After you cut off its head, a chicken can run the length of an entire football field before it drops dead. That’s where the expression, “Running like a chicken with its head comes off” comes from.
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Moustache shields were a thing in the Victorian Era. You’ve heard of post-mortem photo ops and cocaine toothache drops, but another peculiar Victorian-Era thing is the moustache shield. Patented in 1876 by Virgil A Gates, the moustache shield was designed to keep facial hair out of the way when eating and drinking.
You spray 2.5 drops of saliva per word. The average talker sprays 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute. No one has the statistics for announcers and DJs yet, though.
Our blood pressure drops when we pet a dog. The dog’s blood pressure decreases too.
People read faster or slower depending on what they read. Not only do you blink less when you’re on a computer, but reading from a screen also slows you down. On average, people read 10% slower from a screen than from paper! As for the blinking part, did you know that during everyday life, people normally blink at a rate of twenty times per minute? But put them in front of a computer, and that number drops way down to seven times per minute!