14 Facts You Need to Know
1- It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.
2- The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
3- There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
4- The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
5- The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning.
6- The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
7- The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
8- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
9- The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
10- Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
11- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
12- 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.
13- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
14- The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
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