- The Nazis were the first ever people in modern history to start an anti-smoking and tobacco movement.
- There are at least 6 people in the world who look exactly like you. There’s a 9% chance that you’ll meet one of them in your lifetime.
- In a survival situation, if you were to drink seawater, it would rapidly dehydrate you and soon lead to your death. However, it is vastly less harmful to eat frozen seawater. This is because it contains a tenth of the amount of salt in its liquid form due to the fact that the salt is separated from the water when freezing as it does not fit into the crystalline structure of ice.
- If a part of your body “falls asleep”, you can almost always “wake it up” by shaking your head.
- The reason the taste of artificial banana flavoring and artificial banana flavored products doesn’t taste like bananas is that it is based on a type of banana that was wiped out by a plague in the 1950s.
- Your shoes are the first thing people subconsciously notice about you. Wear nice shoes.
- Viagra, when dissolved in water, can make cut flowers stay erect for up to a week longer than they usually would. Try it!
- There are three things the human brain cannot resist noticing – Food, attractive people and danger.
- The word “quarantine” derives from the Venetian dialect of Italian and the words “quaranta giorni,” meaning “forty days.” This is because when it was discovered that ships were infested with plague-carrying rats, they were made to sit at anchor outside Venice’s city walls for forty days before coming ashore.
- You can survive without eating for weeks, but you will only live 11 days without sleeping.
- American microbiologist Maurice Ralph Hilleman is accredited with developing 8 of the 14 routine vaccinations used today, these being; Measles, Mumps, Hepatitis A & B, Chickenpox, Meningitis, Pneumonia, and Hemophilia influenza. He also discovered that Chlamydia was not a virus as it was previously thought to be.
- Laziness and inactivity kills just as many people as smoking.
- Catnip is ten times more effective at repelling mosquitoes than DEET, the main substance used in insect repellents.
- Alaska is both the western- and easternmost state in the United States.
- The tea bag was an accidental invention. This occurred in 1908 when tea merchant Thomas Sullivan distributed his tea samples in small, silken bags. His customers, not understanding that these were samples, dunked them, and suddenly Sullivan was receiving orders of tea bags
- About 1 percent of people alive today are descended from Ghengis Khan.
- In the early 1900s, Lobster was considered the “cockroach of the ocean” and was synonymous with the poor – often eaten regularly by the homeless, slaves, and prisoners. It wasn’t until after World War II that lobster became considered a delicacy and food associated with the aristocratic classes.
- If you folded a piece of paper 42 times, it would be thick enough to reach the moon
- Due to the extremely warm weather in the summer of 2013, several nuclear power plants across the world, including ones in Japan, Israel, and Scotland, were forced to close down because of a sudden increase in the population of Jellyfish. The mass amounts of Jellyfish clogged the filters that draw seawater into the power plants in order to cool down their reactors!
- The human nose can detect more than 1 trillion smells.
- Papua New Guinea is home to one of the world’s few poisonous birds, the Hooded Pitohui.
- In China, in 2013, scientists were able to grow a human tooth from scratch using stem cells taken from urine.
- Approximately 1,000,000 dogs in the U.S. are named as the heirs of their owners’ wills.
- France has conducted 210 nuclear weapon tests, more than the United Kingdom, China, India, and North Korea combined! This is scarcely a fifth of the amount conducted by the United States, however, which has conducted roughly 1,054 tests.
- Your mouth produces about one liter of saliva a day.
- Iran carries out more gender-change operations than any other country in the world. According to official statistics, Iran has somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 transsexuals inhabiting it, although unofficial statistics place that number at approximately 150,000!
- Nokia was originally founded in 1865 as a paper printing company. Apt to say, when it was founded, the paper was one of the world’s most used methods of long-distance communication!
- The term ‘deadline’ comes from the American Civil War. Prisoners would have lines drawn around them in the dirt, and if they crossed this line, then they would be executed by their guards. Both prisoners and guards soon took to calling this line the “dead line.”
- During the First World War, so many starving wolves had amassed together in a great pack that opposing German and Russian forces formed a temporary alliance in order to fight them off!
- Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar kept four Hippos in his estate before his death in 1993. Deemed too much hassle to move by authorities, his Hippos were left there and have since bred and escaped becoming an invasive species of Colombia.
- SMILE. It is the ultimate antidepressant
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