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Mind Blown Facts From Around The World. by druid06(m): 8:48pm On Apr 21, 2013
The richest black woman in the world isn't Oprah, it's a Nigerian Philanthropist/Oil Tycoon named Folorunsho Alakija.

There are 36 million people in the U.S. with Irish ancestry, that's about 8 times the population of Ireland itself.

Boiling people to death is still popular to do as capital punishment in Uzbekistan.

George W. Bush was once arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol when he was 30 years old.

Alcohol triggers & stimulates the region of the brain associated with honesty.

Surgeons who play video games make 40% less errors & perform 30% faster.

Psychological Fact - It's hard to admit that you're not as strong as people believe you are.

It is impossible to remember exactly how your dream starts, you also only remember 10% of what you dream.

Consuming alcohol enhances creativity. People who are intoxicated are actually more creative.

Moderate consumption of alcohol beverages such as beer, wine and vodka can reduce risk of type 2 diabetes by over 30%.

Licking your cuts and wounds can help them heal faster, studies suggest.

The smarter you are, the more likely you are to talk to yourself.

The average woman will spend at least 2 years of her lifetime trying to decide what to wear.

Sharon Stone worked at McDonald's before she was famous. So did Shania Twain, Jay Leno and Pink.

Men have a decline of mental performance as soon as they interact with women.

Researchers found that babies born in March or April are more likely to eventually become CEOs of their own company.

Bananas and humans share about half of the same DNA.

Strawberry isn't a type of berry but banana is.

Banana's are radioactive in nature.

The average human will spend 25 years or their life sleeping. Someone who over thinks a lot averages only 15.

Sarcasm eliminates stress & effectively relieves the negative effects of frustration as well as over thinking.

The hardest part in life is trying to show the smile you know is fake and to hide the tears that won’t stop.

If Wal-Mart was an army, it would have the second largest military in the world, behind China.

The center of our galaxy tastes like rasberries & smells like rum. (according to Astronomers).

A 9 year old once sued the makers of 'Cracker Jacks' because they didn't have a prize in their box.

You'll get a new skeleton every 10 years. Bone cells are constantly renewing themselves.

Birds have often been caught masturbat=ing by people around the world.

It's impossible to write an English word using only the bottom row of the keyboard.

There's extra small condoms designed for children called the 'HotShot' which is for 14 year olds to practice safe sex.

The price of College books in the United States has risen faster than house prices, healthcare, & inflation.

Alexis, Ashley, Aubrey, Audrey, Beverly, Brook, Carol, Courtney, Dana, Ethel, Jocelyn, Kelly, Kelsey, Kimberly = originally boy names.

You can have laser eye surgery done to permanently change your brown eyes to blue eyes.

The first remote was created in 1950 and was named 'Lazy Bones'.

The main causes of impotence among men is cigarette smoking & tight pants

Stopping a runny nose is easy, all you have to do is sniff a marker.

A former NASA rocket scientists changed his profession & currently works as a por=n star.

Music - repairs brain damage & returns lost memories.

Marilyn Monroe's dress that was worn when she sang "Happy Birthday" to President John F. Kennedy was so tight she had to be sewn into it.

NASA says, the Moon smells like gunpowder.

The 3rd right arm of a male octopus is it's penis.

There was a breed of dog named 'Cordoba Fighting Dog' that was so aggressive that went extinct because males & females would fight not mate.

A british schoolboy was once expelled after dipping his testicles into his teacher's cup of tea. She unsuspectingly drank her tea.

Actor Shia LaBeouf got into the acting business by calling an agent in 'Yellow Pages' & pretending to be his own manager.

Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!

The top 3 countries who search for 'gay pornography' on Google are South Africa, Ireland, and the UK.

Genghis Kahn killed enough people to cool the Earth. 40 million people were brutally murdered and most farmlands were reclaimed by forests.

Female mosquitos will obtain blood from humans, but only to nourish their eggs.Their food actually consists of nectar & other plant juices.

The heart of giraffe is two feet long, and can weigh as much as twenty four pounds.

For almost $300,000 you can have your entire body frozen when you die. There is a chance you will be revived 10,000 years in the future.

A gorilla who was taught sign language (his name was Michael), perfectly described watching his mother die.

After Tupac Shakur was murdered, his body was cremated & some of his ashes were mixed with marijuana then smoked by members of 'Outlawz'.

Ironically, If a cockroach touches a human, it runs to safety and cleans itself!

A scorpion can hold its breath for 1 week.

Athletes in ancient games competed in the nude. In fact, "gymnasium" comes from the Greek word "gymnós," which means naked.

It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes all sucking at the same time to completely drain the average human of blood.

Rice is traditionally thrown at the bride and groom at weddings because it symbolizes life and fertility.

Many children can vomit at will. Psychologists say the best way to stop this behavior is to make the child eat it afterward.

Swallowing semen can reduce a woman’s risk of developing a dangerous pregnancy condition called “pre-eclampsia.”

Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.

Apple has enough cash on hand to buy a space station.

The average American consumes about 7 pounds of potato chips every year.

A ripped dollar bill still has its face value, as long as the remaining piece is larger than half.

250 million years from now, all of Earth's continents will merge again to form "Pangea Ultima."

The dog food Pedigree and cat food Whiskas are produced by the same company that makes the famous M&M'S Chocolate Candy!

In Greek, 'X' means Christ. This is where the word 'Xmas' comes from.

Every time you pee, a small amount of pee enters your mouth through your saliva glands.

The left side of the human face appears better looking and more attractive than the right.

The Cosmos Atrosanguineus is a type of flower that actually smells like chocolate.

Over 3 billion Google searches are done each day.

If you rub an onion on your foot, you'll be able to taste it within 30-60 minutes.

The three best known Western names in China are Jesus Christ, Elvis Presley, and (president) Richard Nixon.

Vampire bats are the only mammals in the world that live entirely on blood.

Wolves have about 200 million scent cells. Humans have only about 5 million.

Homosexuality was classified as an illness in Sweden until 1979 - Swedes protested by calling into work sick, claiming they “felt gay."

If prison rapes are included in the Rape Statistics, more men are raped than women in the United States

The word “batman” is used to refer to someone's personal servant -So, Alfred Pennyworth is actually Batman's batman.

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake lasted nearly 10 minutes—the longest on record.

Statistically, men are better than women at detecting a cheater.

Ke$ha had perfect scores on her SAT tests.

More coming soon.

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Re: Mind Blown Facts From Around The World. by benjichuks(m): 10:56pm On Apr 21, 2013
Hmmmm.
Re: Mind Blown Facts From Around The World. by OROZONE(m): 11:47pm On Apr 21, 2013
Dude those facts make a lot of sense men. More pls...
Re: Mind Blown Facts From Around The World. by Kc3000: 12:14am On Apr 22, 2013
Good stuff.
Re: Mind Blown Facts From Around The World. by druid06(m): 8:06am On Apr 22, 2013
A mother scorpion will eat her offspring if she is hungry.

If you were to give someone a Nazi salute in Germany today, you could be punished for up to 3 years in prison.

Your brain waves change while watching TV - Watching too much TV can cause unfocused daydreaming and inability to concentrate.

In Switzerland, Santa has a helper named Schmutzli who beats children with a broom.

Based on their metal value, a dollar in nickels is worth 5 times more than a dollar in quarters.

1 in 14 Americans claim they would murder someone for 3 million dollars.

There’s a genus of snakes that actually fly to catch their prey.

Singapore has has a holiday for sex to increase the national birthrate - It’s called National Night.

The Spanish word esposa means "wife." The plural, esposas, means "wives," but also "handcuffs."

There is an anti date rape straw that detects the presence of date rape drugs to warn the victim.

74% of surveyed high school students admitted to cheating on an exam during the past year to get ahead.

Cheerleading accounts for 65.1% of all sports injuries among females -- 30,000 cheerleaders are sent to the emergency room each year.

George W. Bush was once a cheerleader..

Ronald Reagan was an actor before he became the president of the U.S.A.

Humans spend a third of their life sleeping (at least 25 years or more).

Objectophilia is the sexual or romantic attraction to an inanimate object.

The world's first computer programmer was a woman, Ada Lovelace, in 1842.

People with traits of autism are less likely to believe in God.

Only 8% of the world's currency exists as physical cash, the rest is electronic.

Kissing was banned in England in 1439 to stop the spread of diseases before the germ theory existed.

When you're sleeping you have no sense of smell.

Gamophobia is the fear or marriage, relationships or commitment.

The actual "Doomsday" date according to Mayans calendar lies over 4,000 years in the future.

While producing "Toy Story", Pixar came up with the ideas for "Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, A Bug's Life, & Wall-E" during one lunch break.

Temperature can affect appetite. A person in a colder room is likely to eat more.

Every day, 20 banks are robbed and an average of $2,500 is taken.

"Asymbolia" is a condition that causes people to be immune to feeling pain.

Studies has shown that Nigerian are the least depressed people in the world.

When you cry, excess stress chemicals are pushed out of your body helping in stabilizing the body's chemicals, that is why you feel lighter.

It took 20,000 people 22 years to build Taj Mahal.

Pygophilia (sexual arousal or excitement caused by seeing, playing with or touching the buttock )

Psychologists have proven that we tend to overestimate ourselves -- We are not as nice as we think we are.

The word "volkswagen" means "people's car" in German

If Earth's population was a village of precisely 100 people, there would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Americans and 8 Africans.

Google employees have access to "nap pods" where they can take a nap during working hours.

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

Sir Isaac Newton predicted that the world would end in the year 2060.

A thumbs up in Iran means "up your ass".

Contrary to popular belief, pirates rarely made captives "walk the plank." They were usually just tossed overboard.

Studies show homophobia is more common among people with an unannounced attraction to others of the same sex.

The current 50-star U.S. flag was designed by a 17-year-old student. He got a B minus for the project.

Pumpkins are actually berries.

Women tend to take longer when making decisions, but are more likely to stick with them as opposed to men

A mosquito is more likely to bite a blonde than a brunette.

Around 160,000 songs are illegally downloaded every minute.

$250 billion is spent on fashion in the U.S. each year.

80% of women prefer men without chest hair.

Potato chips were invented by chef George Crum out of spite when a customer complained that his French fries were too thick.

The speed in which a chameleon shoots out it's tongue to catch it's prey is 2 times faster than a fighter jet.

The first one to jump off a parachute was not human, but a dog in 1785.

College education in Finland is tuition free.

Firstborns tend to have higher IQ's and younger ones tend to have more sex.

Prostitution has been observed in penguins and chimpanzees.

It is actually illegal to wear sagging pants in Illinois.

Salt was extremely rare and valuable in ancient Rome. This is the origin of the word "salary" and the phrase "worth your salt."

Italian Leonardo Da Vinci, most famous for his paintings, invented the parachute in 1515.

Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes egg shells is only produced by hens

More still on the way.
Re: Mind Blown Facts From Around The World. by Freiburger(m): 11:04am On Apr 22, 2013
George W. Bush was once arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol when he was 30 years old. This is so true.
Re: Mind Blown Facts From Around The World. by aminho(m): 6:33pm On Apr 23, 2013
You are heading to the top
Re: Mind Blown Facts From Around The World. by Snoopy007(m): 10:22pm On Nov 23, 2015
Hmmm

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