AMAGING FACTS

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.