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American Express’ “Don’t leave home without it” became “Stay home with it”

KFC’s “Finger Licking Good” became “Tastes like human fingers”

Nike’s “Just do it” translates as “Have Sex!”
AMERICA
On average, Americans spend about 6 months of their lives waiting at red traffic lights

Everyday, almost 1 in 2 Americans are on a diet

The first Easter baskets were made to imitate bird’s nests

Because of an egg’s structure, you won’t be able to break it by squeezing the ends of an egg with your thumb and finger. Thats why people use the design so often for building arches, gutters, drain pipes, and even when God created the skull. Makes sense doesn’t it


Over 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States with all those people spending a whopping 5703 years (3 billion minutes) on the site each day.

Facebook is the 5th most valuable US Internet company, yet with only $150 million in annual revenue.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon


The Queen has opened 15 bridges in the United Kingdom during her reign
 
The Queen has 30 godchildren


Interestingly, there is a theory that contagious yawning can be used to measure someone’s ability to appreciate other people’s mental states (empathy). So autistic people do not yawn in response to videos of people yawning

Yawning is also thought to be a mechanism to wake the brain up when it requires it. Read the facts here
 

A tablespoon of water in a dolphins lung could kill it (Catton, Chris. 1995. Dolphins. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press)

Dolphins do not have a sense of smell, but they can distinguish different tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, salty

EASTER

FACEBOOK

AIRPLANE

When airplanes were still a novel invention, seat belts for pilots were installed only after the consequence of their absence was observed to be fatal – several pilots fell to their deaths while flying upside down

The first United States coast to coast airplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days

In Iraq, the US spends more in air conditioning ($20 billion) than NASA does in an entire year ($19 billion)

A banana tree isn’t really a tree. It is a herb

An office desk contains over 200 times more bacteria than a toilet Barbers are mentioned in the bible. “Now, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor to shave your head and your beard.”

The world’s first computer virus came from Pakistan. It was called Brain
Apparently 1/3 of people with alarm clocks hit the ‘snooze’ button every morning, and in the 25-34 age group, it is over half. (Are you 1 of them?)

Earthquakes also occur on the moon (“moonquakes”)

CABBAGE
If you chew a cabbage/lettuce leaf properly, you’ll lose more energy than you’ll gain from actually eating it.

NAME
 The most common name in the world is Mohammed

QUEEN ELIZABETH 11

YAWN

DOLPHINS

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