More Weird Random and Useless Facts
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02/09/2012
It’s possible to die of a broken heart. According to recent studies, it’s possible to die from heart failure after an intense emotional event! It’s called Stress Cardiomyopathy. It happens when emotional events such as death or divorce cause adrenaline levels in the body to rise to such high levels for days on end that the heart begins to die. Stress hormones are so high that they begin to “stun” the heart into failure. The occurrence was often misdiagnosed as a heart attack. Researchers found that, even though symptoms are similar, they are slightly different conditions. Because of the massive amounts of continuous adrenaline, or epinephrine, from emotional events the body can experience chest pain, fluid in the lungs, shortness of breath and even heart failure.
There are white alligators. These alligators are extremely rare and there are only twelve in the entire world! They are often mistaken for albino, but this isn’t the case.
What’s the world’s fattest country? Not America. The majority of people would automatically assume that America is has the world’s highest obesity rates, but in fact it ranks ninth with 74.1% of people being overweight. What’s number one? It’s Narau with a whopping 94.5% of its adult population being overweight! Scientists attribute the raising obesity rates to urbanization and bad eating habits.
You will walk an average of three times around the equator in your lifetime.
The Guinness Book of Records holds a world record. As ironic as it sounds, the Guinness Book of Records holds a world record best-selling copyrighted book series of all time.
William Falik goes around donating money and buying the naming rights for bathrooms. This man, who made his fortune as a lawyer and real estate developer has a great sense of humor. A new building in Harvard has a bathroom named after him: the "Falik Men's Room." This isn't the only one he has sponsored. The Berkeley Repertory’s Roda Theater has a room named "the Falik Gentlemen’s Lounge.".
The Eiffel Tower is six inches taller in summer than winter. This is largely due to the fact that steel contracts when it’s cold and expands when it’s hot. Because of the fact that the Eiffel Tower was built using steel means the engineers had to account for the shift that would take place in size.
There are white alligators. These alligators are extremely rare and there are only twelve in the entire world! They are often mistaken for albino, but this isn’t the case.
What’s the world’s fattest country? Not America. The majority of people would automatically assume that America is has the world’s highest obesity rates, but in fact it ranks ninth with 74.1% of people being overweight. What’s number one? It’s Narau with a whopping 94.5% of its adult population being overweight! Scientists attribute the raising obesity rates to urbanization and bad eating habits.
You will walk an average of three times around the equator in your lifetime.
The Guinness Book of Records holds a world record. As ironic as it sounds, the Guinness Book of Records holds a world record best-selling copyrighted book series of all time.
William Falik goes around donating money and buying the naming rights for bathrooms. This man, who made his fortune as a lawyer and real estate developer has a great sense of humor. A new building in Harvard has a bathroom named after him: the "Falik Men's Room." This isn't the only one he has sponsored. The Berkeley Repertory’s Roda Theater has a room named "the Falik Gentlemen’s Lounge.".
The Eiffel Tower is six inches taller in summer than winter. This is largely due to the fact that steel contracts when it’s cold and expands when it’s hot. Because of the fact that the Eiffel Tower was built using steel means the engineers had to account for the shift that would take place in size.
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