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Chckens can live without a head
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Water rotation
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There's no gravity in the space
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We use 10 percent of our brain
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Poppy seeds bagel and opium
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Tall building and a penny
Adults don't grow new brain cells
Chicken soup can cure the common cold
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Yawning is "contagious"
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Lightning strikes the same place?
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A dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's
Hair continues growing after death
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A cat will always land on its feet
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Men think about sex every seven seconds
You get less wet by running in the rain
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The five second rule
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Animals can predict natural disasters
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Earth's distance from Sun causes seasons
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Great Wall is visible from the Moon
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It takes seven years to digest gum
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 | My granny told me this when I was a kid. And yes, i believed her... |
 | I always tought that we used 10% of our brain |
 | ahhh i miss feeling poppy-seed-bagel high!!! |
 | Even though there is atoms in space, the density is about a thousand times less than any "vacuum" produced in laboratory. Therefore, if we can say that we can create vacuum in laboratory, then there definitely is vaccum in space.
Now... zero-gravity is a sensation, not an absence of gravity. And furthermore, it refers to apparent gravity, just as the gravity in the Earths surface is greater in the poles, for there is no effect from Earths rotation there.
Cheers,
Rodrigo |
| I know the rule of 10 seconds ha ha ha |
| Once I tried to see the wall tru the google earth and it was hard, even if I look it closely. |
 | I'll post the screen shots on my blog with the LONG & LAD. |
|  Give us the coordinates!!!!  |
| Nuts! I liked this rule. I wish it was true |
 | neerajlabh wrote on Nov 10, '06, edited on Nov 12, '06 It is true that effectively we use only a little portion of the brain. there is a lot of redundancy when it comes to storage in the brains. however, every part of the brain has its use.
In some experiments, some part of the brains of the rats were removed and the rats were still found to be working perfect. But we do not know when and where those removed parts would be useful. Since we have an evolutionary life, it is very unlikely that we would keep something that is not going to be used ever by us. so i think, we use 100% of our brains, knowingly or unknowingly. |
| In the drains, yes. because the magnitude of the experiment is small. go and see the whirlpools and typhoons where the radius of the object is significant. this theory(Coriolis effect) can be observed directly there. |
 | godoy wrote on Nov 10, '06 I've read somewhere that this is only effective if eaten at night, because that's when these properties are active. So, having chicken soup and going to bed really helps :-) |
|  I always tought that we used 10% of our brain There's been debate as to where that estimate came from. No one seems to be sure. I'm pretty sure the Faithful Slave has never endorsed this claim either. Here's a link to Wikipedia about it. *disclaimer* As with anything you read online, take this with a grain of salt as well, as Wikipedia has been subject to false information in the past. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_brain#Popular_misconceptionsBut in any case you could chalk the sinful nature of our fallen flesh, to how much of our brain we could be using if we where perfect. Jehovah himself said Genesis 11:6 “Look! They are one people and there is one language for them all, and this is what they start to do. Why, now there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that will be unattainable for them." So what our mind could do if we where perfect is anyones guess. But even in the here and now, what one human mind can do as opposed to another's is largely subject to what you personally do with your mind. All of chapter 4 of the book "Is There a Creator Who Cares About You?" has really good information about the human mind. Carl Sagan, amazed that the human brain could hold information that “would fill some twenty million volumes,” stated: “The brain is a very big place in a very small space.” |
| try doing it yourself. it is a simple truth that the longer you stay in the rain, wetter you get. |
| Yawning is contagious in a closed room. When you yawn, the air pressure in the eustachian tube is balanced. this creates a disturbance in the atmosphere and hence an imbalance in the eustachian tubes of others. So to reset the presssure, others, too, have to yawn. :)
just kidding. but at times i think yawning is contagious. i always end up yawning if i see someone else yawning around me |
| it is a very complex phenomenon. cats can rotate their tails. when dropped upside down, they start rotating their tails. from the law of conservation of angular momentum, the body starts turning in the opposite direction. in some time, the body is straight. this is possible only when the cats are dropped from sufficient height that gives time to straighten themselves.
By the way: a buttered toast always falls on the buttered side.(as the saying goes). so stick a buttered toast to a cat's back(buttered side up) and drop the cat upside down. cat will try to land on the feet and buttered toast will try to land on the buttered side. this way you will have a perpetually rotating system :) |
| yes. when it is winter in northern hemisphere, it is summer in the southern. season's are because of the earth's tilted axis. |
| lightning, normally will not strike the same plce twice...unless of course you have in some way attracted it to strike the place. Lightning conductor does the same. The pointed tip of the LC accumulates more charge than the surrounding areas and there is a force of attraction between the rod and the lightning. this makes the lightning strike the LC. basically LCs are meant to do so. |
| yes. death means death of all the bosy tissues. if you see someone's hair growing after death, it is time to call a doctor...(or a priest...to shoo the un-dead). |
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| Thanks for explanation Arlen! |
 | I never understood this, not like there is 'slow digesting food turn-outs' in the intestines |
| I heard someone correlate missing pet reports to earthquakes in California |
| perhaps the difference is the density of the fluid observed? Not sure I can say I've seen a bias in direction in whirlpools in streams, that seems highly likely to be effected by the bed composition |
| Though it has not been confirmed, but it seems, before earthquakes, the infrasonic waves are emitted. Animals can sense infrasonic waves and they become restless. this has been given as one of the possible reasons for the eccentric behavior of the pets/animals before an earthquake. |
| ericdred wrote on Nov 13
perhaps the difference is the density of the fluid observed? Not sure I can say I've seen a bias in direction in whirlpools in streams, that seems highly likely to be effected by the bed composition
Neeraj: It is not due to the densities. and it is not limited to fluids alone. though it is easy to observe the phenomenon in the case of fluids. This is Coriolis effect, called after the scientist who discovered this. |
 | man this is great. I love this post. Definitely deserves a thumbs up. Give it a thumbs up RIGHT HERE |
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 | great stuff!! ^_^ (and equally great thread!) |
 | wow, i wonder what will happen to its head? |
 | "...the gravity in the Earths surface is greater in the poles, for there is no effect from Earths rotation there."
hmmmm...I never knew that...makes sense...
the equator's gravity is less. |
 | daspider wrote on Oct 14, '07, edited on Oct 14, '07 Eighteen months?! :D
It would die from starvation after a few days only without it's beak. |
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