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Some worthless yet interesting trivia for your Friday entertainment......
- An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
- 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.
- You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
- Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
- The human body has more then 650 muscles.
- Between birth and old age, you will walk about 70,000 miles.
- Placed end to end, the blood vessels in your body would stretch almost three times around the equator.
- If you are 25 pounds overweight, you have nearly 5,000 extra miles of blood vessels through which your heart must pump blood.
- Each muscle fiber is thinner than a hair and can support up to 1,000 times its own weight.
- About 42% of the more than 10,000 runners who finished the 1989 New York Marathon were over the age of 40. Of these, 56 runners were over 70-years-old. The oldest finisher of the race- in 6 hours and 43 minutes- was 91-years-old.
- Drinking a single soda each day can add up to 26 pounds to your body in a single year.
- In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.
- McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food heavy users.
- Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.
- The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.
- Chocolate contains the same chemical, phenyl ethylamine that your brain produces when you fall in love.
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
- If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
- The femur (thigh bone) is the largest bone in the human body, and is about 1/4 of your overall height.
- Ice Hockey is the most popular sport in Canada, Soccer in Germany and much of Europe, as well as South America, Baseball in Japan, Ice Skating in the Netherlands (really?), Skiing in Norway, Basketball in the Philippines (but they're short people aren't they?), golf in Scotland, Kite Flying in Thailand (pffft...), and in the United States, Pokemon trading. No, just kidding, it's Baseball.
- Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
- The oldest known recipe is for beer.
- Treadmills were originally designed in 1875 for people to walk their dogs on cold days.
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