Sat May 17, 2008 5:31 pm by .Yunoko
^ Lol.
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During the Manhatten Project, 18 people were injected with plutonium to test the effects of nuclear weapons on humans, which caused numerous health problems, and most were not even aware it had occurred.
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Your eyeballs are three and a half percent salt.
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An adult has 206 bones, and a newborn has 300.
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A sneeze leaves your body at 40 miles per hour.
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Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
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Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
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You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
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Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
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Pound for pound, your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body.
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Your feet may be as much as 5 to 10 percent larger at the end of the day.
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Theres more sweat glands on your feet than any other part of your body. An average pair of feet will sweat a pint of perspiration a day.
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The human brain is 80% water.
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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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Laugh and you’ll burn up three and a half calories, no joke.
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An eyelash lives about 5 months.
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Like finger prints, everyone’s tongue print is different!
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Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
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One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
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Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
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Desperate to increase veggie intake among children in Britain, researchers have developed chocolate-flavored carrots, pizza-flavored corn and baked-bean-flavored peas.
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Thomas Edison was deaf, but it was not all because of his condition at birth. It is true that he was born partially deaf, but he actually became totally deaf when he was conducting an experiment on the back of a train caboose which caused the train’s conductor to become very upset. The conductor then “boxed” Edison’s ears, meaning that he hit both of Edison’s ears at the same time. This blow caused him to become totally deaf for the rest of his life.
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Samuel Morse, the inventor of the morse code, was a painter as well. One of his portraits is of the first governor of Arkansas and hangs in the governor’s mansion of that state.
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The word ‘condom’ comes from Dr. Charles Condom (1630 - 1685)
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Mr. Peanut was invented in 1916 by a Suffolk, Virginia, schoolchild who won $5 in a design contest sponsored by Planters Peanuts.
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Ice-cream cones were first served in 1904 at the world’s fair in St. Louis, MO. US Patent # 3,477,070.
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The Toilet Lid Lock, to prevent unauthorized access to the toilet.
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Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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Folding money was invented by the Chinese, it was made of deerskin.
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Goodyear rubber company researched and concluded that shoes wear out faster on the rightfoot than the left.
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The Roller Coaster was invented in the 17th century in Russia.
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US Patent number 3,593,345 was granted for the “Whisper Seat”, a toilet seat with a soundproof lining so that noise won’t be heard by others.
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When Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper in 1857, he had his name printed on each sheet.
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Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
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On average, one heartbeat pumps five tablespoons of blood.
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People use 200 muscles when they walk.
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It wasn’t until 1543 that it was proven that a human heart was not the same as an ape’s and that a man did not have one more rib than a woman. Anatomy at this time was considered heresey.
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There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
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HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, can survive and remain infectious for up to four days in the lubricants of certain medical and dental devices.
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The liver performs more than 500 different functions, including storing vitamins and removing harmful chemicals from the blood.
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The DNA helix measures 80 billionths of an inch wide.
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Your nose and ears never stop growing.
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The average human brain weighs three pounds.
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The digestive track in a person’s body is about 30 feet long.
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Pain signals travel along hour nerves at 50 feet per second.
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The fastest moving muscle in the human body is the one that opens and closes the eyelid.
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Babies start dreaming even before they’re born.
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Your body has over 40 miles of nerves.
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The Christmas holidays are the busiest time in plastic surgeons offices.
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The average “facelift” will set you back about $4156.00.
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Every three days, you body makes a new lining for your stomach.
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If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.
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There are more collect calls on father’s Day than any other day of the year.
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There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200.
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The estimated value of services provided by the global ecosystem (water, food, materials etc.) runs between $16 and $54 trillion per year.
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Japanese lead the world in vending machines, selling $100 Armani ties, $30 bottles of whiskey, and $5 glasses of beer, right next to soft drink machines. It is possible because of low vandalism and petty theft.
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In 1995, Toys R Us sold more than $9 billion of goods in the U.S. alone.
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The average one-dollar bill wears out in less than two years.
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
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The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
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It takes 3,000 folds to wear out a dollar bill.
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5,865,696,000,000 - The amount of miles in a light year.
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More than 20 million meteroids enter Earth’s atmosphere every day. Most are no bigger than a speck of dust.
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The largest painting on earth is a 72437 square foot smiley face.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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Gold is the only metal that doesn’t rust, even if it’s buried in the ground for thousands of years.
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The winds on Saturn blow at 1,200 mph. 10 times faster than a strong Earth hurricane.
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The average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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A diamond is the hardest natural substance.
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Earth’s oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of gold, dissolved in the water.
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The energy given off by a hurricane in one day would power the entire U.S for three years.
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The sun is 93,000,000 miles from the earth.
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There is enough energy in one bolt of lightning to power a home for two weeks.
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Io, a moon of jupiter, has the most active volcanoes in the solar system.
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Hydrogen can be a metal, but it is only in a solid state under extreme conditions such as being in the core of Jupiter!
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Rain falls at an average speed of 22 mph.
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There is a canyon on Mars that would stretch from New York to San Francisco.
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In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
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Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year as a result of draining the water table for human consumption.
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Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our solar system.
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All the moons of the Solar System are named after Greek and Roman mythology, except the moons of Uranus, which are named after Shakesperean charcters.
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The largest iceberg ever found was 208 miles long and 60 miles wide. That’s bigger than Massachusetts.
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Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.
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Most stars shine for at least 10 billion years.
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White dwarf stars can be as small as 1,000 miles across.
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Footprints astronauts make on the moon will remain for millions of years due to the fact that there’s no wind to blow them away.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
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The clouds on Venus are made of deadly sulfuric acid.
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The Galileo spacecraft traveled to Jupiter at a speed of 107,000 mph; fast enough to cross the U.S. in 85 seconds.
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The rings of Saturn are made of ice chunks; some as small as an ice cube and some are as big as a house.
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Scientists think the universe is 15 billion years old.
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Saturn isn’t the only planet with rings: Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune have them, too.
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It takes light 8 minutes to trave lfrom the sun.
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The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
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The Sun shrinks in diameter by 5 feet every hour.
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Dirty snow melts faster than white snow because it’s darker and absorbs more heat.
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At 90′ below zero your breath will freeze in mid-air and fall to the ground.
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The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 24,896 miles.
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Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women!
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In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow!
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By some estimates, there are about a million earthquakes a day, although most are too small to be felt by even the most sensitive.
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A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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If you yelled for over 8 and a half years, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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Top Six reasons for being late for work: 1) traffic. 2) oversleeping. 3) procrastination. 4) Chores. 5) Car Trouble. 6) Having Sex.
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If you pet a cat 70 million times, you will have developed enough static electricity to light a 60-watt light bulb for one minute.
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Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time.
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85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S!
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An attosecond is one billionth of a billionth of a second.
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National Pi Day is March 14, at 1:59. (3/14 1:59)
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The billionth digit of pi is 9.
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The odds of a mother having twins are 90 to 1.
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Right now, this very second, 70% of the people driving on U.S. highways are speeding.
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There are 74 lobbyists for every one senator in Washington D.C.
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If you counted for 24 hours a day, it would take over 31,000 years to reach one trillion.
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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
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Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
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Plymouth Rock weighs seven tons.
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A one degree rise in temperature equals a 2% increase in peak electricity consumption.
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The Mayan calender, the most accurate in the world, ends in the year 2012.
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A telephone signal travels a 100,000 miles per second.
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There’s 31,622,400 seconds in a leap year.
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America once issued a 5-cent bill!
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Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
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In the U.S. the average bride is 21 years old, the average groom is 23.
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There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
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In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
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Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
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During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants!
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7% of Americans don’t know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem!
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5% of Canadians don’t know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem!
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The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
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One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
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A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
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Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
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No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7 times!
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The word electricity derives from the Greek word “elektron” meaning amber.
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The Greeks noted that rubbing amber produced a static charge.
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Alcoholics are twice as likely to confess a drinking problem to a computer than to a doctor, say researchers in Wisconsin.
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Scientists have identified and described about 1.4 million species of an estimated ten to 100 million on earth.
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Scientists estimate up to 20 percent of the world’s plant and animal species may be extinct by the year 2000. well i think thats wrong lol
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