Teach us something in One Sentence

Studies by "curious biologists" back in the days of the axe and the guillotine show that a decapitated person's head can remain alive for up to thirty seconds after being severed from the body.

www.damninteresting.com...

[edit on 2006-11-3 by wecomeinpeace]

After chopping an onion, you can remove the smell from your hands by washing with soap & water and then rubbing your hands on the stainless steel faucet.

Oh ya here is the divine truth.

Chicken is good.

Dead people can fart!!!

The difference is that when we're alive, we expel that gas. The dead, lacking workable stomach muscles and sphincters and bed mates to annoy, do not. Cannot.

Though he allows, with some prodding, that a little bad air often does, in fact, slip out, and so, as a matter of record, it can be said that dead people fart. It needn't be, but it can.

dir.salon.com...

Courage is not the absence of fear, but a feeling that there is something more important than fear.

life is a choice... to mechanically go thru it.. or to stop.. view the past.. edit it and paste the best parts in the future.. all we can ever do is view the tape after its been recorded.. we are never seeing reality before it comes into the nervous system. or even shorter..
We premeasure the future with our past as a ruler.


[edit on 11/3/2006 by PuRe EnErGy]

Just like people, cats (especially light colored ones) can get squamous cell skin cancer, sometimes on the edges of their ears, which must then be treated by docking part of the ear.

www.howtodothings.com...

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is fear of LONG WORDS.... hahahahaha

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia fear of the number 666

Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation

Hedonophobia fear of feeling pleasure

Ablutophobia fear of washing or bathing

Arachibutyrophobia fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

Learn all the phobias hear ---
List of phobias

BTW the first one I posted is the funniest, its actually one of the first diseases I learned as a child lol



-Jimmy-

Originally posted by Jimmy910130
Learn all the phobias hear ---
List of phobias

-Jimmy-

rofl....I didn't even know all of those phobias existed! That is really some "Big" list there.

It takes 21 days for chicken eggs to hatch into adorable little chicks.

[edit on 11/4/2006 by jensouth31]

Scientists use to think that they would be able to predict
everything naturally caused in the universe to any point
in the future, than Heisenberg ruined their dreams.

People born with 6 fingers on each hand, contrary to popular belief, do not make better piano players.

The law states that more than 3000 sheep cannot be herded down Hollywood Blvd. at any one time.

www.strangefacts.com...


[edit on 11/4/2006 by Stormrider]

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!

...but, unfortumately, they don't remember more than a few of them.

www.strangefacts.com...

Honor is an Island with steep, craggy sides; once you depart from it, you may never return.

Semper

[Mod Edit: Removed sexual comment. Keep it clean please folks, ATS is rated PG13, coming to a cinema near you.]

[edit on 2006-11-4 by wecomeinpeace]

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It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

Posting just one sentence is against the rules of ATS!

An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet!

Hummingbirds fly south by sitting on the backs of geese.

Mathematically speaking, the bumble-bee cannot fly.