Wierd Facts!!!

If lips take on a blueish hue, that is more serious and could be the result of the blood not getting enough oxygen due to a heart or lung problem.

There are 70,000 Different types of soil in the U.S.

1 Tablespoon of soil has more organisms in it than there are people on earth.

It takes 500 years it takes to form one inch of topsoil.

In the middle of 19th century baseball umpires wore top hats during the game.

White tall chef hats traditionally have 100 pleats to represent hundreds of ways an egg can be prepared.

It is said that when John Hetherington wore one of the first top hats in 1797 in the streets, he was arrested for scaring the people.

There are no muscles in your fingers.

Nails tend to grow at a faster rate during the summertime, and they typically grow faster on a person's dominant hand.

On average, women tend to have longer index fingers and men tend to have longer ring fingers.

The first vision aid was invented around 1000 AD.

Wearable eyeglasses can be traced back to Italy around 1284.

According to studies and research all around the world, 50% of the world’s population may need to wear some form of glasses or corrective lenses.

Some hospitals keep a supply of beer for alcoholics in case they go through withdrawal (which can be fatal). Some hospitals even have beer cans with prescription labels.

For one day in 1940, a section of a hospital in Ottawa, Canada became international territory so that a Dutch Princess could be born a full Dutch citizen (a requirement to be a Dutch Princess). Every year the Netherlands sends Canada a gift of tulips to show their gratitude.

In 2009, a retired policeman called Geraint Woolford was admitted to Abergale Hospital in north Wales and ended up next to another retired policeman called Geraint Woolford. The men weren’t related, had never met and were the only two people in the UK called Geraint Woolford.

If you see the word “WOW” on a gravestone, you have found the burial place of a former member of the Woodmen of the World, an American Fraternal Insurance Company that was said to have given widows $100 and a free gravestone if the company logo was put on the stone.

An east-west orientation for gravestones is the most common throughout the world. Early American settlers wanted their feet pointing east and their heads toward the west, so they were ready to rise up and face the sun of a new day when they hoped to be reborn.

Beginning in the 1840s, obelisk-shaped stones began appearing in American graveyards, just as there was a renewed interest in Egyptian culture.

In a bullfight the matador has only 15 minutes to kill the bull timed from the moment of the first pass.