Trivia Tidbits

I was reading some facinating facts in a Healthy Utah Magazine and I wanted to post a few of my favorites. Some of them will blow your mind.
1- Motorists chatting on cell phones are more impaired than drunk drivers with blood-alcohol levels above .08 percent. 2- Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour. 3- A cup of coffee contains 1,000 chemicals; of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats. 4- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. 5- During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 poinds of food - about the weight of 6 elephants. 6- People who struggle handling financial stress are twice as likely to develop severe gum disease. 7- You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening. 8- Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds have it best, they laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15-100 times a day. 9- The average american chows on McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life. 10- There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world. 11- According to the U.S. FDA standards, 1 cup of orange juice is allowed to contain 10 fruit fly eggs...but only 2 maggots. 12- When you sneeze, your body is flushing out infected cells. An average sneeze can spread over 100,000 virus cells up to 30 feet. 13- People suffering from a cold are contagious from 2 days before they show symptoms to up to 4 dyas afterwords. 14- In 1972, a group of scientists reported that you could cure the common cold by freezing the big toe. 15- One single bacteria cell can multiply into over 8 million cells in less than 24 hours.