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RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 13-02-2020 22:13
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails! Hmm odd that because the nails on my right hand don't seem to want to grow fast and if they do I spend half the bloody time trimming the sides as they become jagged!
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 14-02-2020 14:53
'Tetrachromats' are individuals who can see 100 times more colors than the average person!
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 14-02-2020 14:54
During World War II, actress Hedy Lamarr developed a radio-guided torpedo system as well as creating 'spread-spectrum' technology which is used in Wi-Fi connections and mobile phones!
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 14-02-2020 14:58
The Firefox logo isn’t a fox.
There is a common misbelief that because the browser is named Firefox, the logo must be a fox.
Surprisingly, the cute furry creature in the logo is actually a red panda!
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 14-02-2020 15:03
You would think the invention of the radio would be a big deal, but it took 38 years for the radio to reach an audience of 50 million.
Meanwhile, the iPod only took 3 years to reach the same milestone!
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 14-02-2020 15:04
People read faster or slower depending what they read from.
Not only do you blink less when you’re on a computer, but reading from a screen also slows you down.
On average, people read 10% slower from a screen than from paper!
As for the blinking part, did you know that during everyday life, people normally blink at a rate of twenty times per minute?
But put them in front of a computer, and that number drops way down to seven
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 14-02-2020 19:15
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
Present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 15-02-2020 17:47
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren’t added to it.
On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 15-02-2020 18:31
Statistically, you are three times more likely to die travelling to or from work than you are if you were to be shipped out to a war these days.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 15-02-2020 18:32
With 6,601,668 square miles of land mass, Russia beats Pluto’s 6,427,805 square miles of surface area, and dwarfs the world’s second biggest country, Canada, which has a land mass of 3,855,103 square miles.