~tasha~
Age: 124
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* 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 est
