- listening to music for an hour each day can help reduce chronic pain by 21% and depression by up to 25%.
- dogs can see in color, but actually see red as a shade of gray.
- the average person has 1,460 dreams per year.
- only 14 black holes have been discovered so far in the entire known universe.
- wolves have about 200 million scent cells, humans have only about 5 million. wolves can smell other animals more than one mile away.
- people with low self-esteem are 80% more likely to criticize others or put them down in order to make themselves feel better, tougher, and smarter.
- the panda spends 14-16 hours a day eating bamboo.
- on average, cats spend 2/3 of every day sleeping, that means a nine-year-old cat has been awake for only three years of its life.
- mcdonald's hamburgers contains only 15% real beef, while other 85% is meat filler and pink slime cleansed with ammonia which causes cancer.
- drinking water can help someone lose weight, this increases the rate at which our body breaks down fat.
- the shape of a dog’s face suggests how long it will live. dogs with sharp, pointed faces that look more like wolves typically live longer. dogs with very flat faces, such as bulldogs, often have shorter lives.
- there are about 50k people living in japan who are 100 years of age or older.
- high heels were originally created for men. butchers used them to avoid stepping in blood.
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