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[challenge entry] This really is true!!


I read it in Harpers Magazine . . .

From the 100% Fact challenge. See all 469 entries (closed)

(mixtapes, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:32, archived)
# it's all greek to me.
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:33, archived)
# repostage of the ancient geek variety.
(I helped save b3ta! Alfie, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:42, archived)
# Bollocks.
You might be breathing molecules from his body, but probably not from his breath. But then again, the same is true of anyone else who died in that era... so it's not that impressive, is it?
(I helped save b3ta! Detrius521, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:33, archived)
# but its 100%
of Fact. Honest.
(mixtapes, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:34, archived)
# ah,
sorry, didn't see the 100% FACT label. Must be true then!! My mistake.

:P :D
(I helped save b3ta! Detrius521, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:36, archived)
# I think I can smell
one of his farts
(I helped save b3ta! dotmund .co.uk, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:37, archived)
# That makes me suspect
you're a homeopathist!
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Nostril, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:49, archived)
# Well the argument goes
That the number of molecules in the average human breath is greater than the number of breaths it takes to make up the atmosphere
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Nostril, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:52, archived)
# However quantum mechanics
sort of implies the question has no meaning,
since you can't label oxygen and nitrogen molecules for 2000 years under ambient conditions.

[edit] 100% UNFACT
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Nostril, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:53, archived)
# That's a marvelous fact
i don't understand how but that doesn't stop it being marvelous!
(I helped save b3ta! Roxy_Hart is so so old, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:34, archived)
# The other 1 time...
...you get a molecule from his final fart.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:34, archived)
[challenge entry] Hahahahah
(mixtapes, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:41, archived)
# argh, i'm never breathing again
actually I think I will
(mcalidnb, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 21:03, archived)
# Ooh...
I was reading something very similar today.... apparently we all contain millions of atoms which once made up Shakespeare
(I helped save b3ta! matsimpsk, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:35, archived)
# and these congregate deep in the brain in an organ
known as Shatner's Bassoon. 100% UBERFACT
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Nostril, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:55, archived)
# That's not as good as the fact
that every day you will breathe 12 litres of other people's anal gasses
(I helped save b3ta! Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:42, archived)