Each Sunday W2Fy teams up with SmartestYear.com to bring you some overly pedantic facts to spice up conversations. This week learn how to piss of hippies and why flexing your bum can beat a lie detector. As always, check out SmartestYear.com everyday for a brand new fact and all sorts of new knowledge.
They’re melting…MELTING! (1/21/10)
I always hear people telling me that the melting of the polar ice caps will cause the oceans to rise. This is false. In order to float, an iceberg displaces a volume of water
which weighs the same as the iceberg. When an ice cube melts in your glass of water does it overflow? No. The melting of ice caps and the rising ocean levels are both results of the heating planet, however. Water is the most dense at 4 degrees Celsius. When the water temperature exceeds 4 degrees, it becomes less dense and expands, thus causing the water levels to rise. While this fact does not make global warming any less frightening, it will allow you to shut up the whiny yuppie-hippie at Whole Foods.
Pucker Up (1/26/10)
One way to try to beat a polygraph machine (lie detector, for the layman) is to flex your anal sphincter muscles. If you pucker your brown eye during the control questions you can throw off the consistency of the readings by creating blood pressure changes. You should note, however, that now some lie detectors come equipped with a pressure sensitive seat that will detect these anal contractions. At this point you have to beat the polygraph test and the pressure sensitive seat… you can no longer look to your butthole for support— you’re on your own.
I hated researching this one.
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