Amazing Facts__(Health & Body)

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* A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years. * 1 out of every 4 kids in the USA is overweight. * 41% of women apply body or hand moisturizer a minimum three times a day. * 75-90% of primary physician visits are due to stress. * A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax. * A blink lasts approximately 0.3 seconds. * A ear trumpet was used before the hearing aid was invented by people who had difficulty hearing. * A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks. * A fetus starts to develop fingerprints at the age of eight weeks. * A fetus that is four months old, will becomes startled and turn away if a light is flashed on the mother's stomach. * A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries. * A human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at four weeks old. * A kiss for one minute can burn 26. * A little under one quarter of the people in the world are vegetarians. * A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery. * A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years. * A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement. * A sneeze can travel as fast as one hundred miles per hour. * A study concludes that kids who snore do poorly in school. * A study indicates that smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers. * A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder. * A world record 328 pound ovarian cyst was removed from a woman in Galveston, Texas, in 1905. * A yawn usually lasts for approximately six seconds. * About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light. * According to the American Institute of Stress, job stress approximately costs the U.S. industry over $300 billion dollars per year. * After twenty-seven years, Betty Rubble made her debut as a Flintstones Vitamin in 1996. * Air is passed through the nose at a speed of 100 miles per hour when a person sneezes. * Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic. * An adult esophagus can range from 10 to 14 inches in length and is one inch in diameter. * An average adult produces about half a litre of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day. * Approximately 1-2 calorie are burned a minute while watching T.V. * Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever. * Asthma affects one in fifteen children under the age of eighteen. * At least 7% of all health care costs in the United States are attributed to smoking. * At one time it was thought that the heart controlled a person's emotions, Babies that are exposed to cats and dogs in their first year of life have a lower chance of developing allergies when they grow older. * Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old. * Being lactose intolerant can cause chronic flatulence. * Between 12%-15% of the population is left-handed. * Between 1997-2002, there was an increase of 228% in cosmetic procedures in the United States. * Bile produced by the liver is responsible for making your feces a brownish, green colour. * Brain damage will only occur if a fever goes above 107.6 degrees farenheit. * By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in an year. * Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes. * Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.