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Some Scientific Facts
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71 -Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
72 -You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
73 -A normal person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
74 -Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
75 -The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
76 -When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
77 -Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
78 -A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
79 -Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."
80 -Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
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81 -"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
82 -The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language.
83 -If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction
84 -China has more English speakers than the United States.
85 -Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
86 -Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
87 -An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
88 -Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.
89 -Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.
90 -According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
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91 -The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
92 -If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
93 -Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.
94 -More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.
95 -Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
96 -Coca-Cola was originally green.
97 -The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
98 -There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
99 -TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
100 -Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
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101 -You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
102 -It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
103 -The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
104 -If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
105 -Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
106 -111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
107 -If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
108 -If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
109 -If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
110 -Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
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111 -A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
112 -A snail can sleep for three years.
113 -All polar bears are left handed.
114 -American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
115 -Butterflies taste with their feet.
116 -Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump.
117 -In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
118 -On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
119 -Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
120 -Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
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