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What’s in sperm? Will Swallowing Make My Girlfriend Gain Weight?
There are many ingredients composing semen, and its makeup is the same from man to man. Here are a few of the constituent elements: vitamin C, calcium, chlorine, cholesterol, citric acid, creatine, fructose, lactic acid, magnesium, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, vitamin B12, and zinc. So what effect will all this have on her waistline? ...
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It would take 76 work days (8 hours a day) for the average person to read the Terms and Conditions they agree to in a year.
A couple of Carnegie Mellon researchers recently published a paper suggesting that reading all of the privacy policies an average Internet user encounters in a year would take 76 work days. Imagine spending 15 work weeks punching the clock so you could keep up to date on how not to let Internet companies violate your privacy.Researchers reviewed ...
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How does lemon juice prevent apples from turning brown?
Apples turn brown because of oxidation. Oxygen in the air reacts with a natural substance in apples called phenolase and turns the surface brown. Mild acids like lemon juice can stop this reaction. Thus tossing pieces of apple with a little lemon juice will keep them from turning brown.Lemon helps this process in two ...
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All breasts have the same number of nerve endings.
The male or female breast/nipple/areola complex arises from a common mammary stem cell and develops similarly in the foetus and during infancy. At puberty the male’s breasts remain rudimentary but the female’s develop further, mainly through oestrogen and progesterone stimulation, and become more sensitive. Female breasts serve both nutritive and sexual functions, unlike other primates ...
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There’s a doll that poops and says “Sniff sniff, I made a stinky!”
Hasbro’s new Baby Alive doll lets you know when she’s made “poo” in her doll potty. Your beloved little girl can sit the doll on her pink toilet, press a purple bracelet and hear the magic words. The retail price for the baby doll is only $59.99. Sometimes she can hold it until she gets to the ‘potty’ ...
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Downloading 3,500 books to a kindle adds about one billionth of a gram in weight. In real books that’s about 2 tons.
By Using Einstein’s E=mc² formula, which states that energy and mass are directly related, Prof Kubiatowicz calculated that filling a 4GB Kindle to computer storage would increase its weight by a billionth of a billionth of a gram, or 0.000000000000000001g. This is roughly equivalent to the weight of a small virus, while the equivalent number of ...
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10 fun and interesting facts you probably didn’t know
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17% of those who have a permanent tattoo regret getting it.
A poll showed that 19% of British people with tattoos suffered regret, as did 11% of Italian people with tattoos. The patients who regretted their tattoos typically obtained their tattoos in their late teens or early twenties, and were evenly distributed by gender. More than half reported that they “suffered embarrassment.” Tattoos have always been controversial and always ...
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Studies have shown that sarcasm enhances one’s problem-solving ability. An inability to understand it can be an early sign of brain disease.
Researchers from linguists to psychologists to neurologists have been studying our ability to perceive snarky remarks and gaining new insights into how the mind works. Studies have shown that exposure to sarcasm enhances creative problem solving. Children understand and use sarcasm by the time they get to kindergarten. An inability to understand sarcasm may be ...
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In ancient Babylonia, if a poorly-built house collapsed on the owner, killing him, the architect was executed.
Babylonia was an ancient Semitic, Akkadian-speaking nation in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), with Babylon as its capital. In ancient Babylonia, if a poorly-built house collapsed on the owner, killing him, the architect was executed. If owner’s son was killed in the house collapse, the architect’s son was put to death. If the homeowner’s wife or daughter was killed, ...
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At the height of its power (400 BC) the Greek city of Sparta had 500,000 slaves and only 25,000 citizens.
The Spartan Empire was a short lived one, yet the longest of the the pre-ejaculator Greek major hedgemonies of the time. Contrary to what many people may think, Sparta was not such a sad millitary dictatorship as historians have taught us. The city of Sparta itself had a theatre, and the Spartan culture was based ...
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The first recorded use of marijuana as a medicinal drug occurred in 2737 B.C. by Chinese emperor Shen Nung.
Marijuana has been used as a medicinal drug for achieving euphoria since ancient times. Its use spread from China to India and then to North Africa and reached Europe at least as early as A.D. 500. The first direct use dates from 2737 BC, in the writings of the Chinese emperor Shen Nung. It found ...
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Simply wearing the color red or being bordered by the rosy hue makes a man more attractive and sexually desirable to women.
According to a series of studies by researchers at the University of Rochester and other institutions, wearing the color red or being bordered by the rosy hue makes a man more attractive and sexually desirable to women. The cherry color’s charm ultimately lies in its ability to make men appear more powerful. They found that women view men ...
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Potato chips were invented when a restaurant chef George Crum, pissed off at a whiny customer, intentionally ruined that customer’s potato dish and served it to him in person.
The son of an African-American father and a Native American mother, Crum was working as the chef in the summer of 1853 when he incidentally invented the chip. It all began when a patron who ordered a plate of French-fried potatoes sent them back to Crum’s kitchen because he felt they were too thick, soft ...
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Watching online porn kills your sex drive?
Researchers say that the Internet makes people much more vulnerable to sex addictions because it gives them instant access to pornographic material. A growing number of young, healthy Internet pornography users are complaining of delayed ejaculation, inability to be turned on by real partners, and sluggish erections. The cause appears to be physiological, not psychological, given that such diverse men change only ...
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An unknown number of survivors from the Hiroshima bombing had made their way to Nagasaki, where they were bombed again.
During the final stages of World War II in 1945 the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. According to the US Department of Energy, the acute effects of the blast killed approximately 70,000 people in Hiroshima. Estimates of total deaths by the end of 1945 from burns, radiation and related disease, the effects of which were aggravated ...
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If not for China’s one-child policy the World’s population would have hit seven billion five years ago.
China holds the largest population on earth with 1.34 billion people, but will not for long, as the fertility level has been declining for years. The reason behind it being the ”family planning policy” adopted three decades ago, China has limited couples to one child, with few exceptions. Those who broke the rule were slapped with ...
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On average, about 800 – 900 million dollars are lost every Friday the 13th.
On average, about 800 – 900 million dollars are lost every Friday the 13th because people are so scared and superstitious they don’t want to go to work, take a flight, or even get out of their beds. Symptoms range from mild anxiety to full-blown panic attacks. The latter may cause people to reshuffle schedules or ...
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There are some people who can remember almost every single day of their lives.
Researchers at University of California have evaluated more than 500 people who thought they might have highly superior autobiographical memory. The scientists confirmed just 33 cases, including the 11 in the study, but identified another 37 strong candidates who need further testing. Most of these differences, unsurprisingly, were in areas associated with autobiographical memory. The participants ...
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The new World’s shortest woman is just 62.8 cm (24.7 inches) tall.
Jyoti Amge, just 62.8cm tall, is named the world’s shortest woman by Guinness World Records as she celebrates her 18th birthday in central India. Jyoti is shorter than the average two-year-old. Guinness representatives visiting from London measured her at a ceremony attended by about 30 relatives and friends in the town of Nagpur in Maharashtra state. She is ...
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Your stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve razor blades.
Human Stomach Acid ( Gastric Acid) is essential for protein digestion. Pepsin is an enzyme which is needed for digesting the protein which is triggered by the stomach acid. Proper levels of HCI acid ( Hydrogen chloride) in the stomach are also your first line of defense against bacterial and viral infections. All day long ...
