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Wow!!!!!!!

Very interesting info, Rincewind. I wish you could have found more info on the one
that was discovered in the tomb of the China king. It would be interesting to
know if the claim was for real or not.

Here is a strange law that I found. It is suppose to be a law in Memphis,
Tennesse.

In Memphis, Tennessee, a woman is not to drive a car unless a man warns
approaching motorists or pedestrians by walking in front of the car that is being
driven.

Wonder if any of the police have tried to enforce this lately? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Shan <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

40 percent of the almonds in the world are used by manufacturers of chocolate.

A single chocolate chip gives enough energy to a human being to walk 150 feet.

Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.

Approximately 71% of American chocolate eaters prefer to eat milk chocolate.

Chewing gum has rubber as an ingredient.

Chocolate was used as medicine during the 18th century. It was believed that chocolate could cure a stomach ache.

Consuming chocolate was once considered a sin during the 16th and 17th century. During that time it was provided in the form of a drink and since drinking wine during lent was a sin, so was drinking chocolate.

During the Boer War, Queen Victoria sent her New Year's greeting to the British troops that were in South Africa in 1900 in the form of a specially molded chocolate bar.

During World War II, Kit Kat was unavailable due to milk shortages, so the chocolate bar was made without milk

In 1657, the first chocolate house was opened in London, England. The cost of chocolate was about 13 shillings per pound and was a drink that only the elite enjoyed.

In 1868, the first box of Valentine's Day chocolates were introduced by Richard Cadbury.

In Belgium, 172,000 tons of chocolate are produced in a year.

In Denmark, people eat about 36 pounds of candy a year. The highest consumption of candy of any country.

M&M's chocolates were chosen to be part of the astronauts food supply in 1982.

The rarest chocolate bar in the world is the Porcelana bar. There are only 20,000 of these bars produced a year, and they sell for $90 per pound.

The reason why bubble gum is pink is because the inventor only had pink colouring left. Ever since then, the colour of bubble gum has been predominantly pink.

lol. Thats pretty funny, but kind of disgusting when you look at the stats.

A pregnant woman's dental health can affect her unborn child.

Changing a cat's litter box can be dangerous to pregnant women, as cat feces sometimes carry a parasite that can cause harm to the developing baby.

Every day, over 1,300 babies are born prematurely in the USA.

Studies show that couples that smoke during the time of conception have a higher chance of having a girl compared to couples that do not smoke.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

When a women is pregnant, her senses are all heightened.

Every time you flush your toilet
unseen fecal matter splashes out
and into the air up to six feet.

I hope you don’t leave your toothbrush near the tolet. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Tsel <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

The parasite Lady Rain is refurring to is called Toxoplasmosis Gondii. It can be found in raw meat and catdroppings. When you get invected with the parasite is not going to harm you that much, it's giving you a small fever, headache like an influenza. But when you're pregnant, it's very dangerous for your baby.
In the first three months you can have a miscarriage, if not later in your pregnancy the damage can go up to 60%. It causes eyedamage, braindamage and developingdamage.
I have a friend who's mother got infected from toxoplasmosis. My friend can barely see, is getting more blind every day all because of that tiny little parasite.

An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!

Shan <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

@ gal
You are absolutely correct.... that same parasite is extremely dangerous to kids up to the age of puberty. So i hope no one tells their kids to clean the sand box <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

The only thing that kills this parasite (even boiling it up to 3 hours doesnt kill it) is VODKA!!!!! Vodka is strangely enough the only thing that kills most parasites that crawls into us through our skin or breen under our fingernails... IT has become a part of our lives that any liquid soaps (that we wash our hands with) gets mixed equal parts with vodka, thus making sure that anything we come in contact with in the bathroom gets killed there.

3000 children die every day in Africa because of malaria.

Deliberately infecting people with malaria has been used to cure different viral infections. The high fever will strengthen the immune system and fight the virus. In recent times this has been considered as a treatment to HIV.

Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for about 180,000 deaths per year.

Every year in the U.S., there are 178,000 new cases of lung cancer.

Due to eating habits in the USA, one in three children born in the year 2000 have a chance of getting type II diabetes.

Prosopagnosia refers to the inability to identify people by their faces. In severe cased prosopagnosia a person may not be able to identify themselves in a mirror.

Soldiers disease is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.

The flu pandemic of 1918 killed over 20 million people.

The incidents of immune system diseases has increased over 200% in the last five years.

The number one cause of rabies in the United States are bats.

The oldest known disease in the world is leprosy.

Archeologists report that cannabis was most likely the first plant cultivated by humans. Cannabis was used for linen, paper, and garments.

In 2000, there were 1,579,566 drug arrests in the United States. Of those, close to half were for marijuana.

In the U.S., over 35 million people have used some sort of illegal drug in the last year.

Smokers are twice as likely to develop lower back pain than non-smokers.

The first drug to be sold in the form of a tablet is Aspirin.

The hormone replacement drug "Premarin" is made from the urine of pregnant horses.

The name of the first menthol cigarette in the United States was "Spud."

Tobacco contains over 50 chemicals that can cause cancer.

Tobacco kills more Americans each year than alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, homicide, suicide, car accidents, fire and AIDS combined.

LSD is made from lysergic acid, which is found in ergot, a type of fungus.
(Ergot is found in the mould that forms on: especially rye, nuts, pasta, cereals, grains and even alcoholic beverages. Ergot also plays a VERY big roll in alcoholism!!! Luckily for us, ergot is very easy to detox before you consume it... just add 1/4 teaspoon of vitamin C to the product and wait 5 minutes. You wont taste the vitamin C, but it would have killed and detoxed all the ergot and mould in the food. Mould is present in MOST dried foods even when we cant see it. Giving crisp breads or crackers to an alcoholic is extremely unadvised, since it is almost sure to cause a relapse.

This also links to the fact that many people get an almost instant headache from wine.... the ergot levels in wines (especially red) is very high, due to the fermentation process. Adding 1/4 teaspoon of Vitamin C powder to a bottle of wine will remove all the ergot within 5 minutes!!!!! Resulting in no more headaches from wine, as well as the fact that you wont get drunk so easily from wine... ergot + alcohol = a VERY strong intoxication liquid.

A Singapore singing group by the name of "The Oriental Singers," sang non-stop for 74 hours and five minutes.

In 1978, the World Water Speed record was made by Ken Warby from Australia. His average speed was 317.6 mph, and his jet-powered hydroplane was 27 feet long called "Spirit of Australia." Warby built the boat himself in his back yard.

In August 1999, Lori Lynn Lomeli set a record by spinning 82 Hula Hoops at the same time for three full revolutions.

Robert Wadlow is the tallest man recorded in history. He grew to be eight feet and eleven inches and weighed 490 pounds when he died.

Shridhar Chillal from India is known to have the record for the longest fingernails in the world, which were each at least three feet long.

Steve Fletcher holds the record for the largest gum wrapper collection. His collection has 5300 gum wrappers from all across the world.

The largest number of children born to one woman, who was a Russian peasant is 69.

The largest shopping mall in the world is the West Edmonton Mall located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

The longest kiss on record lasted 30 hours and 45 minutes. Dror Orpaz and Carmit Tsubara recorded it on April 5, 1999 at a kissing contest held in Tel Aviv, Israel.

The record for the world’s worst drivers is a toss-up between two candidates: First, a 75-year-old man who received 10 traffic tickets, drove on the wrong side of the road four times, committed four hit-and-run offenses, and caused six accidents, all within 20 minutes on October 15, 1966. Second, a 62-year-old woman who failed her driving test 40 times before passing it in August, 1970 (by that time, she had spent over $700 in lessons, and could no longer afford to buy a car).

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> I think I will go hide under my bed after reading about all those diseases.

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" /> You dont wanna know what monsters are underneath your bed <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

Lol since i was 15 years old (my mom got diagnosed with liver sclerosis at that stage, and the doctors gave her 6 months to live), i have been interested in parasites, diseases and what cause them.... Well my mom did EXTREMELY well in her search for a "cure".... she took NO medication... only herbal stuff... found out how to kill EVERYTHING that remotely resembles a parasite.... and its now over 10 years later.... she is 100% healthy... no sign of liver sclerosis... and best of all... i STILL have my mom <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> ... if it could make such a dramatic difference in my life... it is worth knowing... so every bit of disease info i come across i file and keep... and by now i can tell what parasites or pollutants are involved in most common diseases... how to kill the parasite and get well again <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I'm so glad that your mom got better. I actually learned quite a bit. Thanks for your post! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />

Fact or Fiction?
Hang around for a billion years and check it out. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

After billions of years, black holes become white holes and they spit out all the things they sucked up.

Shan <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Makes you wonder if blackholes arent really wormholes.... sucks something in the one side and then spits it out later on another side....

Heroin was originally developed to cure morphine addiction (great thinking, guys!).

The Tjernobyl acident (who has a theoretical deathrate of over 100 000 pepole, most of them Sovjet militaries (who whas supposed to decontaminate the area. Without any protection at all...)) was due to an experiment, where they checked how much pressure the reactor could take. Among other things they turned the securitysystem off (Great thinking, guys!)...

Übereil

That's why you can have a bad trip when you used LSD. Isn't true that you can also trip on poisoned mushrooms?


I knew it!!! No one wants to believe me when I say I only have a headache from red wine, even after one glass. I can drink much more white wine or even porto and still having no headache.


so she would have a flock of kids instead of sheep... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Hmmmmm, never thought about it. I wonder if anyone has ever thought to check
it out. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Ever want to weigh less than what you really do? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Fact -> Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.

Shan <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

It is. Vikings usually used used fly agaric in their mead, which helped them going berserk.

Übereil

Yeah Ubereil, cure one, start another. (really good, guys).


Fact -> Venus is the only planet in the solar system to spin backwards.

Shan <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />