If you've had an organ transplant, it is best to avoid eating grapefruit or drinking grapefruit juice (it interferes with the anti-rejection drugs in your blood).

Reference: NHS direct

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One in a million means there's how many in china?

If you say somebody is 1 in a million you are saying there are 1,317 of them in China (as of 4/30/07)

Reference: http://www.cpirc.org.cn/en/eindex.htm

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Your happiness depends on other people

"The pain of having less is much stronger than the joy of having more." Workers who discover they're earning more for the same work may be happy, but those who earn less can quickly feel slighted, killing motivation and often the quality of their output.

Reference: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1687725,00.html

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Sadness May Encourage More Extravagance

A new study (2/08) suggests that sadness leads to shopping.

According to the study that will be published in the June 2008 number of Psychological Science, sadness leads to ego-centrist thinking. In other words, a sad person tends to transform into a shopaholic, willing to spend extra money on the same item than neutral-emotion people would buy for a lot less.

�It is the combination of sadness and self-focus that drives the effect, and it turns out that sadness leads to an increase in self-focus,� said Cynthia Cryder, co-author to the study, AFP quotes. �What we think is going on is that sad and self-focused people are feeling pretty bad about themselves and have a decreased valuation, and one way to do this is by acquiring material goods.�

Oh yeah, it also says this therapy does not work. If you�re sad and feel like shopping, don�t!

Reference: http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Feeling_Sad_Shopping_Is_Not_The_Answer_Study_Warns_13799.html

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Ten traits that make you filthy rich

According to Jeffrey Strain of TheStreet.com, here are 10 traits that will make you rich.

Patience
Satisfaction
Organization
Discipline
Reflectiveness
Creativity
Creativity
Curiosity
Risk-Taking
Goal-Oriented
Hard & Smart Working

Reference: http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/104385/Ten-Traits-That-Make-You-Filthy-Rich

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If women make it to 50, they are just getting started.

If a woman reaches her 50th birthday without cancer or heart disease, she can expect to see 92.

Reference: http://www1.evergreeninvestments.com/eicom/pub/newcontent.go?c=Investing%20Essentials::Getting%20Started::Investing%20Facts%20for%20Women&k=900100060

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How bad is that burn?

There are 3 classifications of burns. a) First degree burn only involves the outer layer of skin. b) Second degree burn involves several layers of the skin tha become blistered. c) Third degree burn is all layers of the skin,underlying tissue and organs. Nerves are damaged and sometimes destoyed.

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How people measured things in the early days

In early times various body parts were used as tools and guides, hence the word "feet," or "the rule of thumb."

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How are twins made?

Identical twins develop when one egg separates then is fertilized, fraternal twins are 2 separate eggs, and siamese twins is one egg that began to separate but was fertilized before the completion of the egg division.

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How are identical twins different?

One twin is always born healthier and bigger then the other because of the unbalanced distribution of nutrients during pregnancy. Some identical twins are actual mirror images of each other, e.g. one will be right-handed the other left or one is near sighted the other far sighted etc.

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The amount of blood a person must have.

A human can bleed to death in a minute or less. A loss of 1 quart of blood or more will lead to shock or even death.

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What is the most contagious disease?

The most contagious disease is the common cold and the most non-contagious disease is gingivitis.

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What kind of cancer is that?

Classifications of cancer are:
a) carcinoma, involves skin
b) sarcoma, involves bone, muscle, cartilage, and fat
c) leukemia, involves white blood cells
d) lymphoma, involves lymphatic system

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What saturation of sulfur dioxide will cause people to cough

Sulfur dioxide is a colorless gas with a suffocating, choking odor. It is toxic to humans and concentrations as low as 8 ppm will produce coughing. Incredibly, in the Odyssey, Homer describes the burning of sulfur (formation of SO2) as a way that homes were 'fumigated'.

Reference: http://mattson.creighton.edu/SO2/SO2_Info.html

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When & where did farming begin?

The roots of farming began in the areas of present day Turkey and the Middle East about 10,000 years ago. Over 80 percent of mankind's diet is provided by the seeds of less than a dozen plant species.

Reference: http://www.historylink101.com/lessons/farm-city/story-of-farming.htm

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What types of breast implants are there?

The two breast implant choices are silicone and saline. Saline is considered advantageous because it will easily dissolve if ruptured but, it is also more likely to show ripples through the skin.

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Fun facts about the human consumption of rice

Rice is the second most consumed grain in the world. Rice provides more than one fifth of the calories consumed worldwide by humans. In early 2008, some governments and retailers began rationing supplies of the grain due to fears of a global rice shortage.

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What other animals besides cows provide milk used by humans for dairy products?

Sheep,goats,buffalo,horses,donkeys,camels,yaks,water buffalo,reindeer and zebras are also providers of milk.

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Can I Get Pregnant From A Dog?

As of April 2010 you can visit Google and type in "can i get" and see the auto-suggestion of.... "can i get pregnant from a dog!" The Google suggest feature is intended to suggest the most likely search given the current term based on actual search volume! Let's hope it's malfunctioning in this case.

The answer is of course, "NO"! Why? According to wikianswers dog sperm can penetrate a human egg but the egg will die immediately because the male & female chromosomes don't match. As a general rule different animal species can not produce offspring. However, some animals have been to known to have virgin births!

Reference: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=aKF&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=can+i+get+pregnant+from+a+dog&aq=0&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=can+i+get&gs_rfai=

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