7 September 2013

10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 4 (06/9/2013)







31.            Japanese research has concluded that moderate drinking can boost IQ levels.
32.            For more than 3,000 years, Carpenter ants have been used to close wounds in India, 
            Asia and South America.
33.            Baskin Robbins plain vanilla ice cream is the number one selling flavour and accounts
           for a quarter of their sales.
34.            Elizabeth Taylor has appeared on the cover of Life magazine more than anyone else.
35.            The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long.
36.            The word "toy" comes from an old English word that means "tool."
37.            Smokers are twice as likely to develop lower back pain than non-smokers.
38.            Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches
           adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together
           to make a single bone.
39.           The reason why hair turns gray as we age is because the pigment cells in the hair
           follicle start to die, which is responsible for producing "melanin" which gives the hair
           colour.
40.        In 1960 there were 16,067 gambling slots in Nevada. By 1999, this number rose to
         205,726 slots which would be one slot for every 10 people residing there.


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