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morning breath

morning breath is caused by millions of bactria in your mouth feeding off dead cells

There are over 400 known animals that engage in homosexual practices
Male lions will engage in same sex practices until they encounter a mixed pride
Many cheetah brotherhoods only allow male members
Male Orang Utans can retract their penises to create a cavity for other males to penetrate
Rhesus Macaques and the Big Horn Sheep are one of the few animals that has anal sex
River dolphines are known to insert their penis into the blowhole of another male’s head

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year
People who become blind after birth can see pictures in their dreams. People who are born blind dream in terms of smell, touch, sounds and emotion
People who are snoring are not dreaming
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote “Doctor Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde” after dreaming of the story
Frankenstein was a character created from a dream
The characters in your dreams are all people you have met in the past
1 in 10 people dream in black and white
External factors influence your dreams. If your bladder is full, some people dream of going to the toilet
Animals can have dreams

Your brain uses less power than a mini flashlight, about 12 watts. Know more about this fact
The body can function without a brain. And anyone who has walked around the city on a Saturday night will know what I mean. (someone else said this)
Rice and other grains contain chemicals that can enhance brain function
Your brain is almost 80% water
Everyday, the human brain generates more electrical impulses than all the telephone wires in the world put together
Your brain weighs less than your skin

When you are born, your umbilicus is the best source of stem cells that can be used to generate every single cell in your body. If not harvested immediately, this source is lost forever

Interestingly, there is a theory that contagious yawning can be used to measure someone’s ability to appreciate other people’s mental states (empathy). So autistic people do not yawn in response to videos of people yawning
Yawning is also thought to be a mechanism to wake the brain up when it requires it. Read the facts here

For most people, their visual short term memory holds a total of 4 images
The sense of smell is most linked to memory
A report in the Jan 2007 issue of Cognition reported that you are more likely to remember events when assuming a body position similar to that struck during the event

Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they’ve been removed