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0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a Moose. 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 equals 12,345,678,987,654,321 13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them. 2 and 5 are the only primes that end in 2 or 5. 2,500 newborn babies will be dropped in the next month. 25% of native Africans have AIDS. 40% of women have hurled footwear at a man. 50% of bank robberies take place on Fridays. 50% of teenage boys say that they would rather be rich than smart. 51% of turns are right turns. 56% of the video game market is adults. 57% of British school kids think Germany is the most boring country in Europe. 60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the phone during a thunderstorm. 69% of men say that they would rather break up with a girl in private rather than in public. 7% of Americans think Elvis is alive. 70% of all boats sold are used in fishing. 811,000 faulty rolls of 35 mm film will be purchased this year. 82% believe in an after life. 15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second. 3,000 teens start smoking a day. 314 Americans had buttock lift surgery in 1995. 35% of all Americans are overweight. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute. 50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells all while you have been reading this sentence. 67.5% of men wear briefs instead of boxers. 75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower. 80% of all body heat escapes through the head. 85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube. A 5ft 5 inch tall 27-year old woman weighing 374 pounds outflabbed 1,000 competitors to win the title of fattest woman in China. Her prize - a supply of diet food. A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months. A jogger's heel strikes the ground 1,500 times per mile. A lifetime supply of all the vitamins you need weighs only about eight ounces. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years. A newborn baby breathes five times faster than an adult man. A noisy restaurant is 100,000 times as loud as a watch ticking. Rock concert is 1,000,000,000 times as loud. Loud headphones 10,000,000,000. Shotgun blast 1,000,000,000,000. A pack-a-day smoker will approx. lose 2 teeth every ten years. A person at rest generates as much heat as a 100-watt light bulb. A person breathes 7 quarts of air every minute. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks. A pistacio nut is green inside.A red-haired man is more likely to go bald than anyone else. A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour. 9% of Americans reported having been in the presence of a ghost. 90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right. 95% of food poisoning cases are never reported.97% of Canadians say they would not borrow a toothbrush if they forgot to pack their own. A survey in the U.S shows that nuns of small or medium build expect to live far longer than tall unskilled and divorced alcoholic labourers. About 1 out of every 70 people who pick their nose actually eat their boogers. About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute. Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%. Approximately 97.35618329% of all statistics are made up. Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40320 ways to rearrange the other eight reindeer. At 1.6 deaths for every 1000 persons, Qatar has the lowest death rate in the world.August is the month when most baby's are born. By 65 years old, Americans have watched more than nine years of television. Did you know that you're more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider? Experienced waitress say that married men tip better than unmarried men. A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure. A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.About 300 million cells die in your body every minute. According to acupuncturists, there is a point on the head that you can press to control your appetite. It is located in the hollow just in front of the flap of the ear. After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came--head to toe. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.An estimated 10,000 kidneys of executed Chinese prisoners have been sold since 1990. Babies are born without kneecaps. They do not appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. Bacteria can reproduce sexually. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Before there was any real anesthesia, surgery was as painful as deliberate torture. Bernard Clemmens of London managed to sustain a fart for an officially recorded time of 2 mins 42 seconds. Bernard Clemmens of London managed to sustain a fart for an officially recorded time of 2 minutes and 42 seconds. Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light. Blood is six times thicker than water. Blood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for a paint. Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive. Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem. By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. By the age of 60, the human eye has absorbed the same amount of light produced in an atomic blast. By the age of sixty, most people have lost 50% of their taste buds. Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster than the rest of us. Children grow faster in the springtime than they do the rest of the year. Conception occurs more often in December than any other month. Constipation is caused when too much water is absorbed in the large intestine and your shit becomes dry. Corpses don't decompose as fast as they used to because of all of the chemicals and additives we eat now. Devoid of its cells and proteins, human blood has the same general makeup as seawater. During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times. During a lifetime, one person generates more than 1,000 pounds of red blood cells. During menstruation, the sensitivity of a woman's middle finger is reduced. Each square inch of human skin contains seventy-two feet of nerves. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. Every person has a unique tongue print. Every two thousand frowns create one wrinkle. Fart sounds are produced by vibrations of the anal opening. Sounds depend on the velocity of expulsion of the gas and the tightness of the sphincter muscles of the anus. Fetuses can get the hiccups. Fifty percent of the population has an IQ above 100. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. Forty percent of the American population has never visited a dentist. From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size. Half of all people who have ever smoked have now quit. Hay fever is the sixth most prevalent chronic condition in the United States. Heroin is derived from the opium poppy, Papaver Somniferum, which means the poppy that brings sleep. Human blood travels 60,000 miles per day on its journey through the arteries, arterioles and capillaries and back through the venules and veins. Humans are the only primates that do not have pigment in the palms of their hands. If someone punches you in the nose hard, it will hurt. If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you die of oxygen deprivation. If you combined all the muscles in an average human in to one muscle, the force it would be capable of producing is about 2,000 tonnes. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create an atomic bomb. If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision, but all your sense of depth. If you have a tapeworm in your stomach, it will come up while you're asleep to lick the salt off your lips. If you squeezed out all of the bacteria from your intestines, you could almost fill up a coffee mug. If you suffer from polythelia, you have three nipples. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure. If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away. If your mouth were completely dry, you wouldn't be able to taste anything. In a lifetime, we replace our skin approximately 1000 times. Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
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