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Some Scientific Facts
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Interesting Real Facts
31 -Chocolate can be killed dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
32 -Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
33 -Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
34 -Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
35 -There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
36 -Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
37 -Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
38 -The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
39 -By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
40 -Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
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41 -Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
42 -The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
43 -Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
44 -Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
45 -The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
46 -To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
47 -The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
48 -The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
49 -The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
50 -Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
poppy siddiqua:
Thankyou for the informative post
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51 -The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
52 -Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
53 -It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
54 -In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
55 -A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
56 -We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
57 -Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
58 -Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
59 -Brains are more active in sleeping than watching TV.
60 -Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
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61 -When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.
62 -There are more chickens than people in the world.
63 -The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
64 -There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
65 -The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
66 -The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning.
67 -The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
68 -The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
69 -Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
70 -The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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