I'm usually at the city on weekdays around 07:40 (I don't start work till nearly an hour later), so you know that Bookshop (basement?) near Central? I go there and sometimes buy a book or two, containing useless but interesting information. :3
Here are several things I've learnt:
- Food that cause ache: milk (1 cup daily is fine, 3+ cups daily is overkill), skimmed milk is worse; cream cheese and cottage cheese; shellfish and soy sauce (NOOOOO).
White chocolate and greasy foods like French fries are not in the list. o_O - Eating poppy seeds will make you fail a drug test. But if you have eaten less than 15 poppy seed bagels before your race, you should be fine. :3
- The shark's most sensitive areas are really their eyes and their gills, not their nose. Miss the nose and you're probably helping your fellow shark eat your hand.
- The shark can tell the difference between a seal and a human being. Or else they would have went at you at around 50 km per hour. They take their time with humans.
- You do not need to wait after a meal before swimming. Unless you're really, really scared of getting cramps. Instead, you should wait after a drink before swimming. It's more likely that you'll drown because you're not sober than because you're suffering a cramp.
- Bacteria love to live on toothbrushes. Do not leave toothbrushes in the cabinet or leave it laying down, and replace them every couple of months. [I do not like this one, it's increasing my paranoia.]
- The common flu vaccine will not give you the flu. They do give you viruses, but they're dead. Unlike nasal sprays that shoot you with weakened, not dead viruses. [Gah, I didn't know the virus was already dead. I've been scared of vaccines for nothing!]
- Unless you're allergic, drinking milk does not increase mucus. [D: I'd been avoiding milk every time I'm sick.]
- Chicken soup really is good for the cold. Any type of chicken broth, besides chicken-flavoured instant noodles (damnit), will help you beat the cold. :3
- Do not shower or bathe during a thunderstorm. You do have a small chance of getting electrocuted. Pipes are good conductors. Human beings are better.
- If a bee stings you, take out its stinger ASAP. The longer it stays there, the more the bee's venom will be released. (There was a experiment done where one volunteer was stung more than fifty times, to prove that the longer it took to remove the stinger, the bigger the welt would become. o_O)
Jenny
