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  • Ancient Chinese artists would never paint pictures of women's feet.

 

  • The shortest war on record was fought between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

 

  • The seven wonders of the ancient world were:
    1. Egyptian Pyramids at Giza
    2. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
    3. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
    4. Colossus of Rhodes - or huge bronze statue near the Harbor of Rhodes that honored the sun god Helios
    5. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
    6. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
    7. Lighthouse at Alexandria

 

  • A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.

 

  • Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.

 

  • The only rock that floats in water is pumice.

 

  • Any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it.

 

  • The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

 

  • Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our solar system.

 

  • Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System, and is larger than the planets Mercury and Pluto.

 

  • Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.

 

  • When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The first sense lost is usually sight. Then follows taste, smell, and touch.

 

  • French was the official language of England for over 600 years.

 

  • The Jordanian city Amman was once called Philadelphia.

 

  • A pineapple is a berry.

 

  • Swans are the only birds with penises.

 

  • The number 4 is the only number in the English language that has the same number of letters in its name as its meaning.

 

  • Bananas are actually herbs. Bananas die after fruiting, like all herbs do.

 

  • When you give someone roses, the color can have a meaning. The meaning of rose colors:
    Red = Love and respect
    Deep pink = Gratitude, appreciation
    Light pink = Admiration, sympathy
    White = Reverence, humility
    Yellow = Joy, gladness
    Orange = Enthusiasm, desire
    Red & yellow blend = Gaiety, joviality
    Pale blended tones = Sociability, friendship

 

  • "Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, La Allah Il Allah, La Allah Il Allah U Mohammed Rassul Allah" is heard by more people than any other sound of the human voice. This is the prayer recited by muezzins from each of the four corners of the prayer tower as Moslems all over the world face toward Mecca and kneel at sunset. It means: "God is great. There is no God but God, and Mohammed is the prophet of God."

 

  • A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.

 

  • Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

 

 

  • Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.

 

 

  • Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

 

 

  • Every person has a unique tongue print.

 

 

  • Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.

 

 

  • If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.

 

 

  • It takes 17 muscles to smile --- 43 to frown.

 

 

  • Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

 

 

  • On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.

 

 

  • The human brain is about 85% water.

 

 

  • The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.

 

 

  • There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.

 

 

  • There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

 

 

  • Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every minute.

 

  • Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

 

  • The only part of the human body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

 

  • Teeth are the only parts of the human body that can't repair themselves.

 

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