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Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints. No two sets of fingerprints are alike.
The skin that peels off after a bad sunburn is called blype.
The definition of a mummy is a corpse whose skin and dried flesh have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs. The oldest mummified head is Chulina, who is 6000 year old, found in 1936 and AMS dated in Zürich in 2005.
The average person dreams for 5 years of their lives.
Human eyes blink about 4.2 million times per year.
Seven percent of people claim that they do not bathe at all.
The last man on the moon was astronaut Eugene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972.
American Indian braves shaved by using clam shells as tweezers.
57 Percent of Americans shower daily.
Infrasonic is the word used when you can’t hear low sounds.
The average person eats 2000 pounds of food per year.
25 Percent of men are over 6 feet tall today as compared to 4 percent in the 1900’s.
The average marriage are in the US for women is 21 and for men is 23.
12 babies around the world are given to the wrong mothers each day.
Redheads make up only 4% of the population of the world.
Blondes have thicker hair than brunettes on average.
40 Percent of the people that fall off a horse are drunk.
10 percent of men are left handed and 8 percent of women are left handed.
The average Stone Age cave dweller lived to 18 years of age.
Less people are alive than dead. In other words there are more dead people than live people at any given time.
35 Percent of people who watch TV yell at it.
A person’s heart will beat approximately 2 billion times in their lifetime.
Men’s skin is 20% thicker than womens. That is why men seem to age slower than women.
It takes appromimately $200,000 to raise a child from birth to 18 years old and that is without college.
The loss of brain power at daybreak is equivalent to that caused by a 0.08% blood alcohol level, which is typically reached after drinking four bottles of beer. Don’t do any heavy thinking upon waking up.
The average human body contains: 40 litres of water, 200 bones, 7.5 metres of intestines, 1,400cc of brain capacity, 1,000 billion cells, 600 muscles.
One in 10 people sleeping rough on the streets are women, and that one in six are under 25 and one in 14 over 60.
Throughout Europe, people eat with the fork in the left hand and the knife in the right.
In Brazil, kids do not have sleepovers.
In Taiwan, eating or drinking in the streets is considered crude.
People have lived in the world for millions of years. Today, 6.3 billion people live on the earth.
The world's population grows by 100 million each year. Some 950 million people in the world are malnourished. There are 106 boys born for every 100 girls. The Does have been around since the 1300's and are still going strong. British lawyers used the most common first names of the time - John and Jane - whenever a person's true identity was unknown, when a person wished to remain anonymous, or when the person could be almost anyone. You can find these names still in use today on legal documents, death certificates, and hospital records.
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