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What positive integer is equal to its own Scrabble score when spelled out?
12: T,E, & L = one point
W & V = four points
Compliments of "Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities"
12: T,E, & L = one point
W & V = four points
Compliments of "Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities"
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Bones are an active organ; the way they prevent breakage is by fracturing - really tiny fractures called micro-fractures. The repairs strengthen the bone against similar fractures in the future; this, combined with electrical fields produced by piezoelectric compression voltages, is how your body adjusts to daily living. Fully 40% of your daily caloric intake is used to support this wonderful organ - your skeleton. It is also where your new blood comes from.
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Originally Posted by GrimJack 
Odd bits:
The ear wax of many Asians is dry and tan to golden as opposed to others' that are waxy and sort of orangery.
Approximately 50% of the population can smell Asparagus by-products in urine - if you do not know what I mean, you are on the other side of the 50%.
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This is one of those odd things - there is probably no genetic pressure that selects for being able to smell the by-product compounds of asparagus is probably just one of those things. It turns out that only 23% can smell it It has been established that the aroma was in fact caused by several S-methyl thioesters, specifically S-methyl thioacrylate and S-methyl 3-(methylthio)thiopropionate. Autosomal genes are genes found on one of the 22 pairs of non-sex chromosomes
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It is said that in a venerable British men's club there is a sign reading "DURING THE ASPARAGUS SEASON MEMBERS ARE REQUESTED NOT TO RELIEVE THEMSELVES IN THE HATSTAND."
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t was originally thought this was because some of the population digested asparagus differently than others, so that some people excreted odorous urine after eating asparagus, and others did not. However, in the 1980s three studies from France,[28] China and Israel published results showing that producing odorous urine from asparagus was a universal human characteristic. The Israeli study found that from their 307 subjects all of those who could smell 'asparagus urine' could detect it in the urine of anyone who had eaten asparagus, even if the person who produced it could not detect it himself.[29] Thus, it is now believed that most people produce the odorous compounds after eating asparagus, but only about 22% of the population have the autosomal genes required to smell them.[
Last edited by GrimJack; May 16th, 2009 at 12:13 am. Reason: This is what I live for - research is so damn much fun!
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It takes the average person seven minutes to fall asleep.
I can do it faster in front of the TV set!
I can do it faster in front of the TV set!
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Beer was the national drink of ancient Egypt. The pharoahs even appointed a "royal chief beer inspector" to protect its quality.
I don't think there is such a person in the US.
I don't think there is such a person in the US.
drink her pretty
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I didn't know that!
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Ummm well my isp seems to have provided plenty of rest stops on my connection.
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Ummm well my isp seems to have provided plenty of rest stops on my connection.
No one died when Clinton lied.
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Originally Posted by Ene Uran
Beer was the national drink of ancient Egypt. The pharoahs even appointed a "royal chief beer inspector" to protect its quality.
I don't think there is such a person in the US.
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Germans have 'Purity Laws' wrt their beer; one story I heard about how beer was tested was that 6 bergers would pour beer onto a bench then sit on the bench in their lederhausen and drink a bunch a tankards. They would then all stand at once and if the bench lifted with them - the beer passed (how they all got into the toilet with a bench stuck to their butts is way beyond me).
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