These are bits of supposedly common knowledge that I have recently learned. Thought I would post them for the rest of you clueless people out there in hopes that you won't have to go through the ridicule I've endured. Also, I've posted some other interesting information I think should be known to the general public.
- Water expands when it freezes. (So don't put cans of soda in the freezer!)
- BB (as in BB gun) stands for Ball Bearing
- Ben and George are brothers. Despite the fact that I had been to their house a bunch of times, it didn't occur to me until about October.
- KISS (the band) stands for Knights In Satan's Service
- Orange and melon peels are called "rinds".
- If you think about it, Allyson really resembles a miniature Fran Drescher.
- Dope Ingredient May Fight Cancer
The Associated Press
Feb 28 2000 5:01PM ET
NEW YORK (AP) - Marijuana-like drugs eradicated some brain cancers in rats and helped other animals live longer, possibly hinting at a new approach for treating the disease, researchers say.
But brain cancer experts said they aren't impressed.
The study dealt with gliomas, the most common category of cancer arising in the brain. Gliomas are highly lethal in people despite treatment with drugs, surgery and radiation.
The rat study was published in the March issue of the journal Nature Medicine. It was conducted by scientists at the Complutense and Autonoma universities in Madrid, Spain.
They injected glioma cells into the brains of rats to produce tumors. Untreated rats died within 18 days.
Other rats were treated with drug infusions for seven days through a tube leading to the tumor. Fifteen rats got infusions of THC, the main active component in marijuana. Tumors disappeared in three animals, and nine other rats outlived the untreated ones, surviving up to 35 days.
When researchers used a different but similar drug, five of 15 rats became tumor-free and four others outlived untreated animals, the researchers said.
But Dr. Philip Gutin, chief of neurosurgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, said other experimental therapies work better in rats. And the paper doesn't demonstrate that the effect came from the drugs rather than simply the infusion of liquid into the brain, he said.
Dr. Rolf Barth, who studies brain tumors at Ohio State University, called the work interesting. But he said the type of glioma cells used to create the tumors does not provide a very good mimic of the human disease.
- I used to know a guy named Danny Irazarri. Isn't that a funny name?
- "Stationary" refers to things you write on like notepads. For some reason, I always thought it meant silverware, dinner plates, and shit like that. Oh well.
- Did you know that Kevin's about to get a foot in his ass if he keeps mocking my ignorance on the subjects of stationary and rinds.
- Did you know that on every 15th blink, my smoke detector does a double-blink?! Remember that.
- Did you know that Robin's roommate's friend produced one of Wesley Willis' albums? Small world.
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