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It’s just an unfriendly reminder that you have fillings (or some other metal dental work). When two different metals come into contact, an electrical charge passes between them. That’s the zap you feel when tinfoil touches the metal in tour mouth. The jolt travels from the tin to your tooth’s nerve through the filling. People without dental work won’t experience this sensation – yet another reason to brush and floss regularly!

The electric shock travels from the foil into the filling or crown, and then into the nerve. The shock is then sent to the brain as a pain sensation, because that’s what it is, pain. The final step in the process is to remove the foil and NEVER do it again.

The reason your friend didn’t feel any pain is because they more than likely haven’t had any dental work done in the way of fillings or crowns. Essentially, if your mouth is in perfect condition and has never been touched by a dentist, you will feel no pain from chewing aluminum foil.

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Caffeine – a chemical extracted from coffee beans, cacao (the source of chocolate), cola nuts (used in, you guessed it, cola), and tea leaves – offers no nutritional value, yet some adults can’t start their day without a jolt from their cup of joe. The caffeine in coffee, tea, energy drinks, pop, and chocolate stimulates the central nervous system, delivering a boost energy while clearing away the cobwebs of drowsiness (which is why people feel charged up after chugging down a caffeinated drink). But caffeine’s effects are temporary. Once the caffeine wears off, you’re left feeling drained and foggy. You might even have a headache. Drinking too much caffeine will cause your heart to race and your hands to shake. And good luck getting to sleep if you slurp a soda before bedtime.

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Your body’s guts have a lot of give. When you encounter a sudden change in direction and speed, your organs jostle against each other until forces of gravity and momentum reassert themselves and pull everything back into place. Drops on roller coasters (and, to a lesser extent, dips in the road) counteract the forces of gravity and throw your body into a sudden free fall. For an instant, with nothing pushing against it, your stomach rises and you feel that funky sinking feeling that makes roller coasters so much fun and/or terrifying.

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J.K. Rowling is famous for introducing the world to a boy wizard in 1997 through today in England. The “boy who lived” first sparked to life in the imagination of J.K. Rowling when she was riding a train from Manchester to London in 1990. Rowling’s own mother was dying of an illness at the time, which influenced her tale of an orphaned boy and the villainous Voldemort’s quest to conquer death. Low on money and raising her daughter alone, Rowling released her first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (known as the Sorcerer’s Stone in the U.S.) seven years later, followed by six sequels. Her creation spawned blockbuster movies and even a theme park. She’s now one of the England’s wealthiest people and possibly the most famous English author since William Shakespeare.

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Originally appearing as a carpenter named Jumpman in the Donkey Kong arcade game, Mario was renamed after the landlord of Nintendo’s American warehouse. Mario’s profession changed to plumber when he appeared again in Mario Bros.

Regarding Mario’s origins, it’s common knowledge among game fans that legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto created him for 1981’s Donkey Kong arcade game. But few know that Nintendo borrowed Mario’s name and Italian heritage from a real man.

That man’s name is Mario Segale, and he’s not a plumber. He’s a wealthy real estate developer in Tukwila, Washington.  Segale unwittingly stepped into video game history by renting out a warehouse that served as Nintendo’s U.S. headquarters in the early 1980s. At that time, a financially struggling Nintendo of America (NOA) was preparing the U.S. launch of Donkey Kong. Legend has it that NOA President Minoru Arakawa noticed physical similarities between Donkey Kong’s short, dark-haired protagonist and the landlord. So the crew at NOA nicknamed the character Mario, and it stuck.

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Director George Lucas changed the title of the third Star Wars movie from Revenge of the Jedi after realizing that true Jedi wouldn’t seek revenge. The change came just two months before Return of the Jedi was released in cinemas.

It was a big financial problem for Lucas film, who had already released lots of merchandise, trailers and posters with the original title. Since the change fans have speculated that Lucas called it Revenge of the Jedi on purpose, with full intention of changing it later to prevent counterfeiting.

Another rumour claimed it was because the title would be too closely related to Star Trek II: The Vengeance of Khan, which too was changed to Wrath of Khan.

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