Can’t Tickle Yourself Text Version The word “tickle” comes from the Middle English word “tikelen”, meaning “to touch lightly”.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Elvis Related Facts Text Version Elvis had a black belt in Karate and loved the martial art so much he gave his instructor $50,000 to start a Karate school in Memphis.
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