ü Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
ü The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
ü Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing.
ü You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
ü A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
ü Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
ü Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
ü The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
ü When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
ü Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
ü A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded
ü “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
ü Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”
ü The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond.
ü Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
ü “Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.
ü Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
ü The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.
ü If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
ü China has more English speakers than the United States.
ü Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
ü Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
ü An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
ü Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
ü Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
ü According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
ü The longest place name still in use is:
ü Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi-pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu – a New Zealand hill.
ü If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
ü Scientists in Australia’s Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.
Strange-but-true
ü The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
ü The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
ü The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
ü The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
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