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Jul 11, 2007 10:56:51 GMT -5
Post by Chaos on Jul 11, 2007 10:56:51 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Did you know...[/glow]
I got this trivia from "This Book...OF more Perfectly Useless Information".
M&M's were first invented so soldiers could eat chocolate without getting their fingers sticky.
Right handed people tend to scratch with their left hand, and left with their right.
We use 43 muscles to frown. We use 17 muscles to smile.
It takes a typical person 7 minutes to fall asleep.
In an average lifetime, the average person walks an equivelant of about three times around the world.
Every year, 100 people choke to death on ball point pens.
The color red has been found to promote hunger, which is why you see it in many food establishment's lighting and logos.
A human being loses around 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
A person will die from total lack of sleep quicker than that of starvation. Death occurs after 10 days without sleep, starvation takes a few weeks or longer.
The risk of a heart attack is highest on a Monday, than any other day of the week.
The average person opens the fridge 22 times a day.
The average newborn baby cries 113 minutes a day.
You burn 3.5 calories each time you laugh.
You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.
Eighty-three percent of people hit by lightning are men.
You'd have to walk 34 miles to melt away one pound of fat.
More to come later if you like this list...
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Jul 11, 2007 11:02:21 GMT -5
Post by Vega. on Jul 11, 2007 11:02:21 GMT -5
That's so cool! I love useless trivia
My precious hair!
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Jul 11, 2007 11:07:38 GMT -5
Post by Chaos on Jul 11, 2007 11:07:38 GMT -5
Glad you like it ;D I saw this book at Borders and just had to have it
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Jul 14, 2007 15:41:56 GMT -5
Post by pebble on Jul 14, 2007 15:41:56 GMT -5
what would you be doing with a ballpoint pen that would cause you to choke on it?
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Jul 14, 2007 22:03:48 GMT -5
Post by Chaos on Jul 14, 2007 22:03:48 GMT -5
lmao...I guess just by chewing on the cap...and then...it slipping? I guess we all no not to do that...
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Jul 15, 2007 4:59:33 GMT -5
Post by Vega. on Jul 15, 2007 4:59:33 GMT -5
I've seen that fact so many times, and yet I still continue to do it
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Jul 15, 2007 7:09:50 GMT -5
Post by Chaos on Jul 15, 2007 7:09:50 GMT -5
lol, me too...but only sometimes now...but I hardly come into contact with pens now that it's summer...so, I don't know, lol. It used to give me a writing edge, .
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Jul 15, 2007 8:15:59 GMT -5
Post by Vega. on Jul 15, 2007 8:15:59 GMT -5
Nearly summer! Yay! Well here anyway. Certainly doesn't feel like summer though!
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Jul 15, 2007 8:25:22 GMT -5
Post by Chaos on Jul 15, 2007 8:25:22 GMT -5
Yeah, I know what you mean...but it's been getting better. Now it feels more like summer ;D
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Jul 16, 2007 21:01:57 GMT -5
Post by pebble on Jul 16, 2007 21:01:57 GMT -5
Gotta love that natural protein. Can you tell i like random facts? Did you know that life expectancy in india is low because they have very little air condittioning?
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Jul 16, 2007 21:03:15 GMT -5
Post by Chaos on Jul 16, 2007 21:03:15 GMT -5
No, I didn't know that...are they dying from the heat? Or just long exposure to heat?
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Jul 16, 2007 21:04:51 GMT -5
Post by pebble on Jul 16, 2007 21:04:51 GMT -5
i have no idea.
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Jul 16, 2007 23:13:12 GMT -5
Post by Javinny on Jul 16, 2007 23:13:12 GMT -5
In an average lifetime, the average person walks an equivelant of about three times around the world. Thats a lot of walking.
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