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Can You REALLY Hear The SEA In A SEASHELL???

February 19th 2010 22:00
listening to a seashell
We've all done it at one point of another, held a seashell to our ear to see if, as the old wives tale goes, we really can hear the ocean.

But what is it we are really hearing?

The answer - the sound of our own blood flowing through our head!

The design and shape of a seashell provides an excellent echo chamber to hear what is really going on inside our heads, but because of the myth and our expectations of hearing the ocean, that's what we fall into the trap of thinking that we're hearing really - we're really just listening to a psychological, preconceived notion, particularly because seashells come from the sea!
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A Few Little Known Body Facts

April 10th 2009 10:53
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A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.

About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you.
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The Average Human Body CONTAINS ENOUGH.......

March 23rd 2009 11:03
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The average human body contains enough:

Sulfur to kill all the fleas on an average dog.
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What's YOUR BLOOD-TYPE???

March 12th 2009 10:37
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The human body contains one of four main blood types: A, B, AB and O.

Each blood-type also has an accompanying Rhesus or Rh factor of either positive or negative.
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The Astounding Cellular Makeup of the Human Body!!!

February 27th 2009 10:33
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The human body is complex structure of cells, so many cells in fact that it would be impossible to count them all. Scientists estimate that there are around 75 trillion cells in the human body with an additional 750 trillion bacteria cells living in the human gut.

10% of your bodyweight consists of bacteria.
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Inhererited Characteristics/Traits AKA - CAN YOU ROLL YOUR TONGUE????

January 8th 2009 10:59
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You may have a vague recollection of coming across this in high school science - particularly if you did biology and genetics.

There is a set of traits that we all as human beings have one or the other of. These are known as inherited traits or characteristics. Depending on which traits your parents have determines your outcome, but it is a 50/50 split as to whether you inherit a particular trait or not..
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The TALE of the Computer Mouse - Or Should That Be TAIL???

September 17th 2008 09:26
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This year the humble and much overlooked computer mouse turned 45 years old.

Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute invented the first mouse in 1963. Looking more like a wooden box with a cord hanging out more than anything else, (pictured) the mouse was so named because it did look like it had the tail of a mouse running out of it.
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The 1st computer mouse.
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Charles Darwin A DISGRACE!

July 16th 2008 10:30
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When Charles Darwin was growing up he was considered by his teachers to be quite a disgrace.

His school reports made mention of the fact that he cared little for study and only for shooting, riding and beetle collecting.
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Unusual Occupations

July 2nd 2008 08:19
Ant Catcher - catches ants for use in ant farms.

Bone Crusher - crushes animal bones into a powder in order to make glue.
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Are OTHERS Attractive To You When You Are REALLY In Love With Your Partner? STUDY

March 29th 2008 01:30
In a study published in the journal Evolution and Biology and also reported upon by the British weekly New Scientist, scientists have discovered that people who are really in love with their partners are less attracted to other people.

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Even though many studies in the past have shown that humans are not particularly good at restraining themselves when it comes to self-gratification, psychologist Gian Gonzaga ran a study involving invited 60 heterosexual undergraduates who had been in relationships for at least three years.
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WHY DO ONIONS Make You CRY???

February 21st 2008 22:40
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A very old question indeed!

Exactly why is it that chopping and peeling onions makes our eyes water furiously???
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EYELID TWITCHING!!!

February 1st 2008 22:45
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Who else here is a card carrying member of the Eye Twitch Club???

I'm sure there are quite a few of us out there. you wake up in the morning, and everything seems normal, but then one of your eyelids decides to branch out on it's own, despite any central commands from the brain.
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The MOST Populated TIME ZONE In The WORLD!

January 13th 2008 00:05
With so many people living all over the world and with so much of our planet consisting of water, if you had to make a guess at the world time zone in which most people live, where do you imagine it would be?
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You not only have to balance out water and land versus population, but also where those populations actually exist, that is to say that while it's fine to say that Australia only has 21 million people as the Australian Bureau of Statistics is now claiming, the majority live along the coastal areas due to the inhospitable nature of Australia's arid interior.
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Does SATURN BATHE OFTEN???

January 11th 2008 23:47
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An interesting fact we learned recently at a family outing to the British National Space Centre.

Because of its density, the planet Saturn would actually float in a bathtub, providing you found one large enough to hold it.
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