I think the high blood pressure and quickened pulse are short term effects (until the neurotransmitters are used).

Research reports indicate that DARK chocolate (not white or milk chocolate) contains flavanoids (also found in green tea) which acts to decrease the chances of low-density lipoproteins (LDLs = bad) getting oxidized, which would otherwise cause plaque buildup in arteries and lead to coronary artery disease (CAD). Dark chocolate also contains stearic acid, which acts to boost high density lipoproteins (HDLs = good).

However, chocolate also contains lots of saturated fats that are bad for you. Bottom line: eat dark chocolate if any and use moderation.

NOT TRUE. I have seen a guy in my calculus class that proved everyone wrong.

Theoretically, there is enough quantum fluxuations, or known as vacuum energy, in the volume of an empty mug to boil the Earth's oceans away.

The process of taking the sum of a number's component integers till a single integer is given is called a digital root.

Example:
15874
1 + 5 + 8 + 7 + 4 = 25
2 + 5 = 7

digital root of 15874 = 7


Also a digital root cannot be zero, unless you start out with zero.
Remember that one for Jeopardy.

Did you know that 666 (from base 10) into base 29 is MS... Microsoft???


(It is also PG in base 26 but that isn't quite as funny.)

Speaking of the Civil War (15 posts up?)

Did you know that the man (Wilmer McClain) who owned the property that the first battle of the Civil War was fought on (Manassas, or 1st Bull Run) moved away to escape the violence of the war? Well, he moved to a town called Appomattox. The treaty ending the war was signed in his parlor.

The Civil War began in his yard, and ended in his living room. In different states.

Corona is skunky. Heineken is skunky. Why?

The color of their bottles (clear and green).

Well, ultraviolet light cleaves a portion of the iso-alpha acids (source of bitterness in beer, from hops) which eventually leads to the formation of flavor-active sulfur compounds, and skunky flavor. Brown beer bottles protect against this phenomenon.

Why aren't Miller products (MGD and High Life, both clear bottles) skunky?

Well, they use "reduced iso-alpha acids." These have been hydrogenated at a specific location which prevents this cleavage from taking place.

And knowing is half the battle.

You can prove that any multiple of 9's digits add up to a multiple of 9 (and thus if you keep doing it, you'll eventually get 9)

Proof:
The "digits" of any number 9 can be expressed as:
dn-1*10^n + dn-2 * 10^(n-1) + ... + d1*10^1 + d0 * 10^0

10^n -1 is 999...9 (has n 9s), so we can write this as
dn-1*(999..9 + 1) + dn-2 * (999...9 + 1) + ... + d1*(9 + 1) + d0 * (1)

multiply it out, and you get two groups of terms. The first group is when you multiply by the 999....9 term, and those are automatically divisible by 9, since 9999..9 is always divisible by 9 (proof of that: it's 111...1 * 9)

The remaining terms are simply the digits:
9dn-1 + dn-2 + ... + d1 + d0

This is the sum of the digits. Thus, if the sum of the digits is divisible by 9, then the entire term is divisible by 9, and since the term is a representation of n, then n is divisible by 9.

You may also be wondering about the validity of the sum of multiples of x are divisible by x. Here's my proof:
if each number added is divisible by x, then you can write it as follows:
x is what each is divisible by, and k1 through kn are integers
x*k1 + x*k2 + ... + x*kn = x(k1 + k2 + ... + kn). k1 + k2 + ... + kn is an integer, and so x*(k1 + k2 + ... + kn) is an integer that's divisible by x.

Here's an example of working through the proof:
83367
= 8*10^4 + 3 * 10^3 + 3 * 10^2 + 6 * 10^1 + 7 * 10^0
= 8*(10000) + 3*(1000) + 3*(100) + 6*(10) + 7*(1)
= 8*(9999+1) + 3*(999+1) + 3*(99+1) + 6*(9+1) + 7*1
= (8*9999 + 3*999 + 3*99 + 6*9) + (8 + 3 + 3 + 6 + 7)
--------TERM 1--------------- -----TERM 2------
Term 1 is divisible by 9, because each number in it is divisble by 9, so if term 2 is divisible by 9, then 83367 is divisible by 9.
8+3+3+6+7 = 27
27 = 9*3, so it's divisible by 9.

Hopefully by working through an example of my proof, you can see that a number being divisible by nine is soley contingent on its digits adding to 9. Note that this will only work in base 10!

There is a similar proof that if the digits add up to a multiple of 3, they are divisible by 3. You can try to work that out yourself, if you want (it's basically the same proof).

Yep, also if the complete potential energy of a lighbulb full of Quantum Foam (Suposidly the absolute base state of matter) will do the same thing.

I thought Quantum Foam is the state of matter where everything is no longer divisible to particles: like mass collapsed into a black hole. Maybe it is both. I know I say some Nova special on it. :hmm: :thumbsup:

did you know that the chineses army could stand shoulder to shoulder and walk 5 abreast into the ocean and the would never run out because of the rate of growth in there military

Did you know...

-Coke (the soda) can be used to clean your toilet bowl.
-Pure Coca Cola is shipped in a tanker with a "corrosive" symbol on it.

anything containing Dihydrogen Monoxide is corrosive
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

This is a picture of a liger:

http://www.greenapple.com/~jorp/amzanim/ligersize.jpg

That's a big kitty

Ramen Noodles were invented on August 25th, 1958.

PRAISE WHOEVER DID THIS!

'Slept' also falls under this category.

What about...wept?


And... Dreamt?

"Dreamt" is the only common English word ending in -MT. Others are the obscure "adreamt," "redreamt," "undreamt," or "daydreamt."

All of course with the dreamt root, so i am not sure if they count.

More word trivia....

The only countries in the world with one syllable in their names are Chad, France, Greece, and Spain.

Thats the kind of cat that uses the door instead of the flap...


My one: A daddy long legs (i think it's a crane fly) has an incredibly strong poison, enough to do some serious damage to humans, but it isn't strong enough to break through our skin and inject it.

Before their venture into games, Nintendo had such interesting venues as a by-the-hour Love Hotel, instant portioned rice and a taxi company.

The original playing cards produced by Nintendo back in the late 1800's were put into such heavy use by the Yakuza that production couldn't keep up with demand.

False.
http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.htm

That link about dihydrogen monoxide (i.e. water) is pretty funny, just because all of the "hazards" they list are true if you think about them.

When you drink water, you are drinking both an acid and a base! This is because water can partially disassociate in itself.

deeded is the only six letter word with just two letters and 3 of each

i've got one.....compliments of The Straight Dope

BTW, this website answers all sorts of questions.....many of which i've wondered but had no idea how to answer. you could spend days there just reading cool shit. www.straightdope.com

Bleach will not affect the diamond, but may dissolve some minerals in the metal setting.

You can see kernels of corn in your fecal matter.

Octopus legs still move when you cut them off while they are alive.

About flour being flammable;

My grandfather was a grain elevator operator (grain buyer) all his life, and a heavy smoker. He never lit a cigarette inside the building, because grain dust is not only flammable, but EXPLOSIVE!!

In the early 60s, he was on the roof of the elevator (about 17 stories tall) and decided to have a quick dart. He threw the butt off the edge of the building (heck, no fault, he was on the outside, right?) and it landed in the intake of a grain hopper car sitting on the train tracks outside the building. The hopper car BLEW UP, causing massive damage to the building, surrounding cars, and ol' pappy's pride. The wheat pool issued a policy that smoking was not allowed 50 feet from the building, and therefore that included the roof.

Gotta love those 60s. I hear a lot of cool shit went down back in those days...

Thomas Watson received the first phone call on March 10, 1876....

Wow... that's tomorrow!

Don Quixote, De Profundus, La Morte D'Arthur and Mein Keimpf were all written while their authors were in prison.

- it takes 7 days to make a jelly-bean
- double-bubble is pink because that's the only color dye the dude had in his house when he invented it
- polar bears are left handed
- Armadillos can be housebroken
- It takes 9 minutes for a snowflake to fall from 1000 feet up.
- In 1938, LA passed a law requiring that a man obtain a liscense before seranading a woman.

Eh, all Snopes did was give the run-around like they always do. :o

"If these spiders were indeed deadly poisonous but couldn't bite humans, then the only way we would know that they are poisonous is by milking them and injecting the venom into humans. For a variety of reasons including Amnesty International and a humanitarian code of ethics, this research has never been done."

They have not proven NOR disproven the validity of the statement.

Did you know:
Super glue was originally made to quickly attend wounds on soldiers in war time? It's true, that is why it sticks to your fingers so damned good.

"If you put a polar bear in zero gravity, it will turn blue over the course of a week."

The above situation can never occur naturally, and nobody has ever tested it for various important reasons. It is not valid as a little known fact because it was never tested.

OK, you don't have to inject the poison into a human to test to see if it is deadly to us. You can analyze it chemically. It's been done before, watch Court TV. Do you think all the poisonous things on this planet were discovered from experimentation???

A bird in zero gravity will die of dehydration in micro-gravity. This is because it cannot swallow without the aid of gravity for there are no muscles in its esophagus.

Did You Know:
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

A duck's quck doesn't echo.

At least attempt to make a real fact. :P

Mixing chlorine bleach and brake fluid creates smoke.

Yeah it was disproven on some show on TLC.

-Mixing Clorox Bleach and motor oil equals fire.
-Bleach and Ammonia equals deadly gas. Please do not try this at home or anyone else's home. Some of us did and can warn the rest of you. :thumbsup:

Not motor oil, brake fluid! Though I'm sure that it's still not a very good idea :)

Actually, the Myth Busters took this one up. Apparently the quack just sounds awfully like an echo to our ears (and most equipment). But highly sensitive equipment can pick up the echo, it's just very faint, and blends in very well.

Thanks for the correction guys :)

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down hence the expression "to get fired"

:Laughs: Well that's a cheery way to come back!
And thanks for the correction LiquidLight, but a fun idea when done right!

OK... Thermite reactions, like thermite that the military uses, is nothing more than iron oxide (RUST!) mixed with powdered aluminum heated slightly (usually with a magnesium strip).

The reaction that occurs is called an oxidation reduction reaction (redox for short). The oxidation potential (how willing something is to take on oxygen) of aluminum and iron are changed releasing LOTS OF HEAT!

If it only needs to be heated slightly, why do they have to use magnesium ribbon? I thought it was used because just using ordinary flame (match, lighter) was not hot enough to ignite it.

IRC was created in Finland in 1989.

Major US breweries (Budweiser, Miller) started brewing with rice during WWII in an attempt to make their beer less strong and therefore more appealing to women, and never switched back, which is one of the reasons their beer is so shitty.

D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), a major anti-drug program in the US, defines 'drug' as any substance that alters your perception or behavior. (Then they make sure you know that "soft drugs" are drugs, but fail to mention that that definition also includes things like food.)

Howcome nobody's mentioned that in the other hemisphere, the water in toilet bowls goes the other way? =) Actually I think that's really determined by the direction the water outlets point in your bowl..

The word antihelix has nothing to do with shapes or gemoetry, it's actually a part of your ear.

Does anybody know the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

I would guess that the decision was based on a magnesium ribbon being waterproof.
http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
This guy looks like he knows!

When I say heated slightly, it takes an ordinary kitchen stove burner to ignite the magnesium strip, but that magnesium itself will burn much hotter . Sorry about that.

Blue reflectors in the middle of a street indicate the location of a fire hydrant

Fact#1 Iron with sufficent surface area, in a flow of concentrated oxygen can burn with enough initial energy, ie: oxy-acetelyene torch or magnesium strip. This is the basis behind the thermal lance which is an iron/steel pipe often stuffed with wire, connected on one end to an oxygen tank and it is one of the strongest gas torches reaching 4000*C. These are often used in safecracking because they can cut through very thick metal.

Fact#2 Coconut milk is sterile and can be used intraveniously in place of a water sugar solution.

Fact#3 Very small particles of gold (in the 20 nm range) mixed into water can appear crimson or violet in color.

Fact#4 Flourine gas is so reactive that it can't be stored in glass, infact hydroflouric acid is used to etch glass.

Fact#5 Almost all energy on earth has come from our sun or meteor impacts, even or oil and coal got its energy from the sun when it was once a plant or animal. So thats why everyone should use some form of solar power, it only makes sense.

Fact#6 Glass is not a liquid like many people claim, it is an anamorphous solid. And those windows with the elongatted tear drop cross section comes from the way that glass panels were manufactured at the time, placed with the heavy side down so that they would be less unstable. Infact some have been found upside down.

Fact#7 The great rift valley in Africa will likely seperate from africa in millions of years though.

Fact#8 With the right pressure and other factors hydrogen can actually reach a metallic state, this is occuring in the center of Jupiter right now.

Fact# 9 Lots of food products are made from the scraps that didn't meet specifications for another product. Tater Tots are made from the sub-par french fries which are then ground up. Fish sticks are made from the little bits of crummy meat left over from the cutting of the fish. Baby carrots are often made out of substandard carrots using a lathe like machine.

Fact#10 Most hydrocarbon gases have no odor, the gas plants, distributors or utility companies add an odor so that leaks can be detected.

Fact#11 All gasoline is mostly the same, it all comes from the same network of pumping lines, the only difference is in the additives that the individual company adds at the pumping station for the big tankers.

Please tell me if any of these are incorrect and I will remember to stop spreading the lies.

Only this one:
It is theorized that hydrogen becomes metallic at high enough temperatures. It has never been proven--so says the chemistry text.

This can be accomplished with hollow gold nanospheres. Even more interesting is that if you change the thickness of the walls of the spheres they can change color from these crimson or violet colors, or even become completely transparent like water. Totally clear gold.

Edit: Also, gold and silver nanospheres are currently being studied to help restore sight to people who are visually impaired in certain ways.


http://www.solarisnano.com/vision.php

Actually, identifiable metallic hydrogen was produced in a laboratory setting for the first time in 1996, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It required pressure in excess of one million atmospheres and lasted about a microsecond. The results of that experiment have led scientist to theorize that there is actually more metallic hydrogen at the core of gas giant planets than previously suspected.

Augi - The daddy longlegs thing was actually covered by mythbusters as well, although with a slight variation (their myth stated that the daddy longlegs possess the most powerful poison known to man, but they aren't dangerous because their fangs aren't long enough to pierce human skin). They milked several daddy longlegs and tested the poison on mice, finding that the poison isn't the strongest out there by far (none of the mice were permanently damaged, for those concerned). They then tested the other half by having Adam put his arm in a tube filled with daddy longlegs and aggravating them until one bit him. He did receive a bite and suffered no ill effects because of it.

Let's see, useless trivia...

Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat using only the words listed in the average first grader's vocabulary at the time. Many of his works had similar themes. Green Eggs and Ham, for example, is written using less than 50 words.

Don't know about all processes to make baby carrots, but where I am from, they are rotated in a barrel with large beads to beat them down and then are washed and cleaned from there.

Did You Know:
Ants always fall on their right sides when intoxicated. I want to know who is spending money and good alcohol on ants!

Right on the second one. Despite what Lisa Simpson says, the coriolis effect applies to air masses, not water in a toilet or sink.

And I guess I need a new fact, huh? Let's see..

Everybody knows the NHL's biggest trophy by far is the Stanley cup. The cup has a long and storied history. In it's time, it has been

-drop kicked into the Rideau Canal (which was fortunately frozen at the time)
-used as a dog's food dish
-used as a latrine
-to the bottom of more than one swimming pool
-stolen and recovered several times
-forgotten in a snow bank on the side of the road
-used as a flower pot
-used in a baptism

(source)

I may have been too under the influence, but I believe the definition of drug to be "anything that alters how the mind or body works expect for food."

Somewhat related to this is that honey is an antibiotic and can be used to disinfect wounds (the sugar content is too high for anything to live!)

And the burn victims gave me funny looks when I started baste them...

The Union Jack flag of the UK is a cross between the old flag of England (The Cross of St. George) and the Scottish flag (The Cross of St. Andrew). Also, the Act of Parliament that formed the UK is called... The Act of Union. I think they need to get more creative..

The official currency of both Panama and Ecuador is the US Dollar. I wonder if the average income is US$5000 or something... How strange!


(source)

Somehow I feel like I haven't really learned anything.

Ooowww... I was just hit by a falling penny ... that stings

RCALYRA

The FedEx logo has an arrow in it.. i never noticed until a mate pointed it out to me.
http://www.wooba.com/images/fedexlogo.gif

Coke can also take the paint off a car, and disolve the crap around your car battery

The lyrics of both Amazing Grace or the tehme from Gilligan's Island perfectly match the music to both, with slight changes in rhthym.

In The Beatles' Hey Jude, approximately 2:55 into the song (after the line "remember to let her under your skin," John Lennon can be heard shouting "Fucking hell, I got the wrong chord!"

I looked at the spider from the Snopes site, and it doesn't look like the spider from the American Plains that's called "daddy-longlegs".

According to Wisconsin Natural Resources Magazine, the spider we call "daddy-longlegs" is an "Elegant Harvestman" and aren't true spiders. Harvestman 'spiders' have no venom.

My mother claims that if you boil one of these harvestmen in water that it will make the water toxic; but this is the same woman who swears that if a pregnant woman raises her hands over her head often the baby will be strangled by the umbilical cord. :crazy:

Along the same lines as MrSelfDestruct, most of Emily Dickison's poetry can be easily sung to the tune of the Yellow Rose of Texas.

To complete his statement "until they become one number" - he means digit.

9x9263 = 83367
8+3+3+6+7 = 27
2+7 =9

No other english word rhymes with "orange"

George Washington grew Marijuana (sp?) - he was qouted as saying that he had to return home in time to seperate the plants before they flower. Not important for the HEMP fibers, but important for the "medicinal" properties.

A carpenters foot is the measurement of your hands thumbs extended hands touching - roughly 12" - easy measure of a foot.

Too late to remember anything actually useful.

The logo for the infinity car brand is of a road stretching to infinity.

There is also no word in the English language that rhymes with Month.

Actually, the water in toilet bowls down here in Australia doesn't rotate either way on its way down. When the cistern empties, water flows from the back of the bowl under the rim, around and down both sides and where the two streams meet at the front it fountains back into the middle.

The coriolis effect applies to all bodies of fluid, though the results are small in smaller bodies.

An old nickname for avocado is "sailor's butter." In the days of long voyages on sailing ships with no refrigeration or food preservation technology, butter wouldn't last. But avocados would, for two or three weeks anyway. Sailors smeared their hardtack with it.

Did you Know?

Dogs and bees can smell fear. :hmm:

Did you know?

that's because we secrete some kind of scent (i think scent is the word here) when we "fear", which can be detected by a dog's nose.

Not quite sure bout the bees though

there are such laws as:

You are not allowed to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket on sundays.

In order for a pickle to officially be considered a pickle, it must bounce.

One may not pee in his neighbor's mouth.

Having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal.

Detonating a nuclear device within the city limits of Chico, California results in a $500 fine.

It is considered an offense to push a live moose out of a moving airplane.

It is illegal to wipe one's car with used underwear.

The penalty for jumping off a building is death.

It is legal for a male to have sex with an animal as long as it does not exceed 40 lbs.

York, in the UK, Excluding Sundays, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.

It is illegal to molest butterflies.

In Indianapolis, One may only throw a stone at a bird in self-defense.

In Fresno, No one may annoy a lizard in a city park.

Molesting an automobile is illegal.

I got a million of them :D

The planet Venus has longer days than years. It takes longer for Venus to go through one rotation than to orbit the sun.

In order for a pickle to officially be considered a pickle, it must bounce.

Or be a vegetable (usually but not always a cucumber) preserved in brine or vinegar.


Having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal.

Bestiality is generally illegal - not just with porcupines.


Detonating a nuclear device within the city limits of Chico, California results in a $500 fine.

Amongst other things, such as all the the reparations one becomes liable to pay after going to war without making a formal declaration.


It is considered an offense to push a live moose out of a moving airplane.

It is considered an offense to push anything out of a moving aeroplane without being a loadmaster, or having particular qualifications (crop-duster, skydiving etc).


It is illegal to wipe one's car with used underwear.

I suspect that it's probably illegal to wipe most things with biological waste.


The penalty for jumping off a building is death.

No it isn't. Ask a base jumper.

This is true. It was written in Washington's personal journal, anyway. Whether or not he was smoking it, I couldn't say -- but he did indeed separate the male and female plants (which as you said is not necessary for hemp).


Edit: Here's a fact: The armadillo is the only animal (other than man) that can get leprosy.

yo ragbags,

A) Dont take it up w/ me, www.dumblaws.com

B) Why do you have to kill my little post? I just a small time poster and you just jump on me like a hobo on a ham sandwich...

shame shame

Forgiving all the replies to the original post...

I was taught this rule with the number 3. After all, 9 is a multiple of 3 and furthermore, 3 is a prime number. Try it yourself.

eg: 17904

1+7+9+0+4=21
2+1=3

Edit:

It turns out I might be wrong on this one. I'd delete it if I could.

A fact of my own...
 

The primary colours of Paint (pigment) are Red, Blue and Yellow. Yet the primary colours of Light are Red, Blue and Green.

Bonus Knowlege:

Pigment Secondary Colours: Violet, Green, Orange
Light Secondary Colours: Violet, Cyan, Amber

Actually, according to my professor of mesoamerican archeology, if you're stuck out in the jungle and you accidentally cut yourself deeply, the best thing you can do is piss in the cut, and then, when you stop screaming (hurts like hell), go find some largish ants, have them bite the lips of the cut together, and then twist their bodies off their heads, as they make primitive but effective sutures.

So, while urine is not necessarily sterile, fresh urine is a powerful disinfectant.

Spreading a tomato product( ketchup, taco sauce) will clean the tarnish off copper, silver and brass. But smooshing a tomato on it will not. :D

I wonder why?
o_O

and TopHat, that is just too much for me to endure, I think I'd die doing that to myself.

flowers only have a certain number of petals. the possibilities are: 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89.

lillies - 3
buttercups - 5
delphiniums (not all) - 8
marigolds - 13
asters - 21
daisies (most) - 34, 55, 89

kinda of interesting. do you see the pattern in the numbers?

it's cool.

found in a book called "nature's numbers"

More Americans were killed in the Civil War then any other.

Did you know...
 

The side of the moon facing the earth is more dense than the other (also more visually interesting (I've been there)). :D

Sex
 

Dolphins are the only other species than humans that have sex for pleasure.

Dolphins AND bonobos, actually. And even that is a bit contrived:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/pleasure.htm

Ketchup, used primarily as a condiment, is a sweet-tart sauce whose main ingredient is tomatoes, flavored with onions, garlic, vinegar, sugar, and spices.

Plain vinegar will remove tarnish, so I suspect Ketchup's effect is due to the vinegar it contains.

perhaps just a lil more due the the gravitational pull of the earth on it?

- The land that Arlington National Cemetery resides on was owned by Robert E. Lee before the government confiscated it to build a cemetery upon. Whether it was an intentional "Fuck you, man" or not, I forget.

- The term "Hookers" comes from General Joseph Hooker, a Union commander in the civil war, who enjoyed the company of women of ill-repute.

- Lyndon Johnson, once bored and angry in a cabinet meeting, whipped out his member and asked his astounded cabinet if they thought "Mao had one as big as this?"

- There's a heartwrenching story behind the trumpet ditty "Taps," played at Military Funerals, about a son and a father fighting on opposite sides of the civil war, and the father shoots the son, who had been studying music, and wrote this little thing right before he died. This is bullshit. It was written by a Union commander named Dan Butterfield, who liked to compose little pieces of music in his spare time.

here's something i had been wondering for a while

when movies are edited for TV and airline flights, profanity is changed to suit more viewers. (the result is kind of silly but less offensive.) to fill in the vacant #&$@!!s, voice actors mimic the original actor.

i heard one of said actors interviewed. it was funny how seriously he viewed the task; he took a very Method approach to filling in several "Frickin's" for brad pitt in fight club. seems to work well though...you can often tell that words are out of place, but it usually sounds much like the original actor.

Can't track down the source of where I read this, but...

...when you enter a restroom, the natural instinct is to skip the first stall, because you figure that everyone goes to the first stall. However, since everyone else thinks this, the second stall is typically the most used, and therefore the dirtiest. I also seem to recall that the last stall is usually the best choice (assuming that the number of stalls exceeds two).

Corn kernels (along with grass) will shot up in your excrement because your body does not produce the enzyme to use the energy in cellulose. Grass/corn kernels are made of entirely cellulose.
Chlorine bleach + ammonia produces chlorine gas (was mentioned before but I wanted to clarify what gas it was).
Coke syrup is corrosive because it contains phosphoric acid, which is highly corrosive.

What is the only liquid that expands when it freezes; due to the hydrogen bonds in the water molecule, as the water freezes, the hydrogen bonds become stronger, but the structure becomes less dense.

Argon gas is often used for enclosures for expensive paintings/documents (i.e. Declaration of Independence) because argon gas is one of the 8 noble gases. Since all noble gases have 8 electrons in their valence shell, they do not react with much of anything, and thus, no oxidation of the paintings/paper will happen.

I have a beef with this one, stick with me... time for a ride.

According to dictionary.com, orange is pronounced "(ôrnj, r-)"
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=orange

According to dictionary.com, fringe is pronounced "(frnj)"
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fringe

Granted both pnonuciations have a 1 with an accent thingee over them (see links) that don't show when I copy/paste, but..... they are pronounced with the same end.. don't they rhyme?

I showed this to my neice when she was in 4th grade. I told her to shoew her teacher, but to be ready for the teacher to disagree. Her teacher said that just because two words sound alike doesn't mean they rhyme. She told me that is what rhyme means, so my neice learned about being right and wrong at the same time.

Here's a w-as-noun word I read about in Omni magazine in the '80s....

cwm

n : a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake

I think that rhyming also requires an emphasis match, and there's a difference there in strong vs weak endings. Interesting, though, I'd never heard "fringe" proposed before.

That has been brought up to me as well, but is there really a difference in emphasis? Also, a friend ( who thinks she is smarter than me.. and therefore rarely is "wrong" when she disagrees with me) said that they can't rhyme becuase orange has 2 syllables and fringe has only one. I always say that cat and tophat rhyme. She usually says that the laundry is done and has to get off the phone.

As an aside, I have said orange and fringe thousands of times aloud over the last few years, and i'm either deluding myself, or they really rhyme.

just got thru reading this thread... my head hurts!!!

i read somewhere that pigs can have one-hour orgasms...

My buddy was in a band and wanted to make a song including the word Orange, and you know what he came up with?

I want to be on you baby, like a peel on an Orange
Grease you up, and take the squeek out of your Door Hinge.

Well, technically, Door Hinge is 2 words, so I guess you are right when you say no word rhymes with it. But my buddy got lots of laughs on stage with that one. I will never forget those lines.

Those are called Fibonacci numbers, right? It is really cool, the way fibonacci numbers are created and displayed in nature.
I had to write a computer program that would calculate the fibonacci product of any number input from a user.

I quickly changed majors from computer science to economics. :thumbsup: