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