Facts that will scare the shit out of you (Part 3)

Facts that will scare the shit out of you (Part 3)

The following facts come from a book called "1,001 facts that will scare the shit out of you".
This is a book of scary facts, and the more you read, the more afraid you are likely to be. But if forewarned is forearmed, then the more you know, the safer you'll feel, even if it's a false sense of security since you can't do a thing about most of what you read here. But who cares, as long as you feel better?

Besides you will get a somewhat different perspective of life.

FACT: Multimillionaire David Pizer has arranged to freeze his body in liquid nitrogen when he dies in hopes of being brought back to life someday.

   Cryonics (from Greek kryos- meaning icy cold) is the low-temperature preservation of humans and animals who can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine, with the hope that healing and resuscitation may be possible in the future.

FACT: In 2006, a forty-one-year-old British woman married what she called "the love of my life": a male dolphin names Cindy. The woman had met Cindy fifteen years before and sait it was "love at first sight."

FACT: To fight loneliness, one Navy wife in Georgia purchased a mannequin dressed like a sailor in 2005 to stand in for her husband, who was serving at sea. The woman takes the mannequin to dinner, movies, and shopping.

FACT: The Bible is the most shoplifted book.

                                                                    At least the right people are getting it.

FACT: If you sneeze hard enough, you can fracture a rib. But try to suppress a sneeze and you might rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and drop dead.

FACT: The acid in your stomach is so powerful that it can dissolve a razor blade in less than a week.

                                                            You should still be careful when eating them, though.

FACT: You can find 20 million microscopic animals living on a square inch of human skin.

FACT: There are over 700 species of bacteria that thrive in the thirty-three square inches of the average mouth, making it the most unsanitary part of your entire body.

FACT: Less sleep disturbs normal metabolism which contributes to obesity, diabetes, and cardio-vascular disease. People who averaged just five hours of sleep a night also showed a higher level of ghrelin, a hormone the stomach releases to signal hunger.

FACT: Your body produces enough saliva during your lifetime to fill two swimming pools.

                         Luckily, most swimming pools are already filled with saliva, so yours isn't needed.

FACT: The average human loses 85,000 brain cells each day, but only regenerates 50 new ones.

FACT: It is illegal for an unmarried woman to parachute in Florida on Sundays; violators can be arrested. 

           As they should, From that altitude, Florida looks like a giant penis, and no unmarried  

                                                     woman should be looking at that, especially on the Lord's day.

FACT: Vermont women must get written permission from their husbands before they get false teeth.

FACT: In Britain, placing a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside down is considered treason.

FACT: Masturbation is an offense punishable by decapitation in Indonesia.

FACT: Male doctors in Bahrain are not legally permitted to look directly at a woman's genitals: they may only examine them with a mirror.

FACT: In Lebanon, men are permitted to have sexual intercourse with an animal, but only if it is a female. Sex with a male animal is punishable by death.

The End.