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Fun Fact Friday: 10/14/2011

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Are you ready for another week of Fun Fact Friday here at Weigh Your Mind? Let’s get started!

  1. A dragonfly called the globe skinner has the longest migration of any insect—11,000 miles back and forth across the Indian Ocean.
  2. Drivers kill more deer than hunters.
  3. According to the American Society for Microbiology, 90% of women and 75% of men wash their hands after using a public restroom.
  4. Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
  5. Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
  6. When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
  7. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
  8. You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.
  9. The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
  10. The majority of suicides occur on a Monday.
I hope you have enjoyed another week of Fun Fact Friday. Which fact was your favorite? Be sure to let me know in a comment. Happy TGIF!

Enjoying Sweetness The Healthy Way

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Welcome to SurfSweets! Where enjoying sweetness the healthy way becomes a reality.

SurfSweets makes this possible by offering natural and organic candy free of trans fats, artificial flavoring, corn syrup and GMO’s. The candy is sweetened with organic fruit juice and includes Gummy Worms, Gummy Bears, Jelly Beans and Sour Berry Bears. What I also like is that all candies come in 2 different size bags allowing the whole family to enjoy the sweetness.

To get in on the action of enjoying sweetness the healthy way be sure to visit SurfSweets.

Surfs Up!

Have a Great Day!

Jason

 

 

Fun Fact Friday 9/16/2011

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Are you ready for some fun, wacky, and intriguing facts? Then you have come to the right place. It’s Fun Fact Friday again here at Weigh Your Mind so sit back, engage and have fun.

  • The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
  • The temperature of a fart at time of creation is 98.6 degrees fahrenheit.
  • The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less then the normal rate of 20.
  • California has issued at least 6 drivers license to people named Jesus Christ.
  • An iceburg contains more heat than a lit match.
  • Each year, more than 50,000 people are injured by jewelry in the U.S.
  • Coca Cola was originally green.
  • The filming of the move “Titanic” cost most than the Titanic itself!
  • The speed of a typical raindrop is 17 mph.
  • 1 in every 5 Americans has indulged in sex with a colleague at work.

Hope you have enjoyed this weeks fun interesting facts. Which did you like best?

Happy Friday!

Fun Fact Friday – 9/9/2011

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Welcome everyone to another Friday on the blog. You know what that means. It means its Fun Fact Friday time. As promised, I will be listing 10 interesting fun facts on a wide array of subjects. Enjoy!

  1. Did you know that the human body produces its own supply of alcohol naturally on a continous basis, 24 hours a day, seven days a week?
  2. The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles per hour.
  3. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
  4. If your skin is laid flat it will cover an area of 18 square feet.
  5. Termites are the largest producers of farts.
  6. German soldiers, both heterosexual and homosexual, are allowed to have sex with each other.
  7. Rain contains vitamin B12.
  8. Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. It is 10 times more effective than valium.
  9. The average person spends 2 weeks of their life kissing.
  10. Google rents goats to help cut down the amount of weeds and brush at Google HQ.

I hope you have enjoyed another week of Fun Fact Friday. Don’t forget to let me know in a comment which your favorite is. Join me next week for more fun and interesting facts. Enjoy your Friday.

Fun Fact Friday – 9/2/2011

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Welcome to another Fun Fact Friday edition here at Weigh Your Mind. Every Friday, you can expect to come here and find interesting facts on anything from family, science, sex, to life. Pretty much anything that is fun and interesting to learn about. So lets get started.

  • The average social networker goes to social sites five days a week and checks in about four times a day for a total of an hour each day.
  • You lose 26 calories if you kiss for a minute and 260 if you did it for 10 minutes.
  • The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was 34B.
  • It takes between a few minutes and an hour for a cloud to form.
  • Elmer’s Glue-All is the biggest selling glue in America.
  • Butterflies taste with their feet.
  • The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.
  • 96% of people put the peanut butter on first before jelly.
  • The average person uses over 16,000 gallons of water in the lifetime.
  • Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

I hope you have enjoyed this weeks Fun Fact Friday. Be sure to check back next Friday for more fun. Feel free to share this with others and also tell me in a comment which is your favorite fun fact. Until next time, happy blogging.

Fun Fact Friday 8/26/2011

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Its that time again. Yes! Time to get wacky, learn and have fun while exploring some interesting facts. Here we go.

  • 50 years ago Velcro was invented.
  • According to statistics, Australian women are most likely to have sex on the first date.
  • The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
  • Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
  • The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
  • Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  • A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes
  • If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
  • Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

That about sums it up for another weekly edition of Fun Fact Friday. I hope you enjoyed it and had fun all while being engaged and learning. Be sure to leave me a comment telling me which fact is your favorite.

Happy Friday!

Fun Fact Friday – 8/19/2011

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Its that time again where I share interesting, fun and mind blowing facts with you. So sit back, relax and enjoy some Fun Fact Friday. Most importantly, have fun.

  1. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
  2. Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
  3. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
  4. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
  5. Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.
  6. Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
  7. Almonds are members of the peach family.
  8. The dot that appears over the letter “i” is called a tittle
  9. The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.
  10. Men with an active sex life are more likely to live past 80 years.

Hope you have enjoyed another week of Fun Fact Friday. Don’t forget to let me know in a comment which you like the best. Have a great day and until next time, Happy Blogging.

Fun Fact Friday: 8/12/2011

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Happy Friday everyone. As always, every week I am here to share with you the most interesting and fun facts I have found during the week. Sit back, relax and have fun.

  1. A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 mph.
  2. More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.
  3. The speed of a typical raindrop is 17 miles per hour.
  4. It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
  5. The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
  6. The typical person spends about 600 hours having sex between the ages of 20 and 70.
  7. Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
  8. You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
  9. In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town’s books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
  10. The temperature of a fart at time of creation is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
Now it is your turn. Which fact did you find fun or most interesting? Let me know in a comment below. Enjoy your Friday!
~ Jason Houck

The Positive Side of the Battery

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Photobucket Do you enjoy being around someone with a negative or positive charged life? I can almost bet you prefer the positive over the negative. When an individual encompasses negative energy, it’s like a toxic fume is being released into the air around us online and offline. In comparison to someone entailing a negative charge, the positive yields amazing results for us and everyone we come into contact with.

Positive Energy Results

1. We create a pleasant and inviting atmosphere for us and others.

2. Expands our mind to seeing that anything is possible and let’s others know that we believe and are determined.

3. We open the door to seeing growth as a person and a brand. Gives people reason to want to do business with us.

4. We help someone having a bad day. Great way to inspire, uplift and energize someone.

5. Leads to a healthier YOU mentally and physically resulting in a stress free world.

As you can see living a life with a positive charge is powerful, beautiful, healthy and necessary. It is important to live a positive life to ensure we are seeing every opportunity made available. A great way to keep the negative out of our lives is to set boundaries within yourself. Tell yourself daily, “I can do it.” Wear a smile everywhere you go and find humor in difficult situations. Think of negative versus positive as a battery. When negative energy is released, nothing works and it’s dead. The positive side gives us power and energy to see results.

So, which side of the battery do you live on?