Yawning is contagious – even thinking about yawning is enough. After reading this fact, there is a 50% chance you will yawn. Though it is said that Yawning is often connected to sleepiness.Yawning is not just a human response. Most animals yawn as it provides relaxation too.Technically, a yawning is a reflex widening of the mouth which is followed by the the process of deep inhalation and slow exhalation of oxygen . It is an involuntary reflex action controlled by the spinal and nerve centers of our body.A yawn lasts about six seconds.

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You’re more likely to die on your way to buy a lottery ticket than you are to actually win the lottery. Your actual odds of winning the lottery depend on where you play, but single state lotteries usually have odds of about 18 million to 1 while multiple state lotteries have odds as high as 120 million to 1. http://www.savingadvice.com/forums/other/5559-probability-winning-lottery-dont-waste-your-money.html

Four is the only number that has the same amount of letters as its actual value.

There are 92 cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.

Squid have three hearts.

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If the ice sheets in Antarctica would melt, the oceans around the world would rise up by 60 – 65 meters (200 – 210ft) – EVERYWHERE ! Other Antarctica facts – 1. Only 0.4% of Antarctica is not covered in ice. 2. It is the best place in the world to find METEORITES ! 3. The Antarctic ice cap has 29 million cubic kilometers of ice.

Scientists estimate that sleep lost due to daylight saving time reduces the average lifespan by nearly two full months.

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The term “bank teller” originated in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, when banks began hiring low-paid workers to “tell” throngs of frantic depositors that their money was gone.

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