20 Amazing Facts Posted: 4 months ago by MeMe
There are a few things I've read before but some that were new to me so I thought I'd share.
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Posted: 4 months ago by dollyllama:
I knew most of those, but I'm going to try the champagne thing.
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Posted: 4 months ago by psycmoe:
I think "amazing" is more than a bit exaggeration.
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Posted: 4 months ago by dumbn00b:
Plus, all babies are not born with blue eyes.
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Posted: 4 months ago by madhatteraggie:
some of these i already knew as well, but there were 1 or 2 in there that i know are false.
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Posted: 4 months ago by teresag:
You mean you can't kill yourself by holding your breath? 8-year-olds having tantrums will be disapppointed.
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Posted: 4 months ago by Chamale:
A lot are inaccurate.
In 1987, 10 trillion neutrinos passed through my body? It seems that would kill a sperm cell, which I was at the time.
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump? Wrong in 2 ways: Bats can't jump, and baby elephants can.
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Posted: 4 months ago by magaphoto:
I remember reading this in Harpers (Aug 2003) in a review for a book on the guillotine.
(reproduced here from wiki...)
The following report was written by a Dr. Beaurieux, who experimented with the head of a condemned prisoner by the name of Henri Languille, on June 28, 1905:
“ Here, then, is what I was able to note immediately after the decapitation: the eyelids and lips of the guillotined man worked in irregularly rhythmic contractions for about five or six seconds. This phenomenon has been remarked by all those finding themselves in the same conditions as myself for observing what happens after the severing of the neck...
I waited for several seconds. The spasmodic movements ceased. [...] It was then that I called in a strong, sharp voice: 'Languille!' I saw the eyelids slowly lift up, without any spasmodic contractions – I insist advisedly on this peculiarity – but with an even movement, quite distinct and normal, such as happens in everyday life, with people awakened or torn from their thoughts.
Next Languille's eyes very definitely fixed themselves on mine and the pupils focused themselves. I was not, then, dealing with the sort of vague dull look without any expression, that can be observed any day in dying people to whom one speaks: I was dealing with undeniably living eyes which were looking at me. After several seconds, the eyelids closed again[...].
It was at that point that I called out again and, once more, without any spasm, slowly, the eyelids lifted and undeniably living eyes fixed themselves on mine with perhaps even more penetration than the first time. Then there was a further closing of the eyelids, but now less complete. I attempted the effect of a third call; there was no further movement – and the eyes took on the glazed look which they have in the dead. "
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Posted: 4 months ago by tiffy8wiffy:
i always wanted to see someone try to sneeze and cover there nose and mouth to see if its really true.
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