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I found the following facts very interesting and fun.  What is your favorite?  I think mine is between It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath. and It is impossible to hum if your nose is plugged. Hope you have fun reading these facts.  :)  A fun break for your mind.

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1. Cash machines are as dirty as public toilets.

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2. Daft Punk named their band after a negative reviewer called their act "a bunch of daft punk."

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3. A typical lead pencil can draw a line that is 35 miles long.

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4. If you had 10 billion $1 notes and spent one every second of every day, it would require 317 years for you to go broke.

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5. The hands of the clock on the back of the $100 bill are set at approximately 4:10.

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6. Coins usually survive in circulation for about 30 years.

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7. American car horns beep in the tone of F.

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8. No one knows Albert Eistein's last words. Just before he passed, he spoke several words in German, but his nurse only knew English.

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9. In Monopoly, the character locked behind the bars is called Jake the Jailbird. Officer Edgar Mallory sent him to jail.

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10. The longest Monopoly game in history lasted 70 straight days.

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11. Play-Doh was first manufactured as a wallpaper cleaner.

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12. Tae Kwon Do is only around 60 years old.

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13. The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!

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14. It is impossible to hum if your nose is plugged.

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15. One in five long-term love relationships began with one or both partners being involved with others.

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16. When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.

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17. Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.

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18. When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.

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19. Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.

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20. 'X' became symbolic for a kiss because in the middle ages when alot of people were illiterate and they used to sign documents with an X and then kiss it for sincerity.

21. When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.

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22. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

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taking place all over the world.

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24. A new baby usually deprives each of its parents around 350-400 hours of sleep in the first year. That is one entire nights sleep per week, per parent.

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25. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

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26. If you mouth the word "colorful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you".

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27. You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

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28. There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.

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29. If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.

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30. Blue light fends off drowsiness in the middle of the night, which could be useful to people who work at night.

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31. Caffeine boosts memory.

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32. If you get water flowing fast enough, it can cut metal.

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33. About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.

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34. You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.

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35. Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.

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36. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

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37. It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.

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38. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

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39. One human hair can support 3 ounces.Fact Comments

·         40. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

41. When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.

42. Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.

43. The most children born to one woman was 69, she was a peasant who lived a 40 year life, in which she had 16 twins, 7 triplets, and 4 quadruplets.

44. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

45. Your fingernails grow faster in winter.

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     26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

     27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.
     28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
     29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
     30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

     31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

     32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
     33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
     34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
     35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
     36. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
     37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
     38. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it is smiling).
     39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”
     40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
     41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
     42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.
     43. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)
     44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
     45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
     46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
     47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
     48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.
     49. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.
     50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!

      ..... I thought that was fun and interesting . . . I feel smarter already!

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I've been tagged...AGAIN!

RULES OF TAGGING:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post.
5. Let each person know when he or she has been tagged.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

I guess Cheryl St. John didn't get the message that I'm supposed to be packing and avoiding my blog. As you can see, I'm incapable of turning off the computer and walking away.

Cheryl is a dear friend and very accomplished award-winning Harlequin author with one of the most interesting blogs around. I guess I have to play AGAIN, but only because it's Cheryl. :) The hard part is coming up with six more things to tell you about myself. I'm honestly just not that interesting, but here's my best attempt:

1. I hate moving. This is the fourteenth move in 13 years. I'm starting to feel like a gypsy. Maybe I should take this silk scarf off my heard and get rid of these large gold hoop earrings. Face it...I married a nomad.

2. Since I've grown older, I tend to be more vocal about injustices. When I got crummy service in a restaurant in my earlier years, I grumbled and walked away...now I email the corporate office and let them know. You can't fix what you don't know is broken. I'm sure somewhere my name is on a list of local nut cases. *lol* At least I don't have an ulcer...I just give them to other people.

3. I sleep on my right side as evidenced by the thinness of my hair. I'm looking forward to the day I can do the Donald Trump comb over. NOT! I always start off on the left side, lay there just until I start to doze off, then roll over. It's a ritual I cannot break no matter how hard I try. I also pull one knee up. Strangely, it's the one that is stiff and sore all the time. And, I do not snore. (Hey's that's a twofer)

4. Several years ago I was diagnosed with Objective Tinnitus. Unlike Subjective Tinnitus, you can hear the noise in my head if you put your ear to mine. I've been the crowd pleaser at many a gathering. :) Although the condition was not easily diagnosed, extensive and painful testing revealed that I have too much carotid artery on both sides and the noise stems from blood rushing through the loops behind my ears. The noise has often been described as "a pissed off bumble bee in a jar." The ENT doctor who first heard it said he would have to blow his head off if he had the problem. I decided that wasn't an option, so I sleep with a white noise machine close by and have some type of noise as diversion in the background during the day. It's not easy living with a noise in my head 24/7, but at least it isn't voices telling me to kill people...at least not yet. Now you know why I'm crazy.

5. Just revealed through a recent colonoscopy: I also have too much colon. The equipment wasn't long enough to finish the job. Just my luck. God gave me too much carotid artery, too much colon, but barely no lips. I can never get a face lift. I'd look like a snake. :) Check out Judge Judy and you'll see what I mean. Even she's asking what happened to her lips. :)



6. I always wanted to be a stand-up comedienne. I think I could do an entire routine about growing old. My comedy heroine is Tammy Pescatelli who says, "When people ask how I get new material, I tell them, I wake up every morning." Laughter is the best medicine and I believe in frequent doses.

Quote for the day. "If the shoe fits, you can bet it isn't very stylish."

Now I have to list six people I'm going to tag and provide you with a link to them. I'm going to make it easy and target....ah I mean select... six who are blogging with me this week. They may hate me, but hey...don't we always dislike beautiful people? Make sure when you visit their blogs to tell them Ginger sent you.

Clare London

Connie Rachal

Elaine Cantrell

Rhonda Lee

Deb Hockenberry

Laura Elliott Herbertson