Ward's Ap Biology Lab 4

History Photographs made 10 amazing scientific facts that possibly were unaware

1. Chickens can hypnotize

A chicken can be hypnotized (or make it go into a trance) just holding his head on the floor, while repeatedly drawn with a stick or finger lines on earth, from its peak in a straight line outwards. If successful

hypnotize a chicken in this way, the animal remains perfectly still for up to 30 minutes with his eyes on the line.

2. You can get an erection and died

A post mortem erection (also known in English as "angel lust") occurs when the individual dies vertically or tummy, and the body remains in that position. In life, the heart pumps blood, which is distributed evenly among all the blood vessels of the human body. Once the mechanism fails to operate only the force of gravity acting on the blood. As with any other inert mass, blood rearranges the lowest point of the body, causing edema and swelling beyond where it accumulates.

3. Your hand can have its own life

The alien hand syndrome or alien hand syndrome (as seen in films like " How I, flew to Moscow " or " The Idle Hands") is a disorder mental rare in which one of the hands of the sufferer seems to take their own life. The syndrome is most common in cases of which have had a separation surgery of cerebral hemispheres, a process used at times to ease the symptoms of extreme cases of epilepsy. Also occurs in some other cases of brain surgery, strokes or brain infections.

4. Laugh too much could kill

Hilarity fatal death is caused as a result of laughter. In the third century BC Greek philosopher Chrysippus died Suns because of the attack provoked laughter after seeing a donkey eating figs [¿?]. There are also recent cases well documented.

The March 24, 1975, Alex Mitchell, a British bricklayer 50 years, literally died laughing while watching an episode of The Goodies "(a comedy series for television). According to his wife, eyewitness, Mitchell could not stop laughing while watching a sketch the program, in which the protagonist, dressed in traditional Scottish skirt, used various bagpipes to defend himself from a psychopathic black pudding. After twenty minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell sofa collapsed and died of a cardiac collapse. Some time later his widow sent to "The Goodies" a letter thanking them for having made the last moments of life so pleasant Mitchell.

5. A weapon could make you gay

The U.S. Army studied manufacture a pump cause homosexuality in the enemy and thereby "undermine the morale and discipline" of troops. The idea was to launch chemical agents capable of altering the hormones and make the soldiers feel "irresistibly attracted to one another."

seems a joke, but the project was presented in all seriousness to the Pentagon in 1994, with an estimated budget of $ 7.4 million for development and mass production for six years of this weapon and others no less outlandish (eg the possibility of spraying your enemies with a substance that causes halitosis "serious and continuous" or a bad smell, to make "readily identifiable").

6. True, men can breastfeed

The phenomenon of male lactation in humans has become commonplace in recent years due to the use of drugs that stimulate the mammary glands males.

The male lactation is often caused by hormonal treatments given to men suffering from prostate cancer. It is also possible to induce both males and females through constant massage and suctions on the nipple, for long periods of time (months).

7. The "receptacles" (half tomato, half snuff) there

The "receptacles" was originally a fictional hybrid fruit that appeared in a 1999 episode of the Simpsons. The method used to create the "receptacles" in that space was fictitious.

But the "receptacles" became reality when, supposedly, was produced in 2003. Inspired by the Simpsons, Rob Baur, got grafted onto the roots of a snuff plant a tomato plant. It is theoretically possible because both plants come from the same family.

8. It's okay to have a third nipple

Supernumerary nipples (also known as a third nipple or polythelia) is the biological phenomenon by which mammals, including humans, come to have a nipple (not to mammary gland). Usually found in the mammary line that follows the nipples on the chest to the abdomen. If large, should be removed. They are usually small and are mistaken for warts.

singer, model and actor Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple on the left chest . In 2005 studied the possibility is removed, end up deciding to keep it.

9. You can die on the toilet

There are many cases of injury and death any, related to the toilets along history (plus many urban legends.)

In children, one of the most common causes of genital injury is when the toilet lid falls while using the toilet.

George II of Great Britain died in a toilet, due to a dissection of the aorta, October 25, 1760. According to Horace Walpore memories, King George "rose as usual at six, and his chocolate breakfast, all activities were invariably methodic. Fifteen minutes after the seven came in a small rudimentary toilet. His valet, while waiting for him, he heard a noise entering the king was dead on the floor. "

10. Eating boogers is healthy

mucofagia (literally eat the snot) is the ingestion of nasal mucus, snot, and other detritus obtained when blowing the nose.

Several investigations suggest that the mucofagia, and a natural activity, may even be healthy digestive system by exposing the bacteria accumulated in the mucus, thereby helping to strengthen the immune system.