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Horrible Facts

The weight of ashes from the average cremated human body is 4 kilograms (9 pounds).

It takes just over 3 kilograms (7 pounds) of pressure to tear off a human ear – don’t try it!

When you have diarrhoea, instead of absorbing water from your food, your intestines ooze more water into it to rush it through the system and out the other end as a watery mush.

If your head is chopped off, you can remain conscious for about 25 seconds!

If your fingers or toes get very cold, they can get frostbite.They slowly rot and go black, and have to be cut off to stop the rot spreading.

There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.

In India, ants are roasted, ground to a paste and served as chutney.

Not all dead bodies rot. In the right conditions, some of the fat can turn to a soap-like substance so that if the body is

dug up, even years later, it can look much the same as when it was buried.

Quotes of the day

You are in charge of your own attitude—whatever others do or circumstances you face. The only person you can control is yourself….Worry more about your attitude than your aptitude or lineage. You are in charge of your own attitude—whatever others door circumstances you face. The only personyou can control is yourself….Worrymore about your attitude than youraptitude or lineage.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say can’t be done.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Trust your instincts. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else’s.

Try not to become a success, but rather try to become a man of value.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is insincerity.

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.

Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.