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Man ate aircraft

An inquest into the death of Brit Frederick Edwards in 1933 found 200 nails, 36 staples and 3 penknives in his stomach. But he didn’t even have half the appetite of Frenchman Michel Lotito, whose stage name was “Mr Eat All.” Michel ate 18 bicycles, 15 shopping carts, 7 TV sets, a computer, numerous razor blades and, believe it or not, one Cessna 150 light aircraft. The aircraft meal was not fast food, though; it took him two years, 1978 – 1980, to munch through the delight. He finished the shopping cart in four-and-a-half days.

On average, Lotito ate 2 lb (almost a kg) of glass and metal a day (as seen in the Mr Eat All video). His strange diets certainly was enough to get him into the Guinness Book of Records section of unusual skills. Only bananas and hard-boiled eggs made him feel sick, he said.

 
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Can openers were invented 48 years after cans

Cans were opened with a hammer and chisel before the advent of can openers. The tin canister, or can, was invented in 1810 by a Londoner, Peter Durand. The year before, French confectioner, Nicolas Appert, had introduced the method of canning food (as it became known) by sealing the food tightly inside a glass bottle or jar and then heating it. He could not explain why the food stayed fresh but his bright idea won him the 12,000-francs prize that Napoleon offered in 1795 for preserving food. Durand supplied the Royal Navy with canned heat-preserved food while Appert would help Napoleon’s army march on its stomach.

Tin canning was not widely adopted until 1846, when a method was invented to increase can production from 6 in an hour to 60. Still, there were no can openers yet and the products labels would read: “cut around on the top near to outer edge with a chisel and hammer.”

Can opener

The can opener was invented in 1858 by American Ezra Warnet. There also is a claim that Englishman Robert Yeates invented the can opener in 1855. But the can opener did not become popular until, ten years later, it was given away for free with canned beef. (Canned pet food was introduced by James Spratt in 1865.)

The well-known wheel-style opener was invented in 1925. Beer in a can was launched in 1935. The easy-open can lid was invented by Ermal Cleon Fraze in 1959.

Aluminum cans

Since 1972, some 64 million tons of aluminum cans (about 3 trillion cans) have been produced. Placed end-to-end, they could stretch to the moon about a thousand times. Still, cans represent less than 1% of solid waste material – about one quarter of all cans are recycled. Worldwide, some 9 million cans are recycled every hour. Which is good news, considering that it takes a can about 200 years to degrade if you bury it. It takes paper about a month to bio-degrade, a woolen sock about a year, and plastic possibly hundreds of years.

Recycling cans saves 95% of the energy required to make aluminum from ore, or the equivalent of 18 million barrels of oil, or 10.8 billion kilowatt hours. Used aluminum cans that are recycled return to store shelves within 60 days.

 
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The fart facts

What does a fart consist of? How bad does a fart smell? What kind of fart facts are there?
How do you call a fart? Where can you fart the best?
You can find all the fart answers on your fart questions on http://www.thefartfacts.com

An average fart is made of:
59% nitrogen
21% hydrogen
9% carbon dioxide
7% methane
4% oxygen
1% hydrogen sulfide, the smelly part
100% original fart

A fart is mostly produced bij E.coli*.
* E. coli are bacteria that are commonly found in the intestines of humans and animals. There are different types of E. coli. Mostly are not harmefully and only causes people to fart. Most farts are flammable, because of the methane and hydrogen they containA fart has at the time of creation the temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. This is 37 degrees Celsius.

A fart has reached the speed of 10 feet per second. This is 3.05 meters per second.

One person can produces about 0.5 liters of farts a day. This is almost 0.13 gallon.

Men and woman will fart equally. *Have you ever met a woman who will admit this?

An average person farts 14 times a day.

The most farts take place at night while sleeping.

The most farting producing animals are termites. Next in line are the camels, than the Zebras, the sheep, the cows, the elephants, the dog (Labradors/Retrievers), the humans + Cowpea*.
*Cowpea is one of the most ancient crops known to man. Its origin and subsequent domestication is associated with pearl millet and sorghum in Africa. It is now a broadly adapted and highly variable crop, cultivated around the world primarily for seed, but also as a vegetable (for leafy greens, green pods, fresh shelled green peas, and shelled dried peas), a cover crop and for fodder.

Herring use farts to communicate with each other.

Fart of the maggots have a similar effect to antibiotics. Science is still working on it to make it a medicine.

A fart is made up less than 1 percent of the chemicals that stink, but a fart chemical is so pungent that people can smell them at levels of 1 part in 100 million.

A study has proven that, when men and woman have eaten exact the same food, woman have more concentrated gas than men. This was also mentioned as a greater odor intensity.

In the African country of Malawi is to let a fart offense.

An Indian tribe in South America called the Yanomami,, use farting as a greeting. Just say Hi.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.

In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who could fart the loudest and longest!

The female Southern Pine Beetle farts a pheromone called frontalin which is used to attract a mate. It can also be used as a gathering call to the rest of the species

These animals can not fart: The Pogonophoran Worm, the Jellyfish and the Coral and Sea Anemones. This is caused by lake of an anus.

The average person spends three years of his or her life on a toilet.

 

 
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Mizu is bored haha

 
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LOL

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