Fun Facts

Fun Facts:

1. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
2. It's been proven that people can lessen reactions to allergies by laughing.
3. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system.
4. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day.Azzlts only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
5. The middle ages, people would pin the name of their sweet heart to their sleeve on Valentine’s Day and keep it there for a week, hence “wearing their heart on their sleeve”.
6. It was during the Victorian era that the formerly nude Cupid was redesigned as wearing a skirt.
7. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
8. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
9. Tomato Ketchup was once used as medicine in the United States. Was sold as "Dr.Miles Compound Extract of Tomato"
10. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red
11. Dating back to the 1600's, thermometers were filled with Brandy instead of mercury
12. The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second
13. An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
14. Shoe sizes were standardized in Britain in 1885
15. The average person's eyes will be closed about 30 minutes a day due to blinking.
16. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
17. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
18. There are at least 40 known carcinogens in cigarettes.
19. The earliest British expeditions tackling Everest wore tweed jackets, woolen underwear, and leather boots.
    
    The amniotic fluid that surrounds a baby in the womb is completely replaced every three hours.
20. During World War II, twice as many fighter pilots were killed during training than combat
21. In 1962 an outbreak of contagious laughter in Tanganyika lasted for six months and caused schools to be closed
22. A nautical mile measures 6,080 feet while a land or statute mile is 5,280 feet
23. No one can drown in the Dead Sea. It is 25 percent salt, which makes the water very heavy
24. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water
25. Earth's oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of gold, dissolved in the water
26. Children who are breastfed tend to have an I.Q. seven points higher than children who are not.
27. The bird flu virus could evolve into a form that is easily spread between people, resulting in a highly contagious and lethal disease.
28. The Chinese, in olden days, used marijuana only as a remedy for dysentery.
29. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.
30. To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers
31. Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.
32. Communications giant Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Ides tam.
33. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
34. People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.
35. Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
36. Astronauts can't belch- there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
37. Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.
38. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
39. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!
40. Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.
41. The night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes's Eve," which is regarded as a time when a young woman dreams of her future husband.
42. There are over 25 million bubbles waiting to burst out of each bottle of Champagne
43. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros
44. It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
45. The "heat" of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale
46. Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years
47. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end
48. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
49. Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.
50. When it originally appeared in 1886 - Coca Cola was billed as an Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage.
51. Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals
52. Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
53. The song, "Auld Lang Syne" is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the New Year.
54. For every real Christmas tree harvested, two to three seedlings are planted in its place.
55. Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent
56. Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450°F
57. The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells
58. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
59. Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean
60. The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man
61. Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density
62. Fish and Chip selling officially remained an offensive trade until 1940 due to the smell it produces
63. The University of Alaska spans four time zones
64. The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
65. In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
66. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil).
67. Warner Comm. paid $28 million for the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'
68. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
69. A comet's tail always points away from the sun
70. The "Swine flu" vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent
71. Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers that is why it is found in some medicines.
72. The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.
73. If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.
74. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight
75. Trivia is the Roman goddess of sorcery, hounds and... the crossroads
76. In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed
77. Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside
78. Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams
79. It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines
80. The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year
81. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust
82. Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters
83. Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left
84. Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy
85. Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down
86. The painting that won second place in a competition held by the US National Academy of Design was hanging upside down when it was judged
87. Everything weighs one percent less at the equator
88. For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off
89. The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements
90. Snake venom is ninety percent protein
91. Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature
92. Pizza Hut is the world's largest pizza restaurant serving close to 1.7 million pizzas a day
93. Beer foam will go down by licking your finger then sticking it in the beer
94. Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes
95. A full-moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon
96. If all of the blood vessels in your body were placed end to end, they would stretch 12,000 miles
97. If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court
98. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints
99. Two-thirds of the people in the world have not made a phone call
100. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted
101. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
102. The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders
103. Earth is traveling through space at 660,000 miles per hour
104. In 1643, the British Parliament officially abolished the celebration of Christmas
105. Santa's Reindeers are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen
106. In 1875 the director of the US patent office resigned. He said that there was nothing left to invent
107. The Channel between England and France grows about 300 millimeters each year
108. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle
109. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name
110. On average, a person has two million sweat glands
111. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
112. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
113. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
114. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples
115. 97% of the earth's water is undrinkable
116. The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it
117. All babies are color blind when they are born
118. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old
119. 14 million people were killed in World War I, 20 million died in flu epidemic in the years that followed
120. There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese script
121. Vision requires more brain power than the other four senses
122. On average, men are 40% muscle and 15% fat; women are 23% muscle and 25% fat.