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Trivia & Amazing Facts [07-08-15]


Trivia & Amazing Facts

  • Lack of Sleep Is a Killer A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks
  • Flamingoes can only eat with their heads upside down, and if they don't have a diet of mostly shrimps they turn white
  • HAVE DIAMONDS BEEN A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND? No. Only men wore diamonds until the mid-1400s. As the story goes, a French king's "lady" didn't like that, and fashion was forever changed. Which would explain why you have to have the wealth of a king to be to buy a diamond.
  • Grasshoppers have white blood.
  • A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.