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25 Things You Might Not Know
1. Yo-yos were once used as weapons
in the Philippines.
2. Mexico City sinks about 10
inches per year.
3. Blue is the favorite color
of 80 percent of Americans.
4. There are more chickens than
people in the world
5. The average person presses
the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
6. The three wealthiest families
in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight
poorest nations.
7. Intelligent people have more
zinc and copper in their hair.
8. Like fingerprints, every person’s
tongue print is different.
9. China has more English speaking
people than the United States.
10. Each square inch of human
skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
11. “Bookkeeper” is
the only word in the English language with three consecutive double letters.
12. The sentence “the quick
brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English
language.
13. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
14. A person will die from total
lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur after about
10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
15. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
16. Wearing headphones for an hour increase the bacteria in your
ears 700 times.
17. Men can read smaller print
than women, but women have superior hearing.
18. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
19. A crocodile cannot stick its
tongue out.
20. A snail can sleep for three
years.
21. Most lipstick contains fish
scales.
22. In the last 4,000 years,
no new animals have been domesticated.
23. On average, people fear spiders more than they fear death.
24. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can avoid
sinking in quicksand.
25. 315 entries in the 1996 edition
of Webster’s Dictionary were misspelled.
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