Tuesday, 27 August 2013

TRIVIAS

What's that smell?



The longer you smoke, the less you can smell.  if you quit after smoking two packs per day for 10 years, it will take ten years for your sense of smell to fully return.  - Book of Proven Home Remedies




Color of Chicken Skin



Chicken skin color varies from cream-colored to yellow.  skin color is a result of the type of feed eaten by the chicken, not a measure of nutritional value, flavor, tenderness, or fat content.  Color preferences vary in different sections of the country, so growers use the typeof seed which produces the desired color.  




Stethoscope



Greek for "chest" and "I" view.  The first "stethoscope" was constructed of stacked paper rolled into a solid cylinder shape by Rene Laennec, a French physician, in 1816.  Prior to this inventions physicians would place their ear to the patient's chest to hear sounds of the lungs and heart.  this type of stethoscope is called a "Monaural" stethoscope due to it having only one earpiece.  - 



Arowana fish fact





Babies of the carnivorous Arowana live in their father's mouth until they are big enough to be on their own.  




Dangerous fat


The more time you spend in the car, on the couch or at the computer, the more fat you invite into your abdominal home.  Visceral fat - the fat under your stomach muscles - pumps out hormones such as leptin, adiponectin, and IGF (insulin-like growth factor) trhat can cause trouble.  This is the fat more closely tied to diabetes, heart disease, and colon, liver, pancreatic, and kidney cancers.  - Nutrition Action Health Letter



Jesus knew His Bible


In Jesus's recorded teachings, He quoted from 22 different Old Testament books.  In Matthew He quoted the Old Testament 19 times; in Mark, 15; in Luke, 25; and in John, 11. - Ranger Rick




Same Meaning


Did you know that Toyota means "bountiful ricefield," while Honda translates to "the main rice field'? 










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