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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:55:02 GMT -5
About 3 million youth aged fourteen and under are hurt annually during sports or recreational activities; more than 25 percent of those are treated in hospital emergency rooms.
Most injuries occur as a result of falling down, being struck by an object, collisions and overexertion during unorganized or informal sports activities.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:55:33 GMT -5
Of the world's numerous species of bears, the most deadly are polar, black and grizzly bears. These species will attack, trample, and maul their prey until it is frightened off or dead, and will attack for a variety of reasons, including hunger.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:56:02 GMT -5
U.S. citizens are not legally permitted to come into contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles, according to Title 14, section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented in 1969.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:56:31 GMT -5
The Tri-State Tornado of 1925 was the deadliest in American history, killing almost 700 people across Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri.
It also had the longest duration of any tornado before or since, taking almost 3 1/2 hours to cut a record 219 mile path of destruction.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:57:11 GMT -5
Ancient Egyptian sports and games were brutal. In Fisherman's Jousting, teams of fishermen would knock their opponents out of their boats. Since many fishermen were unable to swim, drownings often resulted.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:57:47 GMT -5
Talking on the telephone during a thunderstorm is the leading cause of indoor lightning injuries in the United States.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:58:17 GMT -5
An individual housefly can carry up to 33 million bacteria on the outer surface of it's body, 6 million on it's feet alone.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:59:14 GMT -5
In 1981, President Ronald Reagan approved nutrition guidelines that qualified ketchup as a vegetable in school lunches, saving the U.S. government millions of dollars.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:59:43 GMT -5
Studies show that 87 percent of people fear getting trapped in dull conversation at dinner parties.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:00:12 GMT -5
If a swan hisses at you, take heed. Swans have been known to capsize boats, attack humans on jet skis, and strangle dogs to death. The kill by holding their victim's head under the water until it drowns.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:00:47 GMT -5
Finger holes in bowling balls have been found to contain "substantial" amounts of fecal contamination.
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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:21:13 GMT -5
From 2001 to 2002, Japan saw a record 690 claims of karoshi - death by overwork. Of these, 143 were confirmed cases. 94 from stroke and 47 from sudden heart attack. The numbers were higher in 2003, with 819 claims, 160 of which were compensated.
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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:21:48 GMT -5
Lampreys and hagfishes are jawless, eel-like creatures that secrete toxic slime and blood that has a bitter taste, and can irritate the eyes and cause death from internal bleeding if consumed.
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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:22:11 GMT -5
The average human loses 85,000 brain cells each day, but only regenerates 50 new ones.
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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:22:43 GMT -5
In April 2009, a Louisiana man was arrested for stabbing his sixty-three year old brother after the two argued over a can of pork and beans.
The victim was treated for multiple stab wounds to his arm and shoulder. The two men had been drinking when the fight began.
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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:23:24 GMT -5
Chinese authorities are cracking down on the practice of hiring strippers to perform at funerals.
Family and friends hire the women in order to draw more people to a funeral, since many Chinese believe that the larger the crowd, the more luck will come to relatives of the departed.
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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:23:48 GMT -5
Felons who are considered physically unattractive receive 50 percent longer jail sentences on average than those deemed attractive.
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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:24:11 GMT -5
Twenty-eight million Americans use indoor tanning beds every year.
Perhaps it is no coincidence, then, that the per-capita rate for melanoma has increased by 100 percent in the last thirty years.
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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:24:37 GMT -5
To fight off predators, poison dart frogs ooze a slimy neurotoxin from their colorful skin. One frog produces enough toxin to kill ten humans.
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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:25:00 GMT -5
Chocolate contains the alkaloid theobromine, which in high doses can be toxic to humans and in even small amounts can kill dogs, parrots, horses and cats.
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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:25:27 GMT -5
In Britain, placing a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside down is considered treason.
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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:25:50 GMT -5
There are about 10 quintillion insects on Earth at any given moment: that's 1.5 billion bugs for every human on the planet.
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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:26:25 GMT -5
American women undergo twice as many hysterectomies as British women, and four times as many as Swedish women.
By some estimates, 76-85 percent of these procedures are unnecessary, studies saying that removing the ovaries will raise, not lower, her health risks unless a woman is highly at risk for ovarian cancer.
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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:27:21 GMT -5
A cockroach carries more than forty different pathogens that can be transferred to humans, including pneumonia, hepatitis and typhoid.
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Post by dreamer on Dec 1, 2011 6:27:51 GMT -5
The longest case of hiccups lasted sixty-nine years.
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