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Just Some Things You May Not Know!

Couple of facts about eating and diabetes…

Being constantly challenged by “foreign” processed foods will wear out the immune system over time, making us more vulnerable to disease and infection as we age…

Diabetes is on the rise in the United States for both adults and children/adolescents. Almost 24 million Americans have diabetes, and at least 57 million over the age of 20 have pre-diabetes. Adults with diabetes have between two and four times the risk of death from heart disease than someone without diabetes…

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Sleeping Time…

Did you know the average person falls asleep in 7 minutes…

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What is Saliva Good For?

Did you know unless food is mixed with saliva you can’t taste it…

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Largest Month of Childbirths…

Did you know the month of August has the highest percentage of births…

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Left Handedness…

Did you know 11% of people are left handed…

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Some Mixed Facts!

When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
The maximum speed that raindrops can fall at is around 18mph, depending on their size.
If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.
12 Astronauts have walked on the moon, between them bringing back 382 kilograms of rocks, pebbles, sand and dust.
Whales talk to each other by making a loud clicking noise. The sound waves travel extremely well underwater and they can hear each other from 100 miles away.
A TV screen shows 24 pictures a second. Because a fly sees 200 images a second, it would see TV as still pictures with darkness in between.
Cats can see clearly in one-sixth the amount of light we humans would need.
In 1936 Professor Alfred Gaydon underwent surgery on his eyes after an accident. When his sight began to return he found that he could see ultra-violet light, which is normally beyond the visible spectrum of humans. This helped in his work as a physicist, but it did distort how he saw other colors!
Because of thermal expansion the Eiffel Tower is 15cm taller in summer.
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Something You May Not Know!

11% of people are left handed.
August has the highest percentage of births.
Unless food is mixed with saliva you can’t taste it.
The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.
A bear has 42 teeth.Aan ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
No two corn flakes look the same.
Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
8% of people have an extra rib.
85% of plant life is found in the ocean.
No words in the English language rhyme with the words angel, angst, breadth, bulb, depth, eighth, month, ninth, orange, purple, scalp or twelfth.

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A Group of Animals Is?

# A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
# A group of frogs is called an army.
# A group of rhinos is called a crash.
# A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
# A group of whales is called a pod.
# A group of geese is called a gaggle.
# A group of ravens is called a murder.
# A group of officers is called a mess.
# A group of larks is called an exaltation.
# A group of owls is called a parliament.

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Oil Came From What?


“It’s common knowledge that oil came from decomposing dead dinosaurs and plant matters (after all, it is called “fossil fuel,” right?) – but that’s actually wrong. Though most scientists believed that oil has a biological origin, they don’t believe that oil came from dinosaurs. They thought that oil was derived from single-celled plankton’s that flourished, died and then decomposed hundreds of millions of years ago.”

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