50 Fascinating Facts About The World We Live In

Shrimps have their hearts in their heads, people forget 90% of dreams, and you risk fewer health problems if you kiss a man than if you shake hands with him. Read on for 50 fascinating things about the world you live in!

1. An A4 sheet of paper cannot be folded in half more than seven times;
2. Blueberry juice improves memory;
3. Elephant is the only animal that has four knees;
4. Every year, experts detect around 500,000 earthquakes around the world. 100,000 of them are felt by people and 100 cause damage;
5. The tongue is the only muscle attached to the body only at one end;
6. People forget 90% of dreams;
7. When we think, we use only 35% of the brain;
8. The percentage of people who dream in black and white has decreased after the appearance of the color TV;
9. Approximately two-thirds of people lean their head to their right when kissing;
10. Coffee drinkers have more sex. In addition, they feel better about sex;
11. A queen bee lays 1,500 eggs a day;
12. It has been scientifically proven that laughter can help a person lose weight;
13. The vibrator was first used to treat hysteria. It happened in the nineteenth century;
14. In Ancient Rome, the men who testify in the courtroom swore on their... testicles;
15. 80% of the pictures posted on the Internet are the subject of naked women;
16. Shrimps have hearts in the head;
17. Chocolate may be poisonous for dogs;
18. According to a survey, 75% of men ejaculate after three minutes of penetration;
19. Americans consume about 18 hectares of pizza a day;
20. Despite modernisation, 1.2 billion people still do their needs in nature;
21. In Victorian London, prostitutes wore pubic wigs;
22. Charlie Chaplin won only 3rd place in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike competition;
23. Women's hearts beat faster than men's;
24. Besides humans, black lemurs are the only primates that can have blue eyes;
25. The Dutch are the tallest people;
26. You are less likely to suffer from health problems if you kiss than if you shake hands;
27. Linda Wolfe is the woman who was married most of the time. She had 23 legal marriages, which ended either with divorce or husbands' deaths;
28. Jaguars are scared of dogs;
29. Married men give bigger tips than unmarried men;
30. Natural pearls melt in vinegar;
31. The olive tree can live up to 1,500 years;
32. The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons;
33. The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515;
34. Ants never sleep;
35. The human brain contains 80% water;
36. If you keep a golden fish in the dark, it bleeds;
37. Winston Churchill was born in a toilet;
38. Every day, 15 billion cigarettes are smoked around the world;
39. 100,000 sexual acts take place every day throughout the world;
40. It's harder to lie to a person to whom you feel sexually attracted, studies show;
41. Polar bears have dark skin;
42. The blue whale produces the strongest sound. It has 188 decibels and can be heard from 800 kilometers away;
43. You burn more calories sleeping than while watching TV;
44. Elephants are the only mammals that can not jump;
45. ​​Snails can sleep up to three years continuously;
46. The human eye can detect 10 million colors;
47. The olfactory feel of the butterflies is located on their legs;
48. A four-year-old puts about 437 questions a day;
49. One in five people lives with less than $ 1 a day;
50. There are more molecules in a glass of water than there are glasses of water in the oceans of the Earth.

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