"1 like = 1 delicious cocktail recipe or booze fact."
october 2017 by jm
Great cocktail factoid thread from Manhattans Project/Every Cloud's Felix Cohen
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october 2017 by jm
TIL you shouldn’t use conditioner if you get nuked
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august 2017 by jm
If you shower carefully with soap and shampoo, Karam says [Andrew Karam, radiation expert], the radioactive dust should wash right out. But hair conditioner has particular compounds called cationic surfactants and polymers. If radioactive particles have drifted underneath damaged scales of hair protein, these compounds can pull those scales down to create a smooth strand of hair. "That can trap particles of contamination inside of the scale," Karam says.
These conditioner compounds are also oily and have a positive charge on one end that will make them stick to negatively charged sections of a strand of hair, says Perry Romanowski, a cosmetics chemist who has developed personal hygiene formulas and now hosts "The Beauty Brains" podcast on cosmetics chemistry.
"Unlike shampoo, conditioners are meant to stay behind on your hair," Romanowski says. If the conditioner comes into contact with radioactive material, these sticky, oily compounds can gum radioactive dust into your hair, he says.
august 2017 by jm
The ancient Egyptian word for 'cat' was pronounced 'miaow'
april 2014 by jm
and many other cool-but-true factoids
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april 2014 by jm
Why sugar helped remove Victoria Line concrete flood
january 2014 by jm
Sugar blocks concrete from setting. This I did not know
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january 2014 by jm
Ivan Beshoff, Last Survivor Of Mutiny on the Potemkin, founded Beshoffs
january 2013 by jm
wow. there's a factoid! the "Beshoffs" chain of chippers in Dublin were founded by this historic figure, who died in 1987
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january 2013 by jm
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