Facts About Kissing - strangefacts

• You burn 26 calories in a one-minute kiss

• Longest underwater kiss - 2 minutes and 18 seconds in Tokyo, Japan, on April 2, 1980

• Ancient Egyptians kissed with their noses instead of with their lips

• The average amount of time spent kissing for a person in a lifetime is 20,160 minutes

• The longest kiss on record lasted 30 hours and 45 minutes. Dror Orpaz and Carmit Tsubara recorded it on April 5, 1999 at a kissing contest held in Tel Aviv, Israel

• It takes 20 different muscles to form a kiss

• James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang

• The first far eastern country to permit kissing in films was China. The first oriental screen kiss was bestowed on Miss Mamie Lee in the movie "Two Women in the House"

• People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left (65 percent of people go to the right!)

• The record for most kisses in a movie is 127 in Don Juan
  

Facts About Girls - strangefacts

• Girls break their arms 56% more often than they did 40 years ago and there are 106 boys born for every 100 girls

• The age limit for marriage in France was, until recently, 15 for girls, but 18 for boys. The age for girls was raised to 18 in 2006

• Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem

• Close to 73% of girls in Bangladesh are married by age 18

• Eighty percent of 10 year old girls in the USA go on a diet

• Girls have more tastebud than boys

• More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night

• One of the Bond girls in the James Bond movie, "For Your Eyes Only," used to be a man

• There are 106 boys born for every 100 girls

• Girls are slightly more likely than boys to use home computers for e-mail, word processing and completing school assignments than playing games

• Jacob & Emily were the most popular baby names for boys and girls, respectively, in 2004

• During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old

• In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for marriage for girls to 12

• 52% of women obtaining abortions in the U.S. are younger than 25: Women aged 20-24 obtain 32% of all abortions; Teenagers obtain 20% and girls under 15 account for 1.2%

• Until about the age of 12, boys cry about as often as girls

• A study reported in the New York Times suggests that one in five adolescent girls become the victims of physical or sexual violence, or both, in a dating relationship

• At least 60 million girls who would otherwise be expected to be alive are "missing" from various populations, mostly in Asia, as a result of sex-selective abortions, infanticide or neglect

• Globally, at least one in three women and girls is beaten or sexually abused in her lifetime

• 4 million women and girls are trafficked annually

Facts About Dreams - strangefacts

• The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year 

• Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes

• Japanese researchers have successfully developed a technology that can put thoughts on a screen and may soon be able to screen people's dreams

• What you smell when asleep has power to influence dreams,says research presented at the '08 American Academy of Otolaryngology

• People who have been blind from birth have dreams that are formed from their other senses (e.g., touch, smell, sound)

• The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year

• Everyone dreams. Just because you don’t remember your dreams doesn’t mean you don’t dream. Everyone dreams
• Most people dream about 1-2 hours a night and have an average of 4-7 dreams each night

• Five minutes after a dream, half of the dream is forgotten. Ten minutes after a dream, over 90% is forgotten. Write down your dreams immediately if you want to remember them  

• While you sleep, your body produces a hormone that may prevent you from acting out your dreams, leaving you virtually paralyzed

• Dreams almost never represent what they actually are. The unconscious mind strives to make connections with concepts you will understand, so dreams are largely symbolic representations

Facts About Sun - strangefacts

• Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star

• The Sun is made out of 92% hydrogen, 7% helium and the rest is other low number gasses

• The Sun rotates once every 27 days and the Sun formed over four and a half billion years ago

• The temperature at the core, or very middle, of the Sun, is about 27 million° Fahrenheit and the Sun’s diameter is about 870,000 miles wide

• The Sun is 109 times wider than Earth, and is 333,000 times heavier and over one million Earths could fit inside the Sun

• Astronomers once believed a planet named Vulcan existed between Mercury and the Sun

• If you were standing on Mercury, the Sun would appear 2.5 times larger than it appears from Earth 

• Some people start to sneeze if they are exposed to sunlight or have a light shined into their eye

• 90% of people with visual impairments can see the sun, which makes them able to see 93 million miles away

• A Chinese Scientist discovered that the Earth is round during the Han Dynasty by measuring the sun and moon's path in the sky

• Human skin produces Vitamin D when exposed to sunlight, specifically ultraviolet B radiation  

• Every day the Sun rises in the east, moves through the southern part of the sky and sets in the west

• The largest known star is the monster VY Canis Majoris. This star is thought to be 1,800 times the size of the Sun; it would engulf the orbit of Saturn

Facts About Lightning - strangefacts

• The odds of being struck by lightning are about 600,000 to one

• Lightning travels at speed of up to 100 fps or 72 million mph

• The United States city with the highest rate of lightning strikes per capita is Clearwater

• A person that is struck by lightning has a greater chance of developing motor neurone disease

• In November 1999, two women were killed by a lightning bolt. The underwire located in their bras acted as a electrical conductors

• Green Bay Packers backup quarterback, Matt Hasselbeck, has been struck by lightning twice in his life
• Men are four times more likely to be struck by lightning than women

• Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downwards

• A person standing under an oak tree is 16 more times liable to be hit by lightning than if he had taken refuge beneath a beech tree. The oak tree has vertical roots which provide a more direct route to ground water.

Facts About Hurricane - strangefacts

• The odds are 1 out of 8 (11.63%) that you live in an area threatened by an Atlantic hurricane.

• The Atlantic Ocean’s hurricane season peaks from mid-August to late October and averages five to six hurricanes per year.

• Key West has not been directly hit by a hurricane since 1919.

• In 1281, the Mongol army of Kublai Khan tried to invade Japan but were ravaged by a hurricane that destroyed their fleet.

• Hurricanes are giant, spiraling tropical storms that can pack wind speeds of over 160 miles (257 kilometers) an hour and unleash more than 2.4 trillion gallons (9 trillion liters) of rain a day.

• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced in 1978 that it would alternate men's and women's names in the naming of hurricanes. It was seen as an attempt at fair play.

• Hurricanes had been named for women for years, until NOAA succumbed to pressure from women's groups who were demanding that Atlantic storms be given unisex names.

Facts About Tornado - strangefacts

• In 1974 there were 90 tornadoes in the U.S. in one day

• Tornadoes can and do form at any time of the day and year

• Over the last 50 years in the United States, approximately 9,000 people have died as a result of tornadoes, 5,000 as the result of floods, and 4,000 as the result of hurricanes

• A tornado forms when changes in wind speed and direction create a horizontal spinning effect within a storm cell. This effect is then tipped vertical by rising air moving up through the thunderclouds.

• Today the average warning time for a tornado alert is 13 minutes.

• Violent tornadoes comprise only about two percent of all tornadoes, but they cause 70 percent of all tornado deaths and may last an hour or more.

• "Tornado Alley," a region that includes eastern South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, northern Texas, and eastern Colorado, is home to the most powerful and destructive of these storms. U.S. tornadoes cause 80 deaths and more than 1,500 injuries per year.

• The tornado in The Wizard of Oz was a 35 foot long muslin stocking