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Old 26 December 2010, 08:30 PM
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Comment: Is there any possibility whatsoever of someone getting pregnant
from semen getting in they're eye? I have looked online for a pretty long
time and argued with my friends over it for years. I even called the
hospital once and talked to three different people until one said it
"might" be possible but almost definitely not. But all the blood in a
human body is circulated around and a gob of sperm could accidentally go
from the eye to the egg right?
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Old 26 December 2010, 08:31 PM
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Comment: I've heard that red meat has to rot in your stomach before you
can digest it. Something about this doesn't sound right at all to me, but
I haven't been able to find any sound evidence of either yes or no. I'd
really love if you could figure this out once and for all!
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Old 27 December 2010, 12:12 AM
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Seriously? They've talked to three people in a hospital (hopefully actual doctors or nurses or something) who've all said "no", and they still don't buy it?

I never understand the person who "keeps looking for the truth" until they find the answer they wanted in the first place. The truth is the truth. It's not necessarily "what you want to hear" and if what you hear from reliable sources is consistent and against what you feel "must be right", then maybe what you feel must be right is not actually the truth.
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Old 27 December 2010, 01:14 AM
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If you're that concerned about getting someone pregnant, don't ejaculate on them to begin with.
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Old 27 December 2010, 02:13 AM
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Comment: Is there any possibility whatsoever of someone getting pregnant
from semen getting in they're eye?
It sounds like this person thinks HIV transmission and impregnation occur through the same mechanisms.
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Comment: I received a notification from a friend on Facebook that says
that on order to make cows produce milk they have to be pregnant and the
baby calfs are taken away at birth and put in cages to become veal. Is
this true? I mean I know about baby cows being put in cages to become veal
and therefore I never eat veal but do cows need to be pregnant to produce
milk? And what else can you find out?
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Old 03 August 2012, 12:16 AM
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Cows can produce milk just fine without having to be inseminated or give birth, even for years and years.

Now heifers on the other hand...
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