Quote from: HazEL on June 29, 2007, 06:09:16 PMkanang saging na wala namulig unya usa ra ang bunga! hahahahah!
what kind of banana?
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#3301
Facts and Trivia / Re: Banana facts
June 29, 2007, 06:14:46 PM #3302
Weird and Extreme / Re: Mysterious Night-shining Clouds Spotted Over Northern Europe
June 29, 2007, 06:10:57 PM
it might be...
#3303
Weird and Extreme / Re: "Everything is ready for MY WEDDING, EXCEPT for a bed..."
June 29, 2007, 06:04:25 PM
buy one take one gyud unya wala pa gyud nahalin!
#3304
Weird and Extreme / Re: "Everything is ready for MY WEDDING, EXCEPT for a bed..."
June 29, 2007, 05:59:38 PM
ngano man na? wala gyud nahalin?
#3305
Weird and Extreme / Re: "Everything is ready for MY WEDDING, EXCEPT for a bed..."
June 29, 2007, 05:56:04 PM
nah! daghan na ta ani!
#3306
Facts and Trivia / Re: Banana facts
June 29, 2007, 05:53:02 PM
momoy...int other word, amo, unggoy,tsonggo! hahahahahahah!
#3307
Weird and Extreme / Mysterious Night-shining Clouds Spotted Over Northern Europe
June 29, 2007, 05:22:41 PM
This image shows one of the first ground sightings of noctilucent clouds in the 2007 season over Budapest, Hungary on June 15, 2007
Mysterious Night-shining Clouds Spotted Over Northern Europe
- Coming out of the Arctic
By: Lucian Dorneanu, Science Editor - Softpedia
This image shows one of the first ground sightings of noctilucent clouds in the 2007 season over Budapest, Hungary on June 15, 2007
Breaking images taken by a new NASA satellite shows extremely detailed images of a mysterious kind of clouds appearing over the Arctic region and moving towards Northern Europe. These clouds shine in the night sky and are moving out of the polar regions and scientists can't explain why.
They are called "noctilucent clouds" which
literally means "night-shining" in Latin, and were first observed in 1885, two years after the Krakatoa eruption. But most volcanic eruptions do not spew material high enough in the atmosphere to seed the formation of the icy clouds.
Forming at the edge of space, they appear to be getting brighter and more frequent, raising questions as to their possible link to global warming. It's not only this increase in brightness that puzzles scientists, it's also the fact that they used to be spotted at high latitudes, but in recent years, the evening clouds have been spotted as far south as Utah, in the US.
This is the first time the "Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere" (AIM) satellite saw these strange cloud formations and even people on the ground started seeing them on June 6, over Northern Europe.
Their place of origin is thought to be the upper layer of the atmosphere called the mesosphere, from about 50 km to 80-90 km altitude above Earth's surface. Made of water vapor and ice crystals, they usually appear in summer above the North Pole and also in the South Pole summer.
AIM satellite will document the clouds over both regions, for the first time, to help researchers understand why these noctilucent clouds form and how they could be indicating climate changes around the planet.
"It is clear that these clouds are changing, a sign that a part of our atmosphere is changing and we do not understand how, why or what it means," said James Russell III of Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, an atmospheric scientist. "These observations suggest a connection with global change in the lower atmosphere and could represent an early warning that our Earth environment is being changed."
#3309
Weird and Extreme / Re: "Everything is ready for MY WEDDING, EXCEPT for a bed..."
June 29, 2007, 05:03:46 PMQuote from: buenavista on June 29, 2007, 04:55:59 PMsakit ba na ma devirginized?
dapat lang para ma devirginized na ka! :-*heheh joke lang
#3310
Weird and Extreme / Re: "Everything is ready for MY WEDDING, EXCEPT for a bed..."
June 29, 2007, 04:46:58 PM
Mao diay virgin pa ko karon kay gidungog diay ni Lord akong prayer na "lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil...amen." hehehehehhehe...dapat e change na nako akong prayers...
#3311
Science and Research / How to Keep Your Muscles Strong with a Pill
June 29, 2007, 03:32:26 PM
How to Keep Your Muscles Strong with a Pill - Scientists try to stop muscle wasting
By: Stefan Anitei, Science Editor - Softpedia
You go to the gym, train hard for some months, but â€" holly s**t â€" you must pump iron for life to keep looking like that. A drug stopping the dismantling of the muscles would be your dream product to get rid of the gym for a while.
As soon as we stop exercising, muscle proteins start melting; idle muscles just keep a high metabolism without any use. When food and exercising are constant, while muscle growth and breakdown are in a subtle equilibrium. Lack of exercise and starvation do not necessarily induce muscle atrophy (wasting), but also microgravity in the case of astronauts, and many conditions like kidney failure, cancer and AIDS. Once the muscle is lost, exercising turns more difficult, and a vicious cycle is created.
Anabolic steroids could stop the atrophy, but they have undesirable side effects (impotence for example) and still require exercising.
Researchers found that muscle atrophy is an active process induced by a complex of genes, so that they focus on shutting it off to stop muscle wasting. The process uses the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway (UPP), employed to break down unwanted proteins in the cell. Tagged proteins are chopped by proteasomes into their component amino acids, which are reused.
Muscle proteic filaments within cells are melted,
but the number of muscle cells stays the same, they just get thinner and weaker. At least 90 genes, called atrogenes, are linked to atrophy. Atrogin1 and muRF1, were found in 2001 and are the only two atrogenes active just during muscle atrophy. They encode ubiquitin ligases, the enzymes that tag the proteins to break down.
Their activity is almost zero in normal muscles, but booms in sick animals; when shut off, the atrophy stops, after both disuse and disease.
A group from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, discovered increased activity of the gene erg1 in mice experiencing muscle atrophy. This gene encodes a potassium channel protein encountered in both skeletal and cardiac muscle. In heart muscle, the channel presents two varieties, erg1a and erg1b, which help the heart maintain its rhythm by letting the muscle repolarize after each beat.
A mutated erg1 induces "long QT" syndrome, when the heart muscle cannot repolarize fast enough, situation in which sudden heart failure can occur, erg1a was found responsible for the appearance of atrophy. An existing antihistamine drug, astemizole, inactivates erg1a channels and has anti-atrophy effects in mice, and in healthy animals, muscles even grew bigger. Erg1a could be involved in the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, but it is not known precisely how.
Still, the astemizole not only shut off erg1 channels in skeletal muscle, but also in the heart, inducing long QT syndrome, and it was withdrawn in 1999.
In 2004, a team led by Alfred Goldberg, a cell biologist at Harvard University, focused on gene controllers, like Foxo that drive the activity of many atrogenes. When Foxo is turned off, atrophy stops.
Another issue: insulin and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), involved in muscle synthesis, can also impede muscle breakdown by inhibiting Foxo and the atrogin1 gene. Rising levels of IGF1 significantly increased the mice’s strength, even when they did not exercise. That's why both IGF-1 and insulin are banned, being considered doping drugs in sports. "You don't see active Foxo in normal muscle because insulin and IGF-1 suppress it, but exactly how inactivity or disease activates Foxo we're still trying to find out." said Goldberg.
Foxo could be connected to the erg1a-mediated atrophy. Several companies are developing researches for drugs that stop the atrogin1 protein, and proteasome inhibitors like Velcade, employed in cancer, that could speed down muscle atrophy.
A drug against muscle atrophy would be beneficial for patients who have to stay in bed for days, easing their recovery. Weaning patients off respirators would become easier as the diaphragm would not be weakened. Disease or broken bone would not necessarily cause weakness, and long physiotherapy treatments. Aging people too would benefit from these drugs which could prolong their independent life.
NASA funds many of these researches: on a trip to Mars, astronauts would lose about 25 % of their muscle mass and would be too weak to perform any operation there.
Of course these drugs will be extremely tempting for athletes for doping, but for couch potatoes, too.
Of course, the effects are different from those that come after training, which has also other physiological effects like better blood supply to muscles, more mitochondria â€" that "fuels" all the burnings in the body, inside the muscle cells â€" stronger bones, and better brain circulation.
Still, skipping gym for a few weeks would rather encourage people to go to the gym, as restarting a training schedule would be less painful.
#3312
Science and Research / Early Sex Induces Depression
June 29, 2007, 03:28:55 PM
Early Sex Induces Depression - In case of short-term relationships
By: Stefan Anitei, Science Editor - Softpedia
We have sex for the sheer pleasure of it, but a new study shows that a sexual life started at the wrong age does in fact induce sadness, clinically known as depression. Girls who have lost their virginity at an early age present a slightly higher risk of feeling depressed compared to their counterparts, as the researchers discovered. Still, the sufferance occurred only when the sexual encounter happened outside a romantic relationship, while the boys' mind was not affected in any way if they started their sexual activity early.
"I suspected that there might be negative effects of early sex for some groups. And that's what I found, but only under very specific circumstances." said co-author Ann M. Meier, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota.
These findings have relevance for the abstinence
education promoted by the welfare reform act of 1996, which states that "sexual activity outside of the context of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects." The results show a mixed situation, while the average age at which teenagers start their sexual life steadily lowered during the 1990s, now almost 50 % of American teens report that they already had their first sexual experience by the time they graduate from high school.
Meier chose a national representative group of 8,563 adolescents in grades 7 through 12 who were virgin at the selection time. They were questioned again one to two years later about their emotional and mental health, family background, romantic relationships, but the questionnaires also assessed depression and self-esteem. 1,265 of the teenagers had already lost their virginity.
The average age on the first sexual experience depended on race, from 15.2 years in case of black people to 17.5 years for Asians. In case of families with a lower income, this age was even lower. These teenagers were divided into those who had their first sexual experience earlier than the average age, at the average age, and later than average. Only heterosexual sex was considered, and the researchers assessed just depressive symptoms, not clinical depression.
The first sexual experience was linked to a lowered self-esteem only in girls who were younger than the average age and not involved in a romantic relationship. Girls who started their sexual life at the average age or later did not displayed higher risk for depressive symptoms compared to those who were still virgin. An an even higher increase in depressive symptoms was observed in girls who lost virginity in short-term relationships. "It was not so much chronological age that was significant in determining whether sex was psychologically harmful, but rather the deviation from the socially normal age." said Meier.
"I think this is a good study. I'm struck at how much you have to recognize that teen sexual behavior occurs in a social context. One of the big findings here is that it's age norms and not the actual age that matters, and these norms vary depending on what group in society you're in." said Laura Lindberg, a sociologist and senior researcher at the Guttmacher Institute, not involved in the research. "There were well-known negative effects of early sex, such as early pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. But overall, there are very few effects on mental health, either negative or positive.", Meier said.
By: Stefan Anitei, Science Editor - Softpedia
We have sex for the sheer pleasure of it, but a new study shows that a sexual life started at the wrong age does in fact induce sadness, clinically known as depression. Girls who have lost their virginity at an early age present a slightly higher risk of feeling depressed compared to their counterparts, as the researchers discovered. Still, the sufferance occurred only when the sexual encounter happened outside a romantic relationship, while the boys' mind was not affected in any way if they started their sexual activity early.
"I suspected that there might be negative effects of early sex for some groups. And that's what I found, but only under very specific circumstances." said co-author Ann M. Meier, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota.
These findings have relevance for the abstinence
education promoted by the welfare reform act of 1996, which states that "sexual activity outside of the context of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects." The results show a mixed situation, while the average age at which teenagers start their sexual life steadily lowered during the 1990s, now almost 50 % of American teens report that they already had their first sexual experience by the time they graduate from high school.
Meier chose a national representative group of 8,563 adolescents in grades 7 through 12 who were virgin at the selection time. They were questioned again one to two years later about their emotional and mental health, family background, romantic relationships, but the questionnaires also assessed depression and self-esteem. 1,265 of the teenagers had already lost their virginity.
The average age on the first sexual experience depended on race, from 15.2 years in case of black people to 17.5 years for Asians. In case of families with a lower income, this age was even lower. These teenagers were divided into those who had their first sexual experience earlier than the average age, at the average age, and later than average. Only heterosexual sex was considered, and the researchers assessed just depressive symptoms, not clinical depression.
The first sexual experience was linked to a lowered self-esteem only in girls who were younger than the average age and not involved in a romantic relationship. Girls who started their sexual life at the average age or later did not displayed higher risk for depressive symptoms compared to those who were still virgin. An an even higher increase in depressive symptoms was observed in girls who lost virginity in short-term relationships. "It was not so much chronological age that was significant in determining whether sex was psychologically harmful, but rather the deviation from the socially normal age." said Meier.
"I think this is a good study. I'm struck at how much you have to recognize that teen sexual behavior occurs in a social context. One of the big findings here is that it's age norms and not the actual age that matters, and these norms vary depending on what group in society you're in." said Laura Lindberg, a sociologist and senior researcher at the Guttmacher Institute, not involved in the research. "There were well-known negative effects of early sex, such as early pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. But overall, there are very few effects on mental health, either negative or positive.", Meier said.
#3313
Science and Research / The Sex Drive Is Increased by Sexual Fantasies
June 29, 2007, 03:24:53 PM
The Sex Drive Is Increased by Sexual Fantasies - In case of both men and women
By: Stefan Anitei, Science Editor - Softpedia
Too much imagination is not only the "fuel" of human technological and scientific development, but also of the human sex life. This is the conclusion reached by researchers at the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada), after investigating some psychological factors like erotophilia (positive attitude towards sexuality), sexual fantasies and anxiety linked to sex drive in humans.
They employed an adapted Sexual Desire Inventory by Spector, Carey and Steinberg to assess the solitary sexual motivation and the drive in
having sexual intercourse with another person (didactic sexual desire). "It gives relevant information about possible disagreements in sexual desire that may appear in a couple", said co-author Juan Carlos Sierra Freire.
Loss of sexual desire is one of the basic factors known to induce sexual dysfunction in the Spanish women.
The team found a crucial link between sexual desire and erotophilia in men. Men react more positively at sexual stimuli and thoughts, accepting them without difficulties. Sexual fantasies increased sexual drive in men. Still, some types of fantasies, like sadism, can inhibit a male's sex drive.
In women, too, the level of sexual fantasies was linked to higher sex drive. However, "women normally present more anxiety disorders than men" and anxiety was found to dictate women’s sexual appetite.
The research was made on 608 volunteers aged 13 to 43. 32% of the men with low libido had also low erotophilia and few sexual fantasies, while 18% of the women with low libido was linked to higher anxiety and low levels of sexual fantasies. Psychological factors were found to be sex specific.
Sex drive is linked to the female's arousal and orgasm. Sexual intercourse lacking desire affects negatively these sexual responses. "This first stage is the most complex because it is influenced by many factors", said Sierra.
Sexual drive is linked to social, psychological, and neurophysiologic factors, that's why adequate neurohormonal activity with a proper sexual stimulation are required for maintaining the woman's sexual desire. "Besides this complexity, there is no comparison model, as occurs in the men’s excitation stage, where it is possible to determine the degree of excitation depending on the erection. Education on sexual stimulation and response as well as healthy attitudes towards sexuality is extremely important. In this way, sexual intercourse for those people will be more pleasurable and with less probability of having sexual dysfunctions." said Sierra.
Sexual fantasies are already used in sex therapy to decrease anxiety towards sexual intercourse, if there is no organic cause (hormonal or of any other nature).
By: Stefan Anitei, Science Editor - Softpedia
Too much imagination is not only the "fuel" of human technological and scientific development, but also of the human sex life. This is the conclusion reached by researchers at the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada), after investigating some psychological factors like erotophilia (positive attitude towards sexuality), sexual fantasies and anxiety linked to sex drive in humans.
They employed an adapted Sexual Desire Inventory by Spector, Carey and Steinberg to assess the solitary sexual motivation and the drive in
having sexual intercourse with another person (didactic sexual desire). "It gives relevant information about possible disagreements in sexual desire that may appear in a couple", said co-author Juan Carlos Sierra Freire.
Loss of sexual desire is one of the basic factors known to induce sexual dysfunction in the Spanish women.
The team found a crucial link between sexual desire and erotophilia in men. Men react more positively at sexual stimuli and thoughts, accepting them without difficulties. Sexual fantasies increased sexual drive in men. Still, some types of fantasies, like sadism, can inhibit a male's sex drive.
In women, too, the level of sexual fantasies was linked to higher sex drive. However, "women normally present more anxiety disorders than men" and anxiety was found to dictate women’s sexual appetite.
The research was made on 608 volunteers aged 13 to 43. 32% of the men with low libido had also low erotophilia and few sexual fantasies, while 18% of the women with low libido was linked to higher anxiety and low levels of sexual fantasies. Psychological factors were found to be sex specific.
Sex drive is linked to the female's arousal and orgasm. Sexual intercourse lacking desire affects negatively these sexual responses. "This first stage is the most complex because it is influenced by many factors", said Sierra.
Sexual drive is linked to social, psychological, and neurophysiologic factors, that's why adequate neurohormonal activity with a proper sexual stimulation are required for maintaining the woman's sexual desire. "Besides this complexity, there is no comparison model, as occurs in the men’s excitation stage, where it is possible to determine the degree of excitation depending on the erection. Education on sexual stimulation and response as well as healthy attitudes towards sexuality is extremely important. In this way, sexual intercourse for those people will be more pleasurable and with less probability of having sexual dysfunctions." said Sierra.
Sexual fantasies are already used in sex therapy to decrease anxiety towards sexual intercourse, if there is no organic cause (hormonal or of any other nature).
#3314
Question and Answer / Re: How to Fall in Love in 60 seconds?
June 29, 2007, 03:12:00 PM
hikap sa hikaponon, koot sa kootonon!
#3315
Weird and Extreme / Re: "Everything is ready for MY WEDDING, EXCEPT for a bed..."
June 29, 2007, 03:09:23 PM
uy...basig ma MTRCB na sad mo ha! heheheheehehh!
#3316
Showbiz & Celebrity / Re: The Apl Song' Video + ASIN Music' Balita
June 29, 2007, 01:50:09 PMQuote from: PrincessSaDagat on June 29, 2007, 10:40:14 AMim so shocked that you are soooo ignorant to distinguish a joke from reality! hwehehehehheeh!
Ghost - I AM DISSAPOINTED, MAN! What possessed an intelligent man like you write such ignorant and racist remark to other kind human being? I call this bigotry! I assumed you have not experience this type of racism in your life, oh wait, perhaps you had and now you think that you can do it to another human being because of the color of his or her skin. Racism is an ugly and unacceptable behavior. PrincessSaDagat experienced such an ugly behavior and believe me, it was emotionally damaging to me. I am over it! And never again will this happen to me, EVER! EVER!
Practice human kindness and peace.
#3317
Question and Answer / Re: What's the craziest thing you did for love?
June 29, 2007, 01:11:09 PM
e coin daw na bisexual sa boholano bi?
#3318
Jokes and Humor / Re: Damn she's good!!!
June 29, 2007, 01:07:46 PMQuote from: buenavista on June 29, 2007, 09:13:30 AMsure ko uy! ngano, mo tambling ka?
mga virgins like me na di unta dapat makabasa pero nakabasa nalang...ehehehhehe...
sure ka ani?hehehe
#3319
Weird and Extreme / Re: All done by computer graphics (3D)
June 29, 2007, 01:05:09 PM
day, dire sa tubag-bohol magpractis nalang kag tan-aw sa mga invisible na images! hehehehehehehhe!
#3320
Weird and Extreme / Re: Is There Something Wrong With the Picture?
June 29, 2007, 01:03:49 PM
daan pa lagi ko...hehehehehe...
#3321
Philippine Business News / Re: Miss Bohol Sandugo 2007 CANCELLED
June 29, 2007, 04:45:45 AM
or basig hanap pana-aw ni Legaspi...
#3322
Bohol Tourism | Bohol Travel & Tour / Re: Paghandum sa kabatan-on nga dinuyugan sa mga harana ...
June 29, 2007, 04:41:54 AMQuote from: Julai on June 28, 2007, 06:35:24 PMsa amoa kay uso pa kaayo ang harana...mangawat diay tog manok ang uban sad mamaklad...
nice one!!
pero wanay uso ang harana sa ahong panahon..huhuhuhuh
#3323
Question and Answer / Trivia about chocolate
June 29, 2007, 04:16:43 AM
Trivia about chocolate
(40 facts)
A 1.5 oz. milk chocolate bar has only 220 calories.
A 1.75 oz. serving of potato chips has 230 calories.
A recent study indicates when men crave food, they tend to crave fat and salt. When women crave food, they tend to desire chocolate.
American and Russian space flights have always included chocolate.
American chocolate manufacturers use about 1.5 billion pounds of milk -- only surpassed by the cheese and ice cream industries.
Americans consumed over 3.1 billion pounds of chocolate in 2001, which is almost half of the total world's production.
Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 golden goblets of hot chocolate every day. It was thick, dyed red and flavored with chili peppers.
Bittersweet chocolate is what is usually called for in baking. It contains more chocolate liquor (at least 35%) and less sugar than sweet chocolate. Semisweet chocolate contains 15% - 35% chocolate liquor.
CAFFEINE CONTENT
White chocolate 3ounce bar or 1 cup chips
Caffeine 0.0 mg
Theobromine 0.0 mg
Baking chocolate, unsweetened 1 ounce
Caffeine 57.120 mg
Theobromine 346.360 mg
Semisweet chocolate 1 ounce (chocolate chips)
Caffeine 17.577 mg
Theobromine 137.781mg
Milk Chocolate 1.55 ounce bar
Caffeine 11.440 mg
Theobromine 74.360 mg
Cocoa mix 1 envelope/3 heaping tsp
Caffeine 5.040 mg
Theobromine 169.680 mg
Cocoa powder, unsweetened 1 tbsp
Caffeine 12.420 mg
Theobromine 111.078 mg
Caffeine: there are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an eight-ounce cup of brewed coffee, 10 milligrams in a six-ounce cup of cocoa, 5 to 10 milligrams in one ounce of bittersweet chocolate, and 5 milligrams in one ounce of milk chocolate.
Chocolate contains phenylethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love.
Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40 percent of the world's almonds and 20 percent of the world's peanuts.
Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.
Chocolate Timeline:
1824: John Cadbury, an English Quaker, begins roasting and grinding chocolate beans to sell in his tea and coffee shop. In 1842 Cadbury's Chocolate Company in England creates the first chocolate bar.
1875: A Swiss chocolate maker, Daniel Peter, mixes Henri Nestle's con- densed milk with chocolate and the two men found a company to manufacture the first milk chocolate.
1894: Milton Hershey adds a line of chocolate to his caramel manufacturing business. Soon he invents the Hershey Bar by experimenting with milk chocolate. Hershey's Cocoa appears next.
1896: Leonard Hershfield invents the Tootsie Roll, named after his daughter.
1897: Brownies are first mentioned in print, listed for sale in the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogue.
About 1900: A machine called the enrober is invented to replace the task of hand-dipping chocolate.
1930: Franklin Mars invents the Snickers Bar.
1939: Nestle introduces semisweet chocolate morsels.
1940: The Mars company invents M&M's for soldiers going to World War II.
Chocolate was introduced into the United States in 1765 when cocoa beans were brought from the West Indies to Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Cocoa butter is the natural fat of the cocoa bean. It has a delicate chocolate aroma, but is very bitter tasting. It is used to give body, smoothness, and flavor to eating chocolate.
Cole Porter got a kick from fudge. He had nine pounds of it shipped to him each month from his hometown.
Columbus brought cacao (chocolate) beans back to Spain on his fourth voyage in 1502.
Cultivation of cacao trees can occur only in tropical climates, 20 degrees north or south of the equator. Principal growing areas include West Africa, Brazil, Ecuador and the Indies. Generally, it takes five years before trees begin bearing fruit in the form of pods. Each pod contains an average of 20 to 40 cream-colored cocoa beans. Nearly 400 beans are required to make a pound of chocolate liquor, the semi-liquid mass produced by grinding the beans. A non-alcoholic substance, chocolate liquor is the basis of all chocolate and cocoa products.
German chocolate cake did not originate in Germany. In 1852, Sam German developed a sweet baking bar for Baker's Chocolate Co. The product was named in honor of him -- Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate.
Hawaii is the only US state that grows cacao beans to produce chocolate.
In 1900, Queen Victoria sent her New Year's greetings to the British troops stationed in South Africa during the Boer War in the form of a specially molded chocolate bar.
In Hershey, Pennsylvania, the streetlights along "Chocolate Avenue" are in the shape of Hershey Kisses.
In the United States, approximately seven billion pounds of chocolate and candy are manufactured each year.
It's a common myth that chocolate aggravates acne. Experiments conducted at the University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Naval Academy found that consumption of chocolate -- even frequent daily dietary intake -- had no effect on the incidence of acne. Professional dermatologists today do not link acne with diet.
One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana.
Per capita, the Irish eat more chocolate than Americans, Swedes, Danes, French, and Italians.
Pet parrots can eat virtually any common "people-food" except for chocolate and avocados. Both of these are highly toxic to the parrot and can be fatal.
Ten percent of U.S. Recommended Daily Allowance of iron is found in one ounce of baking chocolate or cocoa. Chocolate also contains Vitamins A1, B1, B2, C, D and E as well as calcium, potassium, sodium and iron.
The American Heart Association recommends that daily cholesterol intake not exceed 300 mg. A chocolate bar is actually low in cholesterol. A 1.65 oz. bar contains only 12 mg! A one oz piece of cheddar cheese contains 30 mg of cholesterol - more than double the amount found in a chocolate bar.
The botanical name of the chocolate plant is Theobramba cacao, which means "Food of the Gods."
The daughter of confectioner Leo Hirschfield is commemorated in the name of the sweet he invented: Although his daughter's real name was Clara, she went by the nickname Tootsie, and in her honor, her doting father named his chewy chocolate logs Tootsie Rolls.
The earliest cocoa plantations were established in 600 AD, in the Yucatan, by the Mayans.
The fruit of the Cacao tree grow directly from the trunk. They look like small melons, and the pulp inside contains 20 to 50 seeds or beans. It takes about 400 beans to make a pound of chocolate.
The Imperial torte, a square chocolate cake with five thin layers of almond paste, was created by a master pastry chef at the court of Emperor Franz Joseph (1830 - 1916).
The melting point of cocoa butter is just below the human body temperature -- which is why it literally melts in your mouth.
The Swiss consume more chocolate per capita than any other nation on earth. That's 22 pounds each compared to 11 pounds per person in the United States.
The term "white chocolate" is a misnomer. Under Fedaral Standards of Identity, real chocolate must contain chocolate liquor. "White" chocolate contains no chocolate liquor.
The theobromine in chocolate that stimulates the cardiac and nervous systems is too much for dogs, especially smaller pups. A chocolate bar is poisonous to dogs and can even be lethal.
The world's first chocolate candy was produced in 1828 by Dutch chocolate-maker Conrad J. Van Houten. He pressed the fat from roasted cacao beans to produce cocoa butter, to which he added cocoa powder and sugar.
There were 1,040 US manufacturing establishments producing chocolate and cocoa products in 2001. These establishments employed 45,913 people and shipped $12 billion worth of goods that year. California led the nation in the number of chocolate and cocoa manufacturing establishments (with 116) followed by Pennsylvania (with 107).
* US Census Bureau, October, 2003
(40 facts)
A 1.5 oz. milk chocolate bar has only 220 calories.
A 1.75 oz. serving of potato chips has 230 calories.
A recent study indicates when men crave food, they tend to crave fat and salt. When women crave food, they tend to desire chocolate.
American and Russian space flights have always included chocolate.
American chocolate manufacturers use about 1.5 billion pounds of milk -- only surpassed by the cheese and ice cream industries.
Americans consumed over 3.1 billion pounds of chocolate in 2001, which is almost half of the total world's production.
Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 golden goblets of hot chocolate every day. It was thick, dyed red and flavored with chili peppers.
Bittersweet chocolate is what is usually called for in baking. It contains more chocolate liquor (at least 35%) and less sugar than sweet chocolate. Semisweet chocolate contains 15% - 35% chocolate liquor.
CAFFEINE CONTENT
White chocolate 3ounce bar or 1 cup chips
Caffeine 0.0 mg
Theobromine 0.0 mg
Baking chocolate, unsweetened 1 ounce
Caffeine 57.120 mg
Theobromine 346.360 mg
Semisweet chocolate 1 ounce (chocolate chips)
Caffeine 17.577 mg
Theobromine 137.781mg
Milk Chocolate 1.55 ounce bar
Caffeine 11.440 mg
Theobromine 74.360 mg
Cocoa mix 1 envelope/3 heaping tsp
Caffeine 5.040 mg
Theobromine 169.680 mg
Cocoa powder, unsweetened 1 tbsp
Caffeine 12.420 mg
Theobromine 111.078 mg
Caffeine: there are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an eight-ounce cup of brewed coffee, 10 milligrams in a six-ounce cup of cocoa, 5 to 10 milligrams in one ounce of bittersweet chocolate, and 5 milligrams in one ounce of milk chocolate.
Chocolate contains phenylethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love.
Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40 percent of the world's almonds and 20 percent of the world's peanuts.
Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.
Chocolate Timeline:
1824: John Cadbury, an English Quaker, begins roasting and grinding chocolate beans to sell in his tea and coffee shop. In 1842 Cadbury's Chocolate Company in England creates the first chocolate bar.
1875: A Swiss chocolate maker, Daniel Peter, mixes Henri Nestle's con- densed milk with chocolate and the two men found a company to manufacture the first milk chocolate.
1894: Milton Hershey adds a line of chocolate to his caramel manufacturing business. Soon he invents the Hershey Bar by experimenting with milk chocolate. Hershey's Cocoa appears next.
1896: Leonard Hershfield invents the Tootsie Roll, named after his daughter.
1897: Brownies are first mentioned in print, listed for sale in the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogue.
About 1900: A machine called the enrober is invented to replace the task of hand-dipping chocolate.
1930: Franklin Mars invents the Snickers Bar.
1939: Nestle introduces semisweet chocolate morsels.
1940: The Mars company invents M&M's for soldiers going to World War II.
Chocolate was introduced into the United States in 1765 when cocoa beans were brought from the West Indies to Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Cocoa butter is the natural fat of the cocoa bean. It has a delicate chocolate aroma, but is very bitter tasting. It is used to give body, smoothness, and flavor to eating chocolate.
Cole Porter got a kick from fudge. He had nine pounds of it shipped to him each month from his hometown.
Columbus brought cacao (chocolate) beans back to Spain on his fourth voyage in 1502.
Cultivation of cacao trees can occur only in tropical climates, 20 degrees north or south of the equator. Principal growing areas include West Africa, Brazil, Ecuador and the Indies. Generally, it takes five years before trees begin bearing fruit in the form of pods. Each pod contains an average of 20 to 40 cream-colored cocoa beans. Nearly 400 beans are required to make a pound of chocolate liquor, the semi-liquid mass produced by grinding the beans. A non-alcoholic substance, chocolate liquor is the basis of all chocolate and cocoa products.
German chocolate cake did not originate in Germany. In 1852, Sam German developed a sweet baking bar for Baker's Chocolate Co. The product was named in honor of him -- Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate.
Hawaii is the only US state that grows cacao beans to produce chocolate.
In 1900, Queen Victoria sent her New Year's greetings to the British troops stationed in South Africa during the Boer War in the form of a specially molded chocolate bar.
In Hershey, Pennsylvania, the streetlights along "Chocolate Avenue" are in the shape of Hershey Kisses.
In the United States, approximately seven billion pounds of chocolate and candy are manufactured each year.
It's a common myth that chocolate aggravates acne. Experiments conducted at the University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Naval Academy found that consumption of chocolate -- even frequent daily dietary intake -- had no effect on the incidence of acne. Professional dermatologists today do not link acne with diet.
One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana.
Per capita, the Irish eat more chocolate than Americans, Swedes, Danes, French, and Italians.
Pet parrots can eat virtually any common "people-food" except for chocolate and avocados. Both of these are highly toxic to the parrot and can be fatal.
Ten percent of U.S. Recommended Daily Allowance of iron is found in one ounce of baking chocolate or cocoa. Chocolate also contains Vitamins A1, B1, B2, C, D and E as well as calcium, potassium, sodium and iron.
The American Heart Association recommends that daily cholesterol intake not exceed 300 mg. A chocolate bar is actually low in cholesterol. A 1.65 oz. bar contains only 12 mg! A one oz piece of cheddar cheese contains 30 mg of cholesterol - more than double the amount found in a chocolate bar.
The botanical name of the chocolate plant is Theobramba cacao, which means "Food of the Gods."
The daughter of confectioner Leo Hirschfield is commemorated in the name of the sweet he invented: Although his daughter's real name was Clara, she went by the nickname Tootsie, and in her honor, her doting father named his chewy chocolate logs Tootsie Rolls.
The earliest cocoa plantations were established in 600 AD, in the Yucatan, by the Mayans.
The fruit of the Cacao tree grow directly from the trunk. They look like small melons, and the pulp inside contains 20 to 50 seeds or beans. It takes about 400 beans to make a pound of chocolate.
The Imperial torte, a square chocolate cake with five thin layers of almond paste, was created by a master pastry chef at the court of Emperor Franz Joseph (1830 - 1916).
The melting point of cocoa butter is just below the human body temperature -- which is why it literally melts in your mouth.
The Swiss consume more chocolate per capita than any other nation on earth. That's 22 pounds each compared to 11 pounds per person in the United States.
The term "white chocolate" is a misnomer. Under Fedaral Standards of Identity, real chocolate must contain chocolate liquor. "White" chocolate contains no chocolate liquor.
The theobromine in chocolate that stimulates the cardiac and nervous systems is too much for dogs, especially smaller pups. A chocolate bar is poisonous to dogs and can even be lethal.
The world's first chocolate candy was produced in 1828 by Dutch chocolate-maker Conrad J. Van Houten. He pressed the fat from roasted cacao beans to produce cocoa butter, to which he added cocoa powder and sugar.
There were 1,040 US manufacturing establishments producing chocolate and cocoa products in 2001. These establishments employed 45,913 people and shipped $12 billion worth of goods that year. California led the nation in the number of chocolate and cocoa manufacturing establishments (with 116) followed by Pennsylvania (with 107).
* US Census Bureau, October, 2003
#3324
Showbiz & Celebrity / Re: The Apl Song' Video + ASIN Music' Balita
June 29, 2007, 04:11:08 AM
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#3325
Science and Research / Re: World's Most Expensive City revealed...
June 29, 2007, 04:09:46 AM
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#3326
Weird and Extreme / Re: Is There Something Wrong With the Picture?
June 29, 2007, 04:07:44 AM
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#3327
Facts and Trivia / Trivia about the human body
June 29, 2007, 04:07:09 AM
Trivia about the human body
(72 facts)
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
According to the Kinsey Institute, the biggest erect penis on record measures 13 inches. The smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches.
After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.
Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide.
By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
Fingerprints serve a function - they provide traction for the fingers to grasp things.
Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.
Humans shed and re-grow outer skin cells about every 27 days - almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime.
If it were removed from the body, the small intestine would stretch to a length of 22 feet.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
If you go blind in one eye, you'll only lose about one-fifth of your vision (but all your depth perception.)
In a lifetime the average US resident eats more than 50 tons of food and drinks more than 13,000 gallons of liquid.
In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.
It takes 17 muscles to smile --- 43 to frown.
Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to bring the back teeth together for chewing.
Lab tests can detect traces of alcohol in urine six to 12 hours after a person has stopped drinking.
Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep.
On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.
One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
Pregnancy in humans lasts on average about 270 days (from conception to birth).
The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
The average duration of sexual intercourse for humans is 2 minutes.
The average human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail, sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
The average person releases nearly a pint of intestinal gas by flatulence every day. Most is due to swallowed air. The rest is from fermentation of undigested food.
The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet
The feet account for one quarter of all the human bodies bones.
The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.
The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body's weight.
The human brain is about 85% water.
The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.
The largest cell in the human body is the female reproductive cell, the ovum. The smallest is the male sperm.
The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet.
The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart.
The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.
The longest muscle in the human body is the sartorius. This narrow muscle of the thigh passes obliquely across the front of the thigh and helps rotate the leg to the position assumed in sitting cross-legged. Its name is a derivation of the adjective "sartorial," a reference to what was the traditional cross-legged position of tailors (or "sartors") at work.
The most common blood type in the world is Type O. The rarest, Type A-H, has been found in less than a dozen people since the type was discovered.
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the mandible and the voice box. Its function is to support the tongue and its muscles.
The only time the human population declined was in the years following 1347, the start of the epidemic of the plague 'Black Death' in Europe.
The permanent teeth that erupt to replace their primary predecessors (baby teeth) are called succedaneous teeth.
The sound of a snore (up to 69 decibels) can be almost as loud as the noise of a pneumatic drill.
The tips of fingers and the soles of feet are covered by a thick, tough layer of skin called the stratum corneum.
There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
There are four main Blood types: A, B, AB and O and each Blood type is either Rh positive or negative. Blood types in the US - Type O positive 38.4%, O negative 7.7%, A positive 32.3%, A negative 6.5%, B positive 9.4%, B negative 1.7%, AB positive 3.2%, AB negative 0.7%
Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every minute.
Women burn fat more slowly than men, by a rate of about 50 calories a day.
Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
(72 facts)
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
According to the Kinsey Institute, the biggest erect penis on record measures 13 inches. The smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches.
After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.
Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide.
By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
Fingerprints serve a function - they provide traction for the fingers to grasp things.
Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.
Humans shed and re-grow outer skin cells about every 27 days - almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime.
If it were removed from the body, the small intestine would stretch to a length of 22 feet.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
If you go blind in one eye, you'll only lose about one-fifth of your vision (but all your depth perception.)
In a lifetime the average US resident eats more than 50 tons of food and drinks more than 13,000 gallons of liquid.
In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.
It takes 17 muscles to smile --- 43 to frown.
Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to bring the back teeth together for chewing.
Lab tests can detect traces of alcohol in urine six to 12 hours after a person has stopped drinking.
Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep.
On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.
One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
Pregnancy in humans lasts on average about 270 days (from conception to birth).
The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
The average duration of sexual intercourse for humans is 2 minutes.
The average human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail, sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
The average person releases nearly a pint of intestinal gas by flatulence every day. Most is due to swallowed air. The rest is from fermentation of undigested food.
The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet
The feet account for one quarter of all the human bodies bones.
The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.
The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body's weight.
The human brain is about 85% water.
The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.
The largest cell in the human body is the female reproductive cell, the ovum. The smallest is the male sperm.
The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet.
The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart.
The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.
The longest muscle in the human body is the sartorius. This narrow muscle of the thigh passes obliquely across the front of the thigh and helps rotate the leg to the position assumed in sitting cross-legged. Its name is a derivation of the adjective "sartorial," a reference to what was the traditional cross-legged position of tailors (or "sartors") at work.
The most common blood type in the world is Type O. The rarest, Type A-H, has been found in less than a dozen people since the type was discovered.
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the mandible and the voice box. Its function is to support the tongue and its muscles.
The only time the human population declined was in the years following 1347, the start of the epidemic of the plague 'Black Death' in Europe.
The permanent teeth that erupt to replace their primary predecessors (baby teeth) are called succedaneous teeth.
The sound of a snore (up to 69 decibels) can be almost as loud as the noise of a pneumatic drill.
The tips of fingers and the soles of feet are covered by a thick, tough layer of skin called the stratum corneum.
There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
There are four main Blood types: A, B, AB and O and each Blood type is either Rh positive or negative. Blood types in the US - Type O positive 38.4%, O negative 7.7%, A positive 32.3%, A negative 6.5%, B positive 9.4%, B negative 1.7%, AB positive 3.2%, AB negative 0.7%
Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every minute.
Women burn fat more slowly than men, by a rate of about 50 calories a day.
Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
#3328
Weird and Extreme / Re: Is There Something Wrong With the Picture?
June 29, 2007, 03:52:07 AM
basig ma censored nasad ta ani ha! eheheheheh!
#3329
Facts and Trivia / Banana facts
June 29, 2007, 03:50:14 AM
Banana facts
(31 facts)
3 medium size bananas weigh approximately 1 pound.
A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas, which are known as fingers.
As bananas ripen, the starch in the fruit turns to sugar. Therefore, the riper the banana the sweeter it will taste.
Banana plants are the largest plants on earth without a woody stem. They are actually giant herbs of the same family as lilies, orchids and palms.
Bananas are a good source of vitamin C, potassium and dietary fiber.
Bananas are America's #1 fruit.
Bananas are available all year-round. They are harvested every day of the year.
Bananas are great for athletic and fitness activity because they replenish necessary carbohydrates, glycogen and body fluids burned during exercise.
Bananas are not grown commercially in the continental United States. They are grown in Latin and South America from countries like Costa Rica, Ecuador, Colombia, Honduras, Panama and Guatemala.
Bananas are one of the few fruits that ripen best off the plant. If left on the plant, the fruit splits open and the pulp has a "cottony" texture and flavor. Even in tropical growing areas, bananas for domestic consumption are cut green and stored in moist shady places to ripen slowly.
Bananas are perennial crops that are grown and harvested year-round. The banana plant does not grow from a seed but rather from a rhizome or bulb. Each fleshy bulb will sprout new shoots year after year.
Bananas have no fat, cholesterol or sodium.
Bananas were officially introduced to the American public at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. Each banana was wrapped in foil and sold for 10 cents. Before that time, bananas came to America on the decks of sailing ships as sailors took a few stems home after traveling in the Caribbean.
Each banana plant bears only one stem of fruit. To produce a new stem, only two shoots - known as the daughter and the granddaughter - are allowed to grow and be cultivated from the main plant.
In 1516, Friar Tomas sailed to the Caribbean bringing banana roots with him; and planted bananas in the rich, fertile soil of the tropics, thus beginning the banana's future in American life.
In 2001, there were more than 300 banana-related accidents in Britain, most involving people slipping on skins.
In Eastern Africa you can buy banana beer. This beer is brewed from bananas.
In some lands bananas were considered the principal food. Early travelers and settlers would carry the roots of the plant as they migrated to the Middle East and Africa. From there Portuguese traders carried banana roots to the Canary Islands, where bananas are still grown commercially.
In South East Asia, the banana leaf is used to wrap food (in the place of plastic bags and cling wraps), providing a unique flavor and aroma to nasi lemak and the Indian banana leaf rice.
India is by far the largest world producer of bananas, growing 16.5 million tonnes in 2002, followed by Brazil which produced 6.5 million tonnes of bananas in 2002. To the Indians, the flower from the banana tree is sacred. During religious and important ceremonies such as weddings, banana flowers are tied around the head, for they believe this will bring good luck.
Over 96% of American households purchase bananas at least once each month.
Some horticulturists suspect that the banana was the earth's first fruit. Banana plants have been in cultivation since the time of recorded history. One of the first records of bananas dates back to Alexander the Great's conquest of India where he first discovered bananas in 327 B.C.
The average American consumes over 28 pounds of bananas each year.
The banana market is controlled by five large corporations - Chiquita (25%), Dole (25%), Del Monte (15%), Noboa (11%) and Fyffes (8%). Most bananas are grown on huge plantations, controlled by these corporate giants. The remaining banana production for export comes from small banana producers.
The banana plant reaches its full height of 15 to 30 feet in about one year. The trunk of a banana plant is made of sheaths of overlapping leaves, tightly wrapped around each other like celery stalks.
The origin of bananas is traced back to the Malaysian jungles of Southeast Asia, where so many varieties and names for the banana are in that area.
The phrase 'going bananas' was first recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary, and is linked to the fruit's 'comic' connections with monkeys.
The word 'banan' is Arabic for finger.
There are more than 500 varieties of banana in the world: The most common kinds are Dwarf Cavendish, Valery, and Williams Hybrid bananas. Other types of bananas include Apple and a small red banana called the Red Jamaica. A large type of banana called the plantain is hard and starchy and is almost eaten as a cooked vegetable. The Cavendish is the most common variety of bananas now imported to the United States. The Cavendish is a shorter, stubbier plant than earlier varieties. It was developed to resist plant diseases, insects and windstorms better than its predecessors. The Cavendish fruit is of medium size, has a creamier, smooth texture, and a thinner peel than earlier varieties.
There is no such thing as a banana tree. Bananas grow on plants.
Today's commercial bananas are scientifically classified into the genus Musa of the Musaceae family.
Why bananas ar good for you
Containing three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber, a banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes.
Providing energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.
Depression: According to a recent survey amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.
PMS: Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.
Anemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.
Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it the perfect way to beat high blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.
Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.
Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.
Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.
Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.
Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.
Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.
Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.
Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and crisps. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.
Ulcers: The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.
Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a "cooling" fruit t hat can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand, for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer, tryptophan.
Smoking: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.
Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.
Strokes: According to research in "The New England Journal of Medicine," eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!
Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!
So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills.
When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around. So maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, "A banana a day keeps the doctor away!"
(31 facts)
3 medium size bananas weigh approximately 1 pound.
A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas, which are known as fingers.
As bananas ripen, the starch in the fruit turns to sugar. Therefore, the riper the banana the sweeter it will taste.
Banana plants are the largest plants on earth without a woody stem. They are actually giant herbs of the same family as lilies, orchids and palms.
Bananas are a good source of vitamin C, potassium and dietary fiber.
Bananas are America's #1 fruit.
Bananas are available all year-round. They are harvested every day of the year.
Bananas are great for athletic and fitness activity because they replenish necessary carbohydrates, glycogen and body fluids burned during exercise.
Bananas are not grown commercially in the continental United States. They are grown in Latin and South America from countries like Costa Rica, Ecuador, Colombia, Honduras, Panama and Guatemala.
Bananas are one of the few fruits that ripen best off the plant. If left on the plant, the fruit splits open and the pulp has a "cottony" texture and flavor. Even in tropical growing areas, bananas for domestic consumption are cut green and stored in moist shady places to ripen slowly.
Bananas are perennial crops that are grown and harvested year-round. The banana plant does not grow from a seed but rather from a rhizome or bulb. Each fleshy bulb will sprout new shoots year after year.
Bananas have no fat, cholesterol or sodium.
Bananas were officially introduced to the American public at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. Each banana was wrapped in foil and sold for 10 cents. Before that time, bananas came to America on the decks of sailing ships as sailors took a few stems home after traveling in the Caribbean.
Each banana plant bears only one stem of fruit. To produce a new stem, only two shoots - known as the daughter and the granddaughter - are allowed to grow and be cultivated from the main plant.
In 1516, Friar Tomas sailed to the Caribbean bringing banana roots with him; and planted bananas in the rich, fertile soil of the tropics, thus beginning the banana's future in American life.
In 2001, there were more than 300 banana-related accidents in Britain, most involving people slipping on skins.
In Eastern Africa you can buy banana beer. This beer is brewed from bananas.
In some lands bananas were considered the principal food. Early travelers and settlers would carry the roots of the plant as they migrated to the Middle East and Africa. From there Portuguese traders carried banana roots to the Canary Islands, where bananas are still grown commercially.
In South East Asia, the banana leaf is used to wrap food (in the place of plastic bags and cling wraps), providing a unique flavor and aroma to nasi lemak and the Indian banana leaf rice.
India is by far the largest world producer of bananas, growing 16.5 million tonnes in 2002, followed by Brazil which produced 6.5 million tonnes of bananas in 2002. To the Indians, the flower from the banana tree is sacred. During religious and important ceremonies such as weddings, banana flowers are tied around the head, for they believe this will bring good luck.
Over 96% of American households purchase bananas at least once each month.
Some horticulturists suspect that the banana was the earth's first fruit. Banana plants have been in cultivation since the time of recorded history. One of the first records of bananas dates back to Alexander the Great's conquest of India where he first discovered bananas in 327 B.C.
The average American consumes over 28 pounds of bananas each year.
The banana market is controlled by five large corporations - Chiquita (25%), Dole (25%), Del Monte (15%), Noboa (11%) and Fyffes (8%). Most bananas are grown on huge plantations, controlled by these corporate giants. The remaining banana production for export comes from small banana producers.
The banana plant reaches its full height of 15 to 30 feet in about one year. The trunk of a banana plant is made of sheaths of overlapping leaves, tightly wrapped around each other like celery stalks.
The origin of bananas is traced back to the Malaysian jungles of Southeast Asia, where so many varieties and names for the banana are in that area.
The phrase 'going bananas' was first recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary, and is linked to the fruit's 'comic' connections with monkeys.
The word 'banan' is Arabic for finger.
There are more than 500 varieties of banana in the world: The most common kinds are Dwarf Cavendish, Valery, and Williams Hybrid bananas. Other types of bananas include Apple and a small red banana called the Red Jamaica. A large type of banana called the plantain is hard and starchy and is almost eaten as a cooked vegetable. The Cavendish is the most common variety of bananas now imported to the United States. The Cavendish is a shorter, stubbier plant than earlier varieties. It was developed to resist plant diseases, insects and windstorms better than its predecessors. The Cavendish fruit is of medium size, has a creamier, smooth texture, and a thinner peel than earlier varieties.
There is no such thing as a banana tree. Bananas grow on plants.
Today's commercial bananas are scientifically classified into the genus Musa of the Musaceae family.
Why bananas ar good for you
Containing three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber, a banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes.
Providing energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.
Depression: According to a recent survey amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.
PMS: Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.
Anemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.
Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it the perfect way to beat high blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.
Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.
Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.
Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.
Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.
Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.
Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.
Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.
Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and crisps. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.
Ulcers: The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.
Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a "cooling" fruit t hat can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand, for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer, tryptophan.
Smoking: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.
Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.
Strokes: According to research in "The New England Journal of Medicine," eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!
Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!
So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills.
When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around. So maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, "A banana a day keeps the doctor away!"
#3330
Weird and Extreme / Re: What's Wrong With the Picture?
June 29, 2007, 03:40:51 AM
nagkumpisal ra gani ang bata...kamo sad uy!
#3331
Question and Answer / Re: Tinuod kaha?
June 29, 2007, 03:37:45 AM
useless ang matres if mag menopause na,,,
#3332
Facts and Trivia / Trivia about the Bible and religion
June 29, 2007, 03:36:43 AM
"Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, La Allah Il Allah, La Allah Il Allah U Mohammed Rassul Allah" is heard by more people than any other sound of the human voice. This is the prayer recited by muezzins from each of the four corners of the prayer tower as Moslems all over the world face toward Mecca and kneel at sunset. It means: "God is great. There is no God but God, and Mohammed is the prophet of God."
Almonds and pistachios are the only nuts mentioned in the Bible.
Although not named in the New Testament, tradition names the two thieves crucified at the same time as Jesus as Dismas and Gestas.
As specified by the Christian church, the canonical hours are matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, vespers, and compline.
Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the three angels mentioned by name in the Bible.
In Christian theology there are nine choirs of angels. From highest to lowest, they are: seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, virtues, powers, principalities, archangels, and angels.
One of the holiest Christian holidays is named after a pagan goddess. The name "Easter" derives from the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre, who governed the vernal equinox.
Salt is mentioned more than 30 times in the Bible.
Scholars estimate that the 66 books of the King James version of the Bible were written by some 50 different authors.
Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.
Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say 'many things' and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many places -- refers to '40 days,' they meant many days.
Strict Puritan laws had their origins from practical reasons. Smoking was banned - farmers would raise badly needed food crops instead of tobacco. Cooking was banned on Sundays - to prevent house fires during the long hours the family was at church. Young men were banned from hunting - to prevent weapons from falling into Indian hands.
The 1st US Mormon temple was dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio in 1836.
The 3 Magi:(or Wise Men) and their gifts: Melchoir, "king of light," offered Gold, Gaspar ,"or the white one," offered frankincense, and Balthazar, "lord of treasures," offered myrrh.
The Bible devotes some 500 verses on prayer, less than 500verses on faith, but over 2000 verses on money and posessions.
The Bible was written by about 40 men over a period of about 1600 years dating from 1500 BC to about 100 years after Christ.
The Church of Scientology was founded in 1953, at Washington DC, by US science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.
The first translation of the English Bible was initiated by John Wycliffe and completed by John Purvey in 1388.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, named in the Bible's Book of Revelation, are Conquest, Slaughter, Famine, and Death.
The Hindu holy day begins at sunrise, the Jewish holy day begins at sunset, and the Christian holy day begins at midnight.
The longest name in the Bible Mahershalalhashbaz (Isaiah 8:1).
The patron saint of dentists is St. Apollonia. She reportedly had her teeth pulled out in 249 AD by an anti-Christian mob.
The seven archangels are Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Chamuel, Jophiel, and Zadkiel.
The Seven Deadly Sins are lust, pride, anger, envy, sloth, avarice and gluttony.
The seven virtues are prudence, courage, temperance, justice, faith, hope and charity.
The shortest verse in the Bible consists of two words: "Jesus wept" (John 11:35).
The Three Wise Men of the East brought gold, frankincense and myrrh to the infant Jesus. Frankincense is a gum resin used as a base for incense. Myrrh, also a gum resin, was valued as a perfume and unguent used in embalming.
The two robbers crucified next to Jesus were named Dismas and Gestas.
There are 1189 chapters in the Bible: 929 chapters in the Old Testament and 260 chapters in the New Testament.
There are 49 different foods mentioned in the Bible.
Zipporah was the wife of Moses.
Almonds and pistachios are the only nuts mentioned in the Bible.
Although not named in the New Testament, tradition names the two thieves crucified at the same time as Jesus as Dismas and Gestas.
As specified by the Christian church, the canonical hours are matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, vespers, and compline.
Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the three angels mentioned by name in the Bible.
In Christian theology there are nine choirs of angels. From highest to lowest, they are: seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, virtues, powers, principalities, archangels, and angels.
One of the holiest Christian holidays is named after a pagan goddess. The name "Easter" derives from the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre, who governed the vernal equinox.
Salt is mentioned more than 30 times in the Bible.
Scholars estimate that the 66 books of the King James version of the Bible were written by some 50 different authors.
Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.
Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say 'many things' and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many places -- refers to '40 days,' they meant many days.
Strict Puritan laws had their origins from practical reasons. Smoking was banned - farmers would raise badly needed food crops instead of tobacco. Cooking was banned on Sundays - to prevent house fires during the long hours the family was at church. Young men were banned from hunting - to prevent weapons from falling into Indian hands.
The 1st US Mormon temple was dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio in 1836.
The 3 Magi:(or Wise Men) and their gifts: Melchoir, "king of light," offered Gold, Gaspar ,"or the white one," offered frankincense, and Balthazar, "lord of treasures," offered myrrh.
The Bible devotes some 500 verses on prayer, less than 500verses on faith, but over 2000 verses on money and posessions.
The Bible was written by about 40 men over a period of about 1600 years dating from 1500 BC to about 100 years after Christ.
The Church of Scientology was founded in 1953, at Washington DC, by US science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.
The first translation of the English Bible was initiated by John Wycliffe and completed by John Purvey in 1388.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, named in the Bible's Book of Revelation, are Conquest, Slaughter, Famine, and Death.
The Hindu holy day begins at sunrise, the Jewish holy day begins at sunset, and the Christian holy day begins at midnight.
The longest name in the Bible Mahershalalhashbaz (Isaiah 8:1).
The patron saint of dentists is St. Apollonia. She reportedly had her teeth pulled out in 249 AD by an anti-Christian mob.
The seven archangels are Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Chamuel, Jophiel, and Zadkiel.
The Seven Deadly Sins are lust, pride, anger, envy, sloth, avarice and gluttony.
The seven virtues are prudence, courage, temperance, justice, faith, hope and charity.
The shortest verse in the Bible consists of two words: "Jesus wept" (John 11:35).
The Three Wise Men of the East brought gold, frankincense and myrrh to the infant Jesus. Frankincense is a gum resin used as a base for incense. Myrrh, also a gum resin, was valued as a perfume and unguent used in embalming.
The two robbers crucified next to Jesus were named Dismas and Gestas.
There are 1189 chapters in the Bible: 929 chapters in the Old Testament and 260 chapters in the New Testament.
There are 49 different foods mentioned in the Bible.
Zipporah was the wife of Moses.
#3333
Facts and Trivia / Trivia about Animals
June 29, 2007, 03:31:53 AM
A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.
A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
A capon is a castrated rooster.
A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A father Emperor penguin withstands the Antarctic cold for 60 days or more to protect his eggs, which he keeps on his feet, covered with a feathered flap. During this entire time he doesn't eat a thing. Most father penguins lose about 25 pounds while they wait for their babies to hatch. Afterward, they feed the chicks a special liquid from their throats. When the mother penguins return to care for the young, the fathers go to sea to eat and rest.
A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.
A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
A leech is a worm that feeds on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill itself with three to four times its own body weight in blood, and will not feed again for months. Leeches were once used by doctors to drain "bad blood" from sick patients.
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
A normal cow's stomach has four compartments: the rumen, the recticulum (storage area), the omasum (where water is absorbed), and the abomasum ( the only compartment with digestive juices).
A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
A single little brown bat can catch 1,200 mosquitoes-sized insects in just one hour.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
After mating, the male Surinam Toad affixes the female's eggs to her back, where her spongy flesh will swell and envelope them. When the froglets hatch, they leave behind holes in their mother's flesh that they will remain sheltered in until large enough to fend for themselves.
All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.
All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.
An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.
An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.
An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Ancient Egyptians believed that "Bast" was the mother of all cats on Earth. They also believed that cats were sacred animals.
Animal gestation periods: the shortest is the American opossum, which bears its young 12 to 13 days after conception; the longest is the Asiatic elephant, taking 608 days, or just over 20 months.
At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life", an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.
Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades.
Bird eggs come in a wide variety of sizes. The largest egg from a living bird belongs to the ostrich. It is more than 2,000 times larger than the smallest bird egg, which is produced by the hummingbird. Ostrich eggs are about 7.1 inches long, 5.5 inches wide and typically weigh 2.7 pounds. Hummingbird eggs are half an inch long, a third of an inch wide and weigh half a gram, or less than one-fifty-fifth of an ounce.
Brown eggs come from hens with red feathers and red ear lobes; white eggs come from hens with white feathers and white ear lobes. Shell color is determined by the breed of hen and has no effect on its quality, nutrients or flavor.
By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks.
Camel milk does not curdle.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
Cat scratch disease, a benign but sometimes painful disease of short duration, is caused by a bacillus. Despite its name, the disease can be transmitted by many kinds of scratches besides those of cats.
Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.
Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living.
Chameleons can move their eyes in two different directions at the same time.
Chameleons can reel in food from a distance as far away as more than two and a half times their body lengths.
Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.
Cojo, the 1st gorilla born in captivity, was born at the Columbus Zoo, in Ohio, in 1956 and weighed 3 1/4 pounds.
Despite its reputation for being finicky, the average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids. In case you were wondering, cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
Developed in Egypt about 5,000 years ago, the greyhound breed was known before the ninth century in England, where it was bred by aristocrats to hunt such small game as hares.
Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of the water. They frequently rise to the surface for air.
Domesticated turkeys (farm raised) cannot fly. Wild turkeys can fly for short distances at up to 55 miles per hour. Wild turkeys are also fast on the ground, running at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour.
Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Elephant tusks grow throughout an elephant's life and can weigh more than 200 pounds. Among Asian elephants, only the males have tusks. Both sexes of African elephants have tusks.
Elephants can communicate using sounds that are below the human hearing range: between 14 and 35 hertz.
Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food.
Felix the Cat is the first cartoon character to ever have been made into a balloon for a parade.
Female chickens, or hens, need about 24 to 26 hours to produce one egg. Thirty minutes later they start the process all over again. In addition to the half-hour rests, some hens rest every three to five days and others rest every 10 days.
George Washington's favorite horse was named Lexington. Napoleon's favorite was Marengo. U.S. Grant had three favorite horses: Egypt, Cincinnati, and Jeff Davis.
German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water, such as a stream.
Hippos have killed more than 400 people in Africa - more than any other wild animal.
Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.
Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
Hummingbirds are the smallest birds - so tiny that one of their enemies is an insect, the praying mantis.
In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th teaspoon of honey.
Infant beavers are called kittens.
It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100.
It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
Korea's poshintang - dog meat soup - is a popular item on summertime menus, despite outcry from other nations. The soup is believed to cure summer heat ailments, improve male virility, and improve women's complexions.
Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
Lassie was played by several male dogs, despite the female name, because male collies were thought to look better on camera. The main "actor" was named Pal.
Lassie, the TV collie, first appeared in a 1930s short novel titled Lassie Come-Home written by Eric Mowbray Knight. The dog in the novel was based on Knight's real life collie, Toots.
Lions are the only truly social cat species, and usually every female in a pride, ranging from 5 to 30 individuals, is closely related.
Lovebirds are small parakeets who live in pairs. Male and female lovebirds look alike, but most other male birds have brighter colors than the females.
Macaroni, Gentoo, Chinstrap and Emperor are types of penguins.
Mockingbirds can imitate any sound from a squeaking door to a cat meowing.
Molerats are the only eusocial vertebrates known to man. This means that these mammals live in colonies similar to those of ants and termites, with a single fertile queen giving birth to nonreproductive workers and soldiers. Molerats are also famous for their incredibly powerful jaws, the muscles of which constitute 25% of their body mass. Baby molerats are raised on a diet of their older sibling's fecal pellets, emitting a special cry when hungry to summon a worker.
Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.
Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.
On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
Parrots, most famous of all talking birds, rarely acquire a vocabulary of more than twenty words, however Tymhoney Greys and African Greys have been know to carry vocabularies in excess of 100 words.
Pet parrots can eat virtually any common "people-food" except for chocolate and avocados. Both of these are highly toxic to the parrot and can be fatal.
Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
Prairie dogs are not dogs. A prairie dog is a kind of rodent.
Rats are omnivorous, eating nearly any type of food, including dead and dying members of their own species.
Rats can't throw-up.
Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.
Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.
Snakes are immune to their own poison.
Some baby giraffes are more than six feet tall at birth.
Swans are the only birds with penises.
Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
The "caduceus" the classical medical symbol of two serpents wrapped around a staff - comes from an ancient Greek legend in which snakes revealed the practice of medicine to human beings.
The 1st buffalo ever born in captivity was born at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo in 1884.
The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was formed in 1866.
The anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, gives birth to its young instead of laying eggs.
The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.
The biggest members of the cat family are Siberian and Bengal tigers, which can reach over 600 pounds.
The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.
The blue whale is the loudest animal on Earth. The call of the blue whale reaches levels up to 188 decibels. This extraordinarily loud whistle can be heard for hundreds of miles underwater. The second-loudest animal on Earth is the Howler Monkey.
The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
The calories burned daily by the sled dogs running in Alaska's annual Iditarod race average 10,000. The 1,149-mile race commemorates the 1925 "Race for Life" when 20 volunteer mushers relayed medicine from Anchorage to Nome to battle a children's diphtheria epidemic.
The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."
The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
The catgut formerly used as strings in tennis rackets and musical instruments does not come from cats. Catgut actually comes from sheep, hogs, and horses.
The chameleon has several cell layers beneath its transparent skin. These layers are the source of the chameleon's color change. Some of the layers contain pigments, while others just reflect light to create new colors. Several factors contribute to the color change. A popular misconception is that chameleons change color to match their environment. This isn't true. Light, temperature, and emotional state commonly bring about a chameleon's change in color. The chameleon will most often change between green, brown and gray, which coincidently, often matches the background colors of their habitat.
The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws.
The Chinese, during the reign of Kublai Khan, used lions on hunting expeditions. They trained the big cats to pursue and drag down massive animals - from wild bulls to bears - and to stay with the kill until the hunter arrived.
The elephant, as a symbol of the US Republican Party, was originated by cartoonist Thomas Nast and first presented in 1874.
The English Romantic poet Lord Byron was so devastated upon the death of his beloved Newfoundland, whose name was Boatswain, that he had inscribed upon the dog's gravestone the following: "Beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices."
The expression "three dog night" originated with the Eskimos and means a very cold night - so cold that you have to bed down with three dogs to keep warm.
The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
The fastest -moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph.
The first house rats recorded in America appeared in Boston in 1775.
The giant squid is the largest creature without a backbone. It weighs up to 2.5 tons and grows up to 55 feet long. Each eye is a foot or more in diameter.
The harmless Whale Shark, holds the title of largest fish, with the record being a 59 footer captured in Thailand in 1919.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward!
The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.
The largest animal ever seen alive was a 113.5 foot, 170-ton female blue whale.
The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil.
The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.
The largest pig on record was a Poland-China hog named Big Bill, who weighed 2,552 lbs.
The last member of the famous Bonaparte family, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, died in 1945, of injuries sustained from tripping over his dog's leash.
The male penguin incubates the single egg laid by his mate. During the two month period he does not eat, and will lose up to 40% of his body weight.
The most frequently seen birds at feeders across North America last winter were the Dark-eyed Junco, House Finch and American goldfinch, along with downy woodpeckers, blue jays, mourning doves, black-capped chickadees, house sparrows, northern cardinals and european starlings.
The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
The name of the dog from "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" is Max.
The name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box is Bingo.
The only dog to ever appear in a Shakespearean play was Crab in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span.
The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.
The phrase "raining cats and dogs" originated in 17th Century England. During heavy downpours of rain, many of these poor animals unfortunately drowned and their bodies would be seen floating in the rain torrents that raced through the streets. The situation gave the appearance that it had literally rained "cats and dogs" and led to the current expression.
The pigmy shrew - a relative of the mole - is the smallest mammal in North America. It weighs 1/14 ounce - less than a dime.
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History houses the world's largest shell collection, some 15 million specimens. A smaller museum in Sanibel, Florida owns a mere 2 million shells and claims to be the worlds only museum devoted solely to mollusks.
The term "dog days" has nothing to do with dogs. It dates back to Roman times, when it was believed that Sirius, the Dog Star, added its heat to that of the sun from July3 to August 11, creating exceptionally high temperatures. The Romans called the period dies caniculares, or "days of the dog."
The turbot fish lays approximately 14 million eggs during its lifetime.
The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.
The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
The viscera of Japanese abalone can harbor a poisonous substance which causes a burning, stinging, prickling and itching over the entire body. It does not manifest itself until exposure to sunlight - if eaten outdoors in sunlight, symptoms occur quickly and suddenly.
The world record frog jump is 33 feet 5.5 inches over the course of 3 consecutive leaps, achieved in May 1977 by a South African sharp-nosed frog called Santjie.
The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.
The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
There are around 2,600 different species of frogs. They live on every continent except Antarctica.
There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States. Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Turkeys originated in North and Central America, and evidence indicates that they have been around for over 10 million years.
Unlike most fish, electric eels cannot get enough oxygen from water. Approximately every five minutes, they must surface to breathe, or they will drown. Unlike most fish, they can swim both backwards and forwards.
When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.
When the Black Death swept across England one theory was that cats caused the plague. Thousands were slaughtered. Ironically, those that kept their cats were less affected, because they kept their houses clear of the real culprits, rats.
A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
A capon is a castrated rooster.
A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A father Emperor penguin withstands the Antarctic cold for 60 days or more to protect his eggs, which he keeps on his feet, covered with a feathered flap. During this entire time he doesn't eat a thing. Most father penguins lose about 25 pounds while they wait for their babies to hatch. Afterward, they feed the chicks a special liquid from their throats. When the mother penguins return to care for the young, the fathers go to sea to eat and rest.
A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.
A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
A leech is a worm that feeds on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill itself with three to four times its own body weight in blood, and will not feed again for months. Leeches were once used by doctors to drain "bad blood" from sick patients.
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
A normal cow's stomach has four compartments: the rumen, the recticulum (storage area), the omasum (where water is absorbed), and the abomasum ( the only compartment with digestive juices).
A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
A single little brown bat can catch 1,200 mosquitoes-sized insects in just one hour.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
After mating, the male Surinam Toad affixes the female's eggs to her back, where her spongy flesh will swell and envelope them. When the froglets hatch, they leave behind holes in their mother's flesh that they will remain sheltered in until large enough to fend for themselves.
All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.
All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.
An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.
An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.
An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Ancient Egyptians believed that "Bast" was the mother of all cats on Earth. They also believed that cats were sacred animals.
Animal gestation periods: the shortest is the American opossum, which bears its young 12 to 13 days after conception; the longest is the Asiatic elephant, taking 608 days, or just over 20 months.
At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life", an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.
Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades.
Bird eggs come in a wide variety of sizes. The largest egg from a living bird belongs to the ostrich. It is more than 2,000 times larger than the smallest bird egg, which is produced by the hummingbird. Ostrich eggs are about 7.1 inches long, 5.5 inches wide and typically weigh 2.7 pounds. Hummingbird eggs are half an inch long, a third of an inch wide and weigh half a gram, or less than one-fifty-fifth of an ounce.
Brown eggs come from hens with red feathers and red ear lobes; white eggs come from hens with white feathers and white ear lobes. Shell color is determined by the breed of hen and has no effect on its quality, nutrients or flavor.
By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks.
Camel milk does not curdle.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
Cat scratch disease, a benign but sometimes painful disease of short duration, is caused by a bacillus. Despite its name, the disease can be transmitted by many kinds of scratches besides those of cats.
Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.
Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living.
Chameleons can move their eyes in two different directions at the same time.
Chameleons can reel in food from a distance as far away as more than two and a half times their body lengths.
Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.
Cojo, the 1st gorilla born in captivity, was born at the Columbus Zoo, in Ohio, in 1956 and weighed 3 1/4 pounds.
Despite its reputation for being finicky, the average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids. In case you were wondering, cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
Developed in Egypt about 5,000 years ago, the greyhound breed was known before the ninth century in England, where it was bred by aristocrats to hunt such small game as hares.
Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of the water. They frequently rise to the surface for air.
Domesticated turkeys (farm raised) cannot fly. Wild turkeys can fly for short distances at up to 55 miles per hour. Wild turkeys are also fast on the ground, running at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour.
Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Elephant tusks grow throughout an elephant's life and can weigh more than 200 pounds. Among Asian elephants, only the males have tusks. Both sexes of African elephants have tusks.
Elephants can communicate using sounds that are below the human hearing range: between 14 and 35 hertz.
Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food.
Felix the Cat is the first cartoon character to ever have been made into a balloon for a parade.
Female chickens, or hens, need about 24 to 26 hours to produce one egg. Thirty minutes later they start the process all over again. In addition to the half-hour rests, some hens rest every three to five days and others rest every 10 days.
George Washington's favorite horse was named Lexington. Napoleon's favorite was Marengo. U.S. Grant had three favorite horses: Egypt, Cincinnati, and Jeff Davis.
German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water, such as a stream.
Hippos have killed more than 400 people in Africa - more than any other wild animal.
Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.
Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
Hummingbirds are the smallest birds - so tiny that one of their enemies is an insect, the praying mantis.
In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th teaspoon of honey.
Infant beavers are called kittens.
It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100.
It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
Korea's poshintang - dog meat soup - is a popular item on summertime menus, despite outcry from other nations. The soup is believed to cure summer heat ailments, improve male virility, and improve women's complexions.
Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
Lassie was played by several male dogs, despite the female name, because male collies were thought to look better on camera. The main "actor" was named Pal.
Lassie, the TV collie, first appeared in a 1930s short novel titled Lassie Come-Home written by Eric Mowbray Knight. The dog in the novel was based on Knight's real life collie, Toots.
Lions are the only truly social cat species, and usually every female in a pride, ranging from 5 to 30 individuals, is closely related.
Lovebirds are small parakeets who live in pairs. Male and female lovebirds look alike, but most other male birds have brighter colors than the females.
Macaroni, Gentoo, Chinstrap and Emperor are types of penguins.
Mockingbirds can imitate any sound from a squeaking door to a cat meowing.
Molerats are the only eusocial vertebrates known to man. This means that these mammals live in colonies similar to those of ants and termites, with a single fertile queen giving birth to nonreproductive workers and soldiers. Molerats are also famous for their incredibly powerful jaws, the muscles of which constitute 25% of their body mass. Baby molerats are raised on a diet of their older sibling's fecal pellets, emitting a special cry when hungry to summon a worker.
Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.
Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.
On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
Parrots, most famous of all talking birds, rarely acquire a vocabulary of more than twenty words, however Tymhoney Greys and African Greys have been know to carry vocabularies in excess of 100 words.
Pet parrots can eat virtually any common "people-food" except for chocolate and avocados. Both of these are highly toxic to the parrot and can be fatal.
Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
Prairie dogs are not dogs. A prairie dog is a kind of rodent.
Rats are omnivorous, eating nearly any type of food, including dead and dying members of their own species.
Rats can't throw-up.
Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.
Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.
Snakes are immune to their own poison.
Some baby giraffes are more than six feet tall at birth.
Swans are the only birds with penises.
Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
The "caduceus" the classical medical symbol of two serpents wrapped around a staff - comes from an ancient Greek legend in which snakes revealed the practice of medicine to human beings.
The 1st buffalo ever born in captivity was born at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo in 1884.
The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was formed in 1866.
The anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, gives birth to its young instead of laying eggs.
The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.
The biggest members of the cat family are Siberian and Bengal tigers, which can reach over 600 pounds.
The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.
The blue whale is the loudest animal on Earth. The call of the blue whale reaches levels up to 188 decibels. This extraordinarily loud whistle can be heard for hundreds of miles underwater. The second-loudest animal on Earth is the Howler Monkey.
The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
The calories burned daily by the sled dogs running in Alaska's annual Iditarod race average 10,000. The 1,149-mile race commemorates the 1925 "Race for Life" when 20 volunteer mushers relayed medicine from Anchorage to Nome to battle a children's diphtheria epidemic.
The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."
The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
The catgut formerly used as strings in tennis rackets and musical instruments does not come from cats. Catgut actually comes from sheep, hogs, and horses.
The chameleon has several cell layers beneath its transparent skin. These layers are the source of the chameleon's color change. Some of the layers contain pigments, while others just reflect light to create new colors. Several factors contribute to the color change. A popular misconception is that chameleons change color to match their environment. This isn't true. Light, temperature, and emotional state commonly bring about a chameleon's change in color. The chameleon will most often change between green, brown and gray, which coincidently, often matches the background colors of their habitat.
The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws.
The Chinese, during the reign of Kublai Khan, used lions on hunting expeditions. They trained the big cats to pursue and drag down massive animals - from wild bulls to bears - and to stay with the kill until the hunter arrived.
The elephant, as a symbol of the US Republican Party, was originated by cartoonist Thomas Nast and first presented in 1874.
The English Romantic poet Lord Byron was so devastated upon the death of his beloved Newfoundland, whose name was Boatswain, that he had inscribed upon the dog's gravestone the following: "Beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices."
The expression "three dog night" originated with the Eskimos and means a very cold night - so cold that you have to bed down with three dogs to keep warm.
The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
The fastest -moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph.
The first house rats recorded in America appeared in Boston in 1775.
The giant squid is the largest creature without a backbone. It weighs up to 2.5 tons and grows up to 55 feet long. Each eye is a foot or more in diameter.
The harmless Whale Shark, holds the title of largest fish, with the record being a 59 footer captured in Thailand in 1919.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward!
The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.
The largest animal ever seen alive was a 113.5 foot, 170-ton female blue whale.
The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil.
The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.
The largest pig on record was a Poland-China hog named Big Bill, who weighed 2,552 lbs.
The last member of the famous Bonaparte family, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, died in 1945, of injuries sustained from tripping over his dog's leash.
The male penguin incubates the single egg laid by his mate. During the two month period he does not eat, and will lose up to 40% of his body weight.
The most frequently seen birds at feeders across North America last winter were the Dark-eyed Junco, House Finch and American goldfinch, along with downy woodpeckers, blue jays, mourning doves, black-capped chickadees, house sparrows, northern cardinals and european starlings.
The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
The name of the dog from "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" is Max.
The name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box is Bingo.
The only dog to ever appear in a Shakespearean play was Crab in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span.
The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.
The phrase "raining cats and dogs" originated in 17th Century England. During heavy downpours of rain, many of these poor animals unfortunately drowned and their bodies would be seen floating in the rain torrents that raced through the streets. The situation gave the appearance that it had literally rained "cats and dogs" and led to the current expression.
The pigmy shrew - a relative of the mole - is the smallest mammal in North America. It weighs 1/14 ounce - less than a dime.
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History houses the world's largest shell collection, some 15 million specimens. A smaller museum in Sanibel, Florida owns a mere 2 million shells and claims to be the worlds only museum devoted solely to mollusks.
The term "dog days" has nothing to do with dogs. It dates back to Roman times, when it was believed that Sirius, the Dog Star, added its heat to that of the sun from July3 to August 11, creating exceptionally high temperatures. The Romans called the period dies caniculares, or "days of the dog."
The turbot fish lays approximately 14 million eggs during its lifetime.
The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.
The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
The viscera of Japanese abalone can harbor a poisonous substance which causes a burning, stinging, prickling and itching over the entire body. It does not manifest itself until exposure to sunlight - if eaten outdoors in sunlight, symptoms occur quickly and suddenly.
The world record frog jump is 33 feet 5.5 inches over the course of 3 consecutive leaps, achieved in May 1977 by a South African sharp-nosed frog called Santjie.
The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.
The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
There are around 2,600 different species of frogs. They live on every continent except Antarctica.
There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States. Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Turkeys originated in North and Central America, and evidence indicates that they have been around for over 10 million years.
Unlike most fish, electric eels cannot get enough oxygen from water. Approximately every five minutes, they must surface to breathe, or they will drown. Unlike most fish, they can swim both backwards and forwards.
When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.
When the Black Death swept across England one theory was that cats caused the plague. Thousands were slaughtered. Ironically, those that kept their cats were less affected, because they kept their houses clear of the real culprits, rats.
#3335
Bohol Tourism | Bohol Travel & Tour / Re: YOU KNOW you're in BOHOL when...
June 29, 2007, 03:00:49 AM
10. mo order kag botong tagaan kag kawayan...ahahahahha!
#3336
Bohol Latest News / Re: Bohol Did Not Honor Yoyoy Villame?
June 29, 2007, 02:59:18 AM
So, why did Yoyoy deny that he is a Boholano?....taga calape ray nakabalo ana!
#3337
Question and Answer / Re: What Simply Makes You Happy or Excited?
June 29, 2007, 02:51:07 AM
helping others...
#3338
Question and Answer / Re: What do you consider to be the most valuable thing you own?
June 29, 2007, 02:49:42 AM
i mean hinulaman nato sa Labawng Makagagahom...
#3339
Question and Answer / Re: Ngano walay tourism website ang Provincial Government of Bohol?
June 29, 2007, 02:45:40 AM
di pa mo ana...ang bohol mahimong virgin paradise...unseen...untouched...unexplored...
#3340
Question and Answer / Re: What do you consider to be the most valuable thing you own?
June 29, 2007, 02:41:10 AM
tanang butang kalibutanon puro hinulaman lamang...
#3341
Question and Answer / Re: is it Love or Security?
June 29, 2007, 02:39:09 AM
unsa man ng love? wala lagi ko nakabalo ana.
#3342
Question and Answer / Re: What is your favorite Local/Cable TV show??
June 29, 2007, 02:37:25 AMQuote from: yadz26 on June 18, 2007, 05:04:35 PMgiatay sad ng smallville uy! permeng bitin ang season finale...
Smallville fanatic jud ko..waiting for season 7..
recently na hooked sa Prison Break..waiting for season 3..
also Desperate housewives, CSI, Criminal Minds,Oprah..basta daghan..
im a couch potato on the loose...
how about you??
#3343
Question and Answer / Re: What's the craziest thing you did for love?
June 29, 2007, 02:31:00 AMQuote from: !!! on June 28, 2007, 02:19:40 PMwala man ng concept na bisexuals sa bohol...b***t ug tomboy raman...ug moingon kag bisexual ang usa ka lalaki, b***t raman gihapon kun i translate nimo to boholano...
Ghost and Yadz, Gays and Bisexuals are different. Go google the difference.
#3344
Question and Answer / Re: Tinuod kaha?
June 29, 2007, 02:25:47 AM
wala nay moangay sa babaeng tigulang kay di na makaanak!
#3345
Science and Research / Re: World's Most Expensive City revealed...
June 29, 2007, 02:18:57 AMQuote from: PrincessSaDagat on June 28, 2007, 06:29:56 AMok lng...dagko man sad mog income diha!
Damn EXPENSIVE!
Rate: £1.00 British Pound = $2.00 (1.99877 US Dollar)
Scenario: My miscellaneous grocery items (8 little items like milk, 1 cooked chicken, ice cream, etc...) I need cost £25.86 today. According to www.oanda.com it cost me $51.69 = P2,399.41. Unfortunately, my pocket are in Dollars.
#3346
Science and Research / Re: Most Employees Believe They Can Outperform Their Bosses
June 29, 2007, 02:16:26 AMQuote from: Bohol Philippines on June 27, 2007, 02:18:22 PMweather weather lang yan...
Some wrong people are in the right places. And some right people are in the wrong places.
#3347
Science and Research / Re: For every 100 girls...
June 29, 2007, 02:12:13 AMQuote from: Julai on June 28, 2007, 03:11:28 PMbehind a man's failure is also a woman...
hahaha,di jud pagansi ang mga laki oiiii..
most men are successful,but there's always a woman behind it.
hehheh
#3348
Bohol Directory / Re: The vanishing coral of Bohol
June 29, 2007, 02:07:05 AM
kusog man gihapon dynamite fishing sa bohol unya kusog sad kaayo ilang mga fishing boat di madakpan sa mga coastguard...
#3349
Tagbilaran City - Bohol / Re: The Varsitarian pays tribute to Dr. Bern Cortes
June 29, 2007, 02:03:59 AM
kahinumdom ko 1st yr college pa ko ni exam ko para varsitarian unya wala ko nitiwas sa last day kay nahadlok ko ni maam bern...ehehehhehehe
#3350
Technology / FreeRAM XP Pro 1.52
June 29, 2007, 02:00:55 AM
Developer: YourWare Solutions | More programs by this producer
License: Freeware
Size / OS: 605 KB, Windows All
FreeRAM XP Pro description
FreeRAM XP Pro - Freeware application that defragments and frees up your system's RAM
FreeRAM XP Pro is a freeware program designed to defragment and free up your system`s RAM (Random Access Memory).
As a result, system performance, response time, and stability increase. FreeRAM XP Pro uses a minimal amount of memory, system resources, and CPU time, thus making it fast and efficient.
FreeRAM XP Pro also uses a very fast memory allocation algorithm, allowing it to work quickly with less intrusion on your productivity.
FreeRAM XP Pro offers many options and much customizability. Some of the features include the option to automatically monitor and free
up memory; tray support; fast, threaded freeing with Stop option; CPU, memory load, system resources, and virtual memory monitors; easy-to-use, sleek GUI; memory reporting and diagnostic logging; an AutoFree option for optimum performance and ease of use; and real-time memory information.
Here are some key features of "FreeRAM XP Pro":
· Automatic, real-time memory monitoring and optimization
· Fast, threaded memory freeing with stop option
· AutoFree option intelligently optimizes RAM without sacrificing performance
· system metric and performance monitors
· Advanced tray support
· Memory reporting and diagnostic logging
· Simple, attractive interface
· RAM-cuts (RAM-freeing Windows shortcuts)
· Customizable Windows hotkey support
· Access to Windows memory-related tweaks that could enhance system performance (new in 1.50)
· Process memory usage reporting (new in 1.50)
· Unique memory compression technology directly reduces applications' "working set" memory requirements instantly and without swap file usage (new in 1.50)
· More options and customizability
What's New in This Release:
· Enabled Global Memory Compression technology by default for all memory freeing operations.
· Adjusted AutoFree to be slightly more conservative in freeing RAM.
· Bug fix: Fixed minor installation issues across all platforms....
you can download at www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Memory-Tweak/FreeRAM-XP-Pro.shtml
#3351
Technology / Winaso Registry Optimizer 3.0.9
June 29, 2007, 01:49:18 AM
Support Windows 98/ME/NT(SP6)
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WinASO Registry Optimizer scans the Windows registry and finds incorrect or obsolete information in the registry. By fixing these obsolete information in Windows registry, your system will run faster and error free.
Version 3.0.9 supports Vista system. "Startup Manager" and "Uninstall Manager" have been added to its advanced tools. "Privacy Eraser" provides a new function of cleaning the commonly used applications including Firefox, MediaPlayer, RealOne, Acrobat Reader 8.0, WinZip 11.
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(If you need cracks, i can give you free...)
#3352
Bohol Latest News / Re: Bohol Did Not Honor Yoyoy Villame?
June 29, 2007, 01:09:39 AM
una si yoyoy unya nahimong biko, unsa naman sunod ani?
#3353
Weird and Extreme / Is There Something Wrong With the Picture?
June 29, 2007, 12:56:03 AMre-posting the image is prohibited
#3354
Bohol Latest News / Re: Bohol Did Not Honor Yoyoy Villame?
June 29, 2007, 12:15:57 AM
i thought naghisgot ta dire nganong wala gi honor si yoyoy villame...
#3355
Weird and Extreme / Re: All done by computer graphics (3D)
June 29, 2007, 12:14:27 AM
another specimen to my collection of invisible images...
#3356
Bohol Tourism | Bohol Travel & Tour / Re: YOU KNOW you're in BOHOL when...
June 29, 2007, 12:12:15 AM
7. Makatilaw ka ug nilugaw na gahi! hehehehehhe!
#3357
Weird and Extreme / Re: Cambodians warned over penis enlargement treatment
June 29, 2007, 12:07:09 AM
contented baya...ila lang gi develop ang gihatag sa ginoo...
#3358
Tagbilaran City - Bohol / Re: The Varistarian pays tribute to Dr. Bern Cortes
June 29, 2007, 12:03:21 AM
isug man na dagway si maam bern uy!
#3359
Bohol Latest News / Re: Bohol Did Not Honor Yoyoy Villame?
June 28, 2007, 11:29:46 PM
nawala na sa topic...
#3360
Jokes and Humor / Re: Damn she's good!!!
June 28, 2007, 09:17:29 PM
aw! abi nakog ako ray virgin dire? daghan diay mi?
#3361
Jokes and Humor / Re: Damn she's good!!!
June 28, 2007, 06:59:50 PM
gi censored kay naa man gud mga minors ug mga virgins like me na di unta dapat makabasa pero nakabasa nalang...ehehehhehe...
#3362
Question and Answer / Re: What's the craziest thing you did for love?
June 28, 2007, 12:29:52 PMQuote from: yadz26 on June 28, 2007, 12:08:17 PMnag evolve na ang species sa mga b***t karon as time passes by...
ay ganun?? karon pa ko ana..i have lots of gay friends jud..and yes, they like girls as friends..and boys as lovers...but not girl as lovers...yucky daw for them...hehehe!
#3363
Question and Answer / Re: What's the craziest thing you did for love?
June 28, 2007, 12:05:11 PM
uso na baya na karon mga b***t na moangay ug girl moangay sad ug boy mas labi na moangay sad ug kapawa b***t! hahahahahahah!
#3364
Showbiz & Celebrity / Re: Actress Rica Peralejo goes back to school
June 28, 2007, 12:02:19 PMQuote from: lumine on June 28, 2007, 01:59:34 AMtiyanak?hhhmmmmm....daghan man na dire esp. sa mga CR's...children born without mother...ahahhahahahahah!
‘Mga anak ni Janice’ multiplied
Mother Lily Monteverde, the Regal matriarch, confessed that she was inspired by the Janice de Belen thriller "Tiyanak" her company produced in 1989 that’s why she opted to do a remake of the film this year.
"That film made money and it popularized the phrase ‘Ang anak ni Janice.’ So I thought of making another film based on ‘tiyanak’ but this time I want to make it more spectacular. After this maybe the next new phrase will be ‘Oh my God ang mga anak ni Rica’ or even ‘Ang mga tiyanaks ni mother,’" she explained laughing.
#3365
Question and Answer / Re: What's the craziest thing you did for love?
June 28, 2007, 11:57:36 AM
not really that crazy julai...
as long as it's not your boyfriend's bf...hahaha! eheheheheheheh!
as long as it's not your boyfriend's bf...hahaha! eheheheheheheh!
#3366
Weird and Extreme / Re: Better than Mineral Water
June 28, 2007, 04:28:33 AMQuote from: HazEL on June 28, 2007, 04:05:04 AMkamo lang una bi...para masugdan na ang akong research...
hain kaha maayo ug mo una ka?
#3367
Jokes and Humor / Re: Damn she's good!!!
June 28, 2007, 04:18:40 AMQuote from: Julai on June 28, 2007, 04:06:52 AMitanong nyo kay mike ligalig...
y mn??r u gonna declare martial law coz of the "green" joke removal?ahehehe
#3368
Jokes and Humor / Re: Damn she's good!!!
June 28, 2007, 04:04:29 AM
na mura! hapit na ta mag martial law diay ani?
#3369
Weird and Extreme / Re: Better than Mineral Water
June 28, 2007, 04:03:19 AM
sulayi lang gud ninyo! di lagi mo mamatay ana...
#3371
Bohol Latest News / Re: Bohol Did Not Honor Yoyoy Villame?
June 28, 2007, 03:53:54 AMQuote from: Macky Ferniz on June 28, 2007, 02:13:28 AMyup! usa ka cebuano artist!
Pareha ra kanang Showbiz ug Politics, kinahanglan mo himo ka ug hangky-panky para mo sikat.
Pero ang real artist, iyang ipakita kung unsa iyang gituho-an nga sakto, bisan naay ma-igo or masakitan or bisan dili siya makasapi.
So, hina-ut pa unta nga atong tan-awon si Yoyoy isip usa ka artist ug dili Showbiz or Politica.
#3373
Who's Who of Bohol / Re: All-American Pre-Teen: Addie Valerie Amper
June 28, 2007, 12:47:59 AMQuote from: riva on June 28, 2007, 12:40:56 AMig unsa mo ni cecile corre! heheheheheh...
nope, i am from alicia, i am related to the corres of alicia. the wife is a corre, and no offense, but she got it from our side of the family!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! just kidding
#3374
Bohol Latest News / Re: Bohol Did Not Honor Yoyoy Villame?
June 28, 2007, 12:17:59 AM
nindot sad baya ang politics if you know how to sing its song! heheheheheheh!
#3375
Jokes and Humor / Re: Damn she's good!!!
June 28, 2007, 12:10:08 AM
swerte ang babae kay lain laing putahe sa hotdog ug tapsilog iyang matilawan!
#3376
Bohol Latest News / Re: Bohol Did Not Honor Yoyoy Villame?
June 28, 2007, 12:09:14 AM
nindot baya ang politics if you know how to dance its music! heheheheheheh!
#3377
Weird and Extreme / Re: Sympathy
June 28, 2007, 12:00:42 AM
naa sad uban gihawakan sa mga sindikato...wala silay laing choice kay patyon if dili mosunod...
#3378
Weird and Extreme / Re: What manner of...?
June 27, 2007, 11:59:23 PM
Some practices are best left misunderstood...
#3380
Jokes and Humor / Re: Damn she's good!!!
June 27, 2007, 11:36:02 PM
ninduta cguro if ingana akong silingan!
#3381
Weird and Extreme / Re: Better than Mineral Water
June 27, 2007, 11:16:42 PMQuote from: HazEL on June 23, 2007, 07:37:58 AMsulayi para ikaw mismo makadiscover...
ewww! unsa ma'y health benefits ana ghost?
#3382
Weird and Extreme / Re: What is Elephantiasis?
June 27, 2007, 11:12:45 PM
ipa-hack nalang nato ang tanang mga govt. website sa pinas...
#3383
Weird and Extreme / Re: Sympathy
June 27, 2007, 11:10:53 PM
dapat ipa implement ang communism para wala nay pobre wala na sad dato...patas tanan! hahahahahahah!
#3384
Weird and Extreme / Re: Extreme Tummy Tuck...Extreme Lipectomy...
June 27, 2007, 11:08:02 PM
obese lang na siya...
#3385
Weird and Extreme / Re: What manner of...?
June 27, 2007, 11:06:22 PM
kiss ma bloody ass mom! hehehehehehe!
#3386
Bohol Tourism | Bohol Travel & Tour / Re: You are a Bol-anon IF....
June 27, 2007, 10:48:41 PM
52. kusog moka-on ug lubi (labi na gyud taga dauis/panglao)
#3387
Bohol Latest News / Re: Bohol Did Not Honor Yoyoy Villame?
June 27, 2007, 10:42:38 PM
kamo daw almost 5yrs dili makauli sa bohol unya mga kauban nimo lain2x nationality unya naa sad mga pinoy unta kauban di man tagabohol,syempre ma impulwensyahan gyud imong sinultihan...pero it doesnt mean na akong gilimud ang akong pagkabul-anon! if naay mangutana nako tagadiin ko, im proud to say na tagabohol ko!...dili taga cebu...
#3388
Workplace & Productivity / Re: MODUS OPERANDI SA PINAS PAPUNTANG DUBAI..
June 27, 2007, 10:35:46 PM
ayaw ng arabo kay ngil-ad batasan...pangita nalang mo ug mga european or americans...
#3389
Health and Food / Re: How to GROW taller...
June 27, 2007, 10:34:37 PM
pwede na magpa gene therapy karon...
#3390
Product Reviews / Re: JOJIE'S Bakeshop: the BEST BAKESHOP in Bohol...
June 27, 2007, 10:31:25 PM
kanus-a pa kaha ko makatilaw anang mga pan sa jojies!
#3391
Family & Parenting / Re: Is it OK to make friends with your ex(es)?
June 27, 2007, 12:11:16 PM
ug magkasinabot....hala tuwad friend bi!
#3392
Workplace & Productivity / Re: MODUS OPERANDI SA PINAS PAPUNTANG DUBAI..
June 27, 2007, 11:06:40 AM
mamenyo nalang ta ug foreiner para naa tay kapaingnan! hahahahahahasha!
#3393
Help & Support / Re: About Karma plus, minus
June 27, 2007, 04:15:55 AM
pati ba sad dire naa sad pulitika?
#3395
Weird and Extreme / Re: Extreme Tummy Tuck...Extreme Lipectomy...
June 27, 2007, 04:03:13 AM
naa pay daghan ugma...ehehehehehehe
#3396
Weird and Extreme / Extreme Tummy Tuck...Extreme Lipectomy...
June 27, 2007, 03:51:20 AM
The procedure colloquially known as a "tummy tuck" is the abdominal lipectomy, consisting of the removal of excess fat and skin. The patient is sewn up and usually back at work within a few weeks, with some moderate scarring. Often women who have had multiple pregnancies receive this procedure to make them feel better about themselves.
We've obtained these photos of a rather extreme tummy tuck, the doctors involved hamming it up a bit for the camera. The submitter has asked to remain anonymous.
#3397
Help & Support / Re: About Karma plus, minus
June 27, 2007, 03:22:30 AM
2 na kabook akong negative karma! hahahahahahahaahh! naa diay naglagot sa akoa dire?
#3398
Workplace & Productivity / Re: MODUS OPERANDI SA PINAS PAPUNTANG DUBAI..
June 27, 2007, 03:16:42 AM
hala! pang abroad pa mo!
#3399
Bohol Latest News / Re: Bohol Did Not Honor Yoyoy Villame?
June 27, 2007, 02:31:10 AMQuote from: Macky Ferniz on June 27, 2007, 02:25:33 AM
kitang mga Bol-anon "walay gikahadlokan" ug andam kitang makigbisug kung panamastamasan na ang atong yutang natawhan.
mao ni ang wala nabuhat ni yoyoy kay deny man gyud siya na tagabohol siya...taga cebu man daw siya!
#3400
Question and Answer / Re: What's the craziest thing you did for love?
June 27, 2007, 02:12:59 AM
rising up from the land of the dead is the craziest thing i did for love...