11-15-2016, 10:54 AM | #101 |
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The concentration of "sugar" in Coca Cola Classic is 1098 mg/dL.
For humans, 400 mg/dL blood sugar is considered "critical" (where the sugar starts having immediate adverse effects on the person). I've seen one case of a guy with 1000+ mg/dL. That's not the world record (a man with random blood sugar of 2,000+ mg/dL) but consider, the guy I saw basically had Coca Cola running through his veins. It was that bad.
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12-11-2016, 01:27 PM | #103 |
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Did you know that in Shingou, Aomori there is a burial site purported to be the final resting place of Jesus Christ?
Give it a read. Uhh ... yeah ... Really surprised this hasn't been struck down by the Church. And how exactly do people who claim to believe in Christianity, i.e. "that Jesus Christ died for our sins," also believe in this tale? Perhaps the best part -- the very notion that Jesus visited Japan in search of religious enlightenment some three to seven hundred years prior to the start of Japanese recorded history. (First writing circa 4th Century CE. First recorded history written 8th Century CE.)
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I also like the creativity in coming up with J.C.'s brother's name. "Yes...these are our sons, Jesus and Isikuri."
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01-25-2017, 11:24 AM | #105 |
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Why are black bears, despite being among the largest and most powerful animals in their biome, so instinctively timid of everything? This is in contrast to cougars, wolves or tigers in areas where they co-exist with humans, as these animals have learned to grow wary of humans.
The secret is in black bear evolution. Black bears evolved in the Pleistocene, a time when much larger, scary predators like the short-faced bear and saber tooth tiger roamed more open plains. Black bears evolved to live in forests, where those predators had difficulty navigating, adopted a generalist diet to avoid direct confrontation with those predators, and selective pressure lead to bears who were naturally cautious, in case they encountered something dangerous enough to kill them. So even though monsters like the short-faced bear are extinct, black bears don't know this and act as if they were still around.
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01-29-2017, 09:41 PM | #106 | |
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Colgate is the best selling toothpaste in the United States. This came about with the advent of Colgate Total, which did everything other toothpaste brands did - fight cavities, gingivitis, freshen breath, whiten teeth - for less money.
You might think Crest was the market leader, but it's actually lost a lot of market share since it first debut in 1955. It's still pricey based on brand name alone. The big innovation with Crest was it contained stannous flouoride, which was used to fight against cavities. Crest still contains that ingredient today. That little fact is one of the most heinous secrets of Crest, because stannous flouride (which contains tin to bind the flouride) stains teeth. All other toothpastes in North America use sodium flouride. Perhaps the biggest reason why Crest hasn't made the switch to sodium flouride - Quote:
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Poland was never able to live this down.
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DFC lovers...eat your hearts out.
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Carrots were made into carrot cake since during medieval time when there were sugar shortages, and carrots have more sugar than any other vegetable except for sweet beets.
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Bob Barker left the Price is Right in 2007.
DREW CAREY HAS BEEN HOSTING IT FOR 10 YEARS
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Midichlorians, the controversial Star Wars plot device that George Lucas introduced in Episode I ... it turns out they're one of the oldest ideas he's had for the franchise:
"It is said that certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells."Source So rather than us being unlucky to have had George ruin things in 1999, explaining that which didn't need to be explained, it turns out that we had actually been lucky he didn't explain it 22 years sooner. I mean, we're still stuck with midichlorians either way , but at least now we can appreciate that we had Camelot for as long as we did.
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04-17-2017, 08:30 AM | #112 |
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Droids being unable to use The Force still bothers me. There's an ascribed mysticism to biological life when we're just organic robots who poop.
... An 8 oz cup of brewed coffee contains 140 mg of caffeine. An 8 oz cup of hot chocolate (100% cocoa, same amount as above) contains 40 mg of caffeine I've been wondering why I'm having trouble sleeping lately. That's because I drink 2 pints of whole milk mixed with that chocolate, so my total caffeine intake ends up being 160 mg per drink!
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I was curious to learn the etymology of "sacrebleu", so I went a-lookin'!
Sacrebleu is a very old French profanity meant as a cry of surprise or happiness.Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrebleu So basically ...
Interesting. Also interesting how it's totally outdated yet we (English speakers) all still associate it with France because of the media in which we see it used. And yet at the same time, I can think of no uses off the top of my head that don't predate the 20th century in terms of the story's setting (e.g. The Little Mermaid or The Count of Monte Cristo), so ... Is there not something to be argued on behalf of the English-speaking peoples of the world that we're not so much associating the term with 21st-century French people as we are with cultural France itself?
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08-10-2017, 10:52 AM | #115 |
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Filipinos have something similar, phonetically it sounds like "heysoosmarhosep".
It's actually a horribly mangled, mispronounced contraction of "jesus, mary, joseph". "heysoos" is pronounced like "jesus" in Spanish, "mar" is just "mary" with the dropped "y", and "joseph" is pronounced with the same hard h/j and "f" becomes a hard "p". So while we write "joseph" with a soft "p", we would pronounce it "hosep" with the hard p.
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You probably already knew that Weird Al Yankovic's "Amish Paradise" is based on Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise."
... But did you know that "Gangsta's Paradise" is in turn based on a song by Stevie Wonder called "Pastime Paradise"? O-o And when I say "based," I don't mean it pulls a chord or two -- I mean it's like 90, 95% identical. Take a listen for yourself: Spoiler: show
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Huh, I would've never known that. That's interesting, Talon. Songs in the Key of Life is such a famous album but I had never heard of that song. I think maybe it'd be shocking because there isn't a lot of overlap between people who listen to Stevie Wonder and people who listen to Coolio?
Watching the Amish Paradise video made me want to watch the White and Nerdy music video, where I was shocked to find Key and Peele. I had no idea that they were in the video.
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09-14-2017, 01:10 PM | #118 |
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When I was growing up, archeopteryx was said to be the missing link between dinosaur and bird evolution, a theropod that clearly sported feathers, wings and had shrunk down closer to the size of modern birds.
The current scientific thinking is that archeopteryx is, in fact, the ancestor of dromaeosaurids, which include velociraptor. Archeopteryx evolved from small theropods that had adapted to living in trees. It developed a large brain necessary to navigate through both air and Jurassic canopies. Dromaesaurids who returned to the ground grew in size, but most not tremendously - archeopteryx was the size of a crow, while velociraptor the size of a turkey. This is an interesting parallel to human evolution, as monkeys and apes initially developed their brains by having to navigate through arboreal habitats. The primates that returned to the ground full-time also grew in size.
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Here are some interesting trivia about nori, Porphyra yezoensis, the Japanese seaweed used to make the wrappings around sushi and rice balls! Did you know that ...? Nori had been consumed as paste form until the sheet form was invented in Asakusa, Edo (contemporary Tokyo), around 1750 in the Edo period through the method of Japanese paper-making. Did you know that ...? The Japanese nori industry was in decline after WWII, when Japan was in need of all food that could be produced. The decline was due to a lack of understanding of the plant's three-stage life cycle so that local people did not understand why traditional cultivation methods were not effective. The industry was rescued by knowledge deriving from the work of British phycologist Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker, who had been researching the organism Porphyria umbilicalis, which grew in the seas around Wales and was harvested for food, as in Japan. Her work was discovered by Japanese scientists who applied it to artificial methods of seeding and growing the plants, rescuing the industry. Kathleen Baker was hailed as the "Mother of the Sea" in Japan. She is still revered as the savior of the Japanese nori industry. Her work is celebrated each year on April 14. A statue was erected in her memory in 1963 at the Sumiyoshi shrine in Uto, Kumamoto, Japan. Did you know that ...? Seaweed has by far the highest proportion of iodine by weight of any food; nori has less than any other type of seaweed; and yet nori is nonetheless an excellent source of iodine itself. (Copy-pastes from Wikipedia, from the "Nori" and "Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker" articles)
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Pokemon actually call their own attacks in the anime. The only exception are the ones incapable of any discernible language, like Charizard and Steelix. They just roar as they execute an attack, but vocalize nonetheless.
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Crows will harass bigger birds that steal their meals by pulling their tail feathers. They also pull the tails of mammals like cats and dogs. When the animal turns around, the other crows in the flock grab bites of the meal.
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So in the US, if you want to learn the origin of a law (which differ by state), you have to read the court case to see the backstory for each law. And there are some laws that the stories seem obvious, but there are others like, why? Do we have that law? When is that useful?
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03-26-2018, 12:35 AM | #123 |
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Meowth's original English voice actor is still alive.
This is pretty impressive. I have always thought Adam/Maddie Blaustein was the original voice for Meowth, and like Veronica Taylor, she merely changed the approach after a certain number of episodes. The change in Ash to his most recognizable voice is definitely noticeable versus very early Kanto, and VT even acknowledges this in interviews. But here, Price was Meowth for almost the entire run for Pokemon in syndication. KidsWB took command of the series starting with OS044, "The Problem with Paras", but three episodes were skipped to that point: "Beauty at the Beach", "Electric Soldier Porygon", and "The Legend of Dratini". So for all but 7 episodes of the section of the Pokemon anime I've seen the most, I had no idea he was Meowth. I always thought Meowth was Lt. Surge, ordering Raichu to give the twerps a body slam. Of course, it took years for me to realize that Brock = Kaiba or worse, that Brock = James and Misty = Jessie. Maybe I just (wasn't) hearing things.
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