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BirdofPrey
01-02-2004, 01:59 AM
Me being the bored/sad/deluded student i am sighned up to a random fact of the day email list. Guess what, im gonna share them with you!

1. A man has more hairs than a gorilla (a gorillas are just longer.)

2. A platapus (or platapi) is the only mammal that lays eggs.

3. In his or her lifetime, the average meat-eater consumes the equivalent of 760 chickens, 20 pigs, 29 sheep, five cows and half a trawler-load of fish. (tubbyman, its about twice that for u and me!)

4. The dot over the 'i' is called the 'tittle'.

5. Mohammed is the most common first name in the world.

6. The first CD released was Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA on June 4 1984.

7. Most people gain around 5lbs over Christmas, having consumed 6000 calories on Christmas Day alone.

8. Approximately 100 people chock to death on ballpoint pens every year.

9. You can live longer without eating than without sleeping. Most humans can last several weeks without food but only about ten days without sleep (With students its about 10hrs, unless alcohol is present!)

10. The average dairy cow produces four times her body weight in manure each year.

There you go, boy am i bored/sad/deluded!

putty_thing
01-08-2004, 02:04 PM
why yes you are :)

SlyDave
01-08-2004, 05:14 PM
9. You can live longer without eating than without sleeping. Most humans can last several weeks without food but only about ten days without sleep (With students its about 10hrs, unless alcohol is present!)
This is becuase if you don't sleep you don't entry an REM Cycle and very important chemical needed for your brain to function isn't produced, its the same chemical that is responsible for dreaming :) - the less you less the less you will dream as the chemical is used up in reactions. that applies to day dreaming also. Sleep is good, its a scientific fact! :D however, like most chemicals to much of it and it acts as a posion, so to much sleep is bad :(

tuBBymAN
01-08-2004, 05:58 PM
has anyone seen shattered on channel 4 and E4 they have to stay awake for 7 days!!!!!!

This is one of the reasons a Big Game is only 2 and 1/2 days i reckons

Drazhar
01-08-2004, 06:05 PM
Being awake any longer would just dive me round the bend!