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FACT-OF-THE-DAY ARCHIVE
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
- Marcus Aurelius

NOV 2015


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11/1/15     Brains in love and brains in lust are not identical. Erotic photos activate the hypothalamus (which controls hunger and thirst) and the amygdala (arousal) areas of the brain. Love activates areas of the brain with a high concentration of receptors for dopamine (associated with euphoria, craving, and addiction) and its relative, norepinephrine. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/2/15     In 2003, there were approximately 42 million abortions per year worldwide, or 115,000 daily. This was a drop from 46 million in 1995. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/3/15     On average, someone in the U.S. is killed by a drunk driver every 40 minutes. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/4/15     Although there are about 400 different types of sharks, fewer than 20% of them are larger than adult humans. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/5/15     China is often considered the longest continuous civilization, with some historians marking 6000 B.C. as the dawn of Chinese civilization. It also has the world's longest continuously used written language. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/6/15     A Harvard study showed that eating one serving of cooked oatmeal two to four times a week was linked to a 16% reduction in the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. One serving five or six times a week was linked to a 39% reduction in risk. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/7/15     Approximately 10-15% of anorexics or bulimics are male. White males are the least likely to try to control their weight; Latino males are the most likely. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/8/15     The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that diabetes has reached epidemic proportions and expects that 80% of all new cases of diabetes will appear in developing countries by 2025. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/9/15     Egyptians knew the existence of Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter. They had names for them such as Sebequ, a god associated with Seth, (Mercury), "god of the morning (Venus), "bull of the sky" (Saturn), "Horus the red" or "Horus of the horizon" (Mars), and "Horus who limits the Two Lands" (Jupiter). - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/10/15     When a person diets or deprives himself of food, the neurons in the brain that induce hunger start eating themselves. This "cannibalism" sparks a hunger signal to prompt eating. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/11/15     In 2014, there were 19.3 million veterans the United States. - Provided by American Fact Finder
11/12/15     While liver is an iron-rich food, it is also high in cholesterol. In fact, the most concentrated levels of cholesterol in animal meats are found in organ meats like the liver. Three ounces of cooked liver contains 331 mg. of cholesterol. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/13/15     When an enormous earthquake hit Lisbon in 1755, the city's terrified citizens rushed to the shore for safety. They were amazed to see seawater rushing away from the shore. Minutes later, a tsunami arrived. Ninety thousand residents were killed. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/14/15     When the Roman Empire began to fall, inflation dramatically increased. Between A.D. 200 - 280, the price of a bale of wheat rose from 16 to 120,000 drachmas. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/15/15     Less than 1% of the world's population can be considered truly ambidextrous. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/16/15     Hitler designed the Nazi flag. Red stood for the social idea of Nazism, white for nationalism, and the black swastika for the struggle of the Aryan man. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/17/15     The symbol of the United Russia Party is a bear. In fact, bears have traditionally not only been a symbol of pride and power in Russia, but have also been common images in fairy tales and myth. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/18/15     Britain's King Edgar imposed an annual tax of 300 wolf skins on Wales. The Welsh wolf population was quickly exterminated. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/19/15     The FBI estimates that over 100,000 children and young women are trafficked in America today. They range in age from nine to 19, with the average being age 11. Many victims are not just runaways or abandoned, but are from "good" families who are coerced by clever traffickers. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/20/15     Some psychologists argue that we fall in love with someone who is similar to the parent with whom we have unresolved childhood issues, unaware we are seeking to resolve this childhood relationship in adulthood. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/21/15     Twenty-eight hyperinflations occurred in the 20th century, with twenty happening after 1980. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/22/15     The deadliest natural disaster in the U.S. was the Galveston hurricane of 1900, which killed between 8,000-12,000 people. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/23/15     Chronic stress increases cytokines, which produce inflammation. Exposure to constant inflammation can damage arteries and other organs. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/24/15     At its height, Greek colonization reached as far as Russia and France to the west and Turkey to the east. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/25/15     Dogs can see in color, though they most likely see colors similar to a color-blind human. They can see better when the light is low. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/26/15     There are 24.4 million U.S. residents of English ancestry as of 2014. Some could very well be descendants of the Plymouth colonists who participated in the autumn feast that is widely believed to be one of the first Thanksgivings - especially the 655,000 living in Massachusetts.- Provided by U.S. Census Bureau
11/27/15     There are nearly 300,000 different species of plants currently living on Earth. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/28/15     Wealthy people would sacrifice animals at the temples in ancient Greece. Poor people who couldn't afford live animals offered pastry ones instead. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/29/15     In Iraq, as it is in many predominately Muslim countries, it is offensive to use one's left hand while eating because the left hand is considered to be unclean. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
11/30/15     The last battle fought at the Great Wall of China was in 1938 during the Sino-Japanese War, which was between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. Bullet marks can still be seen in the Wall at Gubeikou. - Provided by RandomHistory.com


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