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The Lighter Side (Aug 2017)

August 30, 2017

Did you know?

  • The human mind is ten times more creative at night than it is in the morning and afternoon.
  • The sound made by Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe is so loud that it can be heard 40 miles away.
  • It takes approximately 20 minutes for your brain to know that your stomach is full.
  • There is a temple in Sri Lanka dedicated to a tooth of the Buddha.
  • Space dust tastes like raspberries and smells like rum.
  • A Rubik’s Cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible configurations.
  • Albert Einstein said that if honey bees were to suddenly disappear from earth, that we would see an apocalypse within four years.
  • Deep breathing gives you health benefits similar to aerobics.
  • A one minute kiss burns about 26 calories.  That’s 1,560 calories an hour.  Walking for an hour burns 240 calories.  Which would you rather do?
  • Math is magical.  Just try this and you’ll get an interesting result:  259 x your age x 39 = ____
  • The rarest and most expensive coffee in the world is not at your local Starbucks but is Kopi Luwak found in Indonesia and it costs about $300 a pound. 
  • Lamborghini cars were made because the Lamborghini Tractor Co. was insulted by the founder of Ferrari.

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