Humans don't just shrink with age. They shrink EVERY DAY.

Humans don't just shrink with age. They shrink EVERY DAY.

Humans shrink and regain height daily, sometimes as much as 3/4 of an inch in one day. When we move throughout the day, the fluid disks in in our spinal column compress and we shrink. When we rest at night our backbones reabsorb the fluid and our height comes back.

As our bodies degenerate over time, our ability to grow back our height diminishes over time. This contributes to the loss of height that occurs as we age. It's not uncommon to lose two whole inches by the time we hit 60 years old.

Blue M&M's might be able to treat spinal injuries, scientists say

Blue M&M's might be able to treat spinal injuries, scientists say.

Researchers have been testing the effects of a compound called "Brilliant Blue G" on lab rats. The compound is a blue dye found in blue M&M's that give them their distinctive color.

The researchers injected rats with spinal injuries with Brilliant Blue G. The compound improved recovery and reduced the lesions that came along with the injury. The way it worked is that the compound blocks another chemical that causes more cell damage during an injury, thus reducing the "secondary spinal cord damage" that the chemical causes. The result? The rats with spinal injuries that received treatment with Brilliant Blue G were able to walk again, while the control group rats that weren't treated were not.

Now, before you start picking out blue M&M's to put into your first aid kit, it's important to note that the dye was only effective 15 minutes after sustaining the injury, it has to be absorbed intravenously, and one of the side effects is that the rats' skin turned blue.

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Tanning can give you cancer and kill you. Tans are just damaged skin cells

You get a tan by exposing yourself to harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation. This is the case, whether you're tanning in the sun, or in a tanning bed. Exposure to UV radiation can lead to prematurely aged skin (wrinkles, brown spots, etc.) Worse still, you can get skin cancer.

Your risk of melanoma more than doubles if you began using tanning beds before the age of 35. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends banning the use of tanning beds by children under the age of 18.

Some people mistakenly think that you need to use a tanning bed to develop a "base tan" to protect them from UV rays from the sun, but actually the opposite is true. You're really just adding even more radiation to your skin.

Globally in 2000, over 200,000 cases of melanoma were diagnosed and there were 65 000 melanoma-associated deaths. UV rays can also cause cataracts and eventual blindness.

The WHO recommends that you use sunscreen and sunglasses with UV protection when out in the sun, and to stay in the shade as much as you can. Babies should always be left in the shade because they are more at risk.
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In Singapore, you can't walk in YOUR OWN HOUSE naked.

In Singapore, you can't walk in YOUR OWN HOUSE naked.

Well, you could, but you'd be facing a possible $1,136 fine. If that sounds bad, wait until you see the cost of selling chewing gum. If you're caught either selling or manufacturing gum in Singapore you're looking at a fine of $5,600 and one year in jail. It's also a $284 fine if you use a public toilet and forget to flush. So on the plus side, even though you can't chew gum, at least the public bathrooms in Singapore probably smell pretty good.

Of course, Singapore isn't the only country where you can get busted for being naked in YOUR OWN HOUSE!

If you look up at the sun (which we seriously don't recommend), you are technically looking back in time.

If you look at the sun RIGHT NOW, you are technically looking back in time. It takes eight minutes for light from the sun to reach Earth.

Therefore, the image of the sun in the sky outside your window at this moment is actually what the sun looked like about eight minutes ago.