Reading Time: 2 minutes Why does chewing foil hurt? Specifically, why does chewing, or biting down on aluminum foil hurt? Surprisingly, the pain caused by chewing or biting down on aluminum foil is caused by an electric shock. It’s weird, I know, but it does make perfect sense. We have all been there and felt the pain. Just as …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Do you know how strong stomach acid is? This will blow you away. Have you ever suffered from acid reflux? As my wife so eloquently puts it, it’s a bitch. It burns and causes a great deal of discomfort. If left untreated for extended periods of time it can cause significant health issues, even lesions …
Reading Time: 2 minutes In one of the coolest recent discoveries about the human body, you have taste buds in your lungs. But before you reach for an expensive cigar to test this out, there are a few significant differences between the taste buds in the lungs compared to the ones on your tongue. Not only that, but they may …
Reading Time: 2 minutes The most babies born to one mother belongs to a woman from Russia during the 18th century. During her life she gave birth to what can be best described as a nerve wracking 69 babies, and nearly all of them survived. Today families usually restrict the number of children to between two or three on average. …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you ever seen a cage looking device over a grave? In very old cemeteries around the world you may see these hard prisons placed over grave sites. So, is a mortsafe for zombies, or a zombie apocalypse? Not at all. A mortsafe was a contraption developed at the beginning of the 19th century to …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes If you navigate to our previous fact about sneezes (the link is above and below his fact to the left) you will be able to read about the spectacular speeds in which people sneeze. Obviously with such an aggressive action that produces these kinds of speeds, there’s danger in the midst. The dangers of sneezing …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Any parent of young babies already knows that humans can produce copious amounts of saliva. Even as a young baby we have the ability to completely saturate everything that we encounter with excess dribble. It’s not that babies do it on purpose, it’s just a part of development. In particular, when teething a baby will …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sleep deprivation. Parents of newborn babies know the trauma all too well, and some military forces and covert government agencies use the deprivation of sleep as a tool for torture. While most of us can go for a few days without sleeping, when we do many of our functional abilities become extremely disadvantaged. Some people …
Paul Kern, the Man Who Didn’t Sleep for 40 Years Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Why doesn’t coffee taste like it smells? This is a fairly honest question if I must say so myself. After all, the aroma of the drink that many of enjoy in the morning is about as enticing a smell that you can find. But take a sip out of a cup and boy are you …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ok, now for a rather stinky subject, and one that some readers may find disturbing. How much do feet sweat? Told you it was a stinky subject, but a question well worth the ask. Lets face reality for a moment. Your feet stink, right? The smell is caused by bacteria produced while wearing shoes. The …
