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Joke of the day

Joke 27
小红在教室里哭。。。
小明 :“小红,怎么了?”
小红 :“刚才阿爽说我是萝卜腿,555。。。”
小明安慰道 :“让我瞧瞧。。。怎么会呢?哪有萝卜又黑又粗的?”
小红大哭。。。

Joke 28
唐僧 : 此番取经应当找个快捷的方式。
悟空 : 坐飞机比骑马快。
八戒 : 火箭更快。
沙僧拿出一支枪 : 听说这玩意儿马上就送人上西天。

^_^" Zzzz.......

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Interesting facts

Received an e-mail from my sister which contains some interesting facts, some i know are true but some i have a doubt about them. But the last fact is true after verifying in internet. Here they are, enjoy.

1. The body's strongest muscle is our tongue.

2. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 mins.

3. Statistically, people are more afraid of spiders than they are of dying.

4. All polar bears are left-handed(except the 1 i know).

5. Butterflies taste with their feet.

6. A cockroach can live 9 days without its head. It only dies because it cannot eat.

7. Human and dolphin are the only animals that have sex for pleasure.

8. The muscle of your heart have the strength to shoot your blood 10m in the air.

9. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

10. Starfish have no brain.

11. Mosquitoes have teeth.

12. When the English settlers landed in Australia, they noticed a strange animal that jump extremely high and far. They asked the aboriginal people using body language and signs trying to ask them about this animal. They responded with 'Kan Ghu Ru'. The English then adopted the word Kangaroo. What the aboriginal people were actually trying to say was "we don't understand you", 'Kan Ghu Ru'.

13. In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent of the King(or unless you were in the Royal Family). When people wanted to have a child, they have to solicit a permission to the monarchy. In return they would get a placard that they hung on their door when they had sexual relations. The placard reads "Fornication Under Consent of the King"(F.U.C.K.). This is the origin of the F word.

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sorry to inform you but no 13 is not true. Explanation as below.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-f-word.htm

Anonymous said...

yea got another more authoritative source for the origins of the F-word. You will be surprised the F-word is also allegedly used as an acronym for "Found Under Carnal Knowledge", further calling its reliability and veracity into question.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=fuck&searchmode=none

this is adapted from the American Heritage Dictionary. The "Fornification Under the Consent of the King" has its origin in a Playboy article. Between a dictionary and adult magazine, I'm more inclined to believe the former. :)

But yea the science part of the email, like the one concerning dolphins, starfish, are true. I'm more reserved about the heart, cuz I thought it was supposed to be 6m instead of 10m. Not a doctor myself, perhaps LiPing can shed some light on this? ^_^

Cool Jay said...

i don't think liping know the answer lo~ lolz

Kevin said...

Haha, i searched on the net and found the same explanation for fact no. 13 so i though it was true, paiseh paiseh...

As for the heart 1, i doubt about it as well cos 10m is a lot. In a fluid mechanics point of view, the result can be affected by the section of the output from which blood is shot and other parameters such as the difference of pressure inside and outside the heart, the flow of blood etc. Hmm...Dr. Lim, any idea?

Anonymous said...

haha people crap a lot on the internet, so always take things with a pinch of salt.

lol if no 2 were true, a lot of people sure want to be a pig in their next life hehe

Li Ping =) said...

eh winnie the pooh dun have to underestimate me like that gua...hehe

anyway for ur information, cardiac output is 5L/min, soonlee u can do the counting now?hehe

But one thg i can tell u is that the strongest muscle in our body is not the tongue coz there is no parameter to measure power of tongue, thus the strongest muscle is masseter, the clenching muscle in our face =) i do KNOW something wahahahaha

Kevin said...

By making the hypothesis following:
cardiac output(Q) = 5 L/min
diameter of aortic valve(d) = 2.3cm
cardiac pressure(P) = 120mmHG
Using the Bernoulli's Principe, i got
h = P/(ρ*g)+(v^2)/(2*g)
where
h = height
ρ = density of blood (1060 kg/m^3)
v = velocity of blood(Q/s)
s = (πd^2)/4
g = gravity(9.81 m*s^-2)
blood can shoot up to 1.6m high.

However, i think it might be more than 1.6m cos here we take Q=5L/min which is the output inside the human body. Since there is friction between blood and veins, the blood flow is slowed down and so the value of Q is reduced. Moreover we dunno what other hypothesis has the person who get this result made.

This thing help me to revise my last year fluid mechanics, lol...

Anonymous said...

haha eh can someone go cut a cockroach head up and see whether it can survive 9 days or not ah?

Anonymous said...

gosh...
the doctor and engineer talk...

Kevin said...

Haha, Doi, you're engineer also rite? Btw, i like your hyperinflasion post but how come i cant leave comment 1?

Anonymous said...

i can post ahh...you click wrongly isit hehe~

Anonymous said...

my field is IT...

sometimes the blog system block suspected spam wrongly. but I can't find your comment in that spamlist as well. maybe server connection down that time, try again?

kaya... experiment on fact 2...
lolx

Anonymous said...

how to experiment ohh? if can i want also!!!

Li Ping =) said...

doi n kaya are vr corrupted!

i once saw an episode on grey's anatomy, a girl came in with spontaneous orgasm lol Can be rather embarrassing...

orgasm for 30 min, i dun thk is that enjoyable haha...

Kevin said...

wei wei no dirty chat in my blog

Anonymous said...

what dirty chat? This is medical and biological science wei!

Actually I think orgasm that long is ver dangerous lo, can induce asphyxiation if I am not mistaken. so doi don't experiment ah!

what is spontaneous orgasm ah Liping? Explain in a clean way please! :D