Funny Facts - Health & Food II

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Funny Facts - Health & Food II



Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

Heroin used to be a cough medicine for children. A German company (Bayer) registered heroin as a trademark.

Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, and Dostoyevsky were all epileptics (aka brain disorder).

In fact, Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

Chocolate contains the same chemical, phenyl ethylamine that your brain produces when you fall in love.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.

Chocolate was used as medicine during the 18th century. It was believed that chocolate could cure a stomach ache.

Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.

Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced.

Consuming chocolate was once considered a sin during the 16th and 17th century.

Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. It is 10 times more effective than valium!

Most Zambians don't live to see their 40th birthday.

Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.

22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.

US tops the world in plastic surgery procedures. Next comes Mexico.

Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year.

Americans ate eight million more orders of french fries and almost six million more hamburgers this year compared to last.

McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food heavy users.

In the 1800's, people believed that gin could cure stomach problems.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.

Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals.

Armadillos are able to contract leprosy.

Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.​