- Results from cognitive tests show 30% of 80-year-olds perform as well as young adults. - Your brain is about 2% of your total body weight but uses 20% of your body's energy. - The energy used by the brain is enough to light a 25 watt bulb. - More electrical impulses are generated in [...]
Here is a little cookie quiz for you during your Christmas holiday weeks! Are you a cookie genius, or just a good taste tester? FIND OUT! Write down your answers and see how you did! (answers are at the end of the quiz) 1) What is the most popular type of home-baked cookie? Sugar [...]
Every year, you eat approximately 4 bugs in your sleep. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. Sweden is the largest spender on ketchup. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. There are more coffee drug (caffeine) addicts in the US than drug addicts of any [...]
An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine. A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 mph! Coca-Cola was originally green. The longest sausage made in Australia was 11 kilometers (6.9 miles) long. An average woman consumes approximately 20 kg of lipstick in [...]
Chocolate was used as medicine during the 18th century. It was believed that chocolate could cure a stomach ache. The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. [...]
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class. Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. In the 1800's, people believed that gin could cure stomach problems. McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food [...]
Excessive cleanliness is bad for your health. A little bit of germs helps your body’s immune system. The risk of getting a heart attack is higher on Mondays and during three days after your doctor diagnoses you with the flu or another respiratory disease. Washing your nose with salt water can help you avoid a [...]
Dogs can sense cancer and low blood sugar. Excessive cleanliness is bad for your health. A little bit of germs helps your body’s immune system. The risk of getting a heart attack is higher on Mondays and during three days after your doctor diagnoses you with the flu or another respiratory disease. Washing your nose [...]
* The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes. * Only humans sleep on their backs. * Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks, otherwise it would digest itself. * Americans eat an average of 18 acres of pizza a day. * The human eye blinks an average of [...]