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Amazing Facts

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A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
 
1 out of every 4 kids in the USA is overweight.
 
41% of women apply body or hand moisturizer a minimum three times a day.
 
75-90% of primary physician visits are due to stress.
 
A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax. 
 
A blink lasts approximately 0.3 seconds. 
 
A ear trumpet was used before the hearing aid was invented by people who had difficulty hearing.
 
A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks.
 
A fetus starts to develop fingerprints at the age of eight weeks.
 
A fetus that is four months old, will becomes startled and turn away if a light is flashed on the mother's stomach.
 
A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries.
 
A human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at four weeks old. 
A kiss for one minute can burn 26.
 
A little under one quarter of the people in the world are vegetarians.
 
A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery.
 
A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years.
 
A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.
 
A sneeze can travel as fast as one hundred miles per hour.
 
A study concludes that kids who snore do poorly in school.
 
A study indicates that smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.
 
A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder.
 
A world record 328 pound ovarian cyst was removed from a woman in Galveston, Texas, in 1905.
 
A yawn usually lasts for approximately six seconds.
 
About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
 
According to the American Institute of Stress, job stress approximately costs the U.S. Industry over $300 billion dollars per year.
 
After twenty-seven years, Betty Rubble made her debut as a Flintstones Vitamin in 1996.
 
Air is passed through the nose at a speed of 100 miles per hour when a person sneezes.
 
Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.
 
An adult esophagus can range from 10 to 14 inches in length and is one inch in diameter.
 
An average adult produces about half a litre of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day.
 
Approximately 1-2 calorie are burned a minute while watching T.V.
 
Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
 
Asthma affects one in fifteen children under the age of eighteen. 
At least 7% of all health care costs in the United States are attributed to smoking.
 
At one time it was thought that the heart controlled a person's emotions, Babies that are exposed to cats and dogs in their first year of life have a lower chance of developing allergies when they grow older.
 
Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
 
Being lactose intolerant can cause chronic flatulence.
 
Between 12%-15% of the population is left-handed.
 
Between 1997-2002, there was an increase of 228% in cosmetic procedures in the United States.
 
Bile produced by the liver is responsible for making your feces a brownish, green colour.
 
Brain damage will only occur if a fever goes above 107.6 degrees farenheit.
 
By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in an year.
 
Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.
 
Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.

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