Some funny facts

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26 December 2011  

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    1. When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
    2. Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
    3. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
    4. The most children born to one woman was 69, she was a peasant who lived a 40 year life, in which she had 16 twins, 7 triplets, and 4 quadruplets.
    5. Your fingernails grow faster in winter.

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    1. Tae Kwon Do is only around 60 years old.
    2. The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
    3. It is impossible to hum if your nose is plugged.
    4. One in five long-term love relationships began with one or both partners being involved with others.
    5. When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
    6. Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
    7. When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
    8. Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
    9. 'X' became symbolic for a kiss because in the middle ages when alot of people were illiterate and they used to sign documents with an X and then kiss it for sincerity.
    10. When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
    11. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
    12. Each day, there are over 120 million s*xual intercourse taking place all over the world.
    13. A new baby usually deprives each of it's parents around 350-400 hours of sleep in the first year. That is one entire nights sleep per week, per parent.
    14. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
    15. If you mouth the word "colorful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you".
    16. You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
    17. There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
    18. If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.
    19. Blue light fends off drowsiness in the middle of the night, which could be useful to people who work at night.
    20. Caffeine boosts memory.
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    21. If you get water flowing fast enough, it can cut metal.
    22. About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.
    23. You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.
    24. Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
    25. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
    26. It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
    27. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
    28. One human hair can support 3 ounces.
    29. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
    30. Standard paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.
    31. Your fingernails grow faster in winter.
    32. When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
    33. The most children born to one woman was 69, she was a peasant who lived a 40 year life, in which she had 16 twins, 7 triplets, and 4 quadruplets.
    34. The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
    35. Only humans shed emotional tears.
    36. A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over.
    37. The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
    38. The majority of suicides occur on a Monday.
    39. There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
    40. The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.