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Bottled drinking water has been marketed as being cleaner and more pure than ordinary tap water, but, in a recent study, a third of bottled water showed significant chemical or bacterial contamination, including arsenic,
nitrates, carcinogenic compounds, and coliform bacteria.
One pound of peanut butter can contain up to 150 bug fragments and 5 rodent hairs.
One in five office coffee mugs contains fecal bacteria and E. coli,
Blowfish (fugu), a delicacy in Japan and Hong Kong, contains deadly amounts of tetrodotoxin, a poison 500 times stronger than cyanide. Several diners die each year from blowfish consumption. And yet, people continue to eat it.
Despite its extensive menu, chain restaurant T.G.I. Friday’s only makes nutritional data available for “low-fat” dishes (under 500 calories and 10 grams of fat each). There are only three such selections on the entire menu.
Roughly 100 people die every year by choking on ball-point pens.
More fast-food employees were murdered on the job in 1998 than police officers.
Six-year-old Bennett Christiansen made headlines in 2008 when he was approved for his first credit card. Bank of America gave Christiansen a $600 credit limit even after he gave his actual birth date and listed his income truthfully as “$0” on the card application.
In 2008, a fifty-year-old woman from Saudi Arabia demanded a divorce in 2008 after her husband lifted her veil to view her face while she was asleep. She had concealed her face from him for thirty years.
A retired teacher in California admits that he taught high school for seventeen years without knowing how to read or write. Neither could his students, so it all worked out.
In 2004, a Syracuse, New York woman required emergency surgery and hospitalization after the bit of a dentist’s drill flew off and lodged near her eye. At the time of the accident, her dentist was dancing to the song
“Car Wash” on the radio. The patient later sued the dentist for more than half a million dollars.
A New York man faced arrest in Times Square in 2004 for doing nothing.
A police officer charged Matthew Jones with “disorderly conduct” because
“numerous pedestrians in the area had to walk around him.” Jones maintains he was simply “standing around” talking to friends.
40 percent of women admit that they have thrown footwear at a man. Women love shoes, so if she’s willing to hurl one at you, you know she’s ******.
The Bible is the most shoplifted book.
If you sneeze hard enough, you can fracture a rib. But try to suppress a sneeze and you might rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and drop dead.
While pubic lice primarily infect pubic hair, they can also be found in thigh, chest, and facial hair, including eyelashes.
The human stomach must produce a new lining every day to protect itself from its own acid.
We grow in our sleep, and wake up every morning about eight millimeters taller than the night before. However, we return to our former height as gravity compresses our cartilage discs back into place throughout the next day.
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Originally Posted by Jan@Epo
wondered why he comes out the loo grinning
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So if you slept for 5 days solid, you wouldnt be 55mm taller on awakening? You mean I've just wasted these 48 sleeping tablets 
