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unusual facts about Saliva



Asilidae

The fly attacks its prey by stabbing it with its short, strong proboscis injecting the victim with saliva containing neurotoxic and proteolytic enzymes which very rapidly paralyze the victim and soon digest the insides; the fly then sucks the liquefied material through the proboscis.

Brad Arnold

Brad sang a duet with Saliva frontman Josey Scott on a song entitled Razor's Edge on Saliva's third studio release Survival of the Sickest.

Cardiac marker

However, in 2010, research at the Baylor College of Medicine revealed that, using diagnostic nanochips and a swab of the cheek, cardiac biomarker readings from saliva can, with the ECG readings, determine within minutes whether someone is likely to have had a heart attack.

Cinnamon challenge

Kari Byron and Grant Imahara failed, while Tory Belleci completed it by tucking his spoonful into his cheek and letting saliva accumulate in his mouth until he could swallow.

Damien Starkey

Damien scored and wrote music for The Nitro Circus 3D Movie and American Pie: Reunion, and also works on several other TV shows and movies, and has co-written for and produced many notable artists including platinum selling band Saliva.

GodsGirls

GodsGirls models have been featured in music videos such as The Sounds' "Tony the Beat," Kelis' "Bossy," Teddybears' "Cobrastyle," Saliva's "Ladies and Gentlemen," Hollywood Undead's "No. 5" and Good Charlotte's "The River".

Josey Scott

Scott appeared as a hidden character in the video game "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003", which features three Saliva songs on the soundtrack: "Raise Up", "Superstar", and "Superstar II (EA Mix)", which is exclusive to the game.

Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident

On March 13, an Okinawan newspaper reported that the JNP had matched DNA taken from saliva on the victim's upper body with DNA in a blood sample obtained from Brown during the investigation.

Oragene

Oragene is the tradename for a non-invasive self-collection DNA kit that allows extraction of DNA from saliva, developed by DNA Genotek, a branch of OraSure Technologies.

Premastication

Premastication can transmit a wide range of diseases and pathogens from infected parents to their infants through the parents' saliva and open mouth ulcers, including HIV-AIDS as well as possibly hepatitis B virus, Helicobacter pylori.

Reduviidae

The saliva of the reduviid species Rhynocoris marginatus (Fab.) and Catamirus brevipennis (Servile) have anti-bacterial activity towards the human pathogens Gram-negative bacteria (Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus vulgaris, Salmonella typhimurium) and one Gram-positive (Streptococcus pyogenes).

Spunky

Spunky emits foul odors, eats trash, drinks his saliva, and rolls in and eats Ed Bighead's salmon bushes, causing Mr. Bighead to feel annoyed.

Stereomud

After participating in the Jägermeister Music Tour with Hed PE, Breaking Benjamin, Systematic, and Saliva, Columbia Records cut their touring support, and dropped the band.

Unable Heir

Unable Heir took place in Rock The Ink Fest along with many national acts, including Godsmack, Bret Michaels, Killswitch Engage, Saliva, Sevendust, and many more.


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