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Life Without Black People
A very humorous and revealing story is told about a group of white people
who were fed up with African Americans, so they joined together and wished
themselves away . They passed through a deep dark tunnel and emerged in sort of a twilight zone where there is an America without black people .
At first these white people breathed a sigh of relief .
At last, they said, No more crime, drugs, violence and welfare .
All of the blacks have gone! Then suddenly, reality set in . The ‘NEW
AMERICA ‘ is not America at all-only a barren land .
Top Myths About Safe Sex and Sexual Health
Web of confusion
By Amanda MacMillan
You know the best place to get information about your sexual health is from your doctor, but for whatever reason—convenience, privacy, or anxiety and urgency—you may one day find yourself searching the Internet for answers to intimate and important questions.
It’s great to learn more about your body and your choices, but explore those search results with caution: A recent Stanford University study on adolescent reproductive health found that health websites are often riddled with errors, omissions, and outdated advice, and that it’s not always easy to find the truth about common myths believed by many teenagers (and probably many adults as well!).
We spoke with Dr. Sophia Yen, MD, lead researcher of the study and adolescent medicine specialist at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., to get the facts behind these top sexual health misconceptions.
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Things to Know. . .
1. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane.
2. Kids in the back seat cause accidents; accidents in the back seat cause kids.
3. It’s not the pace of life that concerns me, it’s the sudden stop at the end.
Fast Facts in Statistics
Statistics
In 1750 there were about 800 million people in the world. In 1850 there were a billion more, and by 1950, another billion. Then it took just 50 years to double to 6 billion.
Half the world’s population earns about 5% of the world’s wealth.
There are more than 600 million telephone lines, yet almost half the world’s population has never made a phone call on a land line. However, more than half the world’s population has made a cell phone call. There are more than 2 billion cell phones in use.
Fast Facts on Money
Money
The word millionaire was first used by Benjamin Disraeli in his 1826 novel Vivian Grey.
If you stack one million US$1 bills, it would be 110m (361 ft) high and weight exactly 1 ton.
A million dollars’ worth of $100 bills weighs only 10 kg (22 lb).
One million dollars’ worth of once-cent coins (100 million coins) weigh 246 tons.
Fast Facts About Your Body
Hiccups happen when the diaphragm, the muscle that controls our breathing, becomes irritated and start to spasm and contract uncontrollably. With each contraction, air is pulled into the lungs very quickly, passes through the voice box, and then the epiglottis closes behind the rush of air, shaking the vocal chords, causing the “hic” sound. The irritation can be caused by rapid eating, emotional stress and even some diseases. The best cure? Breathing into a paper bag. This calms the diaphragm by increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in your bloodstream.
The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot.
Your heart beats 101,000 times a day. During your lifetime it will beat about 3 billion times and pump about 400 million litres (800 million pints) of blood.
It is impossible to lick your elbow. Well, for most people… but a few can.
Your mouth produces 1 litre (1.8 pints) of saliva a day.
On average, people can hold their breath for about one minute. The world record is 15 minutes 2 seconds, by Tom Sietas..
The human head contains 22 bones. More on the head and brains
On average, you breathe 23,000 times a day.
Some popular products took 100 years to get to the marketplace
Some popular products took 100 years to get to the marketplace
In 1834, Charles Babbage (1792-1871) designed the Analytical Engine, the precursor of the computer. He was unable to obtain funding for it from the government, who thought it would be worthless.
The first fax process was patented in 1843 by Alexander Bain, but fax machines went into service only in 1964. In 1888, Frank Sprague completed an electric railway, but electric locomotives were introduced only in 1895. Eugene Ely landed a plane on a boat in 1911, but aircraft carriers weren’t perfected for another 20 years.