That fact is too useful!  :)

I had an anatomy professor who had cancer and they had to cut out his vagus nerve; that is the nerve that tells you when you are hungry, so he could not ever tell if he was hungry or full.

The vagus nerve does a lot more than that.  It controls quite a bit.  crazy that he had it removed.  Was it a partial removal or full?

The Vagus nerve is the X cranial nerve, unless I forgot that.

let me rephrase as, "that's one thing it does..."  He didn't seem to have any other side effects, and besides, it was have it cut or die of cancer.

what type of cancer would only effect that nerve?  Usually if cancer is in the nervous system you're SOL

It has been 22 years since I took that class so I really don't recall the details; but he was one of the most well respected doctors in the country with connections, and I think it was experimental surgery done by a top surgeon...

This is going back in my memory, but as I recall, they had to cut the vagus nerve to access the cancer in the brain.  I don't recally exactly where the cancer was located or if it was attacking the nervous system.

oh okay, that makes a little more sense.  If it was in the brain it'd be different enough, in my understanding.  Still kind of crazy what they can do with medicine, and that was 22 years ago

It was more like 30 years ago because he had long since recovered by then.

Back to happier trivia:

An iron maiden had a drain built in to drain the blood of its victim.

well I guess it'd be rather messy otherwise.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

Hiphopmonstrosesequipedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

The steroids if ancient Rome were dried boar’s dung; Chariot racers often took a drink made from the dung before major events

I'm afraid of trying to pronounce Hiphopmonstrosesequipedaliophobia

My room has been nicknamed Ground Zero.

violets are blue

I can't sleep at the moment.

My Birthday was yesterday

I wasn't aware it was Ari's birthday yesterday.

No one here was, I think.

Every time I remember a piece of useless trivia, I forget what it was by the time I post a reply to this thread.

Ari finally hit 10 Royalty claims.

Recently, China outlawed any movie, book or other media that has time travel in it because such things may distort and disrespect the past.

(Funny, and here I thought all time travel stories were supposed to 100% fact based...)

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.

The name Santos means "Saints", and yes.. I am... _{If you're not a villager...}

A raisin dropped in a fresh glass of soda will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

The oldest Z-ombie in the cast list who has actually logged on / posted is:

Name       Group     Last Logon          Last Post            # of Posts
SoulCR     Z NPC     Thu 27 Mar 2003     Mon 10 Mar 2003      80

This message was last edited by the player at 07:22, Sat 16 Apr 2011.

I thought you were removed from ASWoT if you didn't post in a year?