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janiedriver

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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
(Source: Verified)

Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
(Source: Verified)

A cesium atom in an atomic clock that beats over nine billion times a second.
(Source: Verified)

A Chinese Scientist discovered that the Earth is round during the Han Dynasty by measuring the sun and moon's path in the sky. He recorded this fact down in the imperial records but went unnoticed until it was unearthed recently but Chinese archaeologists.
(Source: Verified)

A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
(Source: Verified)

A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy.
(Source: Verified)

A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
(Source: Verified)

A meteor has only destroyed one satellite, which was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
(Source: Verified)

Back in 1920, the Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff made headlines by grafting monkey testicles onto human males.
(Source: Verified)
 
janiedriver

janiedriver

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I believe people grow healthier when they are stroked too. :rolleyes:
Now, before you go thinkin' what I know you're thinkin', I was referring to the number of times a day a person needs to be hugged to be healthy. So..go out and hug somebody. ;)
 
janiedriver

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A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.

A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery.

A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.

A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.

A sneeze can travel as fast as one hundred miles per hour.

A study concludes that kids who snore do poorly in school.

A study indicates that smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.

A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder.

A world record 328 pound ovarian cyst was removed from a woman in Galveston, Texas, in 1905.

A yawn usually lasts for approximately six seconds.
 
VIPER_1069

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janiedriver said:
A study indicates that smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.
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yeah non smokers beat them to death for smoking in non-smoking restaurants lol :D :p
 
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About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.

According to the American Institute of Stress, job stress approximately costs the U.S. industry over $300 billion dollars per year.

After twenty-seven years, Betty Rubble made her debut as a Flintstones Vitamin in 1996.

Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

An average adult produces about half a litre of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day.

Approximately 1-2 calorie are burned a minute while watching T.V.

Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.

Asthma affects one in fifteen children under the age of eighteen.

At least 7% of all health care costs in the United States are attributed to smoking.

Babies that are exposed to cats and dogs in their first year of life have a lower chance of developing allergies when they grow older.
 
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Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

Being lactose intolerant can cause chronic flatulence.

Between 12%-15% of the population is left-handed.

Bile produced by the liver is responsible for making your feces a brownish, green colour.

By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in an year.

Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.

Children who are breast fed tend to have an IQ seven points higher than children who are not.

Close to fifty percent of the bacteria in the mouth lives on the surface of our tongue.

Constipation is caused when too much water is absorbed in the large intestine and the feces become dry.

Dead cells in the body ultimately go to the kidneys for excretion.
 
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when babys are born they are ALL blue eyed :)

Q. Why Are Babies Born with Blue Eyes?



A. You inherit your eye color from your parents, but no matter what the color is now, it was probably blue when you were born. Why? Melanin, the brown pigment molecule that colors your skin, hair, and eyes, hasn't been deposited in the irises of your eyes.

The iris is the colored part of the eye that controls the amount of light that is allowed to enter. Some other animals are born with blue eyes, too, such as kittens.

Melanin is a protein. Like other proteins, the amount and type you get is coded in your genes. Irises containing a large amount of melanin appear black or brown. Less melanin produces green, gray, or light brown eyes. If your eyes contain very small amounts of melanin, they will appear blue or light gray. People with albinism have no melanin in their irises and their eyes may appear pink because the blood vessels in the back of their eyes reflect light.

Melanin production generally increases during the first year of a baby's life, leading to a deepening of eye color. The color is often stable by about 6 months of age. However, several factors can affect eye color, including use of certain medications and environmental factors. Some people experience changes in eye color over the course of their lives. People can have eyes of two colors. Even the genetics of eye color inheritance isn't as cut-and-dried as was once thought, as blue-eyed parents have been known (rarely) to have a brown-eyed child!
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so now you all know :)
 
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I'll throw in a question ... is it only cats that can have different colour eyes?
Can't find a good picture, but a neighbour's cat definitely had 1 green, 1 blue.
 
janiedriver

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Surveys indicate that the number one reason people play BINGO is for leisure.

The "naked recreation and travel" industry has grown by 233% in the past decade.

The are six fictional characters that have stars on Hollywood's "Walk of Fame."

The first restaurant to open in Hollywood was the Musso & Frank Grill in 1919.

The longest Hollywood kiss was from the 1941 film, "You're in the Army Now." It lasted for three minutes and three seconds.

The name "Muppet" was coined by Jim Henson. The word was made from a combination of the word "marionette" and "puppet."
 
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Weird Town Names :eek:

Bigfoot, Texas, USA
Blow Me Down, Newfoundland, Canada
Bonanza, Colorado, USA
Celebration, FL, USA
Chicken, Alaska, USA
Climax, Michigan, USA
Crackpot, England
Crotch Lake, Ontario, Canada
Cut and Shoot, Texas, USA
Dead Horse, Arkansas, USA
Dildo, Newfoundland, Canada
Ding Dong, Texas, USA
Earth, Texas, USA
Egypt, Texas, USA
F**king, Austria
French Lick, Indiana, USA
Frostproof, Florida, USA
Gun Barrel City, Texas, USA
Half.com, Oregon, USA
Happy, Texas, USA
Hell, Michigan, USA
Holy Moses, Colorado, USA
Hot Coffee, Missouri, USA
Humansville, Missouri, USA
Hygiene, Colorado, USA
Intercourse, Pennsylvania, USA Jot 'em Down, Texas, USA
Knockemstiff, Ohio, USA
Last Chance, Colorado, USA
Looneyville, Texas, USA
Mary's Igloo, Alaska, USA
Monkey's Eyebrow, Arizona, USA
Nameless, Texas, USA
Needmore, Texas, USA
Ninety-Six, South Carolina, USA
North Pole, Alaska, USA
Nothing, Arizona, USA
Notrees, Texas, USA
Okay, Oklahoma, USA
Santa Claus, Indiana, USA
Shorter, Alabama, USA
Smackover, Arkansas, USA
Sopchoppy, Florida, USA
Study Butte, Texas, USA
Toad Suck, Arkansas, USA
Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico, USA
Two Egg, Florida, USA
Valentine, Texas, USA
Vulcan, Alberta, Canada
Waterproof, Louisiana, USA
Why, Arizona, USA
 
janiedriver

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Another Google, maybe the best source for useless information!

http://www.googlealert.com -- GoogleAlert.
Sure, everyone in the world now knows the power of Google, but wouldn't
it be great to get an "alert" when something new on a subject of
interest gets indexed by Google? This does that. Put your favorite
searches in at this site, which is *not* run by Google, and you'll get
an e-mail with the links. It's a great tool for writers, say, who
(ahem) want to know when someone's posting their stuff without
permission.... http://www.thisistrue.com/bonzer.html archives the
Bonzer sites.
 
janiedriver

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Man Changes Name To Zipardi Duda
Most people want a name that people cannot usually pick on, but
a man from England has recently changed his legal name to
Zipardi Duda. The man, Anthony Duda, told local newspapers that
he'd taken on the off-beat name to promote a charity for
children in Tanzania that he had set up.
 
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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

The Bible is the most shoplifted book in America.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
 
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