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Bet everyone tl;dr'd my awesome fact
Here's another one, in brief: the best part of yourself to eat in an emergency situation without food would be your skin (removed when the skin is wet, so you don't bleed)

Medic wrote:

Wickimen wrote:

Bet everyone tl;dr'd my awesome fact
Here's another one, in brief: the best part of yourself to eat in an emergency situation without food would be your skin (removed when the skin is wet, so you don't bleed)

Thanks....
I wasn't planning on keeping down my sandwich.

If you let the dead skin sit in water and grow mold, it apparently adds a cheesy texture.

A slightly less gross one from the book is that your hair and nails don't actually grow after death, your skin just shrinks in a little after you die, giving the appearances of longer hair and nails

Medic wrote:

Wickimen wrote:

A slightly less gross one from the book is that your hair and nails don't actually grow after death, your skin just shrinks in a little after you die, giving the appearances of longer hair and nails

I have officially lost an apple and whatever else I ate.... 

Sorry. I just realized pretty much all of the cool facts in Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? are a bit gross/disturbing.

bananaman114 wrote:

Wickimen wrote:

Medic wrote:

I have officially lost an apple and whatever else I ate.... 

Sorry. I just realized pretty much all of the cool facts in Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? are a bit gross/disturbing.

I like them

*turns to stone, falls over*

Oktober: Oh look, it's Garry's Mod all over again. >.>

LEGO originated in Denmark. They didn't start out making LEGO bricks. The name "LEGO" means "Play well".

Non-LEGO fact: Eely Mouth is easy.

China will soon be the largest English speaking country

Humans and bananas are both about 98% the same.

Why? They're both 98% water.

Wickimen wrote:

I was reading this cool book by NewScientist and it has a ton of awesome facts in it
Here's one question and part of one of the answers going with it:

SACRED DNA
Animals and plants share a common genetic ancestry, so perhaps vegetarians refuse to eat meat on ethical grounds should avoid eating anything that has DNA at all. Is this feasible? Could anyone suggest a menu?
Richard Ward
I'm not aware of any living organisms that don't have DNA, so you'd have a hard time eating any tissues or cell cultures. You could try eating RNA viruses, but you'd need to produce them in a cell culture, which generally requires animal serum to keep the cells alive. Your food wouldn't contain DNA, but you would have used dead animals to produce it.
One cheat that springs to mind is red blood cells. In many species, including humans, the nucleus and mitochondria are removed from these cells during the maturation process. This is to make room for more hemoglobin, the iron-bound protein that carries oxygen. Because the nucleus and mitochondria contain all the cell's DNA, you could argue that provided you don't kill the animals, drinking their blood is the ultimate vegetarian diet. You'd need to filter out the white blood cells, which still have plenty of DNA, but the rest of the blood components would be fine. They'd provide you with protein, some sugars, and vitamins, but probably more iron than is healthy.

The answer is obviously to eat only dirt, and only dirt that has been cleansed of all DNA in some sort of lab. Have fun, vegetarians!

Also, something interesting: plants know when they are being harmed (like mimosas reacts to heat and touch, and some release chemicals when being harmed). So what do vegetarians eat?

zippynk wrote:

Humans and bananas are both about 98% the same.

Why? They're both 98% water.

No. Humans are mostly comprised of water, but the water-body percentage is 75%, not 98%.

The number of scratch projects is about 1/5 of the way from 2 to 3 million.
Edit: Bump.
Another Edit: Oh Well, Didn't work.

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