quitos Self surgery

By quitos on January 17, 2012.

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Leonid Rogozov performed surgery on himself, removing his appendice without anesthetics, using a mirror.
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quitos Sonic Hedgehog

By quitos on January 10, 2012.

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Sonic Hedgehog is a signaling molecule in the brain. Researchers named the gene after the cartoon character.

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quitos blood-pressure

By quitos on August 11, 2011.

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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

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vicke rubber

By vicke on August 10, 2011.

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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

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quitos dfd

By quitos on August 9, 2011.

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Donald Duck’s middle name is ‘Fauntleroy.’

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quitos cat-ear

By quitos on August 8, 2011.

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A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

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alvarez_4carlos bagpipe

By alvarez_4carlos on August 7, 2011.

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The bagpipe was originally made from the liver of a sheep.

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vicke yell

By vicke on August 6, 2011.

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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

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quitos chirps

By quitos on August 5, 2011.

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If you count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct ambient temperature in celcius degrees.

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alvarez_4carlos sleep-smell

By alvarez_4carlos on August 4, 2011.

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You have no sense of smell when you’re sleeping.

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jordi taller

By jordi on August 3, 2011.

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The body is ~1cm taller in the morning than in the evening.

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quitos anorexia

By quitos on August 2, 2011.

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Anorexia is more common for people born in springtime!

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vicke cat-urine

By vicke on August 1, 2011.

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Cat urine glows under a blacklight.

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quitos chocolate

By quitos on July 31, 2011.

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Chocolate is a vegetable.

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alvarez_4carlos cornflakes

By alvarez_4carlos on July 30, 2011.

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There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.

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isa austria

By isa on July 29, 2011.

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Fucking, Austria: The village is located 33 kilometres north of Salzburg, 4 kilometres east of the German border.

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quitos bird-survive

By quitos on July 28, 2011.

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To survive, every bird must eat at least half its own weight in food each day.

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alvarez_4carlos hiccup

By alvarez_4carlos on July 27, 2011.

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A man named Charles Osbourne had hiccups for approximately sixty nine years

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vale dolphin-sex

By vale on July 26, 2011.

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Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

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quitos flush

By quitos on July 25, 2011.

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There were flush toilets in 2000 B.C.

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