You learn something new everyday

[Danny Ocean]

I call Shenanigans!

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

That's not how digestion works, the mucus is there to help move the stuff along and prevent infection, not protect the gut wall from the acid it contains.

Anyway, your gut can't digest itself because the concentration gradient is flat, so nothing moves.

Oxygen is what causes you to age, and therefore die.

I'm not sure about this one. The respiration reaction does produce some lactic acid (Which can destroy cells), but that's quickly whisked away by the blood. Ageing is more closely linked to DNA denaturing as far as I know.

 

[Danny Ocean]

For every person on earth there are 200 million insects. That's a f***ing scary thought.

If there was a war between humanity and every insect in the world, who would win?

If we were at war with ants alone, we'd be outnumbered 60,000 to one. Yes we'd be screwed, unless somebody made 6 billion flamethrowers.

I vaguely remember a graph in biology showing the rough numbers of each kind of animal plotted on a timeline, marked with the great world-spanning extinctions.

The Insect "Bar" was huge compared to everything else, and humans only came in relatively recently (Duh), and we've grown very fast, but our numbers are still dwarfed by the numbers of insects.

Of course, we're bigger, and have technology, so we'd win.

Sorry, hit post rather than ctrl-c.

 

[Psyco Slim]

Kangaroos got their name because when Europeans came to Austrailia and asked the natives "What is the name of that animal?" they responded "Kangaroo" which means "I dont understand you."

 

[Irridium]

I call Shenanigans!

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

That's not how digestion works, the mucus is there to help move the stuff along and prevent infection, not protect the gut wall from the acid it contains.

Anyway, your gut can't digest itself because the concentration gradient is flat, so nothing moves.

Dude, I just learned this in my Biology class like 3 hours ago, the mucus prevents the acid in your stomach from eating through the stomach and basically "digesting" it. The acid in your stomach is the most acidic in the world, and it is used to help digest food. Without the mucus it would basically digest the stomach, or eat through it. Its basically 2 words which in the end have the same result, the mucus needs to replace itself every 2 weeks or so.

 

[Alphabeties]

New York has the horniest women.

that's an actual fact, I saw it on cosmopolitan.com so it MUST be true. xD

 

[Lukeje]

The acid in your stomach is the most acidic in the world...

What exactly do you mean by this statement? Stomach acid is most definitely NOT the 'most acidic acid in the world'...

 

[Psyco Slim]

By the time you reach 12th grade, you will have been in school for about 17,000 hours

Meteorologists claim they're right 85% of the time

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven

In 1946, the first TV toy commercial aired. It was for Mr. Potato head

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs

The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants

 

[RheynbowDash]

chimps are the only other animal other than humans that engage in prostitution.

not making this up.

 

[Danny Ocean]

Dude, I just learned this in my Biology class like 3 hours ago,

I know I know, I learnt it ages ago too, I'm a little rusty on it.

The mucus prevents the acid in your stomach from eating through the stomach and basically "digesting" it.

Here is the key. Use the right words in scientific explanations to avoid confusion. Seriously, when we did our mock GCSEs almost everyone lost marks because they put a slightly different word than the one specified.

The acid in your stomach is the most acidic in the world,

There are synthetic acids that have more extreme pH values than the Hydrochloric, Pottasium, and Sodium Chloride Acids in your Stomach.

Without the mucus it would basically digest the stomach, or eat through it.

The stomach is lined with special epithelial cells, which continually sacrifice themselves in order to protect deeper layers of the stomach wall. Each minute the surface lining sheds about 500,000 cells, and it completely replaces itself every three days. The mucus is of little protection from the gastric acids that can corrode through metals, without being equally acidic itself, which would defy the point.

Its basically 2 words which in the end have the same result

Wording again. Digestion and Acid Breakdown are not the same.

Feel free to prove me wrong, I love to learn.

 

[The_Prophet]

In video games, players will allmost allways head for higher ground, that goes triple in zombie games.

Only triple?

 

[Irridium]

The acid in your stomach is the most acidic in the world...

What exactly do you mean by this statement? Stomach acid is most definitely NOT the 'most acidic acid in the world'...

Your probably right, even as my teacher said it I was doubtfull (probably spelled that wrong)

Dude, I just learned this in my Biology class like 3 hours ago,

I know I know, I learnt it ages ago too, I'm a little rusty on it.

The mucus prevents the acid in your stomach from eating through the stomach and basically "digesting" it.

Here is the key. Use the right words in scientific explanations to avoid confusion. Seriously, when we did our mock GCSEs almost everyone lost marks because they put a slightly different word than the one specified.

The acid in your stomach is the most acidic in the world,

There are synthetic acids that have more extreme pH values than the Hydrochloric, Pottasium, and Sodium Chloride Acids in your Stomach.

Without the mucus it would basically digest the stomach, or eat through it.

The stomach is lined with special epithelial cells, which continually sacrifice themselves in order to protect deeper layers of the stomach wall. Each minute the surface lining sheds about 500,000 cells, and it completely replaces itself every three days. The mucus is of little protection from the gastric acids that can corrode through metals, without being equally acidic itself, which would defy the point.

Its basically 2 words which in the end have the same result

Wording again. Digestion and Acid Breakdown are not the same.

Feel free to prove me wrong, I love to learn.

dude, I am currently getting a C in that class, so I'm probably not the right person who should be trying to prove anything, I'm just going off what I've been tought. Hell most of the books are from like 10 years ago. Or I may just be stupid, can't tell. Either way, I'm not the right person who should be discussing anything scientific.

By the time you reach 12th grade, you will have been in school for about 17,000 hours

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants

If your like me than most of those 17,000 hours will probably be forgotten during summer.

And Donald Duck was also banned in many other parts of the world for not wearing pants.

 

[Psyco Slim]

The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes

The average person spends 30 years mad at a family member

There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying

In Iowa, One-armed piano players must perform for free

Caligynephobia is the fear of beautiful women

 

[DoW Lowen]

Pogonphobia is the fear of beards.
Cacophobia is the fear of ugliness.
Sesquipedalophobia is the fear of long words.
Genophobia is the fear of sex.

 

[EchetusXe]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

There it has a bunch of trivial information that you won't have known before. Sadly with all the years its been going the information is rather dull now but hey there we go.


errr... ok here goes from me: Baseball was mildy popular in the UK before WW2 and now I have never heard one person even mention the sport to me.
More reading if you like baseball or history or whatever: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_in_the_UK

 

[DoW Lowen]

Until 1906, Coca-cola had traces of cocaine in it's recipe. Also Coca-cola only sold 25 bottles in it's first year of sale.

 

[Snake422]

-Hadouken translates to surge fist.
-Study's have found that people born in winter are less intelligent and less successful.
-Hitlers favorite book was Snow White and the seven dwarfs.
-By law Pluto is a planet within New Mexico borders.
-It is against the law in Germany to say the holocaust never happened.
-Legally you are not allowed to smile in your drivers license.