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December 16, 2016 at 9:45 pm

Here a new set of 10 amazing facts to read, think, learn, understand and ponder about:

1) The hormone that makes you grow is produced only when you sleep. So, to grow taller go to bed earlier.

2) You are slightly taller in the morning than you are when you go to bed.

3) Men have larger brains than women. But women have more brain cells. Nature does a great balancing act.

4) Actors are said to ‘love the limelight’. Ever wonder where this phrase came from? Limelight was how stages were lit before electricity was invented: illumination was produced by heating blocks of lime until they glowed.

5) Right handed people tend to chew food on the right hand side of their mouth, and left handed people tend to chew it on their left side. You can test it out the next time you are eating.

6) We have the same number of bones in our neck as a giraffe.

7) Besides human being, the only creature that can get sunburn is a pig.

8) The word for ‘taxi’ is the same in many languages world over including French, German, Swedish, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Portuguese and English.

9) The dimples on a golf ball make it travel further. Each golf ball has about 400 dimples on it.

10) The giraffe neck grew longer because it started to reach out for food on the trees for longer duration’s over the period in evolution.