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In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .

The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

October 12th, 1999 was declared ?The Day of Six Billion? based on United Nations projections.

It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun?s surface to the Earth.

10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

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In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death.

In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman?s genitals, but is forbidden from looking directly at them during the examination. He may only see their reflection in a mirror.

Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a corpse. This also applies to undertakers; the sex organs of the deceased must be covered with a brick or piece of wood at all times.

Most Middle Eastern countries recognize the following Islamic law: ?After having sexual relations with a lamb, it is a mortal sin to eat its flesh.?

There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first time. Reason: under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins to marry.

In Cali, Colombia, a woman may only have sex with her husband, and the first time this happens her mother must be in the room to witness the act.

In Santa Cruz, Bolivia it is illegal for a man to have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same time.

In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with one exception: prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only ?in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for on the premises.?

In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. (The husband?s lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any manner desired.)

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Latino women have sex more often than either Blacks or Whites, who get down at roughly the same rate.

Women with a Ph.D. are twice as likely to be turned on by the thought of anonymous sex as women who never got a bachelor?s degree.

Women who respond to sex surveys in magazines like Cosmo may have 5 times as many lovers as typical women.

Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don?t.

White teenage girls who live with single mothers are 60% more likely to have sex before the age of 18 than those who live with both parents. The percentage is much lower for black girls.

Women who lost their virginity before their 18th birthday are likely to be twice as sexually active as women who don?t.

Women who have spent a night in jail are almost 50% more likely to have had more than 10 lovers in the past year than women with no criminal record.

Women who went to college are more likely to enjoy oral sex (giving and receiving) than high school dropouts.

National birthrates rise and fall with the height of heels.

In a bar or nightclub, the hemlines and necklines of unaccompanied women rise and fall (respectively) during ovulation.

Women who have a positive attitude towards sex tend to be less achievement oriented.

Black women are 50% more likely than White women to come every time they have sex.

20% of women who live with their boyfriends have more than one sex partner.

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Viagra

Men being treated for erectile dysfunction should salute the working stiffs of Merthyr Tydfil, the Welsh hamlet where, in 1992 trials, the gravity-defying side effects of a new angina drug first popped up. Previously, the blue-collar town was known for producing a different kind of iron.

LSD

Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann took the world’s first acid hit in 1943, when he touched a smidge of lysergic acid diethylamide, a chemical he had researched for inducing childbirth. He later tried a bigger dose and made another discovery: the bad trip.

X-rays

Several 19th-century scientists toyed with the penetrating rays emitted when electrons strike a metal target. But the x-ray wasn’t discovered until 1895, when German egghead Wilhelm R?ntgen tried sticking various objects in front of the radiation - and saw the bones of his hand projected on a wall.

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Penicillin
Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming was researching the flu in 1928 when he noticed that a blue-green mold had infected one of his petri dishes - and killed the staphylococcus bacteria growing in it. All hail sloppy lab work!

Artificial sweeteners
Speaking of botched lab jobs, three leading pseudo-sugars reached human lips only because scientists forgot to wash their hands. Cyclamate (1937) and aspartame (1965) are byproducts of medical research, and saccharin (1879) appeared during a project on coal tar derivatives. Yummy.

Microwave ovens
Microwave emitters (or magnetrons) powered Allied radar in WWII. The leap from detecting Nazis to nuking nachos came in 1946, after a magnetron melted a candy bar in Raytheon engineer Percy Spencer?s pocket.

Brandy
Medieval wine merchants used to boil the H 2 0 out of wine so their delicate cargo would keep better and take up less space at sea. Before long, some intrepid soul - our money?s on a sailor - decided to bypass the reconstitution stage, and brandy was born. Pass the Courvoisier!

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Vulcanized rubber
Rubber rots badly and smells worse, unless it?s vulcanized. Ancient Mesoamericans had their own version of the process, but Charles Goodyear rediscovered it in 1839 when he unintentionally (well, at least according to most accounts) dropped a rubber-sulfur compound onto a hot stove.

Silly Putty
In the early 1940s, General Electric scientist James Wright was working on artificial rubber for the war effort when he mixed boric acid and silicon oil. V-J Day didn?t come any sooner, but comic strip image-stretching practically became a national pastime.

Potato chips
Chef George Crum concocted the perfect sandwich complement in 1853 when - to spite a customer who complained that his fries were cut too thick - he sliced a potato paper-thin and fried it to a crisp. Needless to say, the diner couldn?t eat just one.

[janobi]

if your in pain have sex its 10 times more effective than valium

I dont see how this is correct? Valium is an anti-depressant, and has llittle or no pain relief value. Sex would release endorfins which are natural pain killers. Perhaps you meant asprin or something?

Penicillin
Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming was researching the flu in 1928 when he noticed that a blue-green mold had infected one of his petri dishes - and killed the staphylococcus bacteria growing in it. All hail sloppy lab work!

Wasn't penicillin discovered via cheese?? I always thought that the blue green mold was discovered on cheese, and then found to be penicillin, which was then used in the experiments.

25% of human bones are in the feet.

Right handed people live on average 9 years longer than left handed people.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is due to the 30s cotton farmers, who complained as they felt it was competition against there cotton fields.

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The eyes are the only live part of a (normal)human being that you can see.

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If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. ("Honey, I'm home. What the......?!")

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.(Hardly seems worth it.)

and how long would it take if you used farts to heat the coffee instead of shouting at it?

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what if its your c0ck that hurts?

If you are a female pain would be the least of your worries. Though I suppose she/he could join your self-help group.. I thought I was going out.

[janobi]

The eyes are the only live part of a (normal)human being that you can see.

I dont understand this, and find it quite contradictary.

[Maddog]

not checked out ( if wrong sorry)

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II
were made of wood.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so
you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines

Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and
ears Never stop growing.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned
His wife or mother because they were both deaf.

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I dont understand this, and find it quite contradictary.

It is because your skin, nails, hair etc. are dead.

I said normal so as not to include people bleeding or having an operation etc.

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It takes 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

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

There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long - eye, jaw, rib, hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, lip and gum.

If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.

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

You were born with 300 bones. When you get to be an adult, you have 206.

Your nose and ears never stop growing.

After you die, your body starts to dry out creating the illusion that your hair and nails are still growing after death.

The length of the finger dictates how fast your fingernails grow. The nail on your middle finger grows the fastest, and on average, your toenails grow half the speed of your fingernails.

A healthy adult can draw in about 200 to 300 cubic inches (3.3 to 4.9 litres) of air at a single breath, but at rest only about 5% of this volume is used.

15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.

The average human will shed over 18 kilograms or 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.

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Brad Beyers, the Human Toolbox, can

• Hammer a nail through his face and hang a wooden board from it
• Push an ice pick up his nostril
• Drill into his head with an electric drill: "I know when I'm going too far because ... I hear a crunching noise," he said as he demonstrated his sickening skills on the Guinness World Records TV show.