1. During an hour of swimming in a pool, you will ingest 1/12 liters of urine.
2. In an average day, your hand comes into indirect contact with 15 penises by touching door knobs.
3. Annually, you swallow 12 pubic hairs from fast foods.
4. Annually, you swallow 5 insects while sleeping.
5. Annually, you shake hands with 3 men who have masturbated and failed to wash their hands.

• Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.  
• PMS: Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood. 
• Anemia : High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.

• Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.
• Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school ( England ) were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert. 
• Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.  

• Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey.. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system. 
• Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.
• Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness. 

• Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation. 
• Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.

• Overweight and at work: Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and chips. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady. 

• Ulcers: The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach. 
• Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a 'cooling' fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand , for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.
• Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan. 

• Smoking &Tobacco Use: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.
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• Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack. 

• Strokes: According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%! 
• Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!

The Strange Powers of the Placebo Effect

1. FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).
2. POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.
3. MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'.
4. BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.
5. DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix 'with' was dropped..
6. NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W, and S.
7. AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
8. QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people as waiting to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's Quest..
9. JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's business.
10. TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get Prompt service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise to the custom of Tips.
11. JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed into JEEP later.
12. Coca-Cola was originally green.
13. The most common name in the world is Mohammed..
14. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with Asia, America, Australia, Europe
15. The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
16. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
17. Women BLINK nearly twice as much as men!!
18. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
19. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
20. Wearing HEADPHONES for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
21. It is physically impossible for PIGS to look up into the sky.
22. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
23. Each KING in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
24. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Answer - All invented by women.
25. A CROCODILE cannot stick its tongue out.
26. A SNAIL can sleep for three years.
27. All POLAR BEARS are left handed.
28. BUTTERFLIES taste with their feet.
29. ELEPHANTS are the only animals that can't jump.
30. In the last 4000 years, no new ANIMALS have been domesticated.
31. STEWARDESSES is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
32. The human HEART creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
33. RATS multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
34. People say "BLESS YOU" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
35. If you SNEEZE too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. So good to bless the sneezing person

42. Sex is one of the safest sports you can take up. It stretches and tones up just about every muscle in the

body.

43. By the time you have finished reading this sentence, 2000 people in the world have experienced an orgasm.

44. Semen travels at 28 mph during ejaculation.

45. 75% of men have their penis hanging to the left in their pants. 17% have their penis hanging to the right and 8% let it hang either way.

46. Semen has only 5 calories per teaspoon, the same amount as a piece of chewing gum.

47. Approximately 1 in 100,000 males is born with a double penis. Cuban Jean Baptisto dos Santos was born with two large, fully-functional penises. It is written that he "was possessed of extraordinary animal passion... He used both penises, after finishing with one, continuing with the other".

48. Kissing encourages saliva to wash food from the teeth and lowers the level of the acid that causes decay, preventing plaque build-up.

49. A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.

50. The more sex you have, the more you will be offered. The sexually active body gives off greater quantities of chemicals called pheromones which attract the opposite sex.

51. According to a survey of sex shop owners, cherry is the most popular flavor of edible underwear.

52. The left testicle usually hangs lower than the right for right-handed men. The opposite is usually true for left-handed men.

53. During World War II, condoms were used to cover rifle barrels from being damaged by salt water as the soldiers swam to shore.

54. Octopuses mate facing each other, but their sex organs never touch. The male ejaculates onto one of his tentacles and then uses the tentacle to introduce the sperm into the female's reproductive organ.

55. Impotence is grounds for divorce in over 25 US states.

56. A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.

57. The typical person spends about 600 hours having sex between the ages of 20 and 70.

58. On average, it takes two tablespoons of blood to get a man's penis erect.

59. The vagina is similar to the eye because they are both self-cleaning organs.

60. Only 17% of women are likely to have an orgasm during sex.

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