Interesting Facts About Alcohol

1. Nikola Tesla, the famous scientist, drank whiskey everyday because he thought it would make him live to 150 years.

Nikola Tesla

2. Bees who get drunk from fermented necter have more flying accidents than sober ones. And when they are in their hive they can be punished by other bees by chewing-off their legs.

3. Alcohol is considered a performance enhancing drug in professional shooting. This is because it can slow down the heart beat giving shooters an edge.


4. A very high percentage of East Asians (40%) lack the necessary enzymes to properly metabolise alcohol.

5. Intelligent people generally drink more alcohol.

6. In 2007 a 37-year old man in Glasgow, Scotland drank 60 pints of alcohol (about 35 litres) over a four day period, he had a hangover that lasted for the next 4 weeks. The longest hangover in recorded history.

7. About 25 - 30% of alcohol consumers are resistant to hangover symptoms.

8. During the infamous Prohibition perion, the United States Government poisoned alcohol killing up to 10,000 people across the country.

Alcohol Bottles

9. Among the top five opponents to marijuana legalisation are alcohol and beer companies.

10. Blue-eyed people have a much higher alcohol tolerance level than other people. This means that they are much more likely to be drunks.

11. The poorest country in Europe is Moldova. It consumes more alcohol per capita than any other place in the world.

12. The late wrestler Andre the Giant (Andre Roussimoff) broke the world record for alcohol consumption. He drank about 73 litres (16 gallons) of alcohol in one sitting.

Andre the Giant

13. Fructose can speed alcohol metabolism by as much as 80%.

14.  Pine Ridge, Nebraska has a total population of just 14 people and only 4 liquor stores. But in 2010 alone liquor sales totalled 4.9 million cans of bear.

Why? Find out yourself.

15. People who use their left limbs often drink more alcohol than people who use their right limbs.

16. Gilbert Paul Jordan was a serial killer in Canada who used alcohol to kill all of his victims.

Gilbert Paul Jordan

17. It is a common belief that alcohol increases our body temperature, but the truth is that alcohol actually lowers the body temperature.

18. All fruits and most vegetables contain alcohol in them.

Fruits and Vegetables

19. The age of Brandy, Rum or Whisky can either be too long or not long enough.

20. The human body produces alcohol naturally.

21. Abnormal cravings for alcohol is called Dipsomania.

Dipsomania

22. The largest concentration of alcohol is in outer space in the form of a massive mega-cloud which contains about Four Hundred Trillion-Trillion litres of alcohol.

But it would take about 10,000 light years to get there!

Space Alcohol

23. All spirits (minus beer and wine) are actually colorless. But the aging process gives them the golden brown color and other colors.

24. Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of an empty glass.

Fear Factor

25. Women generally get drunk faster than men.

26. Women menstruating and women taking birth-control pill feel the effects of alcohol longer.

27. Auto-brewery Syndrome occurs when Candida Yeasts in the intestine produce so much alcohol that a person becomes drunk.
Scary!

Simple Facts About Our Nose

1. Women generally have a stronger sense of smell than men.

2. The nose and sinuses produce about a litre of mucus every day which we swallow.

3. When we are sick, the production of mucus can increase to about two litres a day and this invariably affects our appetite.

4. Up to 80% of what you think is your sense of taste is actually your sense of smell at work.

5. Every person in the world has a distinct odor identity. This simply means that no two persons actually smells the same thing in exactly the same way.

6. We can actually smell other peoples feelings, for example we can smell a persons' happiness or sexual arousal as long as the person is a close romantic partner.

7. Good smells and scents can literally change our feelings from moody to happy and contented.

8. Pregnant women have a higher sense of smell, this may partly account for why they have strange food cravings during this period.

9. Men's nose can smell women's ovulation.

Simply Amazing Facts About Our Eyes

1. Brown is the most common eye color in the world.

Brown Eyes

2. Our two eyeballs helps to give us depth perception, by comparing two images we are easily able to determine how far an object is to us.

3. The amount of Melanin in the Iris determines the color of the eyes.

4. You blink less often when you read or stare at a computer screen, this makes your eyes to become easily tired.

Blinking Less

5. Our eyes remain the same size from birth till death.

6. You blink more when you talk.

7. Generally we read about 25 times slower on a screen than on paper.

8. All human babies are color blind at birth.


9. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Sneeze!

10. Humans blink an average of 4.2 million times in a year.

11. The only tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels is the Cornea.

12. Our eyelashes have an average lifespan of 5 months.

13. Human babies do not produce any tears until they are about 6 weeks old.

Crying Baby

14. The human eye is made up of about 200 million working parts.

15. The cornea of the shark is very similar to the human cornea, which is why it is widely used in human eye surgery.

Shark Eyes

16. All blue-eyed people in the world share a common ancestry.

Blue Eyes

17. The Colossal Squid has the largest eye in the world, about 27cm across.

Colossal Squid

18. The condition in which your eyes have two different colors is called Heterochromia.

Heterochromia

19. Our eyes are the second most complex organ in the body after the brain.

20. Owls cannot move their eye-balls -that is why they turn their heads distinctly almost all the way round.

Owl

21. The older we get, the less tear we produce.

22. Color blindness is more common in males than in females.

23. Only 1/6 of our eyes are exposed.

24. Every one of us have one eye that is slightly stronger than the other one.

25. You get running nose when you cry because the tears drain into your nasal passages.

Crying Child

26. Almost half of our brain is dedicated to vision and seeing only.

27. Up to 80% of our memories are determined by what we see with our eyes.

28. Our finger prints have 40 unique characteristics but our Iris has 256 unique characteristics. No wonder retina scans are being used for security purposes.

Retina Scan

29. Human eyes can detect up to 10 million color hues but cannot see ultra violet or infra red light.

30. The human eyes see basically 3 colors, the rest are just combinations of these colors.

31. We focus on about 50 things every second with our eyes.

32. The eyes can contact Sexually Transmitted Diseases if infected areas come in contact with the eyes.

33. If you wear glasses that flip images upside down, your brain will automatically correct your vision.

Upside Down

Amazing Facts About Sleep and Dreams

1. The record for the longest period without sleep was set at a rocking chair contest, it lasted for 18 days, 21 hours and 40 minutes. The record holder did not find it convenient at all, he reported hallucinations, blurred vision, slurred speech and memory/concentration lapses.

2. If it takes you less than 5 minutes to fall asleep at night then you are sleep deprived. The ideal period to fall asleep is between 10 and 15 minutes.

3. Elephants remain standing during non-REM sleep, but they lie down during REM sleep.

4. If a very bright light is directed on back of the knee of humans, it can reset the brains' sleep-wake clock. Scientists are still not able to find out why.

Bright Light on Joints

5. Some soldiers can go without sleep for up to 36 hours. This is as a result of special goggles which projects a ring of bright light (identical to sunrise) around the retina, fooling the brain to think it had just woken up.

Sleepless Goggles

This system was first used in 1999 on U.S pilots during the bombing of Yugoslavia, the research was conducted by British Military scientists.

6. 17 continous hours of wakefulness leads to a decrease in performance which is equivalent to a blood alcohol level of 0.05%.

7. It is estimated that fatigue is involved in one in six fatal road accidents.

Driving Tired

8. If you sleep and you are exposed to noise at night, it can suppress your immune function even if you did not wake up. Noise during the first and last 2 hours of sleep and noise which are unfamiliar has the greatest disruptive effects on the sleep cycle.

9. Some sleeping pills actually suppress REM sleep. And this can have long-term harmful effects.

10. Snoring occurs only in non-REM sleep.

11. The older we become, the less sleep we need: Babies need up to 16 hours, teenagers and smaller children need as much as 10 hours of sleep at night, the average adult between 25-55 years need about 8 hours of night sleep while older people who are at least 65 years need only about 6 hours of sleep.

12. One of the most serious sleep distractions is 24-hour accessibility of the internet.

13. Humans spend a third of their lifetime sleeping.

14. In the first 2 years of a child's life, the parents would have missed 6 months worth of sleep. So if you know you are not ready for the pressures and responsibilities of parenting, please use a condom, and dont forget to tell your parents a big thank you for their sacrifice.

Tired Mom

15. Sleeping less than 7 hours each night reduces your life expectancy.

16. Some deaf people make sign language in their sleep.

17. It is impossible to sneeze while you are asleep.

18. If you sleep on the job in Japan it is perfectly acceptable because it is viewed as exhaustion from hard work.

Job Sleeping in Japan

19. Sea otters hold hands while they sleep in the water so they dont drift away from each other.

Sea Otters

20. The state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning is called Dysania.

21. A study has found that people experience better sleep during the new moon and worse sleep during the full moon. So next time look at the moon with some respect.

22. Many Tibetan monks actually sleep while they are sitting upright.

Tibetan Monks Sleeping

23. Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.

Catnap

24. Your performance improves when you believe you have slept well, even if you haven't.

25. Parasomnia is a type of sleep disorder that makes people do unnatural movenents while they sleep. Crimes commited during Parasomnia includes: Sleep driving, murder, Child molest, Molest etc.

Parasomnia

26. People who do not dream generally have personality disorders.

27. The longest sleeping animal is the Koala, it sleeps for 22 hours a day while the shortest sleeping animal is the Giraffe, it sleeps for about 2 hours a day in 5-10 minute sessions.

Koala

Giraffe Asleep

28. When Dolphins are asleep only half of their brain shits down. The other half stays awake to control breathing cycles.

29. 10 days without sleep will kill most people.

30. Blind people can still see images in their dreams. Those born blind have dreams involving: emotion, sound, smell and touch.

31. 50% of our dreams are forgotten within 5 minutes of waking up and 90% is gone within 10 minutes.

32. Studies have suggested that sleep deprivation is linked to lower libido and less interest in sex in both men and women.

So to spice things up, just take some rest.

33. Sleep Apnea is a disorder in which breathing is interrupted briefly and repeatedly. Chronic snoring can be an indicator of this potentially fatal disorder.

Sleep Apnea Diagram

33% of people who drink caffeinated beverages daily are at risk of sleep apnea.

34. Men are almost twice as likely as women to fall asleep while driving.

Sleeping and Driving

35. Lack of sleep can raise the sensation of hunger by 25%.

36. Sleeping immediately after learning something new will improve your ability to remember it effectively.

Simple Amazing Facts About The Human Body

1. The human nose can remember up to 50,000 different scents and smells.

2. The human body shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour. Infact, so many of the dust particles you see under your bed actually comes frrom your skin.

3. An adult human has about 100,000 miles of blood vessels.

4. An average person produces enough saliva in a lifetime to fill two Olympic size swimming pools.

Swimming Pool

5. There are enough Iron in the body to make a real 3-inch long metal nail.

6. The sweat we produce is actually odorless but it is the bacteria on the skin that mingles with it and produces the body odour that we so commonly know.

Sweating

7. The human ears and nose actually never stops growing.

8. It is well-known that every one has a unique fingerprint, what is not well-known is that everyone also has a unique toeprints and unique tongueprints.

Finger print

Eisten Toague

Toe Print

9. When we are fully awake, our brains produce enough electricity to power a small bulb.

Brain current

10. Ounce for ounce, the human bone is stronger than steel.

11. The human eye has the ability to distinguish about 10 million different colors.

12. Imagine the human eye to be an actual and real-life digital camera, then that camera would have about 576 Megapixels!

Camera eyes?

13. The human body system produces about 1 Litre of mucus each day. Yuck!!

14. The human brain alone use about 20% of all oxygen and blood in the body.

15. The human bone is composed of about 31% water.

16. There are more than 7 billion bacteria in the mouth alone.

17. The human heart everyday generates enough energy to drive a truck for 32 kilometres.

18. All the DNA's present in every cell in the human body will stretch for about 10 billion miles if uncoiled. That is the distance  from here to Pluto, and back again.

19. The same enzymes that once digested foods in the human body will begin to eat the human body within 3 days of the death of that person.

20. The brains' long term memory can hold up to 1 quadrillion (1 million billion) seperate bits of information within a lifetime.

Storage room

21. The tube that runs from the mouth to the anus (the gastro-intestinal tract) is actually 30-foot long.

22. The human heart will pump about 1.5 million barrels of blood (enough to fill about 200 train tank cars) in a lifetime.

23. The human heart has it's own electrical impulse, this means that it can continue beating even if it is seperated from the body.

Human Heart

24. The human brain keeps developing until the late 40's.

25. There are about 2.5 trillion red blood cells in the human body and the bone marrow produces about 2.5 million new red blood cells every second.

Equally about 1.6 million red blood cells die every second.

Red blood cells

26. About 25 million cells are produced in the human body every second.

27. A red blood cell can circle the whole body in less than 20 seconds.

28. A sneeze expells air (and other things) from the mouth at 166 km/hr and a cough comes out at 100 km/hr.

Sneeze

29. The human heart beats an average of 100,000 times everyday.

30. The human lungs inhale more than 2 million litres of air every single day.

31. The surface area of the human lung is equivalent to that of a standard lawn tennis court.

Human Longues

Lawn Tennis court

32. Human babies start dreaming even before they are born. But I just wonder, what do they dream about?!

Foetus

33. The male beard is the fastest-growing hair on the human body. An average beard would grow up to 30 feet in a lifetime if it is not trimmed.

Long beard

34. All bodily functions stop when we sneeze-even the heart.

35. A woman would have released about 400 baby-making eggs by the time she is in her 60's.

36. At birth we have over 300 bones in our body but by adulthood we have only 206 bones, some of the bones would have fused together to form single bones.

37. The human ear can detect and distinguish several hundred thousand different sounds.

Human Ears

38. The human tongue has about 10,000 taste buds.

39. The human eyes actually never grows, it is the same size from birth to adulthood.

40. All human babies are color blind when they are born. They only see in black and white.

Color Blind

41. Almost half of the total bones in the body are in the hands and feet.

42. Men have more blood in their body than women.