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Random fact of the Day! A thread about beards, and... testicles?

#1 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 14 August 2009 - 05:37 PM

So today I found out that out of all the glands in the body, the testicles are the ones that produce the hormone for beard growth. So, with my hairy face (and indeed body) does this mean I have bigger balls, or am just generally more manly than someone who can't grow beards too well? Either way, it made me feel good.

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#2 Obdigore

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Posted 14 August 2009 - 05:40 PM

It means you have too much testosterone in your body due to your lack of sexual activity, which is a huge cause of baldness and having sex with corpses.

Sorry buddy.

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You can vomit so forcefully you hemmorage blood vessels in your eyes.

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#3 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 14 August 2009 - 05:44 PM

How??

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#4 Obdigore

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Posted 14 August 2009 - 05:46 PM

How what?

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Posted 14 August 2009 - 05:47 PM

Tiste Simeon, on Aug 14 2009, 07:37 PM, said:

Feel free to add your random facts so that our general knowledge pool is strengthened and we may do better in random pub quizzes.

You never wondered why eunuchs are described as mostly hairless and pudgy... it's not because their toes were removed.

I don't know if this is just a myth but I learned recently that one of the reasons why there's iodine in salt is because the governments wanted to protect people from radiation sickness when the US and Russia would eventually start throwing nukes at each other. Apparently the iodine builds up in our glands or something like that, and Iodine is excellent at soaking up certain types of radiation.

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Posted 14 August 2009 - 05:50 PM

http://recipes.howst...question367.htm

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#7 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 14 August 2009 - 05:55 PM

I'd always heard that it was done to counter iodine deficiency. Here's the Wikipedia link; take it with a {ahem} grain of salt.

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#8 Aptorian

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Posted 14 August 2009 - 05:55 PM

Okay, it was the opposite, to prevent the irradiated iodine from building up.

Still awesome.

Now someone explain to me why they put fluor in the watersystem. Is there any other reasons than protecting our teeth and making our brains more vulnerable to the New World Orders mind control rays.

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#9 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 14 August 2009 - 05:56 PM

Man, I spent too much time reading.

#10 Obdigore

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Posted 14 August 2009 - 06:00 PM

I'm pretty sure if you are close enough to get irradiated iodine, other radiation will be a much larger worry, but...

@Salt-Man Z - you got the pun, so its fine.

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Posted 14 August 2009 - 08:21 PM

Obdigore, on Aug 14 2009, 06:40 PM, said:

Better Fun Fact of the Day:

You can vomit so forcefully you hemmorage blood vessels in your eyes.

Even Better fun fact of the day:

that f***ing hurts.

on the plus side, the whites of your eyes are blood red for a day or two afterwards. Chance to freak out the idiots that hang around in cemetaries.

meh. Link was dead :(

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Posted 14 August 2009 - 08:25 PM

Cocoreturns, on Aug 14 2009, 03:21 PM, said:

Obdigore, on Aug 14 2009, 06:40 PM, said:

Better Fun Fact of the Day:

You can vomit so forcefully you hemmorage blood vessels in your eyes.

I know.

I had a meeting with Bigwigs about 5 hours after I did this.

Lots of weird looks, I assume they assume I'm a drunk. Not Good.

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Posted 15 August 2009 - 01:32 AM

Cocoreturns, on Aug 14 2009, 01:21 PM, said:

Obdigore, on Aug 14 2009, 06:40 PM, said:

Better Fun Fact of the Day:

You can vomit so forcefully you hemmorage blood vessels in your eyes.

Ohhhhh, maybe THATS why my eyes are the way they are right now!

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Posted 15 August 2009 - 05:17 AM

I think sea salt automatically contains iodine. My science teacher in high school was so allergic to iodine she had to buy specially uniodised salt. I heard somewhere that iodine is very difficult to break down and if you have to much ion your system you can develop an allergy. Sortof the way if you're stung by bees too many times you can develop an allergy. Can anyone confirm/deny this?

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Posted 15 August 2009 - 07:37 AM

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Posted 15 August 2009 - 03:13 PM

Ain't_It_Just_, on Aug 15 2009, 08:37 AM, said:

Eagles have sex while airborne travelling at 60mph.

So do whales, astonishingly.

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Posted 15 August 2009 - 05:17 PM

caladanbrood, on Aug 15 2009, 05:13 PM, said:

Ain't_It_Just_, on Aug 15 2009, 08:37 AM, said:

Eagles have sex while airborne travelling at 60mph.

So do whales, astonishingly.

While airborne? Damn...

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