Coke/Pepsi can operate as a rust remover, cleaning agent (especially regarding stains), and apparently you can even clean toilets with it (never tried it, though...heh..)

Lefties   (whose population includes me) are considered more susceptible to alcoholism, car accidents, epilepsy, tend to have extremes in IQ, and from personal knowledge though contrary to popular notions, have a natural advantage over right-handers in playing right-handed instruments, especially string instruments such as violin, guitar, cello, etc.  And also were traditionally believed to have been associated with demonic influences.

Ring-finger size can indicate testosterone level and can also indicate speed and swiftness in running.  When the ring finger is longer than the index, it indicates higher testosterone level and some believe they can predict who will win a race just by comparing ring finger lengths in comparison to the index finger, the longer ring finger pertaining to the one holding the advantage. (my ring finger is maybe five mil longer than the index and about three mil on the left and much of what is said applies.)

The big toe is vital in being able to walk.

Hearing impairment not only affects how one detects sound but it also negatively affects one's ability to maintain balance while walking.

(facts, of course, can be misleading or skewed, though I retain a reasonable to large degree of confidence on most of what I wrote.)

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Never heard of it but it makes sense.  It does correlate with testosterone levels so females with this would logically be more open in sexuality and may be more prone to bicurious tendencies.  For me, I remember having some manner of attraction to the same sex since I was really young and better related with males than females.  So my case does not contradict it, really since I'm moderately higher and may contribute to always have been bicurious or else moderately bi in preferences...but that's speculation on my part.  But it's wholly common sense for it to give the women a natural tendency to having feelings for at least both sexes and for guys to be mostly geared towards the opposite sex if not tending to be exclusively heterosexual.

That reminds me, with being left-handed, I think I read that such are prone to having higher testosterone levels due to testosterone in the womb flowing to the right hemisphere of the brain which I think is more relate to testosterone.  And that's why one cause of left-handedness is higher testosterone exposure during fetal development.

105 year old? . The very thought makes me shiver.

- Hogs have a 30 minute orgasm (can you imagine that?)
- Only humans and dolphins make sex not only for procreation, but for pure pleasure as well
- The estimated value of the lost amber treasure known as the "Amber Room" is about 500.000.000 $
- You CAN break your penis, actually (although it's not a bone)

And as for water... I think that ammonia and a few other fluids can do that trick as well, but I'm not sure.

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ArsenicForBreakfast wrote:

-It's physically impossible to fold a piece of paper more than eight times.  Go on, try it.

This was disproven by Myth Busters. Granted, they used a piece of paper the size of a football field and a tractor, but nonetheless, it is possible.

- The whole "drinking eight glasses of water" thing is a myth. It's actually around 2-5 depending.

- Eating cheese releases neurotransmitters in your brain that are similar to the ones released when a baby is breastfed by its mother. The primary purpose of this though, is to create a feeling of bonding. Cheese lovers ftw!

- Platypuses are venomous.

- Syora likes Rickards and Keiths. (In case any of you ever decide to take me out drinking)

ArsenicForBreakfast wrote:

-It's physically impossible to fold a piece of paper more than eight times.  Go on, try it.

Huh. I just folded my piece of paper over 13 times. DOES THIS MAKE ME MAGIC?! 8D

Lady Nilamarthiel wrote:

ArsenicForBreakfast wrote:

-It's physically impossible to fold a piece of paper more than eight times.  Go on, try it.

Huh. I just folded my piece of paper over 13 times. DOES THIS MAKE ME MAGIC?! 8D

I guess it does make you magic.  Must be the avatar.

Tamago wrote:

I think you will find that s/he meant that it was impossible to fold a paper IN HALF each time more than 8 times.

Mythbusters showed that it's possible - but only if the paper is the size of a football field, and it still isn't easy.

Children under the age of 4 can draw reasobavle circles and triangles but not squares.

Pfft wrote:

Speaking of icebergs:

If you fill a glass of ice-water to the brim (so the ice projects above the edge of the glass), and then wait for the ice to melt, the water will still be exactly at brim (the water level will neither sink now overflow the glass). Isn't that an amazing coincidence?

COOL!

- The title of this thread is from that skit with Lori Beth from All That!

Genuphobia is the fear of knees (WTF?)

- Polar bears are all left - handed (left pawed?)
- An unprotected human can survive exposure to the conditions of space for up to 12 seconds, and sustain no great harm
- An unprotected human can not get frozen, when exposed to outer space. He'll rather die of ebulism
- If people were to land on Titan, they could fly only with the strength of their own muscles, and help of artificial bird wings. That's because of the density of Titan's atmosphere.
- Spontaneous combustion burns human body into ash along with the bones. This means, that the flames must have at least 2.000 Celsius degrees, as in lower temperature the bones wouldn't incinerate. The funny fact is, that the surroundings are unharmed by that temperature. The mechanism of the process is still unknown.
- One XIX century lord died when thunder striked him. A few years later, thunder destroyed the lord's gravestone.
- Potential deadly alcohol dose is about 3 promiles. It's not true with Poles and Russians, who can accept even as much as 8 promiles of alcohol.
- A fragment of matter from the Sun, that's as small as this forum's smiley face has enough energy to incinerate you in less than second from the distance of about 600 km
- According to new quantum theories, "magic" rituals are actually able to change reality on a quantum level, and therefore affect our lives, like in butterfly effect. Yay for occultism?
- There are spiders who live in web air bubbles underwater
- If a a spaceship with a human crew, would travel with a near-light speed, it would reach the oldest known to us places in the space in about 20.000.000.000 years. However due to time slowing, for the crew it would take only about 100 years.

Sources: geeky studies, scientific articles, and my job...

I can't give you the proper citation (maybe after the weekend, when I'm back at work), but it was something about not essentially magic, but the subject of "mind over matter". Something along the lines "The information sent in the past determines the future", or something like that. If you're interested, I can rewrite the article, or I'll search for a link to it.

And I heard about the carrots as well

EDIT: Googled something up. It seems that "quantum magic is a popular discussion topic now

http://www.netalive.org/topics/43309

EDIT 2: Also, though a bit complicated, but it seems that quantum mechanics is like magic itself

http://www.ecauldron.net/quantummagick.php

Especially the part "Quantum mechanics and psychokinesis", but now I've gotten a little offtopic. Let's move on to our further trivia

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