QUOTE(Yelekiah @ Oct 7 2005, 03:22 PM) [snapback]878545[/snapback]
Yes, they're amusing.
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A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
75-90% of primary physician visits are due to stress. (now that doesn't surprise me one bit)
A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.
A fetus develops fingerprints at eight weeks.
A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries. (whoah! I gotta try that)
A kiss for one minute can burn 26 calories. (smooooooooooooooooooooooooch!!!)
A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.
A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder. (ouch!)
About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light. (include me in that bunch! atttttchooooooooo!)
Between 12%-15% of the population is left-handed. (put me in that bunch also.. me is a lefty)
Children who are breast fed tend to have an IQ seven points higher than children who are not.
Eating dandelions can make you urinate more. (now THERE's a useless fact!)
English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy. (better be called Limey then Slimy, I say)
Girls have more tastebud than boys.
Hair and fingernails are made from the same substance, keratin.
In 1914, a skin cream was created called "Dr. Bunting's Sunburn Remedy." A customer claimed that the cream had "knocked out his eczema." The name was then changed to what we know now as Noxema.
In a lifetime, an average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva. (*drools)
Ironically, when doctors in Los Angeles, California went on strike in 1976, the daily number of deaths in the city dropped 18%. (hehehe)
Ninety percent of the population has an innie belly button.
One out of 20 people have an extra rib.
Paul Hunn holds the record for the loudest burp, which was 118.1 decibels, which is as loud as a chainsaw. (now there's something to be proud of)
People whose mouth has a narrow roof are more likely to snore. This is because they have less oxygen going through their nose.
The DNA of humans is closer to a rat than a cat.
and finally:
The feet have approximately 250,000 sweat glands.