Very Interesting Facts – Sleep to Lose Weight and Sly Buying His Dog Back!

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Sleep to Lose Weight and Sly Buying His Dog Back! – We have some very interesting facts for you! To read more fun facts, click here.

Can You Lick Your Elbow?

1. It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow.
2. Cucumber is a fruit.
3. Gold has been discovered on every continent on earth.
4. Cuddling triggers the same neurological reaction as taking painkillers.
5. The moon is moving away from us by 1.48 inches (3.78cm) a year.

Get Your Groove On

6. Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to.
7. Lack of sleep can cause a weight gain of 2 pounds (0.9 kg) in under a week.
8. The type of music you listen to affects the way you perceive the world.
9. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
10. Almost a third of San Francisco’s air pollution comes from China.

It’s All About Improv

11. Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer to clean streets: 5 cans of beer for a day’s work, plus €10 and tobacco.
12. Leo da Vinci used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
13. Research shows that drama classes are particularly useful for improving the social skills of autistic children.
14. When D-Day forces landed, Hitler was asleep. None of his generals dared send reinforcements without his permission, and nobody dared wake him.
15. The estimated number of dinosaur species that existed in the Mesozoic era is between 1,543 and 2,468.

Slow and Steady Does Not Win The Race Against Bruce Lee

16. Humans and dogs first became best friends 30,000 years ago.
17. Bruce Lee was so fast, they actually had to run his films slower so that you could see his moves.
18. Eskimos use refrigerators to stop their food from freezing.
19. Giraffes make no sound. Not because they can’t, but they choose not to.
20. Oxford University is older than the Aztecs.

Do You Ap-peach-iate Almonds?

21. The average person produces about 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
22. A Marijuana-derived compound forces cancer cells to freeze and prevents them from spreading.
23. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
24. Our galaxy probably contains at least two billion planets like Earth.
25. Sylvester Stallone was so poor at one point, he had to sell his dog for US$50. After selling the script for Rocky, he bought him back for U$3,000.

That is So-da-pressing!

26. Picasso burnt most of his early work to keep his apartment warm because he was poor.
27. The world’s first labour strike was held on the site of a pyramid.
28. Peanut oil can be processed to produce glycerol, a component of the explosive liquid nitro-glycerine used in dynamite.
29. One can of soda a day increases your chances of getting type-2 diabetes by 22%.
30. Atomic bomb tests were a major tourist attraction in Las Vegas during the 1950s.