You forget 80% of what you learn each day. Females have a wider peripheral vision than males. Eggs sink in water when they are fresh and float when expired. In Chinese dining, duck sauce is almost never used on duck. Heart-attacks are more common among men because they cry less frequently than women. In the building trade a slate measuring 24 by 12 inches is called a duchess. Some people have more bones in their feet than others. The human head weighs 7 pounds. When you flush a toilet, an invisible cloud of water [full of germs] shoots six feet in the air. You can sometimes tell the hobbies and race of a person by their skeleton. Top corporate executives take separate planes in case one crashes. Your fingernails can turn yellow from wearing nail polish and from the sun. You can usually tell how good the picture of a TV will be by how black the screen is when the TV is off. The blacker, the better. The average person grows up to 6 feet of nose hair. It takes 25 muscles to swallow. Tossing coins into fountains, dates back more than 2,000 years ago. Red is the most popular car color in the U.S. There's an average of of 178 sesame seeds on a Big Mac bun. Nutmeg is very poisonous if injected intravenously. Almonds are a member of the peach family. Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands. Five Jell-O flavors have flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple and chocolate. Some cultures kiss by biting off each other's eyelashes. Babies are born without kneecaps. People do not get sick from cold weather. It is mostly from being indoors more.
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