Interesting Real Fa cts

(Strange but True)

o Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It
stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the
world's largest zipper manufacturer.

o 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the

sales of Happy Meals.

o 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were

misspelled.

o On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the

wrong parents daily.

o Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and

draw with the other at the same time.

o Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took

to ok
him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

o The original name for the butterfly was

"flutterby"!
o By raising your legs slowly and lying on your
back, you can't sink in quicksand.

o The first product to have a bar code was

Wrigley's gum.

o Michael Jordan makes

makes more money from Nike
annually than the entire Nike factory workers in
Malaysia combined.

o Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having

an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

o The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an

octothorp.
octothorp.

o Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

o Yo-
Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the
Philippines.

o Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.

o Brains are more active when sleeping than
watching TV.

o Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of

Americans.

o There are more telephones than people in

Washington, D.C.

o The average four year-

year- old child asks over four
hundred questions a day.

o The three wealthiest families in the world have

more assets than the combined wealth of the
forty-
forty-eight poorest nations.

o 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.

o The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

o Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste
in Spanish speaking
speaking Countries because Colgate
translates into the command "go hang Yourself."

o If the population of China walked past you in

single line, the line would never end because of
the rate of reproduction

o China has more English speakers than the United

States.

o -The record for the longest period without sleep is

18 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes during a rocking
chair marathon. The record holder reported
hallucinations, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred
speech and memory and concentration lapses.

- It's impossible
impossible to tell if someone is really
awake without close medical supervision.
 People can take cat naps with their eyes
open without even being aware of it.

- Anything less than five minutes to fall asleep

at night means you're sleep deprived. The
ideal is between
be tween 10 and 15 minutes, meaning
you're still tired enough to sleep deeply, but
not so exhausted you feel sleepy by day.

- A new baby typically results in 400-

400 -750
hours lost sleep for parents in the first year

- One of the best predictors of insomnia later

later
in life is the development of bad habits from
having sleep disturbed by young children.

- The continuous brain recordings that led to

the discovery of REM (rapid eye-
eye -movement)
sleep were not done until 1953, partly
 because the scientists involved were
were
concerned about wasting paper.

- REM sleep occurs in bursts totaling about 2

hours a night, usually beginning about 90
minutes after falling asleep.

- Dreams, once thought to occur only during

REM sleep, also occur (but to a lesser extent)
in non-
non-REM sleep phases. It's possible there
may not be a single moment of our sleep
when we are actually dreamless.

- REM dreams are characterized by bizarre

plots, but non-
non-REM dreams are repetitive and
thought-
thought-like, with little imagery - obsessively
returning to a suspicion you left your mobile
phone somewhere, for example.
- Certain types of eye movements during REM
sleep correspond to specific movements in
dreams, suggesting at least part of the
dreaming process is analogous to watching a
film

- No-
No-one knows for
f or sure if other species dream
but some do have sleep cycles similar to
humans.

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