Funny facts about humans 1. People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left. 2. The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain. 3. You could remove a large part of your internal organs and survive. 4. The majority of American models are skinnier than 98% of American women. 5. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night. 6. A baby is born every seven seconds. 7. The Dutch people are known to be the tallest people in
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Facts About Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity is a serious‚ growing epidemic‚ cutting across all categories of race‚ ethnicity‚ family income and locale. Obesity rates tripled in the past 30 years‚ a trend that means‚ for the first time in our history‚ American children may face a shorter expected lifespan than their parents. Additionally‚ we spend $150 billion every year to treat obesity-related conditions‚ with childhood health care costs rapidly increasing that number. Researchers have estimated
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Amusing facts about Sweden‚ Swedish Culture‚ and Swedish Governance‚ compiled by an American. As of 2004 you can pay your Swedish taxes by sending an SMS message from your cell phone. The government sends you a completely filled out tax form and if it looks good you just go online and click okay to pay your taxes. Taxes are generally between 50 and 70% of your income. (Of course your employer already pays the full amount of your salary to the government in taxes before you even get anything.) Companies
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Some Facts about MYSOORU Heritage City…City of Palaces…Green City…Garden City…Clean City… etc.‚ etc‚ List never ends… ;-) Let’s see what made Mysore the World Famous (not only Dasara…!!!) Places: * Mysore Palace & all other Palaces in & around Mysooru * Brindavan Garden (KRS) * Chamundi Hill * St.Philomina’s Church (Asia’s 2nd Tallest Church) Products: * Mysore Silks & Sarees * Mysore Sandalwood * Mysore Mallige * Mysore Peta * More
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Abortion Abortion is quite a controversial issue in today’s government. Many of us refrain from even getting into a discussion over abortion‚ because it is such a sensitive topic. It is very unfortunate that so many women around the world have to make decisions involving abortion‚ period. “One in three women will have at least one abortion by the time she is 45‚ and these run the gamut of ages‚ races‚ backgrounds and beliefs.” (Welch) In one’s eye abortion is simply immoral and unacceptable‚
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The dearest place on the map for me. Russia‚ officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic‚ comprising 83federal subjects. From northwest to southeast‚Russia sharesborders with Norway‚ Finland‚ Estonia‚ Latvia‚ Lithuania and Poland‚ Belarus‚ Ukraine‚ Georgia‚ Azerbaijan‚ Kazakhstan‚ China‚ Mongolia‚ and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk‚ and the US state of Alaska by
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Morgan Peterson May 4‚ 2011 Anatomy – Period F The Boy in the Bubble The Boy in the Bubble is about David Vetter; a boy was born with a rare hereditary disease‚ severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)‚ meaning his body had no immune system to fight off diseases of any sort. He stayed in a plastic isolator bubble environments while waiting for a matching bone marrow donor or a cure for his ailment. The parents of David tried to give him as much of a normal life as they could‚ and he had schooling
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disease of the tropics. It entered the lives of American men who voyaged to the West Indies. We know today that yellow fever is a virus spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. This mosquito has peculiar habits that we¡¦re still continuing to learn about. This mosquito prefers to live in urban areas. It breeds in clean standing water. It also feed during that day‚ so back in the 1700 and 1800¡¦s the mosquitoes must have had enjoyed the major port
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moon and back.a 6. Because the heart has its own electrical impulse‚ it can continue to beat even when separated from the body‚ as long as it has an adequate supply of oxygen.c 7. The fetal heart rate is approximately twice as fast as an adult’s‚ at about 150 beats per minute. By the time a fetus is 12 weeks old‚ its heart pumps an amazing 60 pints of blood a day.g 8. The heart pumps blood to almost all of the body’s 75 trillion cells. Only the corneas receive no blood supply.c 9. During an average
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Provençal dialect of the Occitan language‚ deriving from the expression pès tancats [ˈpɛ taŋˈka]‚ meaning "feet together" or more exactly "feet anchored". The casual form of the game of pétanque is played by about 17 million people in France‚ mostly during their summer vacations. There are about 375‚000 players licensed with the Fédération Française de Pétanque et Jeu Provençal (FFPJP) and some 3‚000 in England. Another 20‚000 or so play in Quebec‚ Canada. Additionally‚ pétanque clubs have arisen in
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