Dumb Facts On Humans :P

• The average adult male shaves off 1 lb of beard per year. 
• A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it’s there though! 
• Men get hiccups more often than women do. 
• 54% of Americans fold toilet paper neatly. 35% wad it. What about the other 11%?
• Nearly all boys grow at least as tall as their mothers.
• On average, people spend more than five years of their lives dreaming. 
• In the course of a lifetime the average person will grow 2 meters of nose hair. 
• On male shirts the buttons are on the right side, on female shirts the left side. This is due to wealthy women using slaves many years ago to dress them. The buttons were on the right side to the slaves who buttoned up the shirts… 
• It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 
• Official studies have found that right handed people tend to scratch with their left hand and visa-versa. 
• When asked to name a color, 3 out of 5 people will say red.

Facts About The Human Heart

• The average adult heart beats 72 times a minute; 100,000 times a day; 3,600,000 times a year; and 2.5 billion times during a lifetime.
• Though weighing only 11 ounces on average, a healthy heart pumps 2,000 gallons of blood through 60,000 miles of blood vessels each day. 
• Every day, the heart creates enough energy to drive a truck 20 miles. In a lifetime, that is equivalent to driving to the moon and back.
• Five percent of blood supplies the heart, 15-20% goes to the brain and central nervous system, and 22% goes to the kidneys. 
• The heart begins beating at four weeks after conception and does not stop until death. 
• In 1929, German surgeon Werner Forssmann (1904-1979) examined the inside of his own heart by threading a catheter into his arm vein and pushing it 20 inches and into his heart, inventing cardiac catheterization, a now common procedure.
• A woman’s heart typically beats faster than a man’s. The heart of an average man beats approximately 70 times a minute, whereas the average woman has a heart rate of 78 beats per minute. 
• French physician Rene Laennec (1781-1826) invented the stethoscope when he felt it was inappropriate to place his ear on his large-buxomed female patients' chests. 
• The right atrium holds about 3.5 tablespoons of blood. The right ventricle holds slightly more than a quarter cup of blood. The left atrium holds the same amount of blood as the right, but its walls are three times thicker.

Facts About Chocolates

• Chocolate contains high-quality anti oxidants that can protect you from developingcancer and heart disease. 
• Chocolate is a great natural antidepressant. It contains tryptophan which helps you create serotonin, your body's own antidepressant.
• Chocolate is poisonous to dogs (and other domestic animals). The Theobromine found in chocolate is a stimulatant, and can be too much for small animals. 
• Chocolate's melting point is just below your body temperature, so it melts in your mouth. Melting chocolate in your mouth raises brain activity and heart rate more intensly than passionate kissing, and lasts four times longer!
• For humans though, Chocolate is a wonderful energy source. Napoleon supposedly carried it along on his military campaigns, and always ate it to restore energy. Nowadays Sports-persons are often given energy bars made of choclates after sporting activities to restore carbohydrates.

Facts About Emoticons

• Emoticon usage can be traced back to the mid-1800s, when writers would often use them for comic effect . 
• A transcript of one of Abraham Lincoln’s speeches, printed in the New York Times in 1862, featured a winky face. Or did it? Debate rages as to whether it’s a typo, an old-school punctuation mark or an emoticon. 
• In April, 1969, writer Vladimir Nabokov was interviewed for the New York Times and was asked: ‘How do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of the immediate past?’ Nabokov replied: ‘I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile — some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your question.’ 
• In September, 1982, Scott Fahlman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the USA, suggested that : – ) and : – ( could be used on his faculty’s bulletin board to distinguish between serious posts and more humorous ones. While Fahlman is widely believed to be the inventor of modern emoticons, he hasn’t made a bean from them as he didn’t realize how popular this new language was going to be and, thus, didn’t file a patent. 
• There’s a difference between Western and Eastern emoticons. Western styles are written left to right, with the eyes on the left, nose in the centre and mouth on the right. With Asian styles, it’s not necessary to tilt your head to the left as Eastern emoticons are usually created in this format: (*_*) happy face, (T_T) sad face, (x_x) stressed face, etc.

Facts About Dogs

• Dogs have been man's pet for over 14,000 years. 
• Apple and pear seeds contain arsenic, which may be deadly to dogs. 
• Dogs have sweat glands in between their paws. 
• Dogs have three eyelids. The third lid, called a nictitating membrane or “haw,” keeps the eye lubricated and protected. 
• Puppies are sometimes rejected by their mother if they are born by cesarean and cleaned up before being given back to her. 
• The phrase “raining cats and dogs” originated in seventeenth-century England. During heavy rainstorms, many homeless animals would drown and float down the streets, giving the appearance that it had actually rained cats and dogs. 
• Weird dog laws include allowing police offers in Palding, Ohio, to bite a dog to quiet it. In Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit. 
• Dalmatians are completely white at birth. 
• The first dogs were self-domesticated wolves which, at least 12,000 years ago, became attracted to the first sites of permanent human habitation. 
• A puppy is born blind, deaf, toothless and can not stand . 
• A dog can locate the source of a sound in 1/600 of a second and can hear sounds four times farther away than a human can. 
• There are an estimated 400 million dogs in the world. 
• In Egypt, a person bitten by a rabid dog was encouraged to eat the roasted liver of a dog infected with rabies to avoid contracting the disease. The tooth of a dog infected with rabies would also be put in a band tied to the arm of the person bitten. The menstrual blood of a female dog was used for hair removal, while dog genitals were used for preventing the whitening of hair. 
• One female dog and her female children could produce 4,372 puppies in seven years. 
• A person standing still 300 yards away is almost invisible to a dog. But a dog can easily identify its owner standing a mile away if the owner is waving his arms. 
• Dogs with big, square heads and large ears (like the Saint Bernard) are the best at hearing subsonic sounds. 
• Dogs can smell about 1,000 times better than humans. While humans have 5 million smell-detecting cells, dogs have more than 220 million. The part of the brain that interprets smell is also four times larger in dogs than in humans. 
• Different smells in the a dog’s urine can tell other dogs whether the dog leaving the message is female or male, old or young, sick or healthy, happy or angry. 
• A person should never kick a dog facing him or her. Some dogs can bite 10 times before a human can respond. 
• The grief suffered after a pet dog dies can be the same as that experienced after the death of a person.
• Some dogs can smell dead bodies under water, where termites are hiding, and natural gas buried under 40 feet of dirt. They can even detect cancer that is too small to be detected by a doctor and can find lung cancer by sniffing a person’s breath.
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