if you eat poppy seeds, you can consume enough morphine to appear on a blood test
You never have amino acids in your body, they exist as ammonium carboxylates.
benz[a]pyrene which exists in small amounts in hamburgers and hot dogs, after ingesting, the body attempts to rid itself of the foreign substance by converting it into diol epoxide so it can be excreted, except that it reacts with and binds to DNA and alters it leading to mutations or cancer.
acetaminophen (tylenol) is called that for a reason. It's chemical structure contains an acetyl, amine, and a phenol. Thus acetaminophen. And all these years, I thought it was just because they couldn't think of anything better.
A potato that has turned green because of exposure to sunlight, before it is eaten, must be peeled to remove all of the green chlorophyll so that the poisonous alkaloid solanine is removed. It doesn't cook off.
Another name for 3,7-dihydro-1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione is caffiene.
Toulene and HNO3 with an H2SO4 catalyst makes TNT.
A permanent wave results when disulfide bridges are formed between -SH groups in hair protein molecules.
chewing the bark of a willow tree will relieve pain. It has the same active ingredient as asprin.
Just in case you were wondering...
So after the short but wonderful break of working, working, and working, and 600 dollars. I'm back at school, in freakin 2 feet of snow and in a city where no one has heard of a snow plow let alone a snow shovel...GOSH!!! What is wrong with these people??? Plus it's supposed to snow again this weekend. 3 days into classes and I'm already wanting a break. My classes are so boring...I can't help but fall asleep. Well this is a pretty lame blog, but at least Catherine can't complain anymore for me not updating, even though she doesn't even have a blog...
IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
Here it goes...
Opening Credits- "What Matters Most" Jericho Road
Waking Up "Something's Coming" from West Side Story
First Day of School "Pilgrim" Enya
Fight Song "Hallelujah Chorus {from Christ on the Mount of Olives}" Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Breaking Up "Lonestar" Norah Jones
Prom "Seasons Of Love" from Rent
Life's Okay "16 Military Wives" The Decemberists
Mental Breakdown "For Good" from Wicked
Driving "Still Small Voice" by Janice Kapp Perry Performed at Day of Celebration
Flashback "Pray For Rain" Julie DeAzevedo
Getting Back Together "Blower's Daughter" Damien Rice
Birth of a Child "Be With You" Carmen Rasmussen
Wedding "God Be With You" Mormon Tabernacle Choir (Sounds more like a death sentence)
Final Battle "He'll Carry You" Hilary Weeks
Death Scene "Wonderful" From Wicked
Funeral Song "Amazing Things" Julie DeAzevedo
End Credits "Prayer In the Night {sarabande}" Amici
