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

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• 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.