"A pair of D-cup breasts weighs between 15 and 23 pounds—the equivalent of carrying around two small turkeys."
(via katiebakes)
oh my god.
Oh. My. God.
Yikes.
Country name etymologies « Make My Mood
interesting :)
Census on Stay-at-Home Moms
mothering full time at home is a widespread phenomenon, including 5.6 million women, or nearly one in four married mothers with children younger than 15. By comparison, the country’s stay-at-home dads number 165,000.
the educational level of nearly one in five mothers at home was less than a high school degree, as compared with one in 12 other mothers. Thirty two percent of moms at home have at least a bachelor’s degree, compared with 38 percent of other mothers.
On the other end of the economic scale, about one-third of moms at home had family incomes of $75,000 a year or more, whereas roughly half of other mothers did.
The report showed that about 27 percent of stay-at-home mothers were Hispanic, compared with 16 percent of other mothers, and about 34 percent were born outside the United States, as compared with 19 percent of other mothers.
In 1994, 19.8 percent of married-couple families with children younger than 15 had a stay-at-home mother. Last year, it was 23.7 percent of families — an increase that Elliott said was statistically significant. “I don’t think we exactly know why,” she said.
Illuminating the Future of Energy - NYTimes.com
Concentrating solar power stations in deserts, for example, can produce 15 or 20 watts per square meter, on average, year-round, day and night. Germany’s famous solar parks in Bavaria produce about 5 watts per square meter of land area, on average. A hydroelectric facility in Scotland has power per surface area of 11 watts per square meter of lake. Wind farms, if they are in windy locations, produce roughly 2.5 watts per square meter of land or sea, on average. The best energy crops in Europe deliver about 0.5 watt per square meter.
Interesting stats on energy :)
This Is A Real City In Newfoundland
It so amazes me that people can give cities names like this…
Mississippi allows drivers to consume alcohol while driving
fun fact courtesy of wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_open_container_laws
Federal Healthcare Stats (via BBC NEWS | Americas | US healthcare: Who wants what?)
Nuclear War wouldn't kill us all - because we don't have enough nukes
In fact, we only have 10K nukes, enough to wipe out about 10 percent of city dwellers, representing about 5% of the population (since city dwellers are half earth’s population)
Encouraging!
“ The Mongoloid race is the human group with the lowest number of sweating glands. This trait is present in 97 % of them. That’s why their body scent is very weak and humans of other races have a strong and unpleasant smell for them. It is known that for the Oriental people, the European perfumes are too strong. Many say that this means they also emit low levels of pheromones, which go out of the body through the armpit’s sweating glands.
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So maybe that means they suffer more when it’s hot outside hmm…I know some Mongoloids for whom this is an issue…
Facts...
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
Human hair does not continue to grow after death. After death, the human body begins to dry and shrink, revealing more of the hair shaft and giving the false impression that the hair continues growing
In one study, 3.9% of women said they don’t wear underwear
In 1895, the speed limit in NYC was eight mph.
The term “Mad as a hatter” was because back in the 19th century hats were made up of Mercury which would cause hatters to go “mad” (insane).
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Chinese gooseberries come from New Zealand.
Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.
In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
via http:///fuckyeahfacts.tumblr.com/
It takes Several hundred thousand years for newly made photons (light) to travel from the core of the sun to it’s surface.
http://www.fugly.com/
Eighty per cent of phone calls are to four people.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/jul/23/socialnetworking-skype
There are 12.2 restaurants in Korea per 1000 people, compared to 1.8 in the U.S. and 5.7 in Japan.
http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2008/10/there-are-12.html
the market for telemedicine will grow from $900 million this year to more than $6 billion in 2012.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/07/video-chatting-killer-medical-app-of-the-future/
according to a summary of the study: today’s LED lamps are essentially as energy efficient as compact fluorescents, in the amount of energy needed to create, recycle and provide light. Osram said it expected those numbers to improve as LEDs become more energy efficient.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/leds-as-energy-efficient-as-compact-fluorescents/
stomach acid can pickle steel
http://www.livescience.com/health/top_10_about_you-1.html
140,610 out of 2.3 million inmates being held in jails and prisons across the country are serving life sentences
via New York Times
35 to 40% of former bullies have 3 or more criminal convictions by age 24.
(JAMA, 2001)
Approximately 3.3 million American adults have obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Approximately 2.2 million American adults, and 24 million people worldwide have schizophrenia.
when options are very similar, people are likely to leave a store empty-handed
via http://fuckyeahpsychology.tumblr.com/
Death erections exist. Careful. You can die if you get a hard enough erection.
Every person has a unique tongue print….just like fingerprints.
The stomach produces a new lining every 3 days to avoid digesting itself with its own acids.
Self-explanatory. Strong acid is constantly breaking down not only the food, but your own stomach.
It is possible to die laughing.
Just ask the dearly departed Alex Mitchell, who spent his final moments laughing uncontrollably at an episode of the 1970s UK TV show “The Goodies,” reports Snopes.com. As his wife watched in horror (or glee?), Mitchell laughed for 25 straight minutes before he “slumped on the settee” and died of heart failure.
http://www.dailycognition.com/index.php/index.php/2007/11/14/20-things-you-didn-t-know-about-your-body.html
you should ask your cab driver not to talk on his cell phone, since it’s illegal and dangerous.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/08/do_you_ask_cab_drivers_to_get.html
google says that tilted solar panels get cleaned by rain, where as that’s not the case with panels that lie flat - so you need to clean lie flat panels…
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/should-you-spring-clean-your-solar.html
Facts You Didn't Know About Your Body - Oddee
Body position affects memory
An article in the January 2007 issue of Cognition reports that episodes from your past are remembered faster and better while in a body position similar to the pose struck during the event.
Big brains cause cramped mouths
But wisdom teeth weren’t always a cash crop for oral surgeons. Long ago, they served as a useful third set of meat-mashing molars. But as our brains grew our jawbone structure changed, leaving us with expensively overcrowded mouths.
The average human has 100,000 hair follicles, each of which is capable of producing 20 individual hairs during a person’s lifetime. Blondes average 146,000 follicles while people with black hair tend to have about 110,000 follicles. Those with brown hair fit the average with 100,000 follicles and redheads have the least dense hair, with about 86,000 follicles.
Blondes have more hair
The average person expels flatulence 14 times each day
Having orgasms prevent men from prostate cancer
Two large studies, reported in 2003 and 2004, found that middle-aged men who had (or at least remember having) at least four orgasms a week throughout their 20s, 30s and 40s had a reduced risk of prostate cancer by as much as one-third. Some researchers speculate that ejaculations may clear the prostate of carcinogens.
The body is half an inch taller in the morning than in the evening.
our bodies are on average about half an inch taller in the morning, thanks to excess fluid between our discs, which is replenished while we sleep. As the day goes on, and our bodies undergo the strain of standing, the discs get compressed and the fluid seeps out, so the body loses that small bit of extra height.
http://www.dailycognition.com/index.php/index.php/2007/11/14/20-things-you-didn-t-know-about-your-body.html
Appendix isn't useless at all: It's a safe house for bacteria
beneficial bacteria in the appendix that aid digestion can ride out a bout of diarrhea that completely evacuates the intestines and emerge afterwards to repopulate the gut.
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/report-92559.html
