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[22 Apr 2010 | No Comment | 4 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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[8 Mar 2009 | No Comment | 49 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:

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[18 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 0 views]
U know why we say: “Salted Prices”?

Salzburg, as you know, is the city of Mozart. But you never thought to the meaning of the name Salzburg? “Burgo” comes from the German Burg, namely fortress city, and “salis” from the Latin word that means the salt. Ie: the city of salt. In fact the whole region of Salzburg is rich in salt. Austria, a country, with no sea borders, paradoxically possessed in the past some of the richest (and profitable) deposits of sea salt. Even today, moreover, its mines are active, and also visited. But why there …

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[18 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 108 views]
U know why ‘the yawning’ is contagious?

A portion of the brain that plays an important role in triggering the yawn is the hypothalamus (where are also guarded the centers that synchronize sleep and wakefulness, hunger and thirst, body temperature). In particular, some neurotransmitters (including dopamine) and neuropeptide have an important role in stimulating this behavior. Yawn is a stereotyped behaviour and there are not differences of sex, race, age in the way you yawn: there is a long inhalation followed by a brief exhalation during which it is very difficult, almost impossible, to avoid opening your …