We just love the personali(tits)!!

"Men are more likely to fall in love at first sight than women."

Fifty-four percent of men said they'd experienced love at first sight, while only 44% of women said the same, according to a Match.com study designed by Binghamton University's Institute for Evolutionary Studies. The study, which polled 5,200 singles, also found that among singles under 18, more men than women wanted to have children (24% to 15%). On the other side of the coin, 35% of men and women said they'd fallen in love with someone they hadn't initially been attracted to.

Finally!

Summer in  Norway, is form june to middel of september (hopfully).

Shout it all out!!

"Swearing reduces physical pain."

Researchers at Keele University in the UK found that swearing can have a painkilling power, especially for people who don't regularly curse. Dr. Richard Stephens and other scientists conducted an experiment with student volunteers. The students were asked to submerge their arms into a bucket of icy water while repeatedly uttering a swearword. They then repeated the experiment while repeating a "harmless" word instead of a swear. The results showed that volunteers were able to keep their arms in the icy water longer when they were swearing than they could when they were uttering the non-swearword.

Try the mirror!

"Facebook improves its users' self-esteem."

A study in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking tested the theory that the internet can influence self-esteem by offering people the chance to selectively show the best of themselves (as opposed to, for example, the objectivity of a mirror). Participants were seated by a computer that was either on and showed their Facebook profiles or off. Some of the students seated by turned-off computers were also near mirrors. After the participants with Facebook access were given time to navigate through their profiles, everyone was given a self-esteem questionnaire. The Facebook group reported higher self-esteem, with the highest self-esteem coming from those who'd edited their profiles in that span.

Be safe, stay warm!

"It is illegal to stand within a hundred yards of a ruling English monarch if you aren't wearing socks."

This is according to the Guardian, which notes that it also remains illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament while wearing a suit of armor. Also in the category of alleged ancient English laws that are still endorsed: it is potentially an act of treason to affix a stamp bearing the image of a monarch upside-down, and it is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas (the latter is thanks to Oliver Cromwell, who in 1644 declared mince pies "abominable and idolatrous things to be avoided by Christians").

Be smart, enjoy the weekend.

"Intelligent people drink more."

The UK's National Child Development Study has been ongoing since 1958, when it initially classified its participating youths as "very dull," "dull," "normal," "bright," or "very bright." The children from these different groups grew up to drink alcohol in similar proportions, with "very bright" subjects drinking the most, followed by "bright" subjects, and so on. This trend is true for both British and American children. Psychology Today argues that with all other demographics are accounted for, it's not that more intelligent people wind up in social situations where drinking merely happens to be more likely; rather, it appears to be that intelligence is a contributing factor in motivating some people to drink in the first place.

No need to wear makeup...

"Women are attracted to at least a degree of femininity in men's features."

Psychologists at Princeton and NYU developed a computer model to test people's attraction to 50 dimensions of facial features. They divided these features into two categories, shape (actual physical features) and reflectance (color, complexion). Men, unsurprisingly, were attracted to a traditionally feminine shape and feminine reflectance. Women were attracted to masculine reflectance but feminine shape -- for example, darker complexions but more delicate features.

Easter is over, so get of your arse..

"People who spend their free time sitting have a 20% higher death rate."

Even with all other factors taken into account (including diet and exercise), being entirely sedentary is a dangerous lifestyle. A series of studies by Mayo-Clinic researcher Dr. Ken Levine gauged the impact of inactivity by monitoring his subjects with a sensor apparatus that recorded their every movement. Even though the subjects all had the same caloric intake and were prohibited from exercise, some subjects -- those who unconsciously fidgeted or moved around more -- didn't gain weight. Conversely, occasional exercise doesn't quite offset being sedentary for long stretches, which decreases your insulin effectiveness and increases your risk for diabetes.

Nothing like a cold one!

"People who enjoy the taste of beer are much more likely to have sex on the first date."


The OKCupid analysis blog OKTrends uses data gathered by polling its users to arrive at curious and surprising dating statistics. When asked "Would you consider sleeping with someone on the first date," men and women who identified themselves as liking the taste of beer were much more likely to say yes. For women, 40% said they'd consider sex on the fist date, but a woman would be 15% more likely to do so if she enjoyed the taste of beer. The trend was similar among men (roughly 50% of all respondents would consider it, compared with over 80% of beer-lovers).

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Living on the edge!!

"Rare sexual activity raises your risk of having a heart attack."

Common, frequent exercise of any kind protects you from heart problems, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, but sporadic exertion doesn't. People unaccustomed to physical activity have a higher risk of heart attack or death in the immediate hours following exertion (including sex). Overall, people who engage in episodic sexual activity have a 2.7 times higher heart attack risk (though the risk is very small, the correlation is there).

Blue Monday!!

"Humor helps you solve problems more effectively."

Neuroscientists observing the ability of subjects to solve word problems found that people were most likely to suddenly come up with answers if they were amused (having just watched a comedy routine). Study author Mark Beeman suggested that levity allows the brain to make more remote connections than it otherwise would, which helps us arrive at those moments of insight. While imaging the brains of subjects who were preparing to solve puzzles, his study also noted that the most successful subject's brains exhibited a state of positivity.

Dance dance dance!!!!!!

Approximately $25 million is spent each year on lap dances in Las Vegas.

True or false!

"Over a quarter of single men claim to have had a threesome. "

According to an ABC News survey, 28% of single men say they've had sex in a threesome (twice the rate of American adults in general, among whom 14% make the same claim). Slightly more single men over the age of 30 say they've paid for sex (30%). In the same survey, 57% of respondents say they've had sex outdoors or in a public place. Five percent of male respondents claimed to have had 99 or more sexual partners.

We are all going to die, so dont waste your time!

"Optimists die younger."

Researchers for the Longevity Project, which has been conducted continuously since 1921, started off studying 1,500 children and eventually concluded that the most cheerful kids had shorter lives overall than those who were less cheerful. A likely explanation is that cheerful people are more likely to take potentially life-shortening risks. Howard Friedman, the leader of the study's research teams, explained that whimsical optimism "can lead one to be careless about things that are important to health and long life," especially when compared to the lifelong behaviors of someone more cautious and reserved.

GO see the world!

"People who watch more television are less happy overall."

The 30-year General Social Survey concluded that happier people tend to be socially active, and that unhappier people tend to watch TV (the actual act of watching TV was identified as pleasurable and positive in the short term, but correlated with unhappiness in the long term). The contradiction between the short-term and long-term effects of TV could have to do with the way it influences a person's worldview. Before his death in 2005, communications theorist George Gerbner argued that television gives people a false image of the world -- that its sensationalism makes people unconsciously believe, and therefore act, as though the world is worse than it actually is. He called this "Mean World Syndrome."

HEADS or TAILS?

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

Waiting for the weekend!!

The G in 'g-string' stand for groin.

"Hear Hear"

Having a Bad Job Is Worse than No Job For Mental Health

Given that a paid position gives workers purpose and a structured role, researchers had long thought that having any job would make a person happier than being unemployed. That turns out to be true if you move into a high-quality job — but taking a bad job is detrimental to mental health

Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/03/15/study-having-a-bad-job-is-worse-than-no-job-for-mental-health/#ixzz1Go7VCA1C

To do or not do!!

Having sex can make a woman look younger and more attractive.





Why? The experts agree: When a woman has sex, she produces amounts of the hormone estrogen, which gives a shine to the hair and a smoothness to the skin. Increased blood flow means a flush of the cheek and even a pout of the lips. And because sex also increases the production of collagen, having sex can ward off age spots and sagging. Some even call sex the real fountain of youth.

Stand up straight.

"Posture influences how qualified you consider yourself."

An Ohio State study told respondents that they'd be participating in two studies, one for the arts school and one for the business school. The arts study, they were told, gauged posture's influence on other activities. They were then seated upright, slouching forward or slouching dramatically downward, as they participated in a business study on professional performance. Students sitting up straight were much more confident about their own self-analyses while students in the slumped-over position seemed unconvinced by their own thoughts, and their self-analyses were insincere and doubtful.

Can you raed tihs?

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Suit up for the weekend...

"Women are attracted to men in red."

In a cross-cultural study, researchers at the University of Rochester and other international universities showed men and women images of a man wearing red, gray, green and blue shirts. The the man in the images was always exactly the same: the color of his shirt was digitally altered. But the study found that - in all the cultures studied (Germany, the U.S., the U.K., and China) - women universally equated red with higher status and attractiveness. Men asked to judge the attractiveness of the pictured man did not discern a difference between the colors.

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No need to swallow!!

 A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

I wanna be a billionaire.

"Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire"

Play hard!

"Playing hard to get actually does work."

Harvard and UVA researchers found that women who do not know whether a man is interested in them or not become more interested. The researchers showed college-aged women fake Facebook profiles of attractive men who had allegedly viewed the subjects' own Facebook profiles. The subjects were then told that the men had given them high ratings, were told that they'd given average ratings, or were told nothing at all. The women were more interested when they were told nothing at all. "Uncertainty increases thoughts about the uncertain situation," study author Erin Whitchurch explained. People can't help their curiosity, "but rather than recognize it's because of the uncertainty, they assume it is because they must be attracted to the person."

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Let´s eat!!

"Men have more direct neurological control over their hunger than women do."

A brain-imaging study conducted at the Brookhaven National Laboratory demonstrated that men are uniquely able to inhibit the brain's response to food when hungry. Subjects in the experiment were alternatively instructed to try to inhibit their response to food, and given no instructions. When presented with their favorite foods, men and women trying to suppress their hunger both claimed to be less hungry, but only men exhibited any actual changes in the regions of the brain activated by hunger and eating.

What a way to start the day!!

There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats

1-2-3...

The shortest war on record was fought between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes

it´s all in the eyes...

"Jellyfish have many eyes but no brains."

Cubozoa (box jellyfish) are largely known for an extremely venomous and often fatal sting, but equally unusual is the fact that they have true eyes, with a developed structure similar to the eyes of humans (including a cornea, retina and iris). All told, they have three different types of eyes, with 24 eyes in total, but no brain -- merely a nervous system that processes the visual information relayed by the various eyes.

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Cheers!

10 percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

Weekend anxiety?

"Men with deeper voices tend to have more children."

A study of the Hadza people in Tanzania found higher reproductive success and more children overall among men with deeper voices compared to men with high-pitched voices. Researchers have suspected that deeper voices are more attractive to women, but they selected the Hadza because their lack of birth control methods allows for a more direct link between measurable vocal pitch and number of children. Anthropologists suggest that either increased testosterone or the perception that deeper-voiced men are better providers could explain the findings.

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Time to wake up!!

"Too much sleep is deadlier than not enough."

Sleeping fewer than six hours a night -- and over seven and a half hours a night -- can often be indicative of illnesses or even the cause of health problems. Researchers from British and Italian universities analyzed studies that covered more than one million people and found that those who slept fewer than six hours a night were 12% more likely to die before 65, but those who slept more than nine hours were 30% more likely to die prematurely.

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Up up and away...

"Doritos once paid a research facility to broadcast an ad into space."

Over a six-hour period in 2008, a Doritos advertisement was broadcast into space by the EISCAT Scientific Association, an international research organization based in Scandinavia. The high-powered radars directed the ad toward a star within a habitable zone that could theoretically support life in the distant Ursa Major constellation. The director of EISCAT conceded that since the ad was being sent as a binary MPEG file, it was rather unlikely to be decoded by extraterrestrial life, but he did defend the benefit to the institution -- pointing out that funding, even from commercial sources, still gets research done.

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Hands off!!

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation

Sustainability..

Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.

Thank god for e-mails..

"By licking a postage stamp, you will pick up a nutritional content of around six calories."

According to the British Royal Mail, the nutritional content of a single adhesive stamp is 5.9 calories -- although presumably this figure is the caloric content of all the lickable adhesive on the entire surface of the stamp, and therefore a person's actual caloric consumption would be lower (which may explain the far lower U.S. Postal Service estimate of one-tenth of a calorie). The caloric content comes from the sugars present in the wood-based adhesive gum on these stamps, although they have become far less prevalent with the advent of self-adhesive stamps.

To Beer or not to Beer!!

"Beer keeps you younger, but may give you cancer."

There are notable health benefits associated with a moderate level of beer consumption: it raises HDL ("good cholesterol"), helps prevent cardiovascular disease, decreases the likelihood of dementia, and in general counteracts some of the risks of aging. Of course, all of this only applies when people drink in moderation (fewer than five drinks when one indulges; one to six beverages over the course of a week). However, averaging a drink a day also increases your risk for several types of cancer, including lung, liver, stomach, and prostate cancer.

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Hmmm..

Is bottled water worth it? 'Evian' spelled backwards is 'naive 

Don’t Matter If You’re Black Or White.

Black Whales are born white.

Suprise!!

Actor Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple!

Happy valentine!!

The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of heart.

Tic-tac!!!

There are 86,400 seconds in a day.

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"Many of the top Google search terms for 2010 were people searching for the Facebook login page."

The Google Zeitgeist top rising terms of 2010 were "iPad" (at No. 1) and "justin bieber" (at No. 2), but immediately thereafter were "fb," "facebook en espanol," and "www.facebook.com." Also in the top 10 were "facebook login" and "face" (the first result for which is also Facebook). In a bizarre incident early last year, an article entitled "Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login" was posted by a website called ReadWriteWeb and briefly appeared first in the Google results for "facebook login" -- whereupon thousands of Googlers arrived at the article's comments section and tried confusedly to log into what they assumed was a new Facebook layout.

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PAIN = LOVE..

"Scars are attractive to women looking for a fling."

Studies at the Universities of Liverpool and Stirling expected to find that facial scarring was generally perceived as unattractive in Western cultures; instead, they found that women find it an admirable trait in short-term relationships -- and even an indicator of masculinity and bravery. A lack of scarring did not, however, deter women in search of a long-term, nurturing relationship. Men found women with and without scars to be equally desirable in both scenarios

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If i had a dollar for every one of them!!

There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

oohh SNAP!!

"Approximately one-third of the population can't snap their fingers."


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loosen up!!!

Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.

Inspiration

It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.

Speak up, save the environment!!

"If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee."

KISS MORE!

¨People are more likely to remember their first kisses than their first sexual experiences.¨

Research scientist Sheril Kirshenbaum, author of The Science of Kissing, writes that kissing's influence on brain chemistry is so significant that relevant kisses remain most people's most outstanding memories. According to Kirshenbaum, psychologist John Bohannon surveyed 500 respondents to determine their most significant life experiences, and nothing, "not even the subjects' loss of virginity," was as memorable as a first kiss.

Take off your shoes!!

"The average shoe carries over 420,000 bacteria."

If you ever needed a reason to remove your shoes when entering your house, this might be it, as the outer area of the average shoe -- especially the sole but elsewhere on the shoe as well -- carries with it an enormous population of bacteria.

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""Happy Birthday"

"Happy Birthday To You" is the most recognizable English-language song in the world."

According to Guinness World Records, "Happy Birthday" takes the top spot as the most recognizable song in English, just ahead of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow." The song dates back to 1893, when its melody was written by sisters Patty and Mildred Hill, originally to the lyrics "Good Morning to All." The sisters were not initially credited with inventing the song, and its disputed copyright now (probably) resides with Time-Warner, but the Hills were posthumously inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame.

Start of something new...

With this blog I will try and teach you funfacts that you can use when talking to your girlfriend,teacher or maybe dad, so stay tuned, and  learn something new...


The first funfact will be:

"It is possible to be allergic to water."

Though not an allergy in the strictest sense, aquagenic urticaria acts -- in most respects -- like typical allergies in that it involves skin hives, itchiness, pain, and other adverse reactions when the victim comes into contact with a particular substance. Unusually, though, the allergen in this case is ordinary water, even a person's own tears. Aquagenic urticaria is extremely rare (with only about 30 reported cases) and untreatable: sufferers generally just have to dramatically limit their contact with water and drink only beverages that don't cause a reaction.