FASCINATING FACTS FOR TODAY



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- Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour. About 1.5pounds a year. By 70years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin

- Damascus, Syria was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in753BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.

- The Oldest living thing in existence is not a giant redwood, but a bristle cone pine in the white mountains of california, dated to be 4,600years old.

-The English word, 'soup', comes from the middle ages word, 'sop', which means a slice of bread over which roast dripping were poured. The first archeological evidence of soup being consumed dates back to 6000BC, with the main ingredient being hippopotamus bones.

- A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100 of second.

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