Interesting Facts.... AngelFlowers

During the Civil War, glasses with colored lenses were used to treat disorders and illness. Yellow-tinted glasses were used to treat syphilis, blue for insanity, and pink for depression. Thus we get the term, To see the world through rose-colored glasses. When you looked through them, supposedly, you became happy.

There are approximately ten million bricks in the Empire State Building.

40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

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.

An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

Eating chocolate three times a month helps people live longer as opposed to people who overeat chocolate or do not eat chocolate at all.

If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you die of oxygen deprivation.

Smelling bananas or green apples can help you lose weight.

You use over 70 muscles to say one word.

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