In the spirit of C.A.N.I. (Continuous And Never-ending Improvement), here are this week’s new facts—one for each day of your coming week. Pass them on to others to keep the spirit alive or invite your friends and family to visit our blog where they can also view previous entries.
- 15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second!
- The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever home run and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever home run were thrown by the same man!
- Exposure to noise at night can suppress immune function even if the sleeper doesn’t wake. Unfamiliar noise, and noise during the first and last two hours of sleep, has the greatest disruptive effect on the sleep cycle.
- The “natural alarm clock” which enables some people to wake up more or less when they want to is caused by a burst of the stress hormone adrenocorticotropin. Researchers say this reflects an unconscious anticipation of the stress of waking up.
- Men commit suicide three times more frequently than women do. But women attempt suicide two to three times more often than men.
- Midgets and dwarfs almost always have normal-sized children, even if both parents are midgets or dwarfs.
- Tickets for the first Super Bowl, in 1967, were $12 each, and the game at the Los Angeles Coliseum did not sell out. Super Bowl tickets this year were being auctioned online at a starting price of $2,700.
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