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RE: Interesting or other facts you know? - Zadaben - 12-05-2013
The expression "break a leg" refers not to human legs, but the curtains on the stage sides, which are called legs
Slowbro learns the move Me First, which only works if the user moves before their opponent
Hanukkah and Thanksgiving overlapped this year, an event that will not transpire again for another 79,000 years
Raising your eyebrows helps to prevent singing flat
RE: Interesting or other facts you know? - Helmo - 12-05-2013
Nelson Mandela died today.
RE: Interesting or other facts you know? - Sengir - 12-05-2013
Something I found while looking for references on my paper about a "Computer World" (which is very much based on the song):
In 2011 Anonymous did more financial damage to civilians (basically "collateral damage") than all of organized crime worldwide combined was able to.
RE: Interesting or other facts you know? - Kosheh - 12-11-2013
(12-05-2013, 07:35 AM)Gors Wrote: The Pica Syndrome
The Pica syndrome is the urge of eating non-nutritious objects, such as rocks, metal pieces, dirt and even your own hair. This disorder is named after the bird pica, who eats pretty much any object it finds. The accumulus of such objects are named bezoars, and obviously, it can be extremely dangerous to your health, causing internal wounds and bleeding, leading to death if not treated.
The denomination 'bezoar' comes from the Arabic object of same name, which was a cluster of medicinal herbs and mineral powders, said to be a cure-all medicine. It was swallowed whole: thus the connection to harmful bezoars.
Additionally, a person who suffers from trychophagia (hair-eater) can have another disease, the Rapunzel Syndrome. This consists on a trychobezoar (a bezoar made from hair) that tangles inside your bowels, trapping anything you eat, and can extend to really long proportions, much like Rapunzel's hair. This happens because the hair is made up from chitin, a cheratinous and resistent substance that also makes up the nails on your hand and toes.
People who compulsively eat nails can be named onychophagous, and while they don't tangle in your stomach, you can accidentally carry the dirt below the nails, which can transmit enterobiasis or other diseases, not to say you can permanently damage your nails.
i actually worked with a number of children who had Pica. one actually ate nails ):
and by nails i mean the ones used to hold things together, not the ones on your hands and toes ))))):