50 Facts You Must Know About You and Your Surroundings
- A hug that lasts for 20 seconds releases a hormone- Oxytocin, which can make someone trust you more.
- Speaking, seeing somebody else smile actually makes you happier.
- Male puppies, when playing with female puppies, will intentionally let the female win.
- On the planets Uranus and Neptune, it regularly rains diamonds.
- Women speak 20,000 words a day while men only speak 7,000.
- Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
- India’s Mars mission is cheaper than a Hollywood movie Gravity.
- 72% of the Indian Girl’s names end with “A”.
- Antarctica contains about 70 percent of Earth’s freshwater and 90 percent of its ice.
- The tongue is the strongest muscle in human body.
- Dogs can see sadness in humans and often attempt to make their owners happy by initiating cuddling.
- People are more likely to return a lost wallet if they find a baby picture inside it.
- Cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 60 MPH faster than a Ferrari.
- You can die from drinking too much water.
- In the United States there are over 700 tornadoes every year.
- India has the largest number of Post Offices in the World.
- We have already forgotten 40% of what happened to us yesterday.
- A man once wore 70 items of clothimg in a Chinese airport to avoid the bagging charge.
- A person who is strongly attracted to someone’s intelligence is called a “sapiosexual”.
- Emotional pain lasts for 10 to 20 minutes, anything longer is actually self-inflicted by over thinking, making things worse.
- South Korea banned children under 16 from playing online games between midnight and 6 Am under a so-called “Cinderella Law”.
- Hearing your name when no one is actually calling you is a sign of a healthy mind.
- Kissing is mre hygienic and healthier than shaking hands.
- Music has been proven to effectively lower a person’s stress hormones.
- Every time you recall a memory or have a new thought, you create a new connection in your brain.
- New Year’s Day is the oldest celebrated holiday.
- The average person spends 2 weeks over his/her lifetime waiting for a traffic light to change.
- Camels have three eyelid
- In a year, the average person wals four miles making his or her bed.
- The first sport to be filmed was Boxing in 1894.
- A duck can’t walk without bobbing its head.
- The largest fish is the whale shark- it can be over 50 feet long and weigh two tons.
- A hummingbird’s heart beats 1,400 times a minute.
- Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outsde.
- A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math claculations.
- 1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet.
- Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
- Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeroes). Google was named after it.
- August has the highest percentage of births.
- The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
- You would weigh less on the top of a mountain than a sea level.
- A snail breathes through its foot.
- A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance.
- You burn about 20 calories per hour chewing gum.
- You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
- Frowning burns more calories than smiling.
- Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles per day.
- A crocodile cannot move its tongue and have very strong digestive system as can also digest a stone.
- A sneeze travels out of your mouth at a over 100 miles an hour.
- Chewing gum while peeling onions prevent you from crying.
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