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- It's been proven that people can lessen reactions to allergies by laughing.
- Over 10000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day.Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
In the middle ages, people would pin the name of their sweetheart to their sleeve on Valentine's Day and keep it there for a week, hence 'wearing their heart on their sleeve'.
It was during the Victorian era that the formerly nude Cupid was redesigned as wearing a skirt.
Tomato Ketchup was once used as medicine in the United States. Was sold as "Dr.Miles Compound Extract of Tomato"
When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red
Dating back to the 1600's, thermometers were filled with Brandy instead of mercury
The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
Shoe sizes were standardized in Britain in 1885
The average person's eyes will be closed about 30 minutes a day due to blinking.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
There are at least 40 known carcinogens in cigarettes.
The amniotic fluid that surrounds a baby in the womb is completely replaced every three hours.
No one can drown in the Dead Sea. It is 25 percent salt, which makes the water very heavy
Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water
Earth's oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of gold, dissolved in the water
Children who are breastfed tend to have an I.Q. seven points higher than children who are not.
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.
To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
Astronauts can't belch- there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.
The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!
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.
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.
There are over 25 million bubbles waiting to burst out of each bottle of Champagne.
Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years.
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals
Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
For every real Christmas tree harvested, two to three seedlings are planted in its place.
Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.
Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450F
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.
Fish and Chip selling officially remained an offensive trade until 1940 due to the smell it produces
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
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.
When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight
Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside
The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust
Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters
Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left
Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy
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
Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature
Pizza Hut is the world's largest pizza restaurant serving close to 1.7 million pizzas a day
Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes
Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints
Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted
Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples
Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old
Urine and tears have the same basic ingredients
The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.
Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it
The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'.
The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one
Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears
Your left lung is smaller in size than your right lung, it is like that in order to make room for your heart.
Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time
Before 1800 there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'
Your body weight is lower at 9 A.M. than at any other time of the day
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals
Without any greenhouse effect, Earth would be cold and lifeless with an average temp of 0.4F
Mount Everest moves approximately 2.4 inches (10 cm) in a Northeasterly direction every year
The bark of a redwood tree is fireproof. Fires that occur in a redwood forest take place inside the trees
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west
After the "Popeye" comic strip started in 1931, spinach consumption went up by 33 percent in the US
The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee
Pearls melt in vinegar
Human hair and finger nails continue to grow after death
The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made out of wood
Niagara Falls has moved about ten miles upstream in the last 10,000 years. The falls are eroding at the rate of 5 feet per year
The Sahara desert is expanding half a mile south every year
Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world
It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979
The only nation whose name begins with an A, but doesn't end in an A is Afghanistan
The Atlantic Ocean gets wider by a little more than one inch every year
The world's only city whose name consists solely of vowels is Aiea, in Hawaii, USA.
Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". In English this means 'The City of Angels'
The Netherlands has built 800 miles of massive dikes and sea walls to hold back the sea. If it wasn't for these walls, 40% of the country would be flooded.
Every year in France there is a "Thieves Fair" where people are encouraged to try to steal things from the stalls
Australia is the only continent on earth without an active volcano.
In Turkey, in the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death
There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people.
Nepal is the only country that doesn't have a rectangular or square flag
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland
In 1980, Bhutan was the only country in the world with no telephones
There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
Switzerland, it is illegal to flush the toilet after 10 P.M. if you live in an apartment.
India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
In Thailand, it is illegal to leave your house if you are not wearing underwear
In Israel, picking your nose is illegal.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic
Mozart wrote the music for the song Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star when he was just five years old.
Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds
Richard Cadbury invented the first Valentine's Day candy box in the late 1800s.
The Chinese first invented the system of zoos, and called them Parks of Intelligence.
Butter was the first food product allowed by law to have artificial coloring.
China was the first country to introduce paper money (in 812).
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo
If you are afraid you might die laughing, you are suffering from cherophobia
Walt Disney was once fired by a newspaper editor for lack of imagination.
Elizabeth I of England suffered from anthophobia, a fear of roses
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple,and month.
The real name of Jesus was Yeshua. Jesus is the Greek version of the name.
The word encyclopaedia comes from two Greek words meaning "a circle of learning."
When two words are combined to form a single word (motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau".
The word "tattoo" comes from the Tahitian word "tattau," which means "to mark".
The word salary came from the word salt in Roman times. Salt was used as a trading medium - money.
Orange and black became Halloween colors because orange is associated with harvests and black is associated with death "Hallow" is an old word meaning holy, while "e'en" is Scottish for evening.
There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
Did you know that the words 'lakh' and 'crore' do not exist in the English language? The two words are only used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and are derivatives of the Hindi words laakh and karod.
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
Know what Mafia means? "Morte Allafrancia Italia Anela "Death to the French is Italy's cry!"
A fireplace is called a mantelpiece because, at one time, people hung their coats over the fireplace to dry them.
A group of crows is called a murder
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle
The study of stupidity is called 'monology'
The search for the existence of ghosts is Eidology
Dalmatians are born without spots.
Frogs do not need to drink water as they absorb the water through their skin.
The elephant is the only mammal with four knees.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.
Male and female giraffes tend to eat from different parts of a tree to ensure that the sexes do not compete for food.
Giraffes rarely sleep more than 20 minutes a day.
An ant can survive for up to two weeks underwater.
In the magic world of seahorses it is the male who gets pregnant and has the babies.
A blind Chameleon is still able to change colours to match its environment.
If you cut the head off a cockroach, it will continue to live for up to many more weeks.
If a drop of liquor gets on a scorpion, it will immediately commit suicide with its own stinger.
Female black widow spiders eat their husbands after mating. That's how they got that name.
Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don't have eyes.
Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
Dolphins don't automatically breath; they have to tell themselves to do it.
The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war.
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
Did you know that a giraffe can kill a lion with one kick.
Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.
The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car. The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.
Dolphins swim in circles while they sleep with the eye on the outside of the circle open to keep watch for predators. After a certain amount of time they reverse and swim in the opposite direction with the opposite eye open .
Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
Ants don't sleep.
Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves.
In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th teaspoon of honey.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.
Cat's urine glows under a black-light!
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