• The life-span of a taste bud is 10 days.
• A lack of exercise is now causing as many deaths as smoking across the world.
• People who regularly eat dinner or breakfast in restaurants double their risk of becoming obese.
• Farting helps reduce high blood pressure and is good for your health.
• Laughing 100 times is equivalent to 15 minutes of exercise on a stationary bicycle.
• Sitting for more than three hours a day can cut two years off a person’s life expectancy.
• Over 30% of cancer could be prevented by avoiding tobacco and alcohol, having a healthy diet and physical activity.
• Sleeping less than 7 hours each night reduces your life expectancy.
• Every cigarette you smoke reduces your expected life span by 11 minutes.
• 1 Can of Soda a day increase your chances of getting type 2 diabetes by 22%
• There are more skin cancer cases due to indoor tanning than lung cancer cases due to smoking.
• A Father’s Diet before Conception Plays a Crucial Role in a Child’s Health.
• Breakfast is the most important meal of the day because it feeds your body and mind with the necessary nutrients and energy to function throughout the day. Eating breakfast regularly will also help keep weight off because it gets your metabolism going.
• There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
• During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food — that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
• The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
• Avoid eating a large meal before sleeping to decrease gastroesophageal reflux and weight gain.
• An adult has fewer bones than a baby. We start off life with 350 bones, but because bones fuse together during growth, we end up with only 206 as adults.
• Nose is not as sensitive as a dog’s, but it can remember 50,000 different scents.
• Every square inc­h of skin on the human body has about 32 million bacteria on it, but fortunately, the vast majority of them are harmless.
• Fingernails grow fastest on the hand that you write with and on the longest fingers. On average, nails grow about one-tenth of an inch each month.
• The average human body contains enough fat to make 7 bars of soap.

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Here are interesting facts about the human Memory – if you can remember them!

• Scientific research has shown that the human brain starts remembering things from the womb—memory begins to work 20 weeks after conception.
• Memories has two components—short term and long term.  Most short-term memories only last 20 to 30 seconds.
• Memory is influenced by a variety of factors.  Memory based on what you saw vs. what you hear is called visual and auditory memory.
• The storage capacity of the human brain is virtually limitless.
• Caffeine doesn’t maintain memory performances, it only increases alertness.
• It is believed that an adult can remember twenty to one hundred thousand words.
• Sleep is important to memory.  Although scientists don’t know exactly how it affects the brain, it has been shown that sleep aids storage and retrieval of long-term memories.
• Many people associate memory loss with aging.  However, the memories loss we see the older we get is generally because we tend to exercise our brains less as we age.
• Your memories can associate a scent with a certain event or occurrence.  A smell can trigger the memory in your mind associated with it.  The hippocampus is the part of the brain largely responsible for the formation of new memories and directly interacts with our sense of smell.
• There is such a thing as “false memory”.  Researchers are beginning to understand that the human mind can create, exaggerate, distort, or re-invent a memories after a traumatic experience or something that impacted them greatly.
• The mind must be exercised just like any other muscle in the body.  The harder you think about memories, the more likely you are to remember it accurately.  Thinking will create a stronger link between active neurons.

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• According to the mythological epic Ramayana, Lord Rama and his brother had visited this region, while looking for Rama’s wife, Sita. They visited this region to seek help from Vail and Sugriv (2 monkey brothers), who ruled the region. Due to such mythological references, this place was declared a World Heritage Site.
• While it’s a known fact that the ruins of Hampi are a UNESCO World Heritage Site, we must tell you that the Hampi Monuments, popular for their carvings date back to the 14th Century.

• The name Hampi was derived from the word ‘Pampa,’ which is the old name of Tungabhadra River, on whose Southern banks the city is built.

• The ruins and monuments are spread over an area of 26 square kilometres.

• Vijayanagara’s main coin mint was located in Hampi. The coinage was astonishing with gold, silver and copper coins with pictures of Gods, animals, birds, etc. The ruins of the mint can be seen inside the walled enclosure at the west of the royal enclosure.

• The first historical record of settlement in Hampi dates back to 1 CE.

• The Hazra Rama Temple complex is known for its frescoes from the Hindu religion. It has over a thousand carvings and inscriptions depicting the story of Ramayana.

• The Malyavanta Raghunathaswamy temple here flaunts peculiar motifs of fish and marine creatures.

• The Virupaksha Temple also known as the Pampavathi Temple rises over 120 feet. Apart from the sculptures of Lord Shiva, this temple also contains shrines of the erotica statues Bhuvaneshwari and Pampa.

These are only some interesting facts about Hampi. There’s much more to this heritage site and you
ought to visit the place to learn about the various stories about its history.

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