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In a typical restaurant, customers get 27 cents worth of food for each dollar they spend. Share interesting facts, fun facts, and amusing facts on MythsFacts.com.
The French consume approximately 500,000,000 snails per year. Share fun and interesting facts about food on MythsFacts.com.
There are about 100,000 bacteria in one liter of drinking water. Share interesting facts on MythsFacts.com.
A pineapple is a kind of berry. Share facts about plants, animals, people, planets, and more on MythsFacts.com.
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams. Share facts about food on MythsFacts.com.
The world's oldest living tree is the spruce found in Sweden which root system has been growing for 9,550 years.
The World's Stinkiest Cheese is Vieux Boulogne, a relatively recent cheese from North of France, similar in taste with Boulette d'Avesnes.
The world's stinkiest slower is the Titan Arum, which is also the world's largest flower.
Wearing headphones for just an hour increases the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Two words were invented by Shakespeare: assassination and bump.
The largest coral reef in the world is the Great Barrier Reef located in Australia. The reef is approximately 2023 kilometers long.
It takes about three hours for food to be broken down in the human stomach.
When you sneeze, all your bodily functions momentarily stop, including your heart.
If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.
It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circulate in the whole body.
About 1/3 of American adults are at least 20% above their recommended weight. Share myths, facts, urban legends, and misinformation on MythsFacts.com.
Fact. The only continent without a desert is Europe.
Vanilla flowers may only be naturally pollinated by a specific bee found in Mexico. Vanilla grown elsewhere must have each flower individually pollinated by human workers.
The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.
Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. An six-year-old laughs an average of 300 times a day. Grownups only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, the odds of getting the heads will be more likely to be 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
The toothbrush as we know it today was not invented until 1938. However, early forms of the toothbrush have been in existence since 3000 BC. Ancient civilizations used a "chew stick," which was a thin twig with a frayed end. These 'chew sticks' were rubbed against the teeth.
The first mass-produced toothbrush was made by William Addis of Clerkenwald, England, around 1780.
The first American to patent a toothbrush was H. N. Wadsworth, (patent number 18,653,) on Nov. 7, 1857.
Mass production of toothbrushes began in America around 1885.
One of the first electric toothbrushes to hit the American market was in 1960. It was marketed by the Squibb company under the name Broxodent.
Water goes down the drain counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
When intra-venous (IV) solution was in short supply, doctors during World War II and Vietnam used coconut water in substitution of IV solutions.
Soleyman, an Arab merchant, visited China in the 9th century and describes the use of coir fiber and toddy made from coconuts.
Between 18 and 35% of the population sneezes when exposed to sudden bright light.
Some people sneeze when plucking their eyebrows because the nerve endings in the face are irritated and then fire an impulse that reaches the nasal nerve.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed. Fact.
Human's heart beats over 100,000 times every single day.
Research indicates that mosquitoes tend to bite people who have recently eaten bananas.
Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year! Strange fact.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
Heat up food in plastic containers in a microwave causes health risks such as breast cancer. Myths or facts?
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