Apparently,

[rbkwp]

Germany today / talking Germany
2 of the BEST still. DWs .de

 

[BUSTERHYMAN]

petergroot Asked what's the difference between cocaine and ecstasy?

petergroot Said fingering my anus doesn't bring me cocaine.

 

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Sweet as Salt .. duh!!


Salty and sweet are distinct tastes which our taste buds are able to detect. But add some salt to pineapple and you’ll notice something strange -- it doesn’t taste salty at all. In fact, the pineapple seems to taste sweeter when the salt is added than it does otherwise. What’s going on here? Just some neat kitchen chemistry.
Bitterness -- another taste we can pick up on -- and sweetness cancel each other out to some degree. One of the reasons it makes sense to add sugar to your coffee is because coffee naturally is bitter, and by doing so, you end up countering the bitterness more than anything else. And in this case, what’s true for coffee is also true for pineapples. Kind of.

Pineapples are inherently sweet but also have some bitterness to them. If we can neutralize the bitterness, it would follow that the pineapple would taste sweeter. Salt does exactly this. Salt, as any 8th grade science student can tell you, is NaCl -- sodium chloride. And when it mixes with the pineapple, the salt splits up into sodium and chloride ions. The chloride is tasteless (and harmless in those amounts -- or, no more harmful than it would be as salt) and our tongues ignore it. The sodium, on the other hand, bonds with the acids in the pineapple and forms a similarly tasteless salt once again. In doing so, the acids in the pineapple “disappear” from our tastebuds, and the bitterness goes with them.

All that’s left is the sweet-tasting sugars found in the fruit, and, with nothing to counteract that, these sugars take over. The salt doesn’t make the pineapple sweeter -- at least not directly -- but simply less bitter. Our palates aren’t nuanced enough to detect the difference.

 

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of interest from a travelling family members blog, an observation ..


Here we find snake charmers, and monkey handlers among all the sellers, henna applicators, food stalls... Hell, about anything you could ever want! We had been warned. Don't go too close to these guys cause they may throw the snake around your neck or the monkey onto your shoulder while you are unaware and in your shock they soothe you and encourage you to take pictures. They take your camera out of your hand so a couple can stand together, and click away and then as you go to leave smiling they demand a figure...and get pretty aggressive should you not want to pay this. The snake charmers music is pretty terrible. It sounds like a kid has picked up and is exploring the sounds. I wouldn't call it a melody.

They poke and annoy the snakes so they will stand up for visitors. It's pretty horrible. In my naivety I thought the snake enjoyed the music and is 'charmed' but it maybe it's standing up ready to attack cause it's annoyed. It's pretty horrible all round and I feel really sorry for the snakes. The monkeys at least seem to be having fun but I have no doubt it's not all roses.

 

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Buckingham Palace has 775 rooms, including 78 bathrooms.

England’s Buckingham Palace is the official home of the Queen, and the
775 room palace has 78 bathrooms. It was originally constructed in 1703 as
a house for Duke of Buckingham, but was not constructed into a royal palace
until 1820 for King George IV. Buckingham Palace’s total area is 828,821
square feet (77,000 sq m) and stands 78 feet (24 m) high. Two hundred and
forty of the rooms in Buckingham Palace are bedrooms (52 for Royal Family
members and guests, and 188 for live-in staff). The palace contains 760
windows and 1,514 doors, and includes a chapel, cinema, swimming pool, and
even its own post office.

 

[rbkwp]

Apparently,
Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time.
not
that i am LPSG Bored or anything like that ..

British mystery writer Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all
time. It is estimated that she sold over 2 billion works, putting
Christie’s books just behind the Bible and William Shakespeare in terms
of most sales. She has sold approximately a billion books in English, and
another billion have been sold translated into around 45 different foreign
languages. She is the most translated author, and has been translated into
more languages than Shakespeare. Since her first novel was published in
1920, Christie’s 80 works have been adapted into film versions 27 times.
Read More: Who Is the Best-Selling Novelist of All Time?

 

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A gain Maybe!!!

 

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Winter lasts for 21 years on Uranus.

Winter on Uranus is 21 years long. Seasons are the result of how close to
the sun a planet is as it spins on its axis. Summer occurs when planets
tilt the closest to the sun, and winter comes at their furthest positioning
from the sun. Uranus is different from the other planets because instead of
resting on an axis like a spinning top, the planet is positioned on its
side. Its seasons are determined by which hemisphere is facing the sun.
However, since Uranus doesn’t turn on an axis, its seasons don’t change
until the planet’s north and south poles slowly reverse. The process
takes approximately 21 years to complete and result in a new season.
Read More: How Long Is Winter on Uranus?

 

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McDonald's is the world's largest toy distributor.

Fast food restaurant chain McDonald's is the company that distributes the
most toys worldwide, at an estimated 1.5 billion toys globally. McDonald's
began selling kids’ “Happy Meals” in 1979 and as of 2014,
approximately 20% of all of McDonald’s sales include a kids’ meal that
comes with a toy. In 1997, McDonald's set records with its toys, when it
included “Teenie Beanie Babies” with their kids’ meals and sold four
meals for every child in the US. Critics of the fast food chain claim the
inclusion of toys with kids’ meals encourages unhealthy eating habits as
the meals are often high in sodium and fat, and don’t include fruits or
vegetables. In 2011, San Francisco banned “Happy Meals” from being
marketed to children and being sold with toys.
Read More: Which Company Distributes the Most Toys?

 

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Apparently haha sounds like me sometimes
complex creature,as silly as laughs ..

Horses can breathe only through their noses, not their mouths.

Horses do not breathe like other mammals—they only breathe through their
noses because they cannot breathe through their mouths. The equine
respiratory system functions by inhaling and exhaling through the nostrils.
This is thought to perhaps be an evolutionary feature to prevent debris,
such as dust and dirt, from entering the horses’ lungs as they run. Their
large size makes it so that horses are only able to inhale as their front
legs stride, but not as their legs land because their internal organs are
proportionately larger than other mammals’. Horses’ lungs would then
not be able to expand efficiently to allow oxygen in during landing due to
the force that would shift their internal organs.
Read More: Do Horses Breathe Like Other Mammals?

 

[rbkwp]

apparently

i think ive seen his ugly face before

no, fuckin around ..

and

Segals judo/slap/kung fu shit/noise drives me nuts
how the hell does he get away with it the creep ..

 

[rbkwp]

Apparently,

Are Cities the Only Things given Zip Codes?

The US Post Office uses a mail boat to deliver to other ships on the
Detroit River, and it has its own zip code: 48222.

A mail boat called the J.W. Westcott II is used by the US Postal Service
and has its own zip code: 48222. The boat is used to deliver mail to other
ships on the Detroit River, and is the only floating post office in the
world that delivers mail to moving ships. In 1895, the floating post office
began ferrying mail to passing ships via rowboat, then updated to a 45 foot
(14 m) ship in 1949. All mail can be delivered to crews on ships traveling
on the Detroit River by being addressed "Vessel Name, Marine Post Office,
Detroit, Michigan, 48222."

 

[parchissi]

....all the elephants living in the world today could never weigh more than all the ANTS living in the world today - now thats a fact !!

 

[rbkwp]

Bumblebees were called humblebees until the early 20th century because of
the humming noise made by their wings.

The bumblebee was traditionally known as the humblebee, after naturalist
Charles Darwin began observing and documenting the insects in records
dating back to 1841. The name humblebee refers to the humming noise the
bees make as they rapidly beat their wings while flying—it is estimated
the insects can fly at speeds of approximately 10 miles (16 km) per hour.
By the early 20th century, the name gradually was phased out and replaced
with the modern name of bumblebee as more scientists began to study the
insects. Darwin was among the first to recognize the importance of
bumblebees’ role in fertilizing plants as they collected nectar and
pollen, and even noted certain plants’ risk for extinction if bumblebees
disappeared and were unable to help fertilize.


PLUS
i am obviously bored shitless/taking it out on LPSG as usual haha

 

[rbkwp]

Apparently
Why Do Americans Refrigerate Eggs?

and
do they wash/ refrigerate the coloured Easter egsss??

America is one of few countries to refrigerate eggs because the eggs are
cleaned, which exposes them to more bacteria.

Americans refrigerate eggs because of US federal food safety regulations
that require chicken eggs to be washed prior to sale. The process of
washing eggs actually exposes them to bacteria because it destroys the
outermost protective coating of the shell that keeps bacteria and other
microorganisms from penetrating it. Refrigerating the eggs after washing
helps prevent microorganisms from reaching within the porous shell. Egg
refrigeration is not common in other countries, with the exception of Japan
and Scandinavia, because of differing food safety standards that do not
require washing beforehand. nstead, hens are required to be vaccinated
against illnesses prior to laying eggs.

 

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A study shows 78% of women washed their hands with soap before leaving the
bathroom, compared to about 50% of men.

Women wash their hands in the bathroom more than men, with approximately
78% of women washing their hands with soap before leaving the restroom
versus 50% of men, according to a 2013 Michigan State University study.
These gender difference results are similar to what individuals
self-reported about their hand washing habits. 74% of women report that
they always wash their hands after using a public restroom, compared to 60%
of men, according to Bradley Corporation’s 2013 Healthy Handwashing
Survey. The average amount of time overall that all people spent washing
their hands was six seconds, while the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) recommends 20 seconds of hand washing.

 

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Apparently

The original Ferris wheel, built in 1893, could hold 2,160 passengers.

Exactly 2,160 people could ride on the first Ferris wheel, which was
debuted in 1893 at the Chicago World’s Fair, also known as the Columbian
Exposition. The amusement ride contained 36 cars that could seat 60
passengers each. It was 264 feet (80 m) high and could hold a weight of
over 2.3 million pounds (1,191 tons). Engineer George Washington Gale
Ferris designed the wheel and the construction was completed in just over
four months due to the Chicago World’s Fair committee not approving of it
at first, citing the idea as ridiculous and impossible. The first Ferris
wheel operated for six months at the 1893 Exposition and earned over
$725,000 US Dollars (USD).

 

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Apparently,

How Many Cars are Stolen During the Holidays?

On average, the number of cars stolen on New Year's Day is more than double
those stolen on Christmas.

In the US, over 22,000 cars were stolen over the fall and winter holidays,
according to 2009 National Crime Information Center (NCIC) statistics. New
Year's Day had the most thefts with 2,760 cars stolen in 2009. Christmas
Day had the least number of thefts with 1,336 cars stolen that year. To
keep vehicles from being stolen, it is recommended that owners keep items
like shopping bags out of sight, and not leave a running car unattended.

 

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Apparently,

Moby Dick is based on Mocha Dick, a real albino whale that destroyed over
20 whaling ships in the 1830s.

Was Moby Dick based on a Real Story?

The inspiration for Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby Dick was based on a
real albino sperm whale called Mocha Dick. During the growth of the whaling
industry in the Americas in the mid 1800s, Mocha Dick gained a reputation
of being a one of the most feared whales in the ocean. Mocha Dick was
reported to be docile if left alone, even swimming along ships. However,
when provoked, the 70 foot (21.336 m) whale would become aggressive and
attack ships with his body. During the 28 years that Mocha Dick hunted, he
reportedly attacked 100 ships, 20 of which were completely destroyed. Mocha
was eventually killed by whalers in 1838 near the Chilean island Mocha
after he came to the rescue of a female whale whose calf was killed by the
whalers

 

[Indelicate]

Indeed.