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Interesting facts about Human Body #3

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1) The human heart is approximately equal in size to that of a person’s fist. An adult’s heart weights 220-260 grams. 2) At birth, there are 14 billion cells in the human brain. This number does not increase throughout a person’s lifetime. After 25 years, the number of cells falls by 100,000 every day. About 70 cells die in the minute it takes you to read a page in a book. After 40 years, the decline of the brain accelerates sharply, and after 50 years neurons (that is, nerve cells) shrink and the brain gets smaller. 3) At birth , a child’s body is made up of around 300 bones . But an adult has just 206 . 4) During a person’s lifetime, the small intestine is about 2.5 meters. After they die , the muscles in the walls of their intestine relax, and it’s length increases to 6 meters. 5)Your right lung can take in more air than your left. 6) An adult person performs around 23,000 inhalations and exhalations a day. 7) The smallest cells in a man’s body are sperm cells. 8) T...

Interesting Facts about Human Body #2

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1) The fragrance of apples and bananas can help a person to lose weight. 2) If allowed to grow for their whole lifetime, the length of someone’s hair would be about 725 kilometres. 3) Out of all the people who can move their ears, only one third of them are able to move just one ear. 4) During their lifetime, a person will on average accidentally swallow eight small spiders. 5) The total weight of the bacteria in the human body is 2 kg. 6) 99% of the calcium contained in the human body is in one’s teeth. 7) Human lips are hundreds of times more sensitive than the tips of a person’s fingers. 8) A kiss increases a person’s pulse to 100 beats per minute or more. 9) The total strength of masticatory muscles on one side of your jaw is equal to 195 kilograms. 10) A person passes on 278 different types of bacteria to another person when they kiss them. Fortunately, 95% of them are not harmful. 11) Parthenophobia is a fear of virgins. 12) If you collected all the iron contained i...

Interesting Facts about Human Body #1

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1) The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea of the eye. It receives oxygen directly from the air. 2) The human brain has a memory capacity which is the equivalent of more than four terabytes on a hard drive. 3) A newborn child can breathe and swallow at the same time for up to seven months. 4) Your skull is made up of 29 different bones. 5) When you sneeze , all of your body functions stop — even your heart! 6) Nerve impulses sent from the brain move at a speed of 274 km/h. 7) A single human brain generates more electrical impulses in a day than all the telephones of the world combined. 8) The average human body contains enough sulphur to kill all the fleas on the average dog , enough carbon to make 900 pencils, enough potassium to fire a toy cannon, enough fat to make seven bars of soap and enough water to fill a 50-litre barrel. 9) The human heart pumps 182 million litres of blood during the average lifetime. 10) 50,000 cells in your body died and were rep...

Interesting Facts about Elon Musk

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1) Elon Musk was born in South Africa in 1971. 2) He became famous for starting Tesla Motors and SpaceX but he first made his fortune as a co-founder of PayPal. 3) Musk provided a large amount of inspiration for the Hollywood character Tony Stark (a.k.a. Iron Man) . In fact, parts of Iron Man 2 were actually filmed inside and outside of SpaceX. Musk even has a cameo in the film. 4) Like Steve Jobs and other famous entrepreneurs,  Musk's official annual salary for Tesla Motors is just $1. 5) At age 12 , Musk taught himself computer programming and created a video game called Blastar, which he sold for $500. 6) Elon Musk didn't become an American citizen until 2002, at age 31.  7) When Elon Musk was 17 , he moved from South Africa to Canada . Eventually, he attended college in the U.S. at the University of Pennsylvania. 8) After graduating, Musk moved to California in order to begin graduate school in physics at Stanford University....

Interesting facts #8

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1) If you want to learn about monsters and ghouls in real life , you can get a PhD in Parapsychology at the University of Edinburgh. 2) Dinosaurs were once thought to be the cold-blooded  but new research on their growth rates suggests that they grew just as fast as mammals, indicating they were warm-blooded creatures. 3) In the 5000 years of human history, only one disease has been completely eradicated, smallpox. 4) In the 13th century, some people in Norway would baptize their children with beer. 5) Bubble wrap was originally designed as an easy-to-clean textured wallpaper. 6) For many Icelanders, WW2 is actually known a “the blessed war" because the country has the war to thank for its independence. 7) The only road out of Equatorial Guinea on the mainland during the mandate of its first president was mined. 8) A 11-year-old girl gave Pluto it’s name. (At least someone cares for the poor Dwarf Planet) 9) As global temperatures rise, flowers are emitting le...

Psychological facts #10

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1) Never use your favourite song as your alarm clock, you'll end up hating it. 2) You're 50% more likely to remember something if you speak it out loud instead of simply reading it over and over. 3) Want Kids to behave on road trips? Bring a bag of candy. Anytime they misbehave, throw a piece of candy out the window.😉😂 4) Tie a small piece of fight-coloured fabric to your luggage. You'll be able to spot your bag in no time at the airport. 5) Lick your wrist and smell it. This is what your breath smells like to others. 6) Drink tons of apple juice before you go to sleep. A chemical compound in the juice will help you to have vivid awesome dreams. 7) If you put glow in the dark paint on your phone charger, you will never fumble in the dark again. 8) Wearing headphones do not make your farts silent. Keep this in mind.😁 9) Having trouble sleeping? Looking at photos of other people sleeping triggers a response in your brain that can make you feel more tired. 10) Easy way to...

Interesting facts of Taylor Swift

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1) Her full name is Taylor Alison Swift. 2) Taylor's mom wanted to name her Taylor because if you saw her name on a business card you wouldn't know if it was a boy or girl. 3) She was born December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania. 4) A computer repairman taught her how to play three chords on the guitar when she was 12, and this inspired her to writer her first song "Lucky You”. 5) Some of her nicknames are Tay, T-Swift, Swifty, T-Swizzle, T-Sweezy. 6) She is very musical. She can play guitar, banjo, piano, ukulele and electric guitar. 7) At 11-years-old she won a local talent competition singing LeAnn Rimes' "Big Deal". 8) She says Shania Twain is her greatest influence, but is also "devoted" to Britney Spears. 9) She has 7 Grammy Awards, 11 American Music Awards, and 6 Country Music Association Awards. 10) She has received two Golden Globe Award nominations. 11) In 2013, she became the second person (and fi...

Interesting Facts of Human Behavior

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1) 70% of people keep things to themselves to avoid being judged by others. 2) People between the ages of 18–33 are the most stressed in the world After the age of 48, stress level tends to reduce 3) The most common lie said by humans is ” I’m fine.” 4) Pretty people are automatically more acceptable by people. Average looking people have to do something above average to get accepted and ugly people have to do something extraordinary! 5) Always tell the truth. So when you have to tell a lie, people are more likely to believe you. 6) More you talk about a person to others, more you fall in love with that person. 7) If you announce your goals or tell someone else about them, you are less likely to accomplish them because of lack of motivation interest since you have nothing to prove. 8)A true friend who understands your troubles is far more valuable than a hundred friends who only show up for your smile. 9) We tend to behave better when we are being watched. 10) Happier is not the ...

Interesting Facts of India

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1) Jaipur’s  Maharani Gayatri Devi  was included in  Top Ten Beautiful Women in the world listed by Vogue Magazine in 1960. 2) A Special Polling center is set up for  Mahant Bharatdas Darshandas  who is the  Single Voter from Banej in Gir forest, Gujarat. 3)  India has largest population of vegetarians in the world. 4) The traditional Living tree bridges in the state of Meghalaya. 5) Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the richest in the world. 6) There are Over 300,000 Mosques in India. 7) Tripura CM Manik Sarkar (1998–2018) poorest politician, who proudly wears the badge of honesty. 8) India produce movies  twice as many as US and ten times as many as UK film industry. 9) Indian company is largest private sector employer in UK. 10) 22.2 Million People Are Under Trial In India, Far More Than There Are People In The Netherlands. 11) The Bailey bridge,  has been built by t...

Interesting Facts of North Korea

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No tax  : North Korea became a tax free nation in 1974. 1st April is known as Tax Abolition Day Owning cars  : Only military and government officials have the permission to own cars. Other citizens must use public transport. Elections  : Though elections are held every five years only one name appears on the ballot paper ‘Kim Jong-un’. Either you vote for him or allow him to become your torturer. Cannabis  : Cannabis, especially marijuana is completely legal in the country. It can be possessed, cultivated and transported. Cool… Hairstyles  : There are 28 approved hairstyles for men with a condition that they can’t grow their hair longer than 2 inches. Unmarried women must have short hair. Banning policy  : All foreign products are banned in the country. Ban is also imposed on : Listening to music Watching and distributing foreign movies and porn Making international phone calls Leaving the country ...

Psychological Facts #9

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1) The neurological effect of falling in love with someone has a similar effect as getting high on cocaine. 2) The  68% of people are suffering from Phantom vibration syndrome, the feeling that one’s phone is vibrating when it’s not vibratin . 3) Human memories get distorted over time, so the average person has at least 1 false piece of memory. 4) Your mind “rewrites” the boring speech of people and make it sound more interesting. 5) According to new research, memories of phobias are passed down through generations in DNA. 6) Your brain feels Rejection like physical pain. 7) The level of anxiety in average high school kids today is the same as the psychiatric patient in the early 1950s. 8)If you  trick your brain to think that you slept well, your brain will believe even when you just slept for 2 hours. 9) When you think in another language, you will make more rational decisions. 10) The study suggests that the person who loses their mobile phone...