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And Now For Something Completely Low Brow
Seeing as it's a Monday, here are some strange facts to cheer and amuse us
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Dolphins sleep with one eye open
Slugs have 4 noses
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood
Most lipstick contains fish scales
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing
Porcupines float in water
Rice paper does not have any rice in it
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
Laughter
If you laugh 100 times it’s the same thing with cycling 15 minutes on your bike. Energetic laughter boosts the heart rate deepens the breathing rate, and bring into play muscles in the face, stomach, and diaphragm.
Apart from enhance our moods, laughter can cut down stress, cooperate fighting infection, and reduce pain.
Laughter generate helpful changes in brain chemistry by delivering endorphins, and it leads more oxygen into the body with the deeper inhalations.
Laughter is instinctive and contagious. Our laughter is under minimal conscious control, and it challenges the hypothesis that we are in full control of our behaviour.
Italian author Pietro Aretino who in 1556 was laughing so hard at a bawdy story being told to him by his sister that he fell backwards in his chair and died of suffocation from “laughing too much.”
Laughter amplify the natural killer cells that attack viruses and some types of cancer and tumour cells
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