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#1205225 - 06/22/09 04:35 PM Facts That you Most Likely Didn't Know
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While looking for a phone number in our local phone book, I found these pages of facts that you most likely didn't know. There are 200, but I will only give you some I thought were interesting/funny:

-A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries.
-A kiss for one minute can burn 26 calories.
-Eating chocolate 3 times a month helps people live longer as opposed to people who overeat chocolate or do not eat chocolate at all.
-Eating dandelions can make you urinate more. (hmmmm?)
-Even if you eat food standing on your head, the food will still end up in your stomach.
-A leech has 32 brains.
-In the spring of 1975, a baby in Detroit fell 14 stories and landed on Joseph Figlock, who was walking below. A few years later it happened again. Figlock and both babies survived.
-During the 16th century, newly married couples in France had to stand naked outdoors while the groom kissed the bride's left foot and big toe as part of traditional customs.
-There was a time in Japan where a wife being left handed was a ground for divorce.
-To be born on Sunday was considered a sign of great sin during the Puritan times.
-An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
-A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
-An average home creates more polution than does the average car.
-The first toilet being flused in a motion picture was in the movie "Psycho".
-In 1998, Sony accidentally sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
-Murphy's Oil Soap has been used on elephants in the winter to clean them.
-The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts.
-Caterpillar means "hairy cat" in Old French.
-When telephone companies first began hiring telephone operators, they chose teenage boys for the job. They switched to women because the teenage boys were wrestling instead of working and pulling pranks on callers.
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#1205234 - 06/22/09 04:38 PM Re: Facts That you Most Likely Didn't Know Bones
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-There was a time in Japan where a wife being left handed was a ground for divorce

Now she would have been left-handed when they married, so this was just an excuse??????????????
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#1205241 - 06/22/09 04:43 PM Re: Facts That you Most Likely Didn't Know Snow Bunny
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Originally Posted By: P.B.
-There was a time in Japan where a wife being left handed was a ground for divorce

Now she would have been left-handed when they married, so this was just an excuse??????????????



That's what I thought, too. But then, you know us women are good at hiding things. grin
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#1205245 - 06/22/09 04:46 PM Re: Facts That you Most Likely Didn't Know Bones
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Originally Posted By: Bones
That's what I thought, too. But then, you know us women are good at hiding things. grin

Yes, that's why Sony tried to help us guys out in 1998 whistle
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#1205300 - 06/22/09 05:22 PM Re: Facts That you Most Likely Didn't Know Bones
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Originally Posted By: Bones

-An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.


Freaks Desk, however has bacterial levels that equal a Road Side restop.
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