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- Oak
trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of
age or older.
- Most of
the vitamin C in fruits is in the skin.
- The
average life of a tastebud is 10 days.
- Women
blink nearly twice as much as men.
- A
bowling pin need only tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.
- The
human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.
- People
say that popping your bones will cause arthritis when you
get older, but that actually is an old wives tale. It
only pops air pockets, and does not cause arthritis. Thanks
to katy for
this fact
- The
strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Relative to
size)
- A
peanut is not a nut or a pea it's a legume.
- It's
impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- The pop
you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a
bubble of gas bursting.
- Your
stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two
weeks or it would digest itself.
- The
(you are here arrow) on a map is called the IDEO locator.
- The
fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
- The
king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
- A
Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's
first flight.
- We
(humans) only use 10% of our brains>
- Human
teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
- Human
thighbones are as strong as concrete.
- The
electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- Weightlifting
first appeared in the original Olympic program in Athens
1896. It reappeared in 1904 and since 1920 then it's been
permanently on the program.
- There
is about 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.
- Blonds
have more hair than dark haired people do.
- Six
ounces of orange juice contains the minimum daily
requirement for vitamin C.
- Orange
juice helps the body absorb iron easily when consumed
with a meal.
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