Facts About Dreams Part 4

Most often, dreaming about a certain subject doesn’t mean that the dream is about that. For example, if you dream about a particular chicken your neighbour takes care of, how likely is it that the dream you just had is about that chicken? You can’t be in love with that chicken, can you? Dreams use a very symbolic language that can be very difficult to comprehend. This is because the unconscious mind attempts to compare the dream to something similar.

If you dream of something that bothers you, don’t expect anyone else to interpret it but you. Only you can decipher the code that your dreams give you. The things we dream about are often symbols for objects, places, people and experiences we have encountered or emotions we have felt. Dream dictionaries may help you but the meaning is specific to an individual.

1.Things around us while we sleep become part of our dreams.

Scientifically called “dream incorporation,” our mind interprets the external stimuli that our senses are bombarded with when we are asleep and make them a part of our dreams. This means that sometimes, in our dreams, we hear a sound from reality and incorporate it in a way.

For example, you may have heard a fire alarm in your dream, when in reality, your alarm clock just went off. Sometimes, what our bodies feel is also incorporated. For instance, you may have dreamt that you were drowning when in fact, you were just thirsty and your body desperately needs water.

2. Dreams prevent you from losing your mind.

Dreaming is not just a free movie your brain gives you after a long tiring day. It is actually essential for mental health. Believe it or not, dreams can prevent psychosis and schizophrenia. In a sleep study, students awakened at the beginning of a dream but still allowed to get eight hours of sleep suffered from irritability, lack of concentration, hallucinations and signs of psychosis after three days. Finally, when they are allowed their REM sleep, their brains increased the percentage of REM sleep tremendously. Having inadequate dream activity is also a sign of protein deficiency and a personality problem.

3. We dream for a reason.

As a child, you may have asked why people dream. There are several theories on the functions of dreams. Some people, including Freud, claim that dreams allow our repressed thoughts to surface and enable the parts of our mind to be satiated through fantasy. Some think that dreams express things that are usually suppressed in the “real” world. Some claim that they regulate mood. Some argue that dreaming works like a computer cleaning-up operation. Others believe that dreams allow us to take a sneak peek at the future.

4. Around 90% of are dreams are forgotten.

Have you ever experienced knowing you had a dream but could not remember what it was about? No, your memory is still intact. It’s normal. People normally forget 90% of their dreams. Five minutes after you wake up, you tend to forget half of your dream. In the next five minutes, another 40% is gone. Sometimes, no matter how “unforgettable” (gory, scary, funny or totally out-of-this-world) our dreams can get, all you need is a little distraction and it will slip from your memory.

5. Men and women dream differently.

Everybody dreams. However, men and women have different dreams with different physical reactions. For example, believe it or not, men ten to dream more about other men. In fact, it is believed that around 70% of the characters in a man’s dream are other men. On the other hand, a woman’s dream contains almost an equal number of men and women. Aside from that, men generally have more aggressive emotions in their dreams than the female lot.

6. Our dreams don’t like strangers.

In other words, we only dream about the people and things we know. You may have experienced having a dream (or a nightmare) about a person you haven’t even met before. Well, that’s not true. You have met that person at one point in your life. The mind doesn’t invent faces. They are faces of real people you have seen some time, somewhere, but you just can’t remember. Throughout your life, you have encountered thousands, perhaps millions, of people. That’s a rich supply of faces for your mind to use as a character in your dreams.

7.Blind people dream, too.

The question that has long bothered us when we were young — do blind people dream? The answer is yes. Everybody dreams (except those with extreme psychological illness), even the blind. People who lost their sight after birth see images in their dreams. On the other hand, those who are born blind still dream but they do not see images. Instead, their dreams involve their senses of sound, touch, smell and emotion.

8. Some people dream in black-and-white.

Dreams are like free movies that the mind gives you while you sleep. Having said that, dreams, like movies, may be in full colour or black-and-white. If you don’t believe this, you’ll be disappointed that there are statistics to back it up.Around 12% of sighted people dream only in black-and-white. Yes, ask around and there is a big chance that one in ten people around you have dreams with an 1920s film-feel. But wait, there’s more.

We also tend to have common themes in our dreams, like movies. Some of the common examples include running slowly, arriving too late, being chased, a person dying, flying and being involved in an accident. However, it is unknown whether the impact of our dreams are greater for people who dream in colour than those in black-and-white.

It is a fact that a person has four to seven dreams a night. Some of them we will remember. A huge fraction will be lost in the deepest corners of our unconscious. We already know many things about dreams but they are still not enough for us to completely understand them. Truly, dreams will always be one of the most intriguing wonders of the human psyche.

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Facts About Dreams Part 3

1. William Shakespeare (1564-1616), like his Greek playwright predecessors, used dreams in his dramas to help advance plot and develop characters. For example, dreams in Hamlet, Macbeth, Richard the III, Romeo and Juliet, and King Lear offer key psychological and symbolic insights into the motives and internal landscapes of important characters.
2. Colors in dreams can be interpreted only in the context of the dreamer’s relationship with that color.
3. Large bodies of water often symbolize the unconscious, so dreams of drowning may indicate being overwhelmed by unconscious, repressed issues. Drowning can also symbolize that the dreamer is entering a new stage of development and that the old self is “dying.”
4. Forests, like water, are often symbols of the unconscious. Traveling into a forest indicates exploration of the unconscious realm or represents a comforting refuge from the demands of everyday life.
5. A house in a dream is often a symbol of our body, so a mansion in a dream can represent a “rich” or even exaggerated sense of self. A mansion might also represent our future potential.^e
6. Expectant parents often have dreams about miscarriages, but this is almost always a symbol of their anxiety about the baby rather than a prediction. Miscarriage dreams are also powerful symbols of projects or business deals that have gone wrong.
7. Because nightmares were thought to be from menacing spirits, such as witches, folklore suggests placing a knife under the foot of the bed. Evil spirits were thought to be repelled by the steel on the knife.
8. Famous French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984) asserts in his essay “Dream, Imagination, and Existence” that dreams are the origin of the human soul. He also posits that dreams about death are the most important type of dream because they are the moment life reaches its fulfillment.
9. As related in the epic Gilgamesh, dreams were highly regarded in ancient Mesopotamia as omens of the future or ways in which a dreamer could access other realities, such as the afterlife.
10. In ancient Greece, dreams were regarded as messages from the gods. Incubation, or the practice of seeking significant dreams by sleeping in a sacred place, also was popular, particularly in the healing cult of Asclepius at Epidaurus.
11. Falling dreams typically occur at the beginning of the night, in Stage I sleep. These dreams are often accompanied by muscle spasms, called myoclonic jerks, and are common in many mammals.^g
12. Many people have made discoveries while dreaming—such as Friedrich August von Kekule (1829-1896), who dreamed of a snake biting its own tail and discovered that certain organic compounds are closed chains or rings.
13. Vitamin B complex (B6) and St. John’s Wort have been shown to produce more vivid dreams.
14. Flying dreams are found around the world and have existed since ancient times, even before the invention of airplanes.
15. The Beatty Papyrus, written around 1350 B.C. and discovered at Thebes, is the oldest dream dictionary existing today. It describes special dream-interpreting priests called “Masters of the Secret Things” or “Learned Ones of the Magic Library.”
16. After the printing press was invented, a dream dictionary called Oneirocritica (The Interpretation of Dreams) by second-century author Artemidorus Daldianus became one of the first best-sellers, comparable only to the Bible in popularity.
17. Sigmund Freud’s (1856-1939) landmark work, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), which became a milestone in dream interpretation, sold only 415 copies in the first two years.
18. Dreams played an important part in the life of Muhammad (570-632), who received his first revelation during a dream. His initiation into the mysteries of the cosmos occurred during a dream known as the “Night Journey.” the site of which is now commemorated by the Dome of the Rock.
19. In contrast to modern dream interpretation, which is psychologically oriented, ancient dream interpretation was concerned with discovering clues to the future.
20. The Iroquois have an annual dream-sharing festival in which they act out their dreams, either literally or in pantomime.
21. Tertullian, a third-century lawyer-turned-priest, argued in his Treatise on the Soul that the ongoing activity of the mind in dreams while the body was motionless proved that the soul was independent of the body and, thus, immortal.
22. The fourth-century Christian writer Macrobius' text, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, was the most influential dream book of medieval Europe. He appears to be the first person to introduce incubi and succubi, which were rooted in earlier Jewish folklore, into Christianity.
23. The memory-recording processes of the brain seems to switch off during sleep. In so-called non-dreamers, this memory shutdown is more complete than it is for the rest. Dreams may be forgotten because they are incoherent or because they contain repressed material that the conscious mind does not wish to remember.
24. Dreams occupy a prevalent role in movies, including Fritz Lang’s Woman in the Window (1944); Hitchcock’s Spellbound, Psycho, and Marnie, and Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz.
25. St. Jerome’s mistranslation of certain key biblical passages led Medieval Christians to fear their dreams and to view them as the devil’s invitation to sin.
26. Abraham, the ancestor of the Hebrew nation, was one of the most prolific dreamers in the Hebrew Bible. The first dream in the Bible is in Genesis 15:12-16 and is a dream by Abraham.
27. According to psychologists, daydreaming and dreams during sleep may be related, but different cognitive processes seem to be involved.
28. Philosopher and mathematician René Descartes (1596-1650) struggled with the question of whether or not the mind’s perception of dreams represented reality.
29. Common dream motifs that transcend cultural and socio-economic boundaries include falling, flying, nakedness in public, and unpreparedness. Such shared dreams arise from experiences and anxieties fundamental to all people.
30. Psychologists speculate that falling dreams are rooted in our early experiences as toddlers taking our first steps on two legs. Some sociobiologists argue that our fear of falling derives from the experiences of prehistorical ancestors afraid of tumbling out of trees during the night.
31. Flying dreams can express both our hopes and fears in life—we can be “flying high” or “risen above” something. Freud associated flying with sexual desire, Alfred Adler with the will to dominate others, and Carl Jung with the desire to break free from restriction.

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Facts About Dreams Part 1

1. The word “dream” is most likely related to the West Germanic draugmus, (meaning deception, illusion, or phantom) or from the Old Norse draugr (ghost, apparition) or the Sanskrit druh (seek to harm or injure).
2. You cannot snore and dream at the same time.
3. Adults dream off and on, for a total of about an hour and half to three hours every night.
4. By the time we die, most of us will have spent a quarter of a century asleep, of which six years or more will have been spent dreaming—and almost all of those dreams are forgotten upon waking.
5. The average person has about 1,460 dreams a year. That’s about four per night.
6. Egyptian pharaohs were considered children of Ra (Egyptian sun god) and, thus, their dreams were seen as being divine.
7. In the Chinese province of Fu-Kein, people called on their ancestors for dream revelation by sleeping on graves.
8. Scientists suggest that the dreams of fetuses are mostly composed of sound and touch sensations, given the lack of visual stimuli in the womb.
9. About 80% of neonatal and newborn sleep time is REM sleep, suggesting a tremendous amount of time dreaming.
10. According to Plato, dreams originate in the organs of the belly. Plato describes the liver in particular as the biological seat of dreams.
11. Elias Howe (1819-1867) said one inspiration for his invention of the sewing machine came from a nightmare he had about being attacked by cannibals bearing spears that looked like the needle he then designed.
13. Aside from those who experience certain kinds of injury, it’s a biological fact that everyone dreams. However, not everyone remembers his or her dreams.
14. Most of us dream every 90 minutes, and the longest dreams (30-45 minutes) occur in the morning.
15. The scientific study of dreams is known as oneirology (Latin oneiros: dream, ology: writing).
16. One West African group, the Ashanti, take dreams so seriously that they would allow a husband to take legal action against another man if that man had an erotic dream about his wife.
17. All cultures and time periods report nightmares. The word “nightmare” derives from the Anglo-Saxon word mare, meaning demon—which is related to the Sanskrit mara, meaning destroyer, and mar, meaning to crush. So the word “nightmare” carries with it connotations of being crushed by demonic forces.
18. Discovered in 1856, the planet Neptune (which is named after the Roman god of the sea) is considered the planet of dreams—because, like water, dreams distort and cloud images and meaning. Additionally, water represents the depths of the unconscious and our emotional levels in dream imagery, places that our dreams take us.
19. Dreams of losing teeth or having teeth extracted can signify many things, including fears of helplessness or of some sort of loss in one’s life. Women experience more teeth dreams than men.
20. Dreams of dirty water may signal that the unconscious mind is telling the dreamer he or she is not healthy.
21. The Buddhist exercise practice of yoga has many benefits, including helping one learn how to control his or her dreams by controlling the body’s vital energies.
22. An alien in a dream may indicate that the dreamer is experiencing difficulty adjusting to new conditions or a new environment, or that his or her personal space is being invaded.
23. Cakes in dreams can signify a time to rejoice at one’s accomplishments, or to celebrate new relationships or work efforts that have been successful but not necessarily acknowledged.
24. Finding oneself in a cemetery during a dream may indicate sadness or unresolved grief. It may also represent one’s “dead” past.
25. Chocolate in a dream may symbolize that the dreamer feels the need to be rewarded and deserves special treatment. It could also mean that the dreamer has been indulging in too many excesses and needs to practice restraint.
26. Standing on a cliff in a dream can represent that one has a broad view of something or that the dreamer feels like he or she is living on the edge or is afraid of failure.

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Facts About Dreams Part 2

1. One-third of your life is spent sleeping.
2.  In an average  lifetime, you would have spent a total of about six years of it dreaming. That is more than 2,100 days spent in a different realm!
3.  Dreams have been here as long as mankind.  Back in the Roman Era, profound and significant dreams were submitted to the Senate for analysis and interpretation.
4. Everybody dreams. EVERYBODY! Simply because you do not remember your dream does not mean that you do not dream. In fact, you have several dreams during a normal night of sleep.
5.  Dreams are indispensable.  A lack of dream activity may imply some protein deficiency or a personality disorder.
6. On average, you can dream anywhere from one to two hours every night. Moreover, you can have four to seven dreams in one night.
7.  Blind people do dream.  Whether visual images appear in their dreams depend on  whether they were blind at birth or became blind later in life. But vision is not the only sense that constitutes a dream. Sound, tactility, and smell become hypersensitive for the blind and their dreams are based on these senses. 
8. Five minutes after the end of the dream, half the content is forgotten. After ten minutes, 90% is lost.
9.  The word dream stems from the Middle English word, dreme which means "joy" and "music".
10.  Men tend to dream more about other men, while women dream equally about men and women.
11.  Studies have shown that your brain waves are more active when you are dreaming than when we are awake.
12.  Dreamers who are awakened right after REM sleep, are able to recall their dreams more vividly than those who slept through the night until morning.
13.  People who are in the process of giving up smoking tend to have longer and more intense dreams.
14. Toddlers do not dream about themselves. They do not appear in their own dreams until the age of 3 or 4.
15. If you are snoring, then you cannot be dreaming.
16.  Nightmares are common in children, typically beginning at around age 3 and occurring up to age 7-8.
17.  In a poll, 67% of Americans  have experienced Deja Vu in their dreams, occurring more often in females than males. 
18. Around 3% of adults suffer from sleep apnea. This treatable condition leads to unexplained tiredness and inefficiency.
19.  According to a research study,  the most common setting for dreams is your own house.
20.  The original meaning of the word "nightmare"  was a female spirit who besets people at night while they sleep.

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• Intelligent 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 nose 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 had 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.
• "I Am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."

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• Slugs have 4 noses.
• Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
• Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
• Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
• Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
• Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws.
• Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.

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• On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
• One in every 4 americans has appeared on television.
• Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
• Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

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• King Solomon of Israel had about 700 wives as well as hundreds of mistresses.
•  Charles the Simple was the grandson of Charles the Bald, both were rulers of France.
• Englands Queen Anne (1665-1714) outlived all 17 of her children.  
•  In 1944, Fidel Castro was voted Cuba’s best schoolboy athlete.
• Mozart never went to school.

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• Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
• You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
• You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
• You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
• You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
• You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
• Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
• Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
• Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

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• On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
• On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
• One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
• In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
• The United States Government keeps its supply of silver at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
• The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

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• A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
• There are five US states with no sales tax. They are: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon.
• Alaska is the state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work.
• 52% of Americans drink coffee.
• 27% of Americans believe we never landed on the moon.

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When Einstein was five years old his father gave him a pocket compass. It was this compass that sparked Einstein’s interest in science. The fact that the compass pointed in the same direction no matter how it was turned made him curious about understanding the force behind it.

In 1895 when Albert Einstein appeared for the University Entrance Exam he could only manage to pass in the math and science sections and failed in the rest of the subjects.  

Albert Einstein could not find work after he graduated from the college and initially had to work as a technical assistant with the Swiss Patent Office. Between the year 1911 and 1912 he taught at a German speaking University in the city of Prague after which he returned to Zurich. In the year 1914 he started working as a professor at the University of Berlin and was also made the director in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics.

Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for his work in the area of Photoelectric Effect in the year 1921. Einstein was not present to receive his Nobel Prize in December 1922 because he was on a trip to Japan.

In the year 1933 he started teaching at the Princeton University. In the year 1939 he wrote to President Roosevelt and pointed out the possibility of construction of a powerful bomb using atomic chain reactions in Uranium and he also suggested that Germany might be working on such a creation.

Einstein was offered the Presidency of Israel in 1952 but declined it. An element named einsteinium was discovered in 1952 and named in his honor.

Albert Einstein had an illegitimate child with Mileva Maric who was one of his former students. His daughter was named Lieserl and was born in 1902 and not much is known about his daughter. Some accounts indicate that his daughter was mentally challenged and lived with her mother’s family. Einstein eventually married Mileva and he had two sons Hans Albert and Eduard. However his relationship with his wife was largely strained. His relationship with his elder son Hans Albert was also quite rocky. Eventually Einstein divorced Mileva and married his cousin Elsa Lowenthal. He had numerous affairs with many women during his lifetime.

Albert Einstein was also not particularly concerned about being well dressed. He also stopped wearing socks because he found his big toe would make a hole in the sock. His favorite past time was sailing. Einstein also loved going for walks around the town and that was one of his favorite activities. He also loved music and used to play the violin.

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• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
• Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
• Albert Einstein was born on 14th March, 1879 in Ulm, Germany. When Albert Einstein was a child his mother actually thought he was deformed because he had rather large head. As a child Einstein spoke very little till the age of nine. Albert Einstein had a younger sister named Maja  who he became good friends with in the later years of his life.

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•  Albert Einstein  was once offered the Presidency of Israel. He declined saying he had no head for problems.
• When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.
• After Albert Einstein’s death in 1955 his brain was removed without approval from his family and an autopsy was conducted. Thomas Harvey conducted this autopsy and eventually it was discovered that Einstein’s brain had large portion of glial cells in the region that synthesizes information. Other studies also indicated that Einstein’s brain did not have a particular kind of wrinkle and this allowed the neurons to communicate better with each other. At the time of his death, Albert Einstein’s final words died with him as they were in German and his nurse did not understand German.
• Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

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• Camel's milk does not curdle.
• Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
• Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
• Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.

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• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
• A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
• A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
• A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
• A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

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• A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
• A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

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• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
• A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
• A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
• A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
• A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

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• 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.
• It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

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• Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
• More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Cats urine glows under a black light.
• If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
• Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
  

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• If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
• If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
• If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

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• Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
• Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
• Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
• Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.

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• 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
• That is over 8 billion dollars from happy meals alone!
• That is from 32,000 restaurants in 100 different countries!

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• 12 Newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. 

• There is enough telephone wire stung across the U.S. to go across the Sahara Desert North to South 508,333 times. 

• 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.

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• Each person inhales about seven quarts of air every minute or 1.75 gallons.

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• One human hair can support 3kg or 6.6 pounds.

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• The average person will drink about 16,000 gallons of water in his/her lifetime.

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• There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. 

• That's almost two times the length of the Great Wall of China.

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