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[Petra Arkanian]

I don't know about most people, but I like looking at random facts. If you do to, or if you just know some, then post them here!

NOTE: Please do not use abbreviations or slang (ex. waznt, 2, blvd). Also, try not to repeat things. If you don't see a random fact on the current page, then you can post it. Otherwise, please don't. One last thing. Please number your facts in accordance to others, so if Fred has three facts, and Jane, who posted before him has two, Freds' last fact would be numbered 5.

Please do not post more than 15 facts at a time.

No profanity, please.

Copy-and-pasting is fine.

1. Childhood dreams are shorter than adult dreams and nearly 40% of them are nightmares, which may act as a coping mechanism.

2. Blueberry juice boosts memory.

3. The percentage of people dreaming in black and white started decreasing after the spread of color TV.

4. Laughter is a proven way to lose weight.

5. The shrimp's heart is in its head.

6. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

7. On average, a woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s heart.

8. There are 86,400 seconds in day.

9. 'Jedi' is an official religion in Australia with over 70,000 followers.

10. A snail can slide over a razor blade without being hurt by producing slime that helps it slide harmlessly.

11. The first number that has an 'A' in it is 'thousand'.

12. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

13. Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

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

15. Horses can't vomit and pigs can't look up in the sky.

Hope you learned something! Please post!

[haute ecole rider]

67. When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

Technically that's not true.

Your hair stops growing (along with everything else) at the moment of death.

What actually happens is that the hair in the follicles are exposed due to tissue dessication that follows death. In other words, your moisture-laden skin (where the follicles dwell and incubate your luxurious hair) loses water during the decay/dessication process. Follicles shrink with the thinning, drying skin, but hair doesn't. So eventually only the root bulb of your hair remains within a shrunken follicle. That's why your hair appears so much longer a couple of months after you die. Oh, and your head overall shrinks a little too.

This process can take up to a couple of months, depending on the environmental conditions. If you die in the desert, for example, this will take but a week or so. But if you die in the Amazon Basin, then it will take a couple of months or even longer. Likely your skin/hair/body will mold and succumb to fungal infestation before it "grows" that long.

The same process happens with fingernails.

[Lady Syl]

67. When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

Technically that's not true.

Your hair stops growing (along with everything else) at the moment of death.

What actually happens is that the hair in the follicles are exposed due to tissue dessication that follows death. In other words, your moisture-laden skin (where the follicles dwell and incubate your luxurious hair) loses water during the decay/dessication process. Follicles shrink with the thinning, drying skin, but hair doesn't. So eventually only the root bulb of your hair remains within a shrunken follicle. That's why your hair appears so much longer a couple of months after you die. Oh, and your head overall shrinks a little too.

This process can take up to a couple of months, depending on the environmental conditions. If you die in the desert, for example, this will take but a week or so. But if you die in the Amazon Basin, then it will take a couple of months or even longer. Likely your skin/hair/body will mold and succumb to fungal infestation before it "grows" that long.

The same process happens with fingernails.

Mmm, yummy.... I was eating while i read that... Yeah, that just killed my appetite....