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  1. http://www.vrg.org/blog/2011/03/09/l-cysteine-in-bread-products-still-mostly-sourced-from-human-hair-duck-feathers-hog-hair/

     

     

    Or hair in bread!!!!!!

     

    There are many who don't realize insects are used in some red food coloring either. ;)

     

    And to top it all off, I once had a student who didn't realize the meat in a grocery store came from animals. She thought only hunting killed animals. I'm not sure how she aged without finding out that one to be honest. But that's not common.

     

    There are times I have fun teaching kids about life - like where smells come from... some of the components of sand/soil... why pools sometimes smell strongly of chlorine... what oysters really do, etc. Most didn't know these. ;)

     

    Every once in a while I even mention Santa Claus.

     

    One really needs to homeschool if they want to shelter their kids from people like me. :lol:

     

    (DO NOT take that last statement to mean I think all homeschoolers shelter their kids!)

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  2. In Seattle our cabs are orange.

     

    Also, yes, black people gray later than white people but also, sadly, black men in particular have a much lower life expectancy than white or Asian or Hispanic men (poverty and other issues) so it makes it very unlikely you'll see a very old black man.

    Are they called yellow though?

  3. The difference between extracting a specific hormone and drinking piss.

     

    Science FTW.

    Did I say it's the same?

     

    No. Just that they use it in make- up and medicine.

     

    Some people wouldn't realise that and find it odd. Finding out they are squirting urine in their ear, or splashing it on their faces.

     

    So I was just mentioning it etc.....

     

    Sorry for stepping on your toes. And *yes* I do realise that it would be in *small* amounts only. Geez......

  4. One of the world’s largest fertility drug-producing companies makes use of the ovulation-enhancing hormone in human urine to make Pergonal, reported to have had US$855 million in sales in 1992.

     

    More examples of commercial medical applications of urine and urea in use today include:-

     

    Murine Ear Drops and Murine Ear Wax Removal System

     

    Ureaphil, a diuretic made from urea

     

    Urofollotropin, a urine-extract fertility drug

     

    Ureacin, a urea cream for skin problems

     

    Amino-Cerv, a urea cream used for cervical treatments

     

    Premarin, a urine-extract oestrogen for skin ulcers, burns, infected wounds, and other purposes

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  5. http://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniehaiken/2012/03/12/dangerous-beauty-top-5-contaminated-beauty-products/

     

    And if you have ever thought that applying lead to the face in the past was stupid.........well, we're not that far advanced.

     

     

    I've wondered this too. I'm thinking our level of sugar consumption, or HFCS specifically. Perhaps it will be all the accidents from people driving their own cars.

  6. I have preached at my kids for years to not land on their hands when falling, but I'm sure we would all do the same in that situation.

     

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    Huh?

     

    My son at two had a horrific fall on wet tiles. I wished that he could have broken the fall with getting his hands out. Instead his forehead took all of the force of the fall. And he ended up with concussion, and stopped breathing, and then turned blue!!!!! I thought he was dying.... very, very terrifying!!!!!

     

    I'm not understanding what you are meaning here by saying that??? I would rather have had broken wrists to a smashed forehead. :'(

     

    I'm curious as to what they are taught to do in a fall. Please explain what I'm missing here. Thanks.

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