Fact O' The Day

[Krandall]

'Anesthesiologists have the highest rate of drug addiction among all the medical specialties. '


Anesthesiologists -- both faculty and residents -- are at least four times more likely than doctors of any other specialty to develop drug addictions. One reason is the easy access to otherwise highly controlled drugs -- drugs they work with on a daily basis. Their drug of choice is typically fentanyl, an extremely powerful opioid narcotic at least 100 times more potent than morphine.

[Peelz]

'Anesthesiologists have the highest rate of drug addiction among all the medical specialties. '


Anesthesiologists -- both faculty and residents -- are at least four times more likely than doctors of any other specialty to develop drug addictions. One reason is the easy access to otherwise highly controlled drugs -- drugs they work with on a daily basis. Their drug of choice is typically fentanyl, an extremely powerful opioid narcotic at least 100 times more potent than morphine.

funny. My wife's anastesiologist when our oldest was born was a huge prick, and set in his ways. But...I want them to be a take no shit kinda guy. Know what he is doing and f**k everything else. 

[vern burny]

We had the same thing, He was the biggest jackass around but the staff said he was the guy you wanted if something went wrong.  They were right, there was a problem with the epidural and he had a plan to fix it.  I think they enjoy inflicting pain just so they can give great drugs to make it go away.

[Krandall]

'The ocean floor is dotted with an estimated 3 million shipwrecks.'


More than a few of them are believed to be loaded with gold, silver, platinum and other precious metals, collectively with values too high to make any reasonable estimations. One of the richest discoveries in history may have occurred in January 2009, when a salvage company found what many believe to be the Port Nicholson, a British merchant navy ship sunk off the coast of Newfoundland by the Nazis in World War II, alleged to contain as much as $4 billion in gold, diamonds and platinum.

[Colorado700R]

PeelsSE2 is Pickle Lips.....From now to enernity

[Peelz]

PeelsSE2 is Pickle Lips.....From now to enernity

dammit!

wanna bite of my kosher dill?

[dragonz]

PeelsSE2 is Pickle Lips.....From now to enernity

dammit!

wanna bite of my kosher dill?

This is starting to explain a few things 
Certainly seems to suit!

[Krandall]

'The first gas-electric hybrid vehicle was built in 1898.'

The 1898 Lohner-Porsche Mixte-Hybrid was built by Ferdinand Porsche when he was just 18 and employed at his first job, working for coach-builder Jacob Lohner & Co. The hybrid, which had a top speed of 37 mph, had electric motors in each of its four wheel hubs that got power from a massive lead-acid battery pack that, alone, weighed an incredible two tons.

[Krandall]

'Paul Reubens took the name "Pee-Wee" from a brand of harmonicas. '


Paul Reubens developed his Pee-Wee Herman character as a member of the Groundlings. In the mid-1980s, he auditioned for SNL but lost the spot to Gilbert Gottfried, so he took Pee-Wee to HBO, where he landed a special, The Pee-Wee Herman Show. That led to two feature films, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Big Top Pee-Wee, along with the TV show Pee-Wee's Playhouse. Then an infamous 1991 bust for indecent exposure stalled the Emmy-winning performer's career.

[Peelz]

'Paul Reubens took the name "Pee-Wee" from a brand of harmonicas. '


Paul Reubens developed his Pee-Wee Herman character as a member of the Groundlings. In the mid-1980s, he auditioned for SNL but lost the spot to Gilbert Gottfried, so he took Pee-Wee to HBO, where he landed a special, The Pee-Wee Herman Show. That led to two feature films, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Big Top Pee-Wee, along with the TV show Pee-Wee's Playhouse. Then an infamous 1991 bust for indecent exposure stalled the Emmy-winning performer's career.

lost a job to gilbert godfried?   that would suck! Totally understand why the guy went Psycho!

[Krandall]

No doubt.

gilbert is so annoying. 

[Krandall]

'Only two U.S. Presidents are buried in Arlington Cemetery. '


Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia is famous for its eternal flame over the resting place of President Kennedy, but when he was interred in 1963, he wasn't the first U.S. president. Following his death in 1930, William Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to be interred at Arlington. Since he also served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he became the first Chief Justice to be buried there as well, although he's been followed by three others: Earl Warren, Warren Burger and William Rehnquist.

[Krandall]

'The world record for most pubs visited is 40,000. '


According to the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records, the owner of the world record for most pubs and alehouses visited belongs to a UK man named Bruce Masters. His 40,000th was the Bull's Head in Ranmoor, Sheffield, UK, and since 1960, he's been averaging an astounding 800-900 pubs per year.

[Krandall]

'More people die from heat and drought than any other natural disaster.'


In 2008, the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute at the University of South Carolina began to create a natural disaster fatality map for the United States using statistics from about 20,000 such deaths between the years 1970 and 2004. They determined that location didn't play a very important role in natural disaster fatalities; rather, warm weather was the culprit, with heat and drought accounting for 19.6% of those deaths, followed by severe summer storms, which accounted for 18.8%.

[Krandall]

'Since 1980, the Lunar Embassy has sold millions of plots of land on the moon. '


The 1967 Outer Space Treaty established outer space as belonging to "all mankind," and it prohibits any country from staking property claims on places like the moon. This didn't stop Dennis Hope, the "head cheese" of the Lunar Embassy, from filing an ownership claim for the moon in 1980, doing so as an individual. He is believed to have sold over 2.5 million 1-acre plots of lunar land for as much as $20 a piece.