Interesting Facts

Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.

Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds.

Each day, there are over 120 million sexual intercourse taking place all over the world.

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England - but only in tropical fish stores. (But of course!)

There are men in Guam whose job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the 1st time.

Women blink twice as many times as men do.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.

There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.

If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.

The staple food of the Kanembu, a tribe living on the shores of Lake Chad in Africa, is Algae. The Kanembu harvest a common variety known as Spirulina from the lake, dry it on the sand, mix it up into a spicy cake, and eat it with tomatoes and chili peppers.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Consumption of green and yellow vegetables has decreased 6.3 pounds a year per person since the late 1940s. The use of cereal and flour products has dropped about 30 pounds a year per person, and Consumption of noncitrus fruits has declined at about the same rate. The only fruits whose rate of consumption has increased since World War I are citrus fruits.

In the eighteenth century the French Comte d'Artois owned a set of diamond buttons, each of which had a miniature clock encased inside it.

The French philosopher Voltaire owned eighty Canes His contemporary, Jean Jacques Rousseau, owned forty Canes in fact were in great vogue in eighteenth-century France, and women as well as men carried them. Women's Canes often came equipped with perfume bottles, music boxes, or romantic pictures hidden inside.

Ninety percent of all teenagers suffer from some form of acne.

A woman's arthritic pains will almost always disappear as soon as she becomes pregnant. No one knows why.

A study at the Harvard School of Public Health revealed that women who drink one or more cups of coffee a day are two and a half times more likely to get bladder cancer than women who drink no coffee.

One cannot catch cold at the North Pole in winter. Neither can one contract the flu, nor most of the ailments transmitted viruses and germs. The winter temperature is so low in this part of the world that none of the standard disease causing Micro-organisms can survive.

After the great ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky died, doctors cut open and examined his feet. They wanted to find out whether his foot bones were different from those of ordinary men, thinking that his bone structure might account for his ability to perform the extraordinary leaps for which he had been famous. The autopsy, however, revealed nothing unusual.

When an Australian Bushman died, his body was lowered into a grave where a special kind of gravedigger awaited it. This person's job was to slice up the corpse and hand out bits of the flesh to the mourners. The order in which the relatives partook of the feast was strictly prescribed. A mother ate from her children, and children from their mother, A man could eat his sister's husband and his brother's wife. A father, however, could not eat his children, nor children their father.

Based on the victim-to-population ratio, an adult has a greater chance of being physically assaulted in the state of Arizona than anywhere else in the country. The state with the second highest rate of assault is North Carolina, third is New Mexico.

An embezzler in Thailand, sentenced to 865 years in jail, was lucky enough to get his sentenced reduced to just 576 years.

The average life span of an umbrella is under two years.

There is a city called Rome in every continent.

A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not.

4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.

The McDonald’s™ at Toronto’s ‘SkyDome’ is the only McDonald’s™ locationthat sells hot dogs.

One million $1 bills weighs 1 ton

In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into spacebecause passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. (Not to mention the other drawbacks to farting in such a confined space....)

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There wasnever a recorded Wendy before

A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour.

A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery.

A person that is struck by lightning has a greater chance of developing motor neurone disease.

A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.

A person who is a specialist in wine making is called an oenologist.

A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years.

A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.