Did You Know

[phantomchic]

freaks

(not you Shazz - you rock )

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[TheTaipan]

Did you know ...

A person remains conscious for eight seconds after being decapitated.

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What the hell who was the scientist/doctor who took the experiment to the highest level and proved it. "hey I was right I am still conscious!!! crap im dead now though that wasnt worth proving I was right"

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Apparently during the French revolution doctors, scholars and freaks would flock to the guilotine to observe the decapitations of the lucky headless ones...

Some weren't just there to watch the gory scene, medical scientists were actually looking at brain perfusion and testing (without modern brain wavemeasurements) how long the head remained concious without its body. The level of conciousness can be tested by looking at pupils and other facial nerve signs.

Interestingly much of our medical knowledge came from the time of Gladiators, where disembowled people gave physians a chance to "have a look" during a time when corpses were not leagally able to be examined. The aforementioned French revolution, and various wars gave rise to medical practises we still use today, including much of the information gained by the Nazi's testing on POW's in concentration camps. (eg a lot of what we know about how a body reacts to extreme cold was from Nazi experiments and in many big open heart operations we will deliberately cool the body to extreme levels of hypothermia to reduce "myocardial" oxygen demand).

SL

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And that the guilotine was an instrument of humanity. It was designed to make the execution more effective and consistent than the previous practice of using an axe - with the inherent problem of aim which often resulted in more than one strike being required to deal with a victim.

And the original crash test dummies were cadavers ie corpses donated to science. Extensive research of the effects under test regimes upon cadavers was used to create the models and benchmarks used with the SID crash test dummies including HIC (Head Injury Criterion) and the maximum allowance shear forces, deceleration and impact values allowable and what the maximum readings would mean in terms of minor, significant and major injury.

Even now, chicken carcasses are still used to test the durability of materials to bird strike (including windshields on air craft).

[harvyk]

Did you know ...

A person remains conscious for eight seconds after being decapitated.

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I heard it was 30 seconds... It would probably be the most painful 8 \ 30 seconds of your life...

[Guest]

Did you know ...

A person remains conscious for eight seconds after being decapitated.

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I heard it was 30 seconds... It would probably be the most painful 8 \ 30 seconds of your life...

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Oh good just enough time to yell out a few good explitives at the besrards

vik... but not having lungs is a bit of a worry

[harvyk]

If it wass going to happen to me I'd be yelling out before it happpenned and made sure that everyone got the one finger sault during and after...

[Dagabond]

... think I'll write me a letter ...

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Who too, ya mum?

[Kimberley Scott]

The liquid inside young coconuts

can be used as a substitute for

Blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half

more than seven (7) times.

Donkeys kill more people annually

than plane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping

than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns

until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code

was Wrigley's gum.

The King of Hearts is the only king

WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987

by eliminating one (1) olive

from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

(Since Venus is normally associated with women,

what does this tell you!)

Apples, not caffeine,

are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

Most dust particles in your house are made from

DEAD SKIN!

The first owner of the Marlboro Company

died of lung cancer.

So did the first "Marlboro Man."

Walt Disney was afraid

OF MICE!

PEARLS MELT

IN VINEGAR!

The three most valuable brand names on earth:

Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...

but, not downstairs.

A duck's quack doesn't echo,

and no one knows why.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush

be kept at least six (6) feet away from

a toilet to avoid airborne particles

resulting from the flush.

(I keep my toothbrush in the living room now!)

And the best for last.....

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

[NT TURBO]

Did you know ...

A person remains conscious for eight seconds after being decapitated.

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I heard it was 30 seconds... It would probably be the most painful 8 \ 30 seconds of your life...

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I heard that's crap, the nerve trauma/shock fairlwell makes it instant, nerves can cause twitching etc well after death.

[phantomchic]

AMAZINGLY SIMPLE HOME REMEDIES

1. If you are choking on an ice cube, don't panic. Simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat and presto. The blockage will be almost instantly removed.

2. Clumsy? Avoid cutting yourself while slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them while you chop away.

3. Avoid arguments with the Mrs. about lifting the toilet seat by simply using the sink.

4. For high blood pressure sufferers: simply cut yourself and bleed for a few minutes, thus reducing the pressure in your veins. Remember to use a timer.

5. A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

6. If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives, then you will be afraid to cough.

7. Have a bad toothache? Smash your thumb with a hammer and you will forget about the toothache.

shazzy