Factz
The Seven Wonders of the Modern World (compiled in 1931, after we’d thrown up the Empire State Building)
* Empire State Building (U.S.)
* The Great Pyramids at Giza (Egypt)
* Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italy)
* Washington Monument (U.S.)
* Eiffel Tower (France)
* Taj Mahal (India)
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Hagia Sophia (Turkey—apparently some tasty delicacy)
There
are seven days in the week because the ancients counted seven
“wandering stars” in the heavens
These were
sun (Sunday), the moon (Monday), and the five visible planets.
Although the planets were all named for Roman gods—Mars,
Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn—the names of our days
(apart from Saturn’s day, Saturday) come to us from their
Norse counterparts: Tiw’s day, Woden’s day, Thor’s
day, and Freya’s day.
Sperm can live in a woman’s body for up to five days.
* You have 100,000 or so hairs on your head; you lose between 25 and 125 a day, more if you ain't gettin any.(major cause of baldness among middle aged men)
* Continental drift amounts to about two centimeters a year.
* On the clearest night, under ideal conditions, you can see about 4,000 stars with the naked eye.
* 70 percent of all women can’t reach orgasm from intercourse alone—70% percent of all women whom i haven't slept with yet.
* The electricity needed to power a light bulb costs about 1.3¢ an hour.
* Your body contains about 23 feet of small intestine and five feet of large intestine, including the smelly part right at the end.
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Ejaculate exits your little guy at 12 mph.
Deadliest
Virus
Of the 30
fun new viruses to emerge in the last quarter century, the one to
avoid is Ebola, which kills 90 percent of the people who contract
it. Ebola rapidly turns your internal organs into a bloody
mush—you vomit blood, shit blood, and cry blood—before
it kills you. Quite nasty.
And yet, for out-and-out kill percentage, it’s hard to beat Ye Olde Plague: Its pneumonic form, spread by coughing and sneezing, boasted a kill rate of 99.99 percent. (One great and seldom mentioned thing about the plague, however, was that if you didn’t die when you got it, you were immune ever after.) A particularly virulent outbreak of bubonic plague, the infamous Black Death of 1348–51, killed as many as 75 million people, which at the time was between one third and one half of Europe’s population. So get your flu shots now, kids, and stop playing with dead cats.