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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