Now you know everything

[Big Daddy]

Now you know everything!!!!

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for
blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than airplane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or
older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.


Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least
six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles
resulting from the flush. (I keep my toothbrush in the living room now!)

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first U.S. president whose name
contains all the letters from the word "Criminal."

The second?
William Jefferson Clinton.
(Please don't tell me you're SURPRISED!?!!)

And the best for last.....


turtles can breathe through their butts.

(I know some people like that)

Now you know everything there is to know

 

[bmwrocks]

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news with regard to the duck quack:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_ducks_quack_echo.htm

But with all the bad comes the good:
http://raju.varghese.org/articles/powers2.html

I have too much time on my hands......

 

[Abdoman]

Duck quack doesn't echo - Yea, the Mythbusters cracked that one.

 

[Tom]

LOL Dan, now I truely know everything.

 

[jrt67ss350]

I love your avatar, Tom! IMO, that was the funniest Will Farrell skit ever!

 

[MrElussive]

Pretty funny information. But supposedly 1 cup of coffee in the morning (for the day) is good for you. The caffeine gets your metabolism going and wakes your ass up and the coffee acts as a laxative (yes, that is a good thing). Unfortunately, I HATE the taste and smell of coffee....

 

[jrt67ss350]

Pretty funny information. But supposedly 1 cup of coffee in the morning (for the day) is good for you. The caffeine gets your metabolism going and wakes your ass up and the coffee acts as a laxative (yes, that is a good thing). Unfortunately, I HATE the taste and smell of coffee....

Yes, caffeine can act as a laxative, but that's actually not a good thing. Becoming dependent on a laxative to maintain bowel regularity leads to all kinds of gastrointestinal problems. It's much better to use more natural things like dietary fiber to maintain bowel regularity than chemical stimulants like caffeine. Caffeine also acts as a diuretic (caffeine is actually a pretty potent diuretic), so it makes you pee.

Since starting medical school, I have actually cut out all caffeine from my diet.

 

[Section_8]

Yes, caffeine can act as a laxative, but that's actually not a good thing. Becoming dependent on a laxative to maintain bowel regularity leads to all kinds of gastrointestinal problems. It's much better to use more natural things like dietary fiber to maintain bowel regularity than chemical stimulants like caffeine. Caffeine also acts as a diuretic (caffeine is actually a pretty potent diuretic), so it makes you pee.

Since starting medical school, I have actually cut out all caffeine from my diet.

I work for the 2nd most popular brand name on Big Daddy's list, and can attest to the caffiene bit. I've moved to totally water and ice - all day. Which can be a pain at times, because there's literally a free fountain drink station on every floor.. Not to mention vending machines with 15 cent canned, and 25 cent 20 oz drinks.. It's very tempting...

You went to medical school and got over caffiene, I had to work for the biggest marketers of it to get over it.

 

[Big Daddy]

Here in Seattle they think coffee is the nectar of the gods. Granted I drink on average a cup a day, but I am in no way one of those who has a cup in their hands 24/7. I do not drink enough water, even though I have been told and believe it can do a body good. Lately I have been making an effort to drink more H20.

 

[Kirby]

I work for the 2nd most popular brand name on Big Daddy's list, and can attest to the caffiene bit.

I just got back from a trip to St. Louis today, and toured the third one on the list - Budweiser / AB. The whole time I was there I was thinking how HUGE their brand and image is for a basically average product. Marketing, Marketing, Marketing...

 

[MrElussive]

Yeah, my parents are AWFUL with coffee. They constantly drink cappuccino. My dad will have one cup of cappuccino in the morning and then one in the afternoon. My mom has like two cups of Turkish/Armenian coffe a day (which is significantly stronger than normal coffee). They are easily coffe addicts -if not coffee whores- and they say that they get headaches if they don't have coffee in one day.

I think the whole coffe-drinking trend came from the show 'Friends', if you really think about it.

As for me, I try to drink water more than anything else. I do try to have at least a glass of milk (for the calcium) and a glass of OJ (for the vitamin C) each day. I do have one bad habbit though. I <3 soda...I used to drink 2 or 3 cans of Mountain Dew Code Red a day....I've knocked it down to 1, but I still need to lessen that amount. My problem is that I love sugar way too much.