Fact O' The Day

[Peelz]

ninja.

we saw what we saw.

[Krandall]

"Beer keeps you younger, but may give you cancer."


There are notable health benefits associated with a moderate level of beer consumption: it raises HDL ("good cholesterol"), helps prevent cardiovascular disease, decreases the likelihood of dementia, and in general counteracts some of the risks of aging. Of course, all of this only applies when people drink in moderation (fewer than five drinks when one indulges; one to six beverages over the course of a week). However, averaging a drink a day also increases your risk for several types of cancer, including lung, liver, stomach, and prostate cancer.

[russ-russ]

"Beer keeps you younger, but may give you cancer."

So, f*cked either way.  Might as well get sh!tfaced and enjoy yourself. 

[Krandall]

"By licking a postage stamp, you will pick up a nutritional content of around six calories."


According to the British Royal Mail, the nutritional content of a single adhesive stamp is 5.9 calories -- although presumably this figure is the caloric content of all the lickable adhesive on the entire surface of the stamp, and therefore a person's actual caloric consumption would be lower (which may explain the far lower U.S. Postal Service estimate of one-tenth of a calorie). The caloric content comes from the sugars present in the wood-based adhesive gum on these stamps, although they have become far less prevalent with the advent of self-adhesive stamps.

[Krandall]

"Men are more likely to forgive a partner who has a lesbian affair than a heterosexual one."


According to a University of Texas study, men are more than twice as likely to forgive a partner who's had a homosexual affair (50% said they would forgive a homosexual affair, as opposed to 22% who said they'd forgive a heterosexual affair). Women, conversely, showed the opposite pattern; 28% said they'd stick with a boyfriend after he'd had a heterosexual affair, while 21% would forgive a homosexual affair.

[Krandall]

"Pedestrians are three times more likely to be killed in traffic accidents after daylight-saving begins."


The sudden extra hour when clocks are changed for daylight-saving time is to blame for an increase of pedestrians hit by cars. In November -- when daylight-saving starts -- pedestrians walking near traffic after 6 p.m. are much more likely to be struck by a car than at the same time of day in October, the month before the time change -- and the risk returns to normal the following month. Furthermore, a pedestrian's risk of being struck by a car at 6 p.m. in November is 11 times higher than in April, when daylight-saving time ends. Morning traffic, according to researchers, seems unaffected; only evening rush hour becomes deadlier.

[Krandall]

"Doritos once paid a research facility to broadcast an ad into space."


Over a six-hour period in 2008, a Doritos advertisement was broadcast into space by the EISCAT Scientific Association, an international research organization based in Scandinavia. The high-powered radars directed the ad toward a star within a habitable zone that could theoretically support life in the distant Ursa Major constellation. The director of EISCAT conceded that since the ad was being sent as a binary MPEG file, it was rather unlikely to be decoded by extraterrestrial life, but he did defend the benefit to the institution -- pointing out that funding, even from commercial sources, still gets research done.

[Peelz]

DOritos...exactly what I want exterrestrial civilizations to know about the ingenuity of the human race.   

[Krandall]

"Doctors have successfully cured a man with HIV for the first time in history."


In 2007, an HIV-positive man named Timothy Ray Brown was diagnosed with a form of leukemia and underwent aggressive treatment at a Berlin hospital. The treatment included total body irradiation and a risky stem-cell transplant. The transplant came from a donor who happened to have a specific genetic mutation (CCR5 delta 32) that made him highly resistant to HIV. After allowing Brown's immune system to recover and submitting him to extensive testing, doctors have officially declared him cured of HIV.

[dragonz]

"Doctors have successfully cured a man with HIV for the first time in history."


In 2007, an HIV-positive man named Timothy Ray Brown was diagnosed with a form of leukemia and underwent aggressive treatment at a Berlin hospital. The treatment included total body irradiation and a risky stem-cell transplant. The transplant came from a donor who happened to have a specific genetic mutation (CCR5 delta 32) that made him highly resistant to HIV. After allowing Brown's immune system to recover and submitting him to extensive testing, doctors have officially declared him cured of HIV.

Pity the extensive radiation treatment caused his willy to shrivel & he's now growing a second head

[Peelz]

"Doctors have successfully cured a man with HIV for the first time in history."

there is hope for preddy after all. Keep hope alive!

[Krandall]

"Men with deeper voices tend to have more children."


A study of the Hadza people in Tanzania found higher reproductive success and more children overall among men with deeper voices compared to men with high-pitched voices. Researchers have suspected that deeper voices are more attractive to women, but they selected the Hadza because their lack of birth control methods allows for a more direct link between measurable vocal pitch and number of children. Anthropologists suggest that either increased testosterone or the perception that deeper-voiced men are better providers could explain the findings.

[Krandall]

"Scientists have discovered a solar-powered hornet."


The oriental hornet (Vespa orientalis) somehow produces electricity with its body, according to findings from a study at Tel Aviv University that observed the behavior and biology of the insect. Realizing that the insect was -- unlike most hornets -- at its most active during intense sunlight, researchers discovered that the yellow stripe on the hornet's abdomen traps light using a pigment called xanthopterin (also found on the wings of butterflies and in the urine of mammals). The hornet then generates electricity from this energy -- although the specific method it uses remains a mystery.

[Krandall]

"Researchers discovered that even just the scent of a woman's tears can decrease sexual arousal in men.


The study, published in the January issue of Science magazine, exposed participants to either a solution of women's tears (emotional tears, which are chemically distinct from eye-lubricating tears) or saline. Though unable to distinguish consciously between the two, men exposed to the emotional tears reported a drop in arousal and measured decreased testosterone compared to their counterparts."
Researchers who originally intended to study the chemical effects of empathy and sadness instead discovered that even just the scent of a woman's tears can decrease sexual arousal in men. The study was published in Science magazine in January. Participants were exposed to either a solution of women's tears (emotional tears, which are chemically distinct from eye-lubricating tears) or saline. Though unable to distinguish consciously between the two, men exposed to the emotional tears reported a drop in arousal, and measured decreased testosterone, compared to their counterparts.


funny, because the scent of mens tears turn me on

[Out Back Welding]

I need to get some of those tears...could do some pranking with that stuff hmmmm...how could i get some...