Ø      The storage capacity of the human brain exceeds four Terabytes.

Ø      Your brain is 80% water.

Ø      Hawaii has the highest percentage of cremations of all other U.S. states, with a 60.6 percent preference over burial.

 

Ø      One third of all cancers are sun related.

Ø      Electric catfish once administered shock treatment for epilepsy.

Ø      The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay.

Ø      The number one cause of blindness in the United States is diabetes.

Ø      The human eye sees everything upside-down, but the brain turns it right side up.

 

Ø      The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

 

Ø      Annual amount of time the average man spends shaving: 3350 hours. (Not me though)

Ø      An eyebrow typically contains 550 hairs.

Ø      Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.

Ø      Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Ø      Pubic hair is one of the most difficult items for sewage works to handle, as it is insoluble, yet fine enough to pass through most filtration systems.

 

Ø      The average adult male grows 1 pound of facial hair in 10 years.

Ø      The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

Ø      The entire length of all eyelashes shed by a human in their lifetime is over 30 meters.

 

Ø      200,000 drug prescriptions will be filled incorrectly in the next 12 months.

Ø      According to the ancient Chinese, swinging your arms cures headache pain.

Ø      Almost 18 million pounds of medical trash is generated each day in the U.S.

Ø      In a four-year period, Thomas Edison obtained 300 patents, or one every five days.

 

Ø      A female orgasm is a powerful painkiller (because of the release of endorphins), so headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex.

 

Ø      Every year, 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out bizarre sexual positions.

 

Ø      Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

Ø      In 1969, Iowa State College conducted a survey indicating that a parent's stress level at the time of conception is a major factor in determining the child's sex. The child is usually the same sex as the less stressed parent.

   Ø      Sex burns 360 calories per hour.

Ø      Alfred Hitchcock never won an Academy Award for directing.

Ø      Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

 

Ø      Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury.

Ø      Gone With the Wind is the only Civil War epic ever filmed without a single battle scene.

 

Ø      In the game Monopoly, the most money you can lose in one travel around the board (normal game rules, going to jail only once) is $26,040. The most money you can lose in one turn is $5070.

 

Ø      It is bad luck to say "Macbeth" in a theater.

Ø      One of the world's tallest, fastest roller coasters is Buffalo Bill's 'Desperado'.

Ø      The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle. One day Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made the remark that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar, and the name stuck.

 

Ø      The average American family views television six hours each day.

  Ø      The price of the first TV Guide was 15 cents.  

  

    Ø      The first motion picture copyrighted in the U.S. was in 1894. It showed a man sneezing.


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