Mar

07

Is College Free in Canada for Canadians?

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So my guilty pleasure is watching Degrassi. Degrassi is a show based on the lives of high school and college students and every week there’s some taboo subject that they touch upon (a character kills themself, od’s, gets pregnant, has an abortion, blah blah blah). Anyhow, it’s based in Canada.

So I was talking to one of the few people that I openly admit my obsession of this to (until now), and he said that he thought college was free in Canada, and I was all “OMG LYKE NO”. So here I am.

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Mar

06

How do you pick the right puppy from a litter?

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For the past 5 years, I’ve been telling myself (and everyone else) that I’d be getting a Bulldog, as soon as the time was right. The time being right = when I have a pet friendly apartment and when my cat is fat and lazy enough not to care anymore.

Anyhow, I was thinking.. how can you tell if you’re getting the right dog or not? I guess most people go on instinct, after all that’s how I chose my cat, and despite my previous post on her super snobby ways, she’s still better trained than any other cat I’ve met.

But alas, there is apparently a few ways to tell which dog will fit your own mannerisms that I found on a Bulldog information website, but it applied cross-breed.

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Mar

05

What is the most expensive cheese in the world?

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The most expensive cheese in the world is made from moose milk in Sweden. That’s right, moose cheese. It costs $500 bucks a pound – or a month’s rent in a bad apartment.

The cheese is so expensive because milking a moose is a pain in the ass.

“The moose only produce milk between May and September, the time from when they calve to when they are in heat again…It takes up to two hours to milk a moose and they each produce up to a gallon of milk a day,” according to the AP article.

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Mar

04

Why Do Onions Make You Cry?

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I’m such an onion and garlic fiend that I think I’m immune to the tears caused by onions (though probably not the bad breath). But I mean aside from the possibility of getting squirted in the eye with onion juice, how is it that a normal person can be feet away from an onion that is being cut, and still feel the emo effect?

As it turns out, it’s a serious chain reaction on both you and the onions part:

  • You cut the onion
  • You break open onion cells
  • The onion cells’ enzymes decompose amino acid sulfoxides, form sulfenic acids from the onion
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Mar

03

Why Do Beans Give Gas?

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Beans, beans, they’re good for your heart!

Beans contain sugars that we humans cannot digest. The most offensive sugars, known as “flatulence factors” to scientists who research farts, are raffinose, stachiose, and verbascose. When these sugars reach our intestines, the bacteria go wild, have a big feast, and make lots of gas! [source]

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