Thursday, January 11, 2007

Weird & Interesting Facts

Humans were first infected with the HIV virus in the 1930s.

Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.

Women blink twice as many times as men do.

We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.

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

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.

After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

There are more people alive today than have ever died.

Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates

As of 2006, more than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet.

Men can breastfeed babies.

The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.

Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

By law, employees do not have to wash hands after sneezing.

The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change

More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products

Via Berro.com

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