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May 30

Memorial Day Facts

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Gen. John Logan officially proclaimed Memorial Day on May 5, 1868.

The first national commemoration took place on May 30, 1868, as flowers were placed on the graves of both Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery.

In 1966, Congress and President Lyndon B. Johnson declared Waterloo, NY, as the “birthplace” of Memorial Day, citing a ceremony held on May 5, 1866 to honor Civil War dead.

It is believed that the date was chosen because by May 30, flowers would be in bloom all over the country.

Inspired by the poem “In Flanders Field” Moina Michael wrote a poem of her own, and came up with the idea of wearing red poppies in honor of Memorial Day.

Some Southern states have special observances specifically in honor of fallen Confederate soldiers, including Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

In 2000, Congress passed the National Moment of Remembrance Act to encourage people to give back to the country, as well as promote commemorations of Memorial Day.

The National Moment of Remembrance Act urges all Americans to pause, wherever they may be, at 3 p.m. local time on May 30 for a moment of silence in honor of the country’s fallen heroes.

Nov 08

Amazing body Facts

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body_factsNerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.

The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.

The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat

It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.

It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.

The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.

Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Children grow faster in the springtime.

It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow milk.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.

May 05

Scary Fast Food Facts

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Fast food facts from the Super Size Me Web site
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Each day, 1 in 4 Americans visits a fast food restaurant
In 1972, we spent 3 billion a year on fast food – today we spend more than $110 billion
McDonald’s feeds more than 46 million people a day – more than the entire population of Spain
French fries are the most eaten vegetable in America
You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac
In the U.S., we eat more than 1,000,000 animals an hour
60 percent of all Americans are either overweight or obese
One in every three children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime
Left unabated, obesity will surpass smoking as the leading cause of preventable death in America
Obesity has been linked to: Hypertension, Coronary Heart Disease, Adult Onset Diabetes, Stroke, Gall Bladder Disease, Osteoarthritis, Sleep Apnea, Respiratory Problems, Endometrial, Breast, Prostate and Colon Cancers, Dyslipidemia, steatohepatitis, insulin resistance, breathlessness, Asthma, Hyperuricaemia, reproductive hormone abnormalities, polycystic ovarian syndrome, impaired fertility and lower back pain
The average child sees 10,000 TV advertisements per year
Only seven items on McDonald’s entire menu contain no sugar
Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald – he was fired for being too fat
McDonald’s distributes more toys per year than Toys-R-Us
Diabetes will cut 17-27 years off your life
McDonald’s: “Any processing our foods undergo make them more dangerous than unprocessed foods”
The World Health Organization has declared obesity a global epidemic
Eating fast food may be dangerous to your health
McDonald’s calls people who eat a lot of their food “heavy users”
McDonald’s operates more than 30,000 restaurants in more then 100 countries on 6 continents
Before most children can speak they can recognize McDonald’s
Surgeon General David Satcher: “Fast food is a major contributor to the obesity epidemic”
Most nutritionists recommend not eating fast food more than once a month
40 percent of American meals are eaten outside the home
McDonald’s represents 43% of total U.S. fast food market

Sep 13

Chuck Norris Facts

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1.Some kids piss their name in the snow. Chuck Norris can piss his name into concrete.
2.If you spell Chuck Norris wrong on Google it doesn’t say, “Did you mean Chuck Norris?” It simply replies, “Run while you still have the chance.”
3.Chuck Norris was originally offered the role as Frodo in Lord of the Rings. He declined because, “Only a pussy would need three movies to destroy a piece of jewelery.”
4.The quickest way to a man’s heart is with Chuck Norris’s fist.
5.Chuck Norris puts the “laughter” in “manslaughter”.
6.Chuck Norris can create a rock so heavy that even he can’t lift it. And then he lifts it anyways, just to show you who the fuck Chuck Norris is.
7.If it looks like chicken, tastes like chicken, and feels like chicken but Chuck Norris says its beef, then it’s fucking beef.
8.Jack was nimble, Jack was quick, but Jack still couldn’t dodge Chuck Norris’ roundhouse kick.
9.Most men are okay with their wives fantasizing about Chuck Norris during sex, because they are doing the same thing.
10.Chuck Norris is currently in a legal battle with the makers of Bubble Tape. Chuck Norris claims “6 Feet of Fun” is actually the trademark for his penis.
11.Chuck Norris likes to knit sweaters in his free time. And by “knit”, I mean “kick”, and by “sweaters”, I mean “babies”.
12.Chuck Norris can build a snowman out of rain.
13.When God said, “Let there be light”, Chuck Norris said, “say please.”
14.Chuck Norris died ten years ago, but the Grim Reaper can’t get up the courage to tell him.
15.Chuck Norris counted to infinity – twice.
16.Mr. T once defeated Chuck Norris in a game of Tic-Tac-Toe. In retaliation, Chuck Norris invented racism.
17.Chuck Norris can drown a fish.
18.Chuck Norris used to beat the shit out of his shadow because it was following to close. It now stands a safe 30 feet behind him.
19.When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.
20.Chuck Norris eats the core of an apple first.
21.Chuck Norris’ dog is trained to pick up his own poop because Chuck Norris will not take shit from anyone.
22.Chuck Norris is always on top during sex because Chuck Norris never fucks up.
23.Chuck Norris was once charged with three attempted murdered in Boulder County, but the Judge quickly dropped the charges because Chuck Norris does not “attempt” murder.
24.When Chuck Norris looks in a mirror the mirror shatters, because not even glass is stupid enough to get in between Chuck Norris and Chuck Norris.
25.Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
26.Leading hand sanitizers claim they can kill 99.9 percent of germs. Chuck Norris can kill 100 percent of whatever the fuck he wants.
27.Chuck Norris doesn’t pop his collar, his shirts just get erections when they touch his body.
28.Chuck Norris is the only person on the planet that can kick you in the back of the face.
29.Chuck Norris can delete the Recycling Bin.
30.M.C. Hammer learned the hard way that Chuck Norris can touch this.
31.Chuck Norris can make a paraplegic run for his life.
32.Once a cobra bit Chuck Norris’ leg. After five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died.
33.Once, while having sex in a tractor-trailer, part of Chuck Norris’ sperm escaped and got into the engine. We now know this truck as Optimus Prime.
34.Chuck Norris doesn’t read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
35.Pinatas were made in an attempt to get Chuck Norris to stop kicking the people of Mexico. Sadly this backfired, as all it has resulted in is Chuck Norris now looking for candy after he kicks his victims.
36.Chuck Norris once punched a man in the soul.
37.In 1991, Chuck Norris shot a 14 on an 18 hole golf course, falling short of his personal best by 2 strokes.
38.Before Chuck Norris was born, the martial arts weapons with two pieces of wood connected by a chain were called NunBarrys. No one ever did find out what happened to Barry.
39.Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.
40.The only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistake.
41.Bill Gates lives in constant fear that Chuck Norris’ PC will crash.
42.Chuck Norris cannot predict the future; the future just better fucking do what Chuck Norris says.
43.Chuck Norris secretly sleeps with every woman in the world once a month. They bleed for a week as a result.
44.If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can’t see Chuck Norris you may be only seconds away from death.
45.When Chuck Norris enters a room, he doesn’t turn the lights on, he turns the dark off.
46.Chuck Norris can tie his shoes with his feet.
47.Chuck Norris was once on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune and was the first to spin. The next 29 minutes of the show consisted of everyone standing around awkwardly, waiting for the wheel to stop.
48.The best part of waking up is not Folgers in your cup, but knowing that Chuck Norris didn’t kill you in your sleep.
49.Chuck Norris once had an erection while lying face down and struck oil.
50.Chuck Norris does not know where you live, but he knows where you will die.

Sep 04

Strange Body Facts

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bigsquirrellIn one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year.

Every square inch of the human body has about 19,000,000 skin cells.

Approximately 25% of all scald burns to children are from hot tap water and is associated with more deaths than with any other liquid.

Forty-one percent of women apply body and hand moisturizer at least three times a day.

Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.

The world record for the number of body piercing on one individual is 702, which is held by Canadian Brent Moffat.

The small intestine in the human body is about 2 inches around, and 22 feet long.

The human body makes anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every 24 hours.

The human body has approximately 37,000 miles of capillaries.

The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose.

The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily.

It is very common for babies in New Zealand to sleep on sheepskins. This is to help them gain weight faster, and retain their body heat.

An average women has 17 square feet of skin. When a women is in her ninth month of pregnancy she has 18.5 square feet of skin.

The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body.

41% of women apply body or hand moisturizer a minimum three times a day.

Aug 23

Big Dumb Facts

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•The shortest complete sentence in the English language is “I am.”

•The most used letter in the English alphabet is ‘E’, and ‘Q’ is the least used!

•Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.

•Goddessship is the only word in the English language with a triple letter.

•The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet!

•The sentence “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs” uses every letter of the alphabet and uses the least letters to do so!

•There is a lawsuit every 30 seconds in the U.S.

•More than 50% of time spent in U.S courtrooms is over automobile cases.

•The world’s longest-named lake has 45 letters (Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg).

•In the U.S. there are 18 doctors called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon. There is also a dermatologist named Dr. Rash, a psychiatrist called Dr. Couch and an anesthesiologist named Dr. Gass.

•“Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.

•The longest word in the English language is ‘pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’ which describes a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of volcanic matter or a similar fine dust.

•“Jack” is the most common name in nursery rhymes.

•In the English language there are only three words that have a letter that repeats six times. Degenerescence (six e’s), Indivisibility (six i’s), and nonannouncement (six n’s).

•The only three words in the English language to have 2 consecutive u’s is vacuum, residuum, and continuum.

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