Amazing Facts..

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

• 1 out of every 4 kids in the USA is overweight.
  

• 41% of women apply body or hand moisturizer a minimum three times a day.
  

• 75-90% of primary physician visits are due to stress.
  

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

• A blink lasts approximately 0.3 seconds.
  

• A ear trumpet was used before the hearing aid was invented by people who had difficulty hearing.
  

• A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks.
  

• A fetus starts to develop fingerprints at the age of eight weeks.
  

• A fetus that is four months old, will becomes startled and turn away if a light is flashed on the mother's stomach.
  

• A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries.
  

• A human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at four weeks old.
• A kiss for one minute can burn 26.
  

• A little under one quarter of the people in the world are vegetarians.
  

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

• A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years.
  

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

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• Air is passed through the nose at a speed of 100 miles per hour when a person sneezes.
  

• Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.
  

• An adult esophagus can range from 10 to 14 inches in length and is one inch in diameter.
  

• 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.
  

• At one time it was thought that the heart controlled a person's emotions, 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.

• 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.
  

• Between 1997-2002, there was an increase of 228% in cosmetic procedures in the United States.
  

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

• Brain damage will only occur if a fever goes above 107.6 degrees farenheit.
  

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

• Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.
  

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

Interesting General Knowledges...

Ø Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair

Ø The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Ø Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears
never stop growing.

Ø You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

Ø A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.

Ø Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a
few weeks.

Ø Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Ø The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

Ø When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

Ø Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned
his Wife or mother because they were both deaf.

Ø "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

Ø Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking
countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."

Ø The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond

Ø Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

Ø "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive
double letters

Ø Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed
people do

Ø The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter in the English language

Ø If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would
never end because of the rate of reproduction

Ø China has more English speakers than the United States

Ø Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

Ø Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

Ø The longest place name still in use is:

Taumatawhakatangiha ngaoauauotametea turi-Pukakpikima ungahoronukupoka iwhe
nuakitanatahu- a New Zealand hill

Ø If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu (US)
at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.