Very Very Interesting Facts

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• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
• The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
• Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward , but our noses and ears never stop growing.
• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
•  A 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.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
• The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
• When the moon is directly overhead , you weigh slightly less.
• Alexander Graham Bell , the inventor of the telephone ,never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
• 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
•  "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
• The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond.
• Like fingerprints , everyone's tongue print is different.
• "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.
• Right handed people live , on average , nine years longer than left handed people do.
• The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language.
• If the population of China walked past you in single line ,the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
• China has more English speakers than the United States .
• Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
• Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
• An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
• Babies are born with 300 bones , but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
• 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.
• According to Genesis 1:20-22 , the chicken came before the egg.
• The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi-pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
• If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am , you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
• 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.
• Strange-but-true The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
• The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
• The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
• The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.