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- virginian9000, on 06/28/2008, -29/+5I knew about #10 and 6, but not the rest.
- fishpen0, on 06/29/2008, -1/+56I hate it when people use the numbers from the article... I shouldn't have to keep referring back to the article to know what the hell you are talking about.
- davepascoe, on 06/29/2008, -6/+8I was taught almost all of that in biology lessons when about 14.
Education rules, it's shame more people don't have good opportunities. Internet to the rescue!
It's an absolute disgrace that some people are fighting to take things we know out of science lessons and replace them with thing they wish were true. - Alreadyinuse99, on 06/29/2008, -0/+33I agree with reply #1
- homescrubb, on 06/29/2008, -4/+1the fact that he only knew two of them probably explains it.
- netgeek06, on 06/28/2008, -71/+4Nobody knows about you accept the almighty.
- S7aind, on 06/29/2008, -0/+19What?
- scooterbaga, on 06/29/2008, -5/+52You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. Never wanted you. In all probability He hates you.
- suckaPU, on 06/29/2008, -7/+3i tell your Jesus to ***** himself every day and i'm better off than like pretty much everyone else
- ne0codex, on 06/29/2008, -1/+3.... LIKE pretty much everyone else? You just got dugg down for being a Valley Bitch
- arjie, on 06/29/2008, -2/+24He doesn't even know about me and I have to accept him? No way!
- markp88, on 06/29/2008, -1/+37Try "except"
- digitalpencil, on 06/29/2008, -0/+4oh.. wondered what the ***** he was on about.. lol
- ExRe, on 06/29/2008, -2/+25Can't even pass 4th grade spelling and you expect us to believe you?
- manfatallyslain, on 06/29/2008, -2/+15I think he's trolling
- iSinned, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2there's a thin line between genius and retard. he's a retard.
- SyntraFTW, on 06/29/2008, -0/+7Ceiling Cat or Longcat?
- norm7, on 06/29/2008, -5/+2he speaks the truth
- 1stJonnyDee, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1Jesus hates you and so do I. :)
- themurph2099, on 06/28/2008, -13/+53Good article. I knew a few of them, but its all facinating stuff.
- pcsperson, on 06/29/2008, -0/+4I was thinking the same thing
- kinglenster, on 06/29/2008, -5/+4Interesting that you both came up with the same spelling error.
- ADHD, on 06/29/2008, -6/+5I knew all of them but maybe thats because I just finished bio 2...
Amazing how much adults forget from school...sans the sex and drugs of course - coopcooper, on 06/29/2008, -0/+14thankyou for telling everyone you knew a few of them, i will attach this to my resume
- Haxxormaster, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2Betcha didn't know it's it's.
- ixelr8, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1fascinating*
- pcsperson, on 06/29/2008, -0/+4I was thinking the same thing
- theduckchaser, on 06/28/2008, -22/+8"red and yellow, black and white" was actually a fair summation of the skin colors of the little children of the world that jesus loves!
- P4NNY, on 06/29/2008, -1/+7What...?
- JamesAJanisse, on 06/29/2008, -0/+5@P4NNY:
"Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Black and yellow, red and white
They're all precious in His sight
Jesus loves the little children of the world"
Still kinda poorly executed, but I can't say I didn't get it.
- stormdesign, on 06/28/2008, -14/+6interesting stuff :)
- dha07030, on 06/28/2008, -3/+133The only thing this taught me is that I know too many useless facts.
- skidme, on 06/29/2008, -12/+1It's only useless if you don't have any friends.
- thirteenthcor, on 06/29/2008, -8/+2knowing useless facts can keep you from having friends..... ***** up i know.
no one liked the class know-it-all (me) - skidme, on 06/29/2008, -2/+21It's probable that no one liked you because you were an *****.
- stevealford, on 06/29/2008, -3/+2Or maybe he was an ***** because no one liked him...
- thirteenthcor, on 06/29/2008, -8/+2knowing useless facts can keep you from having friends..... ***** up i know.
- fas2, on 06/29/2008, -0/+51I have ovaries? What the..?
- h4mx0r, on 06/29/2008, -0/+3What you say!?
- Soniti, on 06/29/2008, -0/+5Ovary goes where?!
- passedoutghost, on 06/29/2008, -3/+0Yeah basically a woman's vagina is an inverted penis and vice versa. Funny thing is, a female coyote has a penis and when mating, it inverts and the male sticks it to her through there.
- ADHD, on 06/29/2008, -8/+3*sigh* why would you alert a bunch of dateless horny men that your a women?
- skidme, on 06/29/2008, -12/+1It's only useless if you don't have any friends.
- wildfire, on 06/28/2008, -10/+3She ate a baby!
- thirteenthcor, on 06/29/2008, -13/+112Wow, it sucks knowing too much, 'cuz then nothing surprises you anymore about interesting things.... I need to lay off the Internets and Educational TV.
I knew them all, and realized how much that sucked.
Goddamnit- thirteenthcor, on 06/29/2008, -4/+31And btw, the hydrochloric acid in our stomachs is just for breaking down the cell walls/membranes so the symbiotic bacteria living in our stomachs can get past the defenses to do their job. It actually does little to help you digest the food, which is done by bacteria that we somehow made a symbiotic pact with way long ago, in a creepy, mutually beneficial way.... We are actually even more complex than multi-cellular organisms... we are actually "multi-organism" entities. Mites live on our skin and eat dead flesh, the lack of would cause horrible skin infections and possibly death... certain viruses live without prosecution in our bloodstream, and actually prefer to prey on specific type of bacteria that enter out bodies occasionally.... the bacteria in our guts... Certain types of fungal-eating bacteria living in our reproductive tracts, especially in women, that help infestations of certain types of fungus... the list goes on.
See? it sucks!!!- db0255, on 06/29/2008, -2/+2Proteases and enzymes digest the food in your stomach...not bacteria. Unless there's a lot of bacteria in there that I don't know about?
- imsteve22, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1@db0255:
Enzymes break down proteins. Protease is a type of enzyme - burrgrinder, on 06/30/2008, -0/+0Bacteria are present in the GI tract. Enzymes break down proteins. E Coli and other bacteria are present in the lower intestines and helps by breaking down carbohydrates (this includes lactose), and it's presence is also to prevent harmful bacteria from taking over. Fungi are also present all over and inside of you, no big deal.
I also knew about all 10 items on the list and it isn't sucky. Being an ignorant ***** would be sucky, knowing how my body works is never a bad thing. - thirteenthcor, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1yeah the bacteria does play a large part in the energy conversion process of the food you eat.
- Thrilltone, on 06/29/2008, -1/+7what do you call a pregnant Goldfish?
- transfuse, on 06/29/2008, -4/+1/Not/ a *****.
- klipseracer, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1Yeah, I knew pretty much all of this. But the ones I didn't know weren't really interesting.
- ADHD, on 06/29/2008, -1/+17a pregnant goldfish...
- Ramenhood, on 06/29/2008, -12/+3No need to use the Lord's name in vein just because you read an Internet article.
- Thrilltone, on 06/29/2008, -13/+5***** you and god
He's no lord to me so shut up - zspade, on 06/29/2008, -0/+6RAMEN, Brother, Ramen.
- Thrilltone, on 06/29/2008, -13/+5***** you and god
- thirteenthcor, on 06/29/2008, -4/+31And btw, the hydrochloric acid in our stomachs is just for breaking down the cell walls/membranes so the symbiotic bacteria living in our stomachs can get past the defenses to do their job. It actually does little to help you digest the food, which is done by bacteria that we somehow made a symbiotic pact with way long ago, in a creepy, mutually beneficial way.... We are actually even more complex than multi-cellular organisms... we are actually "multi-organism" entities. Mites live on our skin and eat dead flesh, the lack of would cause horrible skin infections and possibly death... certain viruses live without prosecution in our bloodstream, and actually prefer to prey on specific type of bacteria that enter out bodies occasionally.... the bacteria in our guts... Certain types of fungal-eating bacteria living in our reproductive tracts, especially in women, that help infestations of certain types of fungus... the list goes on.
- Thrilltone, on 06/29/2008, -5/+131I suspect that when this writer gets down on his knees, it is not an anniversary that he is reminiscing about.
- Subspace, on 06/29/2008, -2/+0i see what you did there...
- Totz83, on 06/29/2008, -19/+201Stupid ***** slideshows, all on 1 page or gtfo!
- shivasprogeny, on 06/29/2008, -1/+21I don't mind slideshows like this one, because it uses ajax to load the next one instantly.
- Zetsubou, on 06/29/2008, -4/+67Damn it. 10 clicks for 10 things. It's a little better than 10 whole pages, but still, what's the point of this? Put them all on one page.
- ohmahgawd, on 06/29/2008, -20/+9AD REVENUE AD REVENUE AD REVENUE
AND TO THE IDIOTS WHO KEEP BRINGING THIS 'OMG WHY DO THEY DO THIS' QUESTION EACH AND EVERY SINGLE TIME A PAGE LIKE THIS SHOWS UP I WILL SAY AGAIN
AD REVENUE
AND MY CAPSLOCK KEY IS BROKEN- traichea, on 06/29/2008, -5/+5mine's not
- Corte, on 06/29/2008, -0/+20Hold shift.
- gavintlgold, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1You could wedge a penny between the edge of the keyboard and the shift key, too.
- Daniel591992, on 06/29/2008, -0/+12So what? It's not like the Forbes slideshows where the whole page refreshes...
- BobaFettTDG, on 06/29/2008, -2/+1/laziness.
- jawagas, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1I actually liked the format of that list. It was kinda like one of those Christmas Calendars with chocolate behind each little door; every snippet of information was tasty and invigorating just as those wonderful little treats.
- ohmahgawd, on 06/29/2008, -20/+9AD REVENUE AD REVENUE AD REVENUE
- Zetsubou, on 06/29/2008, -16/+13310 Your Stomach Secretes Corrosive Acid
9 Body Position Affects Your Memory
8 Bones Break (Down) to Balance Minerals
7 Much of a Meal is Food For Thought
6 Thousands of Eggs Unused by Ovaries
5 Puberty Reshapes Brain Structure, Makes for Missed Curfews
4 Cell Hairs Move Mucus
3 Big Brains Cause Cramped Mouths
2 The World Laughs with You
1 Your Skin Has Four Colors- Vikaas, on 06/29/2008, -0/+40Wow, how did you manage to fit those in such a simple format?!
- nilez, on 06/29/2008, -1/+5Fantastic! Now I don't read the article or watch the slideshow.
- scimitar91, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2but... there are no size and color-change numbers :(
- koft, on 06/29/2008, -25/+6One thing I do know about me is that I won't click 10 times to view a paragraph per page and a ***** picture. ***** buried.
- IG64, on 06/29/2008, -2/+20You refuse to depress a button 10 times, yet you use up the time and effort needed to compose a complaint about it.
- koft, on 06/29/2008, -21/+2A dick in yo mouth.
- ADHD, on 06/29/2008, -0/+11*claps* bravo you just made an ass of yourself while making us all question your sexual orientation
- H1tchh1k3r, on 06/29/2008, -0/+3He likes having people know his completely unwanted opinion.
- transfuse, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2Fragment; consider revising.
- IG64, on 06/29/2008, -2/+20You refuse to depress a button 10 times, yet you use up the time and effort needed to compose a complaint about it.
- skidme, on 06/29/2008, -13/+5It may be because I'm a bio major, but I knew most of these things...
- scarystuff, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2I'm no bio major, not even a bio minor, but I knew all but two of them..
Maybe I just read too much..- UsablePuddle, on 06/29/2008, -0/+6Maybe basic science education taught you? Some of them are pretty obvious though with a little common sense.
- AROZ, on 06/29/2008, -0/+3You best know them.
- scarystuff, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2I'm no bio major, not even a bio minor, but I knew all but two of them..
- Desidarius, on 06/29/2008, -15/+10I knew about all of them.
- netwerd, on 06/29/2008, -10/+4I didn't know I produced thousands of eggs... Maybe I should use a condom next time I masturbate. Wouldn't want to impregnate myself.
- Zer01, on 06/29/2008, -8/+0You didn't know that!...I mean me didn't...er, I uh.....nevermind
- quasipolymath, on 06/29/2008, -9/+235Slideshows be damned.
1. Your Skin Has Four Colors
All skin, without coloring, would appear creamy white. Near-surface blood vessels add a blush of red. A yellow pigment also tints the canvas. Lastly, sepia-toned melanin, created in response to ultraviolet rays, appears black in large amounts. These four hues mix in different proportions to create the skin colors of all the peoples of Earth.
2. The World Laughs with You
Just as watching someone yawn can induce the behavior in yourself, recent evidence suggests that laughter is a social cue for mimicry. Hearing a laugh actually stimulates the brain region associated with facial movements. Mimicry plays an important role in social interaction. Cues like sneezing, laughing, crying and yawning may be ways of creating strong social bonds within a group.
3. Big Brains Cause Cramped Mouths
Evolution isn't perfect. If it were, we might have wings instead of wisdom teeth. Sometimes useless features stick around in a species simply because they're not doing much harm. But wisdom teeth weren't always a cash crop for oral surgeons. Long ago, they served as a useful third set of meat-mashing molars. But as our brains grew our jawbone structure changed, leaving us with expensively overcrowded mouths.
4. Cell Hairs Move Mucus
Most cells in our bodies sport hair-like organelles called cilia that help out with a variety of functions, from digestion to hearing. In the nose, cilia help to drain mucus from the nasal cavity down to the throat. Cold weather slows down the draining process, causing a mucus backup that can leave you with snotty sleeves. Swollen nasal membranes or condensation can also cause a stuffed schnozzle.
5. Puberty Reshapes Brain Structure, Makes for Missed Curfews
We know that hormone-fueled changes in the body are necessary to encourage growth and ready the body for reproduction. But why is adolescence so emotionally unpleasant? Hormones like testosterone actually influence the development of neurons in the brain, and the changes made to brain structure have many behavioral consequences. Expect emotional awkwardness, apathy and poor decision-making skills as regions in the frontal cortex mature.
6. Thousands of Eggs Unused by Ovaries
When a woman reaches her late 40s or early 50s, the monthly menstrual cycle that controls her hormone levels and readies ova for insemination ceases. Her ovaries have been producing less and less estrogen, inciting physical and emotional changes across her body. Her underdeveloped egg follicles begin to fail to release ova as regularly as before. The average adolescent girl has 34,000 underdeveloped egg follicles, although only 350 or so mature during her life (at the rate of about one per month). The unused egg follicles then deteriorate. With no potential pregnancy on the horizon, the brain can stop managing the release of ova.
7. Much of a Meal is Food For Thought
Though it makes up only 2 percent of our total body weight, the brain demands 20 percent of the body's oxygen and calories. To keep our noggin well-stocked with resources, three major cerebral arteries are constantly pumping in oxygen. A blockage or break in one of them starves brain cells of the energy they require to function, impairing the functions controlled by that region. This is a stroke.
8. Bones Break (Down) to Balance Minerals
In addition to supporting the bag of organs and muscles that is our body, bones help regulate our calcium levels. Bones contain both phosphorus and calcium, the latter of which is needed by muscles and nerves. If the element is in short supply, certain hormones will cause bones to break down, upping calcium levels in the body until the appropriate extracellular concentration is reached.
9. Body Position Affects Your Memory
Can't remember your anniversary, hubby? Try getting down on one knee. Memories are highly embodied in our senses. A scent or sound may evoke a distant episode from one's childhood. The connections can be obvious (a bicycle bell makes you remember your old paper route) or inscrutable. A recent study helps decipher some of this embodiment. An article in the January 2007 issue of Cognition reports that episodes from your past are remembered faster and better while in a body position similar to the pose struck during the event.
10. Your Stomach Secretes Corrosive Acid
There's one dangerous liquid no airport security can confiscate from you: It's in your gut. Your stomach cells secrete hydrochloric acid, a corrosive compound used to treat metals in the industrial world. It can pickle steel, but mucous lining the stomach wall keeps this poisonous liquid safely in the digestive system, breaking down lunch.- WallnutBoy, on 06/29/2008, -7/+8Heh you're being dugg down by people who want the site to get some ad revenue.. Nice, digg.. -_-
- ratboy4001, on 06/29/2008, -5/+3Thanks for the post, but what's so bad about a slide show? I'd rather have that than have to scroll the page.
- cerealjynx, on 06/29/2008, -1/+1Wow, did you proofread all that? Number 8 reads like this on my screen: "If the element is in short supply, certain hormones will cause bones to break downeupping calcium levels in the bodyeuntil the appropriate extracellular concentration is reached."
- opnickc, on 06/29/2008, -0/+6He just copied/pasted from the original article. That's how it is there too.
- tony23, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1So where are the ten things I didn't know?
- kyle212, on 06/29/2008, -11/+212Im pretty sure I dont have ovaries
- skidme, on 06/29/2008, -14/+7Pictures, or it did happen.
- siandt, on 06/29/2008, -2/+5Do you really want those pictures? Really?
- ModernChem, on 06/29/2008, -11/+7way to steal a comment from that site
- kyle212, on 06/29/2008, -4/+10Because its not an obvious thing, that just maybe! Two people thought of saying?
- ModernChem, on 06/29/2008, -6/+3I believe it is more obvious that you look at the highest rated comment on that site that was at the top of the list and posted it here, dumbass
- kyle212, on 06/29/2008, -2/+7Cough
maXXari wrote:
just wondering, how many more things i don't know about me?
584 Recommend
Looks top to me
"dumbass"
- nygrissplz, on 06/29/2008, -4/+6"I didn't know I had ovaries :(((" was the best quote I found on there.
- Ortheos, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1Your ovaries descended into your scrotum, and now they are called testicles. They also produce the male gamete, sperm, instead of eggs. You kinda HAD ovaries.
- skidme, on 06/29/2008, -14/+7Pictures, or it did happen.
- blinktude, on 06/29/2008, -6/+19i didn't know I existed
- BingoPower, on 06/29/2008, -3/+2Who says you do?
- TomJohn, on 06/29/2008, -1/+3I think, therefore I think I am.
- Ne007, on 06/29/2008, -12/+5I knew them all. Of course I'm in the medical profession so I should know all that stuff.
- ganjaguru, on 06/29/2008, -7/+0ditto
- D14BL0, on 06/29/2008, -1/+15Good for you?
- aserer511, on 06/29/2008, -13/+65brains aren't the only large things that cause cramped mouths
ba-bum-ch! - XternalHD, on 06/29/2008, -5/+65So Im black?
- ADHD, on 06/29/2008, -0/+28yep brother
- Daniel591992, on 06/29/2008, -2/+16I'm not your....
- LameTacomeat, on 06/29/2008, -1/+19buddy friend
- Tophillious, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2im not your friend...
- speneko, on 07/02/2008, -0/+0buddy... im not your buddy, guy!
- JDoms, on 06/29/2008, -1/+14finally, you can be cool
- ADHD, on 06/29/2008, -0/+28yep brother
- rootsm3, on 06/29/2008, -10/+4::eye roll:: So this is just a review of Bio 101? What a bunch of cheap bastards.
- duffy89, on 06/29/2008, -4/+22How many more "10 things" are we gonna see on digg, they are getting old
- MasterThief117, on 06/29/2008, -0/+62I like how for the "Your Stomach Secretes Corrosive Acid" they show a picture of a pregnant woman.
- LeviTheSmith, on 06/29/2008, -6/+12Babies can be an acid if you mash them up.
- MasterThief117, on 06/29/2008, -0/+30wait, what?
- ModernChem, on 06/29/2008, -1/+15here we observe the decline in intelligence of the average digg comment
- Majorcrash, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1Or, you know, we could observe a joke.
- LeviTheSmith, on 06/29/2008, -6/+12Babies can be an acid if you mash them up.
- MadroxKran, on 06/29/2008, -7/+5One semester of Anatomy & Physiology will tell you all of this.
- passedoutghost, on 06/29/2008, -0/+0Not all diggers do a med or med/sci degree asswipe.
- Typhoon2009, on 06/29/2008, -0/+80Who the hell doesn't know about HCl in their stomachs?
- Picer, on 06/29/2008, -0/+17The idiots who did not listen at science lessons
- passedoutghost, on 06/29/2008, -0/+0I wasn't any good at science, but I thought that was common knowledge?
- stev31h, on 06/29/2008, -9/+5um.. me :(
- zspade, on 06/29/2008, -4/+19You sir, are an idiot who did not listen at science lessons.
- Soniti, on 06/29/2008, -0/+5Decisive win.
- str1fe, on 06/29/2008, -1/+2I remember that from high school level chemistry.
- pablo82, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2Half the people in your country re-elected G Bush, I think its safe to assume there may be a few who don't therefore know about HCI in stomachs.
- Picer, on 06/29/2008, -0/+17The idiots who did not listen at science lessons
- spence798, on 06/29/2008, -0/+21sepia-toned melanin...that will go over well with the black people at work
- soulkitchen, on 06/29/2008, -1/+3Black people!!
I think you mean Sepia-Americans.
- soulkitchen, on 06/29/2008, -1/+3Black people!!
- TheSwashbuckler, on 06/29/2008, -2/+8More accurately, four things I didn't know about me...
- Kevin108, on 06/29/2008, -7/+1Good article until I was reminded that the other half thinks we're monkeys.
- bagelmaster, on 06/29/2008, -0/+3What?
- rmeddy, on 06/29/2008, -2/+4Ummm High school biology teacher is that you?
- Siesna, on 06/29/2008, -0/+25I've seen this article on Digg once already, and it was just as disappointing then, too. I want stuff like "You may have been a siamese twin, but in the womb you ate your sibling!!" Stuff like that. Not "WOW! There's acid in my stomach?! I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!"
- Dacos, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1exactly, I was like wtf, I already knew all of this. Tell me something I don't know! I mean, I'm surprised to see how many stupid people are there. If such a list was made and was digged up this much it means a lot of people here on digg actually thought it was interesting and learnt something new.... which means they didn't know about at least one of them. I'm sooo dissapointed with you diggers :(
That was the MOST boring list of 10 things I have ever seen in my life - I want those 2 minutes back. I mean, I already want back all the time I spent in school learning all that stuff, but having it repeated to me years later so I can realise that space in my brain hasn't been recycled is just mean... :(
- Dacos, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1exactly, I was like wtf, I already knew all of this. Tell me something I don't know! I mean, I'm surprised to see how many stupid people are there. If such a list was made and was digged up this much it means a lot of people here on digg actually thought it was interesting and learnt something new.... which means they didn't know about at least one of them. I'm sooo dissapointed with you diggers :(
- SirvenomItsac, on 06/29/2008, -8/+1I knew them all, DAMN YOU MED SCHOOL
- cheez124, on 06/29/2008, -9/+6gay, take a basic anatomy class, i knew all of it, and i got a C in that class.
- LukeBeaumont, on 06/29/2008, -0/+3That is pretty much spot on. I did basic First Year Biology and Chemistry and knew it all.
- passedoutghost, on 06/29/2008, -2/+1If you knew all of it you would have gotten an A smartass
- Haecceity, on 06/29/2008, -0/+5Discover magazine could crap a better article than this.
- Tribunis, on 06/29/2008, -1/+3"cilia help to drain mucus from the nasal cavity down to the throat"
This scares me.- MrWhite7, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2They're also plotting to kill you
- Gracenotes, on 06/29/2008, -12/+4I knew:
(yes) 10. HCl is needed to activate pepsinogen
(no) 9. But kind of makes sense anyway
(yes) 8. Parathyroid horomone does that, opposing calcitonin (which calcified the stuff into bones)
(yes) 7. Brain needs oxygen, that's why it has a constant blood flow
(yes) 6. Egg follicles are made prenatally
(yes) 5. Mood swings et. al, time of hormonal imbalance
(yes) 4. Cilia is used with a lot of mucus surfaces, e.g. down into the lungs
(no) 3. But vestigal organs, not surprising. Also obvious example is our appendix, not so obvious is unique fingerprinting
(yes) 2. In fact, babies learn to smile to get the attention and care of adults! Those manipulative bastards...
(yes) 1. Which is, by and large, controlled by polygenic inheritance - Gracenotes, on 06/29/2008, -11/+1I knew:
(yes) 10. HCl is needed to activate pepsinogen
(no) 9. But kind of makes sense anyway
(yes) 8. Parathyroid horomone does that, opposing calcitonin (which calcified the stuff into bones)
(yes) 7. Brain needs oxygen, that's why it has a constant blood flow
(yes) 6. Egg follicles are made prenatally
(yes) 5. Mood swings et. al, time of hormonal imbalance
(yes) 4. Cilia is used with a lot of mucus surfaces, e.g. down into the lungs
(no) 3. But vestigal structures, not surprising. Also obvious example is our appendix, not so obvious is unique fingerprinting
(yes) 2. In fact, babies learn to smile to get the attention and care of adults! Those manipulative bastards...
(yes) 1. Which is, by and large, controlled by polygenic inheritance- Gracenotes, on 06/29/2008, -1/+2oops, double post. my apologies.
- tama00, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1stop bragging about how much you know because no one cares and post something we can all benefit from.
- imsteve22, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1wait... how did you manage a double post 2 minutes apart?
for me they were posted 7 hr 44 min ago and 7 hr 42 min ago...
- aceakm, on 06/29/2008, -1/+1http://youtube.com/watch?v=OGEtsvdUxd4
- zebraz, on 06/29/2008, -4/+2Fact number eleven : People are so stupid they should not be allowed to live.
- quiggibub, on 06/29/2008, -1/+2The only one I didn't know about was #9. Dugg for teaching me something about the body I didn't already know.
- tvanwyk, on 06/29/2008, -0/+69Anybody notice anything funny about the URL of this story? Like that big 12 at the end?
http://digg.com/general_sciences/10_Things_You_Did ...
Repost, anybody?
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http://digg.com/general_sciences/10_Things_You_Did ...
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Just sayin'.- Hollic, on 06/29/2008, -0/+13Wow, good catch. Thanks OP, hope you choke on every digg.
- homescrubb, on 06/29/2008, -0/+13serioulsly... how does this one get 900 diggs and the others get single-digits?
- gavintlgold, on 06/29/2008, -0/+12Timing, and shouts.
- eigenweasel, on 06/29/2008, -0/+23Because the Digg algorithm was developed by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission.
- santixar, on 06/29/2008, -1/+4I just know that I know nothing.
- gamben0, on 06/29/2008, -1/+2Generic and predictable bitching about the layout.
- dennisnajee, on 06/29/2008, -1/+0The educational opportunities here are simply endless. That is a wonderful thing.
- BarriedaleNick, on 06/29/2008, -0/+510. Your Stomach Secretes Corrosive Acid
no ***** - so thats what was causing my stomach ulcer - I thought it produced nectar...- Owwmykneecap, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1mmmm HCl
- iamtheunholy1, on 06/29/2008, -1/+1I know about them now.
- schmittce, on 06/29/2008, -3/+2111. Your anus can be stretched to accommodate one, even two, fists!
- eigenweasel, on 06/29/2008, -0/+10And two fists equals one dwarf head.
- soulkitchen, on 06/29/2008, -0/+5And one dwarf head equals a bakers-dozen of gerbils.
- Millsee, on 06/30/2008, -0/+4And one baker's dozen of gerbils equals 500 bumble bees.
- soulkitchen, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2Obvious conclusion: Tom Selleck is the size of a dwarfs head, and comprised of bumble bees.
- finista, on 06/29/2008, -3/+7Umm.. this is digg.com, not shareyourexperience.com
- passedoutghost, on 06/29/2008, -2/+1And not only fists. Dildos too, like goatse man!
- Ortheos, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3A midget lives up my arse. He feeds on my feces. When I die he will have to leave my decomposing arse, and move into another. Midgets are not born with their own arseholes. They have to find one to reside in, or they will be very vulnerable, since the arsehole provides protection and nourishment.
In return the arse-residing midget keeps the arsehole squeeky clean and stench free. This species of midget is a beneficial parasite.- GPSCenter, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1And where might I find one of these midgets, umm you know, besides in your arse.
- Ortheos, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1You have to be raped anally by a priest as a young child, and if you're lucky, you will end up with the midget parasite up your arse.
It takes many years for the midget embryo to develop inside your anus.
- eigenweasel, on 06/29/2008, -0/+10And two fists equals one dwarf head.
- BriDaGuy, on 06/29/2008, -1/+1buried for inaccuracy - I knew a few of these things about myself
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