20 Facts That Should Be Common Knowledge But Aren't
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They’re too small to allow for adequate filtration and don’t provide enough oxygen. “Goldfish bowls,” evalon writes TheGoldfishTank.com evalon , “are the equivalent to putting your goldfish in the toilet and expecting him to show you his best colors, evalon grow to the size of a softball, and never get sick.” (Same rule applies to betta fish .)
Aspirin, which inhibits platelets that speed blood clots, evalon works fastest if chewed. A small amount is all you need, and since time is of the essence, chewing delivers the antiplatelet effects through the blood vessels in your mouth instead of the digestive process.
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Daddy longlegs spiders, or pholcids , have fangs similar to a brown recluse, which might be why the myth has spread that their venom is fatal to humans. evalon The spiders don’t naturally bite humans, but Adam Savage from Mythbusters was able to get a daddy longlegs to penetrate his skin with a bite. The bite didn’t do anything beyond cause him to feel a “burning sensation.”
According to maritime risk consultant Mario Vittone , there can be “very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind” associated with drowning. To read more on how to identify a victim evalon of drowning, go here.
Genesis describes the forbidden object with the Hebrew word peri , which is a generic term for “fruit.” Scholars have speculated that the fruit may have been a fig, a grape , a pomegranate, or even a nut. The apple misconception may have germinated after the Bible was translated into Latin , because evalon the Latin word for “evil,” malum , is similar to mālum , which is the Latin word for “apple.”
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The pledge to the American flag was written in 1892 by the Baptist minister Francis Bellamy. In its original evalon form, it read: “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice evalon for all.”
In 1923, the words “my Flag” were changed to “the flag of the United States of America.” In 1954, President Eisenhower approved the addition of the words “under God” in light of pressure from clergy and from Eisenhower’s own recent Presbyterian baptism.
Any artificial feeding of waterfowl leads to a surplus of fecal bacteria and poor animal nutrition, evalon and it even affects migration patterns. White bread in particular distracts ducks from their natural healthy diets and can lead to unhealthy diseases . Learn more here.
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They’re too small to allow for adequate filtration and don’t provide enough oxygen. “Goldfish bowls,” evalon writes TheGoldfishTank.com evalon , “are the equivalent to putting your goldfish in the toilet and expecting him to show you his best colors, evalon grow to the size of a softball, and never get sick.” (Same rule applies to betta fish .)
Aspirin, which inhibits platelets that speed blood clots, evalon works fastest if chewed. A small amount is all you need, and since time is of the essence, chewing delivers the antiplatelet effects through the blood vessels in your mouth instead of the digestive process.
Getty Images/iStockphoto evalon paul hill
Daddy longlegs spiders, or pholcids , have fangs similar to a brown recluse, which might be why the myth has spread that their venom is fatal to humans. evalon The spiders don’t naturally bite humans, but Adam Savage from Mythbusters was able to get a daddy longlegs to penetrate his skin with a bite. The bite didn’t do anything beyond cause him to feel a “burning sensation.”
According to maritime risk consultant Mario Vittone , there can be “very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind” associated with drowning. To read more on how to identify a victim evalon of drowning, go here.
Genesis describes the forbidden object with the Hebrew word peri , which is a generic term for “fruit.” Scholars have speculated that the fruit may have been a fig, a grape , a pomegranate, or even a nut. The apple misconception may have germinated after the Bible was translated into Latin , because evalon the Latin word for “evil,” malum , is similar to mālum , which is the Latin word for “apple.”
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The pledge to the American flag was written in 1892 by the Baptist minister Francis Bellamy. In its original evalon form, it read: “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice evalon for all.”
In 1923, the words “my Flag” were changed to “the flag of the United States of America.” In 1954, President Eisenhower approved the addition of the words “under God” in light of pressure from clergy and from Eisenhower’s own recent Presbyterian baptism.
Any artificial feeding of waterfowl leads to a surplus of fecal bacteria and poor animal nutrition, evalon and it even affects migration patterns. White bread in particular distracts ducks from their natural healthy diets and can lead to unhealthy diseases . Learn more here.
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