07-20-2008, 07:33 AM
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Why does water not calm the tongue after eating hot spicy food?
The spices in most of the hot foods that we eat are oily, and, like your elementary school science teacher taught you, oil and water don't mix. In this case, the water just rolls over the oily spices.
What can you do to calm your aching tongue? Eat bread. The bread will absorb the oily spices. A second solution is to drink milk. Milk contains a substance called "casein" which will bind to the spices and carry them away. Alcohol also dissolves oily spices.
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07-20-2008, 07:39 AM
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In Latin, formico means "ant".
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In Italian, formica means "ant(s)"
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07-20-2008, 07:41 AM
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The phrase 'good-bye' is devolved from the phrase 'God be with ye', an old English farewell. It has been bastardized into goodbye. True story.
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07-20-2008, 07:42 AM
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Michael J. Fox's real name was Michael Douglas, but since there was already a famous one of those, he had to change his name. The 'J' doesn't stand for anything.
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07-20-2008, 07:52 AM
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Giraffes and mice have the same number of bones in their necks. Three.
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07-20-2008, 07:57 AM
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Giraffes and mice have the same number of bones in their necks. Three.
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Just looked it up: How many bones are there in a giraffe's neck? Just like humans, giraffes have seven neck vertebrae. For giraffes, however, each one can be over ten inches (25.4 centimeters) long!
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07-20-2008, 07:58 AM
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Why does wet fabric appear darker?
When fabric gets wet, light coming towards it refracts within the water, dispersing the light. In addition, the surface of the water causes incoherent light scattering. The combination of these two effects causes less light to reflect to your eyes and makes the wet fabric appear darker.
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07-20-2008, 08:04 AM
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Just looked it up: How many bones are there in a giraffe's neck? Just like humans, giraffes have seven neck vertebrae. For giraffes, however, each one can be over ten inches (25.4 centimeters) long!
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Dang it. I read that on a milk carton in seriously 2nd grade and have been quoting it ever since. The education you receive at schools these days is ridiculous.
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07-20-2008, 08:08 AM
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Dang it. I read that on a milk carton in seriously 2nd grade and have been quoting it ever since. The education you receive at schools these days is ridiculous.
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Sorry Binks, I wasn't trying to prove you wrong, I was just curious. 
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