10 AMAZING FACTS WHICH YOU DID NOT KNOW!!

• The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910

• The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.

• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

• Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

• Chop-suey does not come from China. It was created by Chinese immigrants in California

• Chocolate is the number one food stuff flavor in the world, beating vanilla and banana by 3-to-1.

• Valentine's Day originates from the ancient Roman festival of fertility, which was held annually on 15 February.

• Americans eat twice as much meat as Europeans, gobbling up some 50kg (110 lb) per capita.

• Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

• The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead".

• More movies are being produced in India than in Hollywood. About 800 movies are released annually.

• There are more than 600 million telephone lines today, yet almost half the world's population has never made a phone call.

• New York cabs get about 2000 tickets per month, handed out by about 2000 traffic attendants.

• The US has one of the highest fire death rates in the industrialised world, with more than 2 million fires reported each year.

• The pig is rated the fourth most intelligent animal but are mentioned only twice in the Bible

• The world's first TV news helicopter was introduced by KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles on 4 July 1958.

• Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

• The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.

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