Fun Facts!!!!

ü  It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

ü  It's been proven that people can lessen reactions to allergies by laughing.

ü  Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system.

ü  Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

ü  In the middle ages, people would pin the name of their sweetheart to their sleeve on Valentine's Day and keep it there for a week, hence 'wearing their heart on their sleeve'.

ü  It was during the Victorian era that the formerly nude Cupid was redesigned as wearing a skirt.

ü  The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!

ü  February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

ü  Tomato Ketchup was once used as medicine in the United States. Was sold as "Dr.Miles Compound Extract of Tomato"

ü  When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red

ü  Dating back to the 1600's, thermometers were filled with Brandy instead of mercury

ü  The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second

ü  Shoe sizes were standardized in Britain in 1885

ü  The average person's eyes will be closed about 30 minutes a day due to blinking.

ü  Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

ü  Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

ü  There are at least 40 known carcinogens in cigarettes.

ü  The earliest British expeditions tackling Everest wore tweed jackets, woolen underwear, and leather boots.

ü  The amniotic fluid that surrounds a baby in the womb is completely replaced every three hours.

ü  During World War II, twice as many fighter pilots were killed during training than combat

ü  In 1962 an outbreak of contagious laughter in Tanganyika lasted for six months and caused schools to be closed

ü  A nautical mile measures 6,080 feet while a land or statute mile is 5,280 feet

ü  No one can drown in the Dead Sea. It is 25 percent salt, which makes the water very heavy

ü  Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water

ü  Earth's oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of gold, dissolved in the water

ü  Children who are breastfed tend to have an I.Q. seven points higher than children who are not.

ü  The bird flu virus could evolve into a form that is easily spread between people, resulting in a highly contagious and lethal disease.

ü  The Chinese, in olden days, used marijuana only as a remedy for dysentery.

Don't let the cups drive you... Enjoy the coffee instead!!!

Below is a forwarded mail I received recently & found interesting..Wish you would like it too...
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A group of alumni,highly established in their careers, got together to Visit their old university professor.

Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite -
telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.

Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

Don't let the cups drive you... Enjoy the coffee instead

Come out of stress...Well Said!!!

A professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it.

He held it up for all to see and asked the students,' How much do you think this glass weighs?'

'50 gms!’... '100 gms!' ...'125gms' ... the students answered.

'I really don't know unless I weigh it,' said the professor, 'but, my question is: What would happen if I held it up like this for a few minutes?

'Nothing' the students said.

'Ok what would happen if I held it up like this for an hour?' the professor asked.

'Your arm would begin to ache' said one of the students.

'You're right, now what would happen if I held it for a day?'

'Your arm could go numb, you might have severe muscle stress; paralysis;

Have to go to hospital for sure!' ventured another student; all the students laughed.

Very good. But during all this, did the weight of the glass change?' asked the professor.

'No' the students said.

Then what caused the arm ache & the muscle stress?'
The students were puzzled.

'Put the glass down!' said one of the students.

'Exactly!' said the professor.'

Life's problems are something like this.

Hold it for a few minutes in your head; they seem OK.

Think of them for a long time & they begin to ache. Hold it even longer & they begin to paralyze you. You will not be able to do anything.

It's important to think of the challenges (problems) in your life, but it is EVEN MORE IMPORTANT to 'put them down' at the end of every day before you go to sleep.

That way, you are not stressed, you wake up every day fresh & strong & can handle any issue, any challenge that comes your way!'

Remember to 'PUT THE GLASS DOWN TODAY!’