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- Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
- 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.
- Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times. Think about THAT next time you jack into the i-pod!
- You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
- We shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.
- Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
- The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
- When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less. Remember that next time you check your diet success.
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
- Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
- Studies have suggested that walking at a brisk pace for three or more hours a week can reduce your risk for coronary heart disease by 65 percent.
- Only about 22 percent of American adults engage in regular, sustained physical activity for at least 30 minutes five times a week, and only 15 percent exercise both regularly and vigorously.
- Walking at a brisk pace (a 15-minute mile or 4 mph) burns almost as many calories as jogging for the same distance.
- The human body has more then 650 muscles.
- Between birth and old age, you will walk about 70,000 miles.
- People with more education tend to be more physically active.
- The heart weighs about 10.5 ounces in the male and 8.75 ounces in the female.
- Placed end to end, the blood vessels in your body would stretch almost three times around the equator.
- If you are 25 pounds overweight, you have nearly 5,000 extra miles of blood vessels through which your heart must pump blood.
- Research shows that cardiac rehab programs that include exercise reduce risk of death by 20 percent.
- When you stand up, if you didn't have valves in your veins, all the blood in your body would literally fall downward, filling up your legs and feet.
- Child study time increased almost 50 percent from 1981 to 1997.
- Children watch up to 21 hours of TV in a single week.
- Each muscle fiber is thinner than a hair and can support up to 1,000 times its own weight.
- By the age of 65, individuals who haven't engaged in exercise on a regular basis may incur a decrease in their muscular strength by as much as 80 percent.
- About 42% of the more than 10,000 runners who finished the 1989 New York Marathon were over the age of 40. Of these, 56 runners were over 70-years-old. The oldest finisher of the race- in 6 hours and 43 minutes- was 91-years-old.
- It takes only about 23 seconds for blood to circulate throughout your entire body.
- Drinking a single soda each day can add up to 26 pounds to your body in a single year.
- Over 20-million Americans report having asthma symptoms and asthma affects about 5-million children.
- The average human breathes out about 10 liters of air each minute.
- In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.
- In the 1800's, people believed that gin could cure stomach problems.
- McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food heavy users.
- Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year.
- The United States tops the world in plastic surgery procedures, just in front of Mexico (which probably involves a lot of Americans).
- About 22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.
- Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.
- At rest, the average person breathes about 14 times per minute.
- More than 3.5 million children suffer medically treated sports injuries every year.
- Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.
- Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals.
- Most Zambians don't live to see their 40th birthday.
- Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced.
- Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.
- Chocolate was used as medicine during the 18th century. It was believed that chocolate could cure a stomach ache.
- The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.
- Chocolate contains the same chemical, phenyl ethylamine that your brain produces when you fall in love.
- Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, and Dostoyevsky were all epileptics.
- Heroin used to be a cough medicine for children. A German company (Bayer) registered heroin as a trademark.
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
- An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.
- If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
- The femur (thigh bone) is the largest bone in the human body, and is about 1/4 of your overall height.
- Burps are the sounds you make when extra gas quickly escapes from your stomach, up through your esophagus and mouth.
- Farts are the sounds and smells of extra gas escaping down your large intestine and out through your... bottom.
- There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
- Ice Hockey is the most popular sport in Canada, Soccer in Germany and much of Europe, as well as South America, Baseball in Japan, Ice Skating in the Netherlands (really?), Skiing in Norway, Basketball in the Philippines (but they're short people aren't they?), golf in Scotland, Kite Flying in Thailand (pffft...), and in the United States, Pokemon trading. No, just kidding, it's Baseball.
- In 1997, Tiger Woods won the Masters Golf tournament by an all-time record 12 strokes.
- Jack Nicklaus, from Ohio, is the only golfer to win the Masters Tournament six times.
- In baseball, spitting into your hand before picking up the bat is supposed to be good luck.
- Nadia Comaneci of Romania was the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 in Olympic competition, in 1976, at age 15. She had a perfect score seven times.
- Kung Fu and Tai Chi are from China, Karate and Judo are from Japan and Tae Kwon Do is from Korea.
- It is said to be bad luck if a dog walks across the baseball diamond before the first pitch.
- Bowlers sometimes wear the same clothes to continue a winning streak - often unwashed!
- Watch out for barefoot women on your way to the fishing dock. It's supposed to be bad luck to have one cross your path!
- It is supposed to be bad luck for a tennis player to wear yellow.
- The funny bone is not a bone at all. It is the place where a nerve crosses the surface of the long bone near your elbow. That bone - funnily enough - is called the humerus.
- Puke is green because of a chemical called bile.
- Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
- A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 mph!
- A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
- Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza every single day.
- There are more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of the U.S.A. and Canada combined.
- In a year, your heart can beat up to 40,000,000 times!
- An average woman consumes approximately 20 kg of lipstick in her life.
- There is no such thing as fat "spot reduction". Doing a thigh exercise doesn't target fat on the thighs because calories are consumed throughout the body. Where your body stores fat is mostly up to genetics.
Bubble gum and fairy floss were invented by dentists.
- Mel Blanc, who played the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, has in the past admitted to taking anabolic steroids, including Dianabol.
- Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.
- Over 2500 left handed people are killed each year, because they used products made for right handed people.
- As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by your head!
- 85% of men who die of heart attacks during intercourse are found to have been cheating on their wives.
- The human body produces its own supply of alcohol naturally on a continuous basis, 24 hours a day, seven days a week?
- The oldest known recipe is for beer.
- Treadmills were originally designed in 1875 for people to walk their dogs on cold days.
- The first elliptical machine was created by Precor, who released the first elliptical fitness crosstrainer in 1995.
- It is physiologically impossible to "turn fat into muscle" but you can lose fat and gain muscle.
- There are more coffee drug addicts in the US than drug addicts of any other kind.
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