* I ntelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. * The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. * Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing. * You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV. * A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. * Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks. * Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. * The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. * When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less. * Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf. * A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded. * "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. * Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself." * The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond. * Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. * "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters. * Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do. * The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. * If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. * China has more English speakers than the United States . * Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. * Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels. * An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day. * Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies. * Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime. * According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg. * The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi.- pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhe nuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill. * If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day. * Scientists in Australia 's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building. ________________________________________
