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12-20-2010, 11:00 PM
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Spraze
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* There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
* The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
* The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
* The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.
* A beard grows an average of 140mm a year
* The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone
* Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
* There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
* The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
* The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
* There are more chickens than people in the world
* The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
* Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
* Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
* The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.
* Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
* The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.
* The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
* 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.
* The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
* Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health
* Brazil is the heliport capital of the world.
* The Japanese prime minister is elected by the legislature, not the people.
* Sympatric means animals found in only one geographical area
* Of all the words in the English language, the word ‘set’ has the most definitions!
* There is a city called Rome on every continent.
* Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
* The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump
* One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
* Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
* The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man.
* The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
* Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
* The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London.
* Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a ‘Friday the 13th.’
* Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
* Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
* The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
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