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Why do people like to kiss?
We know that kissing makes us feel good. But did you know that scientific facts can explain
this? Kissing causes our brains to produce oxytocin, a hormone that promotes feelings of well-being and happiness. Also, when
we engage in this lovely act, the insides of our mouths and the edges of our lips produce a chemical that makes us want more.
Will kissing keep me healthy?
Start your day on a positive note and kiss your beloved before walking out the door.
Why? This simple act promotes your physical health. German physicians and psychologists concluded that workers who kissed
their loved ones good-bye before leaving for work each day benefited by:
Missing less work than their non-smooching counterparts
Having fewer accidents on the way to work
Earning about 20 percent to 30 percent more money
Living about five
years longer
Words I like:
Abecedarian one learning the rudiments of something
Cataclysm a momentous and violent event marked by overwhelming upheaval and demolition
Ganymede a beautiful youth in classical mythology carried off to Olympus to be the cupbearer of
the gods
Kismet fate
Mellifluous having a smooth rich flow
Nirvana a state of oblivion to care or pain
Obsequious compliant, from Latin obsequiosus, from obsequium compliance, from obsequi to comply
Quixotic foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals; marked by rash lofty romantic ideas or extravagantly
chivalrous action
Rhapsody a miscellaneous collection or a highly emotional utterance
Sequacious subservient, tractable; intellectually servile
Serendipity the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for
Uxorious excessively fond of or submissive to a wife (hehehe)
Veracity devotion to the truth; power of conveying or perceiving truth
AMUSING IRRELEVANT FACTS
In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time
are teenagers.
Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he
was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
About
a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
You're more likely to get stung by a bee
on a windy day that in any other weather.
An average person laughs about 5 times a day.
Research indicates that
mosquitoes are attracted to people who have
recently eaten bananas.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
The
average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
The
condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 500s.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung,
used by Egyptians in
2000 B.C.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
The
Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.
The
average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones
- Bhutan.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
Women's
hearts beat faster than men's.
Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
Bubble
gum contains rubber.
You can only smell /20th as well as a dog.
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun
is a star.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
Even if you cut off a
cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
The world
population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured
ice water over his head.
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
A monkey was
once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
About 70% of Americans who go to college do
it just to make more money.
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
Some toothpastes contain
antifreeze.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as
much as Pres. Bush in 99. And, rightfully so.
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the
western
Pacific.
There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Lee
Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 992.
Mosquitoes have teeth.
Spotted skunks do handstands
before they spray.
Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
The three best-known western names in
China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for
food.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is
"a meaningless existential hell."
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would
die.
Aztec emperor Montezuma had nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant
"plenty of excrement."
Thomas Edison
was afraid of the dark.
"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
Top 10 States with the Highest Divorce Rate
1) Texas
2) Florida
3) New York
4) Ohio
5) Illinois
6) Pennsylvania
7)
Michigan
8) Georgia
9) North Carolina
10) Tennessee
Top 10 States with the Highest Murder Rate
1) California
2) Texas
3) New York
4) Florida
5) Illinois
6) Michigan
7)
Louisiana
8) North Carolina
9) Pennsylvania
10) Georgia
Ten Greatest Lovers in History
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King Solomon - Had 300 wifes & hundreds of mistresses
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Cleopatra - Took her first lover at age 12 and could alledgedly take dozens of lovers a night
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Empress Theodora - Took dozens of lovers each day
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Queen Zingua - Had her lovers killed in the morning when she was through with them
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Giovana Giacomo Cassanova - Seduced thousands of women, over 100 of them are recorded
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Catherine The Great - An insomniac, consequently taking hundreds of lovers
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Marquis De Sade - Sadism is a term we get from his name, was put in an asylum for all his sex
crimes
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Mae West - Had an active sex life until her 80s, and had one lover that lasted for 15 hours
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Mata Hari - Spy who slept her way to war secrets to kill over 50, 000 soldiers
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Bridgit Bardot - Admitted that she "Must have a man every night"
Ten Most Popular Aphrodisiacs
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Asparagus
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Caviar
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Eel
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Garlic
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Ginseng
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Honey
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Lobster
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Oysters
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Peaches
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Truffles
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Tomatoes
Ten Famous Homo/Bisexuals
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Socrates - Greek Philosopher
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Aristotle - Greek Philosoper
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Alexander The Great - Macedonian Ruler of the Known World
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Leonardo Da Vinci - Italian Artist/Inventor
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Julius III - Italian Pope
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Oscar Wilde - British Writer
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David Bowie - British Singer/Writer
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Elton John - British Singer/Writer
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Rock Hudson - Hollywood Actor
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Janis Joplin - American Jazz Singer
The Top 10 Most Common
Last Names in the United States
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Smith
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Johnson
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Williams
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Brown
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Jones
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Miller
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Davis
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Wilson
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Anderson
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Taylor
Top 10 Largest Armies
1) China
2) United States
3) India
4) Russia
5) North Korea
6) South
Korea
7) Pakistan
8) Vietnam
9) Turkey
10) Taiwan
Most Famous Virgins in History
Some were actually pure virgins, other listed here did not have sex until very late in life
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Sir Isaac Newton
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Immanuel Kant
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Louis XVI
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John Ruskin
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George Bernard Shaw
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Havelock Ellis
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Adolf Hitler (Had a mistress late in life)
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Michael Jackson (until his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley)
Ten Most Prominent Love Offerings in History
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Jesus Christ's Life to the World & Humankind
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Pearls in Wine -- Atony to Cleopatra
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Head of John The Baptist -- Herodias to Salome
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Taj Mahal -- Shah Jshan to Mumtaz Mahal
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A Visit From St. Nicholas -- Clement C. Moore's Poem to all the Children of the World
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Faust's Soul -- Faust to Margaret
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Red Roses Forever -- Joe DiMaggio to Marilyn Monroe
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$10,000 Bicycle -- Diamond Jim Brady to Lillian Russell
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70-Carat Diamond -- Richard Burton to Elizabeth Taylor
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Skorpios Island -- Aristotle Onassis to Jackie Kennedy
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Texas has the highest bat population in the United States
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There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth
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Fear of the number 13 originates from the last supper
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The scientific name for typtophan synthetase has 1,909 letters in it
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Martha Washington had the equivelant of 6 million dollars when she married George
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All the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20
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On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
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No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
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Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
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All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
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Almonds are members of the peach family.
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Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
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There are only four words in the English language which end in"-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous,
and hazardous.
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The longest place-name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu,
a New Zealand hill.
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Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
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In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in
Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"
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A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
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Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
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John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
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The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' bathroom at a dance
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire - - Voltaire
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity
Love may be blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener
Favorite Pickup Lines
There's you with all those curves and me with no brakes
They say the body is 90% water, and I am feeling kind of thirsty
Do you believe in love at first site, or should I walk by again?
Your lips look wrinkled, want them pressed?
You look a little like my first wife - - I've never been married either
You are so fine, you make onions cry
Do you have a name or should I call you mine?
Favorite Quotes of the Day on Love & Romance
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life - - Federico Fellini
Our love is like the misty rain that falls softly - but floods the river - - African Proverb
Love is friendship set to music - - St. Valentine's Day Message in the Time of London, 1982
Love is poetry of the senses - - Honore de Balzac, The Physiology of Marriage, 1892
Love is more just than justice - - Henry Ward Beecher 1887
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear, I John, The Bible
Take away love and our earth is a tomb - - Robert Browning, Fra Lippo Lippi, 1863
Friendship is love without his wings! Sir Lord Byron
Love will find its way, through paths were wolves would fear to prey - - Sir Lord Byron, The Giaour,
1813
Love is not to be trifled with - - French Proverb
Love makes time pass, time makes love pass - - French Proverb
Love is a platform upon which all ranks meet - - WS Gilbert, HMS Pinafore, 1878
Love is the irresistible desire to be desierd irresistibly - - Lou Ginsburg, 1968
There are only two kinds of men - the dead and the deadly - - Helen Rowland (1876-1950)
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot - - Groucho Marx (1895 - 1977)
If women did not exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning - - Aristotle Onassis
Remember that Noah's Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic was built by professionals
Remember that woodpeckers inside are a larger threat than the storm outside
Alarming Statistics show...
- Nevada has the highest alcohol consumption level (4.85 gallons per person per year, New Hampsire is #2, Alaska is #3)
- 35.5% of Mississippi residents over the age of 25 have not finished high school (Alaska is the best state with only
13.4%)
- 30.7% of the adult residents in Mississippi are overweight (Colorado & Wyoming are the lowest, 18.4%)
The Good Old United States of America...
It doesn't surprise me that there is a...
- Rudeville, New Jersey
- Boring, Oregon
- Mary's Igloo, Alaska
- Hell, Michigan
- Hooker, California
- Virgin, Utah
- Dulls Corner, Maryland
- Bowlegs, Oklahoma
- Volcano, Hawaii
- Beersville, Pennsylvania
- Fleatown, Ohio
- Burnt Corn, Alabama
- Two Guns, Arizona
- Toad Suck, Arkansas
- Gun Barrel City, Texas
The Good Old United States of America...
What would Freud say about...
- Climax, Michigan
- Hooker, California
- Spread Eagle, Wisconsin
- Blue Ball, Pennsylvania
- Dildo Key, Florida
- Needmore, Arkansas
- Hardup, Utah
- Intercourse, Pennsylvania
- Big Bogue Homo, Mississippi
- Hornytown, North Carolina
- Conception Junction, Missouri
Have you ever heard of?
- Tarzan, Texas
- Chicken Head, Florida
- Scarface, California
- Latex, Louisiana
- Hot Coffee, Mississippi
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