Fun Facts About Everything & Anything: Vol. #09
  Written By Girly

Did You Know...
More than 1,000 mothers and babies set a new mass breast-feeding in an event aimed at promoting the health benefits of nursing. The 1,135 mothers in Berkeley, the famously liberal university town near San Francisco, broke the Guinness record for "Most Women Breast-feeding Simultaneously" set this week by 767 women in Australia.

Organizers said the event would promote the health benefits of breast-feeding, which research has shown reduces a woman's risk of breast cancer. A recent study in the British medical publication Lancet, for example, calculated that for every year a woman breast-feeds, it cuts her risk of breast cancer by 4.3 percent.

Did You Know...
Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.

Did You Know...
Most men's erections are five and a half to six inches long. Although men's penis sizes tend to vary greatly when they're soft, the smaller ones expand more when erect than the larger ones. So, don't go by your locker-room size 'cause in the bedroom, they're all pretty much the same!

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In India, it's cheaper to have sex with a prostitute than to buy a condom.

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A U.S. News and World Report poll found 50 percent agree that it is better to remain a virgin until you marry, and 39 percent felt it's better to have sex with a few different partners before settling down to marry.

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Every year on Coney Island in NY, Nathan's restaurant hosts a hot-dog competition. This year, it was the restaurant's 87th contest. Surprisingly, a Japanese man called “The Prince”, defended his new title of 50 ˝ hot-dogs within the competition's 12 minute mark. He has been the champion for the last 6 years. Despite the American's size, the Japanese folks have a greater munching technique.

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According to a survey of 129 HIV-positive subjects published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, only 60% of the subjects had told all their sexual partners in the past 6 months of their HIV status. In was recorded that women are more likely to tell than men, as were those with a history of lower number of sex partners.

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It's a complete myth: “Total togetherness is a bliss, and couples ought to spend 100 percent of their time in one and other's company,” says Alexandra Hambright a psychologist at the Family Institute at Northwestern University in Chicago. She adds that basically we are sending a clear message to our spouse, demonstrating that our mate can fulfill all of our needs. This type of behavior sounds too idealistic. You could become easily disappointed, plus it puts too much pressure on your partner. Cultivating hobbies and activities outside of the relationship circle are very important. Alexandra notes that “without separate lives, individuals can not grow and contribute freely to the relationship; there's less to talk about, and learn about each other.” In the long term the relationships crumbles and becomes well, boring.

Did You Know...
In a recent survey, about 51 percent of 18-44 year old women and 49 percent of 45-59 women, are somewhat turned on by watching their partners undress. And 43 percent of younger men, 18-44 and 47 percent of older men 45-59, enjoy it too. That's almost 1 in every 2 individuals. Strip poker anyone?