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March 30th, 2005, 12:29 PM
KNOW THE FACTS
Contrary to popular beliefs, chocolate does not cause acne
Crickets hear through their knees
China is the world’s oldest known continuous civilization
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood
75-90% of primary physician visits are due to stress
A full moon always rises at sunset
A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks
1 in 5 of the world’s doctors is Russian
A Woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s
Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%
The old English word of “ Sneeze” is “Fneosan”
The size of your foot is approximately the size of your forearm
The sun is 330,330 times larger than earth
The only planet without a ring is earth
The Snail mates only once in its entire life
The only bone not broken so far during any ski accident is one located in the inner ear.
The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth
Shrimps hearts are in their heads
Over $ 7 billion a year is spent on chocolates by consumers
Once car out of every 230 made was stolen last year
In just one drop of liquid, 50 million bacteria can be present
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better
Nachos is the food most craved by mothers-to-be
Pearls melt in Vinegar
Roughly 44% of junk mail is thrown away unopened
The Moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma
The most populated city in the world is Shangai in China
The word “byte” is a contraction of ‘by eight”
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour
Tourist visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult
There are 293 different ways to make change for a dollar
Your left lung in smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart
When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield its first consumable fruit
The Atlantic ocean is saltier than Pacific ocean
One billion seconds is about 32 years
India is the worlds largest consumer of gold
More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones
Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution
One ounce of chocolate has about 20mg of caffeine in it
It takes approximately 13 years for Jupiter to orbit the Sun
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
Non-dairy creamer is flammable
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom sawyer
Dog can hear sounds that you can’t
Eating about twenty tart cherries a day could reduce inflammatory pain and headache pain
Every 25 miles a car produces one pound of population
It has been medically proven that laughter is an effective pain killer
Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle
Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call
¼ of your body bones is in your feet
A moth has no stomach
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel
Every person has a unique tongue print, hand print, eye print and smell
Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world
Approximately eleven minutes are cut off the lie of an average male smoker from each cigarette smoked
At 40 degree centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing
Automobile building is the largest manufacturing industry in the world
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in a her life time
A human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at four weeks old
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food
The DNA of humans is closer to a rat then a cat
Studies indicate that listening to music is good for digestion
Starfishes have no brains
Smiling releases endorphins in the body, which makes people feel better
Scientists have determined that having guilty feelings may actually damage your immune system
Rabbits have 60 babies a year
Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie
66% of home based business are owned by women
160 cars can drive side by side on the monumental Axis in Brazil, the widest road
According to research, the most productive workday is Tuesday and the least productive day is Friday
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours
People with allergies can lower allergy reactions by laughing
Goat’s milk is used more widely throughout the world than cow’s milk
A lighting bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than these found at the sun’s surface
Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters
The first hard drive available for the Apple 2 had a capacity of 5 megabytes
People who smoke have 10 times as many wrinkles as a person that does not smoke
Children who are breast fed tend to have an IQ seven points higher than children who are not
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete
14% of all facts and statistics are made up and 27% of people know that fact
Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day
Caffeine is the world’s most popular stimulant
People have the tendency to chew the food on the side that they most often use their hand
Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb, was afraid of dark
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water
An average person loses about 200 head hairs per day
Lack of sleep can affect your immune system and reduce your ability to fight infections
The Eiffel Tower in Paris weighs over 1000 elephants
Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards
Black pepper is the most popular spice in the world
You blink over 10,000,000 times a year
The average person will spend 2 weeks of their lifetime wasting for a traffic light to change
It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth
Being unmarried can shorten a man’s life by ten years
All babies are color blind when they are born
Sharks never get sick, they are immune to all known diseases
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain
In a year, an average person makes 1,140 phone calls
A chicken goes from birth to dinner table in only 35 days
Microbes generate at least half the oxygen we breathe
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them
Almost half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet
The word “laser” stand for “ Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission by radiation”
When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times of your body weight
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second
An earthquake on Dec 16,1811 caused parts of the Mississippi river to flow backwards
There are more than 15,000 different varieties for rice
In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow down their faces
Babies eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight years old
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes
Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do
The first city in modern history to reach 1 million people was London in 1811
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk
“AIDS” is not a disease; it is a human killer let us join the nation to prevent it by educating our self and educating others about it.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges
Contrary to popular beliefs, chocolate does not cause acne
Crickets hear through their knees
China is the world’s oldest known continuous civilization
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood
75-90% of primary physician visits are due to stress
A full moon always rises at sunset
A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks
1 in 5 of the world’s doctors is Russian
A Woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s
Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%
The old English word of “ Sneeze” is “Fneosan”
The size of your foot is approximately the size of your forearm
The sun is 330,330 times larger than earth
The only planet without a ring is earth
The Snail mates only once in its entire life
The only bone not broken so far during any ski accident is one located in the inner ear.
The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth
Shrimps hearts are in their heads
Over $ 7 billion a year is spent on chocolates by consumers
Once car out of every 230 made was stolen last year
In just one drop of liquid, 50 million bacteria can be present
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better
Nachos is the food most craved by mothers-to-be
Pearls melt in Vinegar
Roughly 44% of junk mail is thrown away unopened
The Moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma
The most populated city in the world is Shangai in China
The word “byte” is a contraction of ‘by eight”
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour
Tourist visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult
There are 293 different ways to make change for a dollar
Your left lung in smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart
When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield its first consumable fruit
The Atlantic ocean is saltier than Pacific ocean
One billion seconds is about 32 years
India is the worlds largest consumer of gold
More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones
Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution
One ounce of chocolate has about 20mg of caffeine in it
It takes approximately 13 years for Jupiter to orbit the Sun
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
Non-dairy creamer is flammable
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom sawyer
Dog can hear sounds that you can’t
Eating about twenty tart cherries a day could reduce inflammatory pain and headache pain
Every 25 miles a car produces one pound of population
It has been medically proven that laughter is an effective pain killer
Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle
Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call
¼ of your body bones is in your feet
A moth has no stomach
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel
Every person has a unique tongue print, hand print, eye print and smell
Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world
Approximately eleven minutes are cut off the lie of an average male smoker from each cigarette smoked
At 40 degree centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing
Automobile building is the largest manufacturing industry in the world
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in a her life time
A human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at four weeks old
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food
The DNA of humans is closer to a rat then a cat
Studies indicate that listening to music is good for digestion
Starfishes have no brains
Smiling releases endorphins in the body, which makes people feel better
Scientists have determined that having guilty feelings may actually damage your immune system
Rabbits have 60 babies a year
Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie
66% of home based business are owned by women
160 cars can drive side by side on the monumental Axis in Brazil, the widest road
According to research, the most productive workday is Tuesday and the least productive day is Friday
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours
People with allergies can lower allergy reactions by laughing
Goat’s milk is used more widely throughout the world than cow’s milk
A lighting bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than these found at the sun’s surface
Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters
The first hard drive available for the Apple 2 had a capacity of 5 megabytes
People who smoke have 10 times as many wrinkles as a person that does not smoke
Children who are breast fed tend to have an IQ seven points higher than children who are not
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete
14% of all facts and statistics are made up and 27% of people know that fact
Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day
Caffeine is the world’s most popular stimulant
People have the tendency to chew the food on the side that they most often use their hand
Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb, was afraid of dark
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water
An average person loses about 200 head hairs per day
Lack of sleep can affect your immune system and reduce your ability to fight infections
The Eiffel Tower in Paris weighs over 1000 elephants
Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards
Black pepper is the most popular spice in the world
You blink over 10,000,000 times a year
The average person will spend 2 weeks of their lifetime wasting for a traffic light to change
It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth
Being unmarried can shorten a man’s life by ten years
All babies are color blind when they are born
Sharks never get sick, they are immune to all known diseases
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain
In a year, an average person makes 1,140 phone calls
A chicken goes from birth to dinner table in only 35 days
Microbes generate at least half the oxygen we breathe
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them
Almost half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet
The word “laser” stand for “ Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission by radiation”
When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times of your body weight
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second
An earthquake on Dec 16,1811 caused parts of the Mississippi river to flow backwards
There are more than 15,000 different varieties for rice
In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow down their faces
Babies eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight years old
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes
Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do
The first city in modern history to reach 1 million people was London in 1811
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk
“AIDS” is not a disease; it is a human killer let us join the nation to prevent it by educating our self and educating others about it.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges