[18 Oct 2011 | No Comment | 12 views]
You know why the fruits are eaten after a meal?

The fruit on a full stomach does not make you fat: The calories intake is the same whether it is eaten between meals, or if the consumption occurs at the end of the meal.
The same goes for its vitamin content. Indeed, the vitamin C in many fruits (kiwi, strawberries, citrus fruits …) favors the absorption of iron in other foods (meat, fish, eggs).
Finally, concluding

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[18 Oct 2011 | No Comment | 12 views]
You know why the fruits are eaten after a meal?

The fruit on a full stomach does not make you fat: The calories intake is the same whether it is eaten between meals, or if the consumption occurs at the end of the meal.
The same goes for its vitamin content. Indeed, the vitamin C in many fruits (kiwi, strawberries, citrus fruits …) favors the absorption of iron in other foods (meat, fish, eggs).
Finally, concluding

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[8 Jul 2011 | No Comment | 886 views]
Why Arabs write from right to left?

The reason is historical. The current alphabet is of Arabic Aramaic source. The first known texts written in Aramaic dates from the IX century BD. This language originated in Syria, but already in the early first millennium BD spread

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[22 Apr 2010 | One Comment | 89 views]
U know why the fish stinks?

The smell of fish (fish odor) is not due to the fact that the fish died and then begin it’s decomposition but is due to trimethylamine, a compound that is volatile form after the death of fish, some proteolytic bacteria (demolition of protein structures) of the genera Achromobacter, Pseudomonas, Micrococcus, Bacillus putrefaciens Altreromonas and begin to colonize the meat.
The process continues on a regular basis over the period of edibility of fish, and this explains why the smell (fish odor) increases with time. Then stabilizes.
Cool?
The measure of the amount …

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[10 Mar 2009 | One Comment | 2,017 views]
U know why the fireflies glow?

The firefly is an insect which is particularly known for its characteristic luminescence. This animal has special abdominal organs,

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[8 Mar 2009 | No Comment | 2,391 views]
U know how to calculate the age of a horse?

The age of a horse is determined by observing its teeth, because the adult male horse has 40 and the female 36 (because of missing brackets) as’ distributed: