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World's roundest object and the kg standard

9/14/2013

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The Price of a Gallon

9/11/2013

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Everyone complains when the price of gas goes up, well here is a list of the cost of some common liquids, per gallon
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Human Body Facts

9/8/2013

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Some Random Human Body facts, all of which will make much more sense as we progress through the year.

  • When you blush, the lining of your stomach blushes too.

  • Your brain edits out your nose in your vision.

  • Synovial fluid, the fluid that eases joint movement, is one of the most slippery substances known to man.
  • When a pregnant woman suffers organ damage (such as a heart attack), the fetus sends stem cells to the damaged organ to help repair it. (read more)



  • Female gametogenesis begins in utero, which means that the egg that was eventually fertilized to create you probably first existed inside your maternal grandmother.

  • Caffeine doesn't wake you up, it just suppresses the part of the mind that wants to sleep.

  • The human intestinal tract is considered to be outside the body. When we form in utero, we start out as nothing more than a rectum. So from mouth to anus, it's just one long tube.

  • The reason that men have nipples is because gender isn't determined until after the nipples begin developing in a fetus.

  • Some tumors can grow teeth, hair, and bones. "And, very rarely, more complex organs or processes such as eyes, torso, and hands, feet, or other limbs" (read more)

  • Human saliva contains opiorphin, a protein that acts three times more effectively as a painkiller than morphine.(also found elsewhere in the body)

  • There are no muscles in your fingers, it's all moved by tendons that run through your hands/arms

  • There is a significant portion of the population for whom, due to a genetic anomaly, cilantro tastes like soap

  • We are the best distance runners in the animal kingdom. There's this thing called persistence hunting where people run after deer or other animals for miles until it gets too tired to keep going.

  • A bite from a human will almost always get infected.

  • That motion sickness is your brain thinking you've been poisoned.(Your inner eat senses that you're moving but your eyes don't see it. So the message that your brain receives is that you're hallucinating and you must have been poisoned so it tells your body to vomit out any poison.)

  • In a human body, there are 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells.

  •  Our brains have a limiter that prevent our muscles from reaching their full power because we could hurt ourselves, in the same way cars have governors that keep you from revving too high or going too fast. Some athletes have broken their bones by hypercontraction of their muscles.


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What's in a Camel's Hump?

9/3/2013

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No, a camel's hump is not filled with water, it is a giant mound of fat. In a healthy, well-fed camel, the hump can weigh as much as 80 pounds!­ Human beings and most animals store­ their fat mixed in with muscle tissue or in a layer right beneath the skin. Camels are the only animals with a hump.

The hump allows a camel to survive an extremely long time (up to two weeks) without food if need be. Because camels typically live in the desert, where food can be scarce for long stretches, this is important.
A camel uses about 5 gallons (20 liters) of water a day in the summer. However, a camel can lose up to 25 gallons (100 liters) of water from its body tissues without ill effects. One thing that a camel can do to conserve water is to handle large body-temperature swings. A camel might start the day at 94 degrees F and allow its temperature to rise as high as 105 degrees F. Only at the upper end of this range does it need to sweat to prevent overheating. When you compare this temperature range to the range the human body can handle (where only a 2 degree rise indicates illness), you can see the advantage.

Other camel facts:
  • An adult camel weighs between 700 and 1,500 pounds (318 to 680 kg) and is up to 7 feet (2.1 meters) tall.
  • Camels can live to be up to 50 years old.
  • Camels gestate about 11 months and give birth to one calf.
  • A male reaches maturity in five years, a female in three to four years.
  • Camels actually have three eyelids! Two of them have lashes, and the third is thin.
  • A camel can close its nostrils.
  • A camel, like a goat, will eat almost anything.
  • Pack camels can carry loads of 400 pounds 25 miles (181 kg 40 km) in a day.


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