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Every day, the heart creates enough energy to drive a truck 20 miles. In a lifetime, that is equivalent to driving to the moon and back.

Researchers have found a direct relationship between depression and the thickening of the lining of the carotid artery in women, a major risk factor for stroke.

A kitchen faucet would need to be turned on all the way for at least 45 years to equal the amount of blood pumped by the heart in an average lifetime.

The first mental asylum in the U.S opened in 1773 in Williamsburg, Virginia.

During an average lifetime, the heart will pump nearly 1.5 million gallons of blood—enough to fill 200 train tank cars.

A depressed woman is more likely to give birth early, increasing health risks for both the woman and the baby. Between 14 and 23% of pregnant women experience some sort of depressive disorder.

Early Egyptians believed that the heart and other major organs had wills of their own and would move around inside the body.

Overweight children feel more lonely and anxious than their normal-weight peers as early as kindergarten. Both boys and girls who felt depressed in kindergarten got worse over time.

A woman’s heart typically beats faster than a man’s. The heart of an average man beats approximately 70 times a minute, whereas the average woman has a heart rate of 78 per minute.

Depression may occur in as many as 1 in 33 children and 1 in 8 teenagers in the United States. Once a child or teenage has an episode of depression, he or she has a greater than 50% chance of experiencing another episode in the next five years.

French physician Rene Laennec (1781-1826) invented the stethoscope when he felt it was inappropriate to place his ear on his large-buxomed female patients' chests.

Types of depression include major depression, dysthymia, adjustment disorders, and bipolar disorders. Within each of these main categories are several subtypes.

A newborn baby has about one cup of blood in circulation. An adult human has about four to five quarts which the heart pumps to all the tissues and to and from the lungs in about one minute while beating 75 times.

in oklahoma (land-locked state), it is illegal to hunt whales

Though weighing only 11 ounces on average, a healthy heart pumps 2,000 gallons of blood through 60,000 miles of blood vessels each day.

Viagra, the well-known blue pill designed to help with erectile dysfunction, made $411 million in profits within the first three months of its release in 1998 before going on to make $1.8 billion in 2003.

In the U.S. alone, 18 billion diapers are thrown out a year.

a mandolin can have either 8 or 12 strings. and i respect "Horrow Show." for posting so much random knowledge. kudos to you.

The creature with the largest sperm is the fruit fly. It's sperm is about 2 and a half inches long. Or so I'm told. I don't know how that works.

Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, just three days before the Stratford parish register recorded an outbreak of the plague.

On free dating sites, at least 10% of new accounts are from scammers.

No one knows Albert Einstein's final words because the only person with him when he died was a nurse who didn't understand German.

The urge to fall in love is, like sex and hunger, a primitive, biological drive.

“X”s at the end of a correspondence letter represent the contact of the lips during a kiss.

Kissing is good for teeth. The anticipation of a kiss increases the flow of saliva to the mouth, giving the teeth a plaque-dispersing bath.

Getting dumped often leads to “frustration attraction,” which causes an individual to love the one who dumped him or her even more.

Space Monkey:

No one knows Albert Einstein's final words because the only person with him when he died was a nurse who didn't understand German.

that is incredibly depressing!

before calculators, ancient mathematicians used a device called an abacus. it had several rows of beads that could be moved left or right. each row represents a decimal place. there are many different kinds from many different countries and cultures.

According to psychologists, while someone is high on cocaine, the effects are very similar to the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia

Due to women typically being more empathetic they have a higher chance of suffering from an anxiety and depressive diorders.

Girl infants in hospital nurseries are more likely than boys to experience contagion crying or begining to cry simply because they hear another baby cry.

In America, someone attempts suicide once every minute, and someone completes a suicide once every 17 minutes. Throughout the world, approximately 2,000 people kill themselves each day.

In China, someone takes his or her own life on average every two minutes. China accounts for nearly a quarter of the global total of suicides with between 250,000 and 300,000 suicides a year.

Five to 10% of suicides take place in mental hospitals.

Caucasians tend to have higher suicide rates than African Americans.

Hanging is the leading method of suicide worldwide.

Although women attempt suicide about three times more often than men, men complete suicide about three times more often than women.

There is increasing evidence that individuals with a family history of suicide are more vulnerable to becoming victims of suicide themselves.

The mouth is full of bacteria. When two people kiss, they exchange between 10 million and 1 billion bacteria.

The Spanish flu killed more Americans in one year than the combined total who died in battle during WWI, WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

The average adult male has about 50% more muscle mass and 50% less body fat than the average adult female.

the characters in spongebob square pants are supposed to represent the 7 deadly sins .

mr.krabs : greed
gary : gluttony
plankton : envy
sandy : pride
squidward : wrath
patrick : sloth
spongebob : lust

Plaid Stripes:

spongebob : lust

how is spongebob lust?

the_black_parader:

Plaid Stripes:

spongebob : lust

how is spongebob lust?

lmao

The last time Marilyn Monroe appeared in a bikini on screen was in the 1962 film Something's Got to Give.

Sugar and cocoa are often added to cigarettes, a fact many diabetic smokers are unaware of.