Ten Things You Might Not Know About Bill Gates

Ten Things You Might Not Know About Bill Gates

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Co-founder and Chairman, Microsoft

1. The world may know him as Bill Gates but his full name is William Henry Gates III.

2. Gates never completed his graduation from college. Instead, he founded Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen in 1975. He was just 20 years old when he founded Microsoft.

3. He is known to keep his word. In school he bragged to his teachers that he would be a millionaire by the time he was 30. He kept his word, and in fact, was a billionaire by 31.

4. The first computer program that Gates wrote was a tic-tac-toe game. The game was played in a two player format where the computer was the opponent.

5. Considered one of the wealthiest people in the world, Bill Gates is believed to earn nearly 250 US Dollars every second which is about 20 million dollars a day and

7.2 billion dollars a year. At that rate, he can pay off the entire United States debt in less than 10 years.

6. His children often tease him by singing the song ‘Billionaire’ by Bruno Mars and Travis McCoy.

7. He has a Twitter account and is very active on it. But is not very happy using Facebook as the friend requests got out of hand. However, Mark Zuckerberg and he are said to get along well.

8. If Bill Gates was a country; he would be the 37th richest country on earth!

9. He enjoys playing tennis, golf and bridge in his leisure time.

10. He is a history buff! In an interview, he said that the first things he would save in a fire are the documents he’s collected from famous historical figures like Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester notebook, which he bought in 1994 for over $30 million.
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Disclaimer: The information has been collected from the public domain.

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FUN FACTS ABOUT GARLIC

FUN FACTS ABOUT GARLIC

Garlic (Allium sativum) is commonly used as a flavoring for food, as a condiment, and for medicinal purposes.  The milder-flavored elephant garlic (Allium ampeloprasum) is actually a leek that produces large cloves.

Garlic is a bulb and a type of herb. It is made up of a number of segments called cloves. It has a very distinct strong smell and is used a lot in cooking. Garlic is a member of the ‘onion family’ (known as Alliums), which includes onions, leeks, chives, spring onions and shallots. The English word garlic originates from the Middle Ages, gar= spear, leac = pot herb.

Its Latin name is Allium sativum.
Allium = Latin for garlic,
Sativum = cultivated / farmed.

The potency of garlic has been acknowledged for more than 500 years. In the ancient times, garlic was used as a remedy for intestinal disorders, flatulence, worms, respiratory   infections, skin diseases, wounds, symptoms of aging, and many other ailments. Through the middle ages into World War II, the use of garlic to treat wounds surfaced repeatedly. It was ground up or sliced and was applied directly to wounds to inhibit the spread of infections.

Throughout history, people worldwide the Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks, Indians, Koreans, Romans, Babylonians, and Vikings have used allium vegetables to enhance health:

The Codex Ebers, an ancient Egyptian medical papyrus, lists 22 therapeutic formulas in which garlic was used to treat heart problems, headache, bites, worms, and tumors.

In Greece, Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, recommended garlic for its medicinal effects, and athletes ingested garlic as a stimulant during the first Olympic games.

In India, garlic was used as both an Ayurvedic heart remedy and an antiseptic lotion.

The French fed garlic and onions to horses suffering from painful blood clots in the legs. In the Middle Ages it was thought that garlic helped to prevent the plague. In France, thieves in Marseille invented a potion containing garlic called ‘Vinegar of the Four Thieves’. It was said to be so effective that they could rob the houses of those suffering with the plague with no risk of getting the disease themselves!

Eastern and Western cultures alike have used garlic and onion to free the respiratory tract of phlegm, rid the bowels of parasites, and aid digestion.

Several North American Indian tribes used garlic and onions to relieve the pain of insect stings and prevent or cure scurvy.

1. Reduction of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and cancer A stimulation of immune function.
2. Enhanced foreign compound detoxification.
3. Radioprotection .
4. Restoration of physical strength.

If you split a garlic bulb then you will reveal the individual cloves inside. If you peel one of these you’ll instantly get the unique smell of garlic.

Garlic’s strong flavour means that it is used a lot in cooking, particularly in European and Asian dishes.

Garlic can be eaten raw, where it has a very strong flavour, but most often it is cooked to make it less strong and more appetizing. It can make your breath smell after eating it, but chewing parsley or a clove is said to get rid of the odour. It is a good source of vitamin C and can help to ward off colds.

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Fascinating Facts about cockroaches

Fascinating Facts about cockroaches

1. In Australia there is an annual Cockroach Racing Championship. The winning roach scoops a top prize of $500.

2. A cockroach has at least 18 knees!

3. It can live for a month without a head!

4. Female cockroaches are larger than males because they produce and carry their eggs.

5. A lobster is often called the cockroach of the sea since it is a scavenger.

6. Cockroaches are among the most common insects. Based on fossil evidence, cockroaches are known to have been present on Earth for over 300 million years.

7. Cockroaches even live in the walls of clean homes; they just have larger colonies in less clean homes due to a bigger food supply available.

8. Cockroaches can live a month without food, but only a week without water.

9. A cockroach can live a week without a head. It dies after a week due to lack of water.

10. Cockroaches love onions.

11. Laboratory female cockroaches are able to reproduce without aid of a male. They produce all female offspring.

12. Cockroaches thrive in all conditions and live in the desert as well as the arctic.

13. Cockroaches do not have eyes in the back of their head. They do however have tiny little hairs that gauge the air movement around them, and so they can feel your presence from behind.

14. Cockroaches eat meat; they are omnivores, so they will eat just about anything including dead animals.

15. A cockroach can hold it's breath for up to 40 minutes.

16. There are approximately 3500 different species of cockroach worldwide.

17. Cockroaches get their name from the Spanish word “Cucaracha” , which means “CrazyBug”!

18. Cockroaches like warm homes, but some have been found at the North and South Poles Cthey

19. were brought there by people accidentally, and live in man made shelters.

20. Cockroaches use their antennae, or feelers,to taste,smell,feel, and detect moisture.

21. When cockroaches are chewing, their jaws move from side to side, instead of up and down like ours!

22. Cockroaches use mouth parts called palpi to taste food without eating it so if a cockroach finds poison, it can taste that it’s dangerous without having to take a bite!

23. Cockroaches can run up to three miles an hour!

24. Cockroach brains are spread through out their bodies. If it gets it’s head cut off, it can live for upto a week! It will only die because  it can’t eat or drink.

25. Cockroaches breathe through spiracles, tiny holes in their abdomens. Madagascar hissing cockroaches make their hissing noise by forcing air out through them.

26. Cockroaches can run up to three miles an hour! They have six legs, and each leg has three knees! Their knees are very sensitive, and they can use them to sense when a predator is coming, even another insect!

27. Once a female cockroach has mated, she stays fertilized for life, and can keep having babies without the help of a male.

28. A female lays an egg sac called an ootheca. It can contain eggs for 15 to 50 baby cockroaches. The eggs develop inside the ootheca for 1-3 months, then it splits open and out they come!

29. Baby cockroaches are called nymphs.

30. When a cockroach outgrows it’s skin, it molts the skin splits open and it crawls out.

31 . Madagascar hissing cockroaches will look white after they molt, until their new skin hardens and turns brown.

32. Cockroaches’ favorite food is white bread and potatoes.

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Facts About Snow Monkey

Facts About Snow Monkey 

(Macaca Fuscata) 

1. Also known as snow monkeys, these primates live in Japan’s forests, highlands, and mountains. They are the only primates to live so far north besides humans. 

2. They have white and black fur and oval shaped feet. Snow monkeys have a pink face and it is shaped like a human face. It’s nose is like a human nose. Snow monkeys have brown eyes and pink ears that are shaped like human ears.  They have a fat and oval shaped body and have really short tails. Snow monkeys have black hands that are shaped like human hands. They have skinny arms and they have short legs.

3. Macaques withstand temperatures from about 5 degrees Fahrenheit (-15 degrees Celsius) in winter to about 73 degrees Fahrenheit (23 degrees Celsius ) in summer. Thick winter fur and stored fat helps keep the primates warm in cooler months. 

4. Macaques travel mostly on all four feet, but occasionally they stand and move on just their hind legs. 

5. Japanese macaques are one of at least 15 macaque species and over 150 monkey species. 

6. Male and female macaques live together in groups ranging from just a few to more than a thousand. The average size is fewer than 200. 

7. Grooming is important as a social ritual to Japanese macaques-they spend a good part of each day removing parasites from each other. They rest for at least two to three hours a day. 

8. In snowy regions macaques sleep in deciduous trees where snow won't fall on them. 

9. Japanese macaques sometimes raid farmers’ crops. One of the macaques goes ahead, usually at dawn, and gives an all-clear symbol to the rest of the troop. A few monkeys act as lookouts for humans while the rest grab the crops. 

10. Macaques have a number of vocalizations for different situations: warning, mating, defense, and fighting. 

11. Young macaques all play, swinging in trees, fighting over items, and playing with stones. When there is snow on the ground, the monkeys often make snowballs, rolling them until they get too big or break up. 

12. Possibly begun in imitation of humans, macaques in Jigokudani, Japan, head to hot springs for bathing and playing. 

13. Japanese macaques in the wild eat a broad diet: fruits, seeds, leaves, bark, fungi, bird eggs, snails, crayfish, and fish. They also eat soil, probably to soothe upset stomachs but possibly also for flavor, nutrients, or digestion. 

14. Major predators of macaques today are feral dogs and humans. 

15. Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys, are important in Japanese culture. These “celebrity” animals even draw tourists. 

16. Japanese macaques seem to have culture. It usually starts with a “genius monkey,” the Einstein of the troop. When that monkey develops a new behavior that works, other monkeys learn from it and pass it on, sometimes from generation to generation. Among enduring Japanese macaque innovations: cleaning sand from wheat by dipping it in water, keeping warm in hot springs, and making snow balls. 

17. Snow monkeys play a special role in mythology, folklore and art in Japan.  Most familiar are the three monkeys which represent the wisdom of Buddha: see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil.

18. Both parents and other adults share the role of raising infants.

19. Snow monkeys are Old World monkeys (possess a non-prehensile tail and nostrils closer together).  They are most known for their red, hairless face with low brow ridges. 

20. They are the largest of the macaques. 

21. One way Japanese macaques deal with the cold is by soaking in 100-degree-Fahrenheit (38-degree-Celsius) volcanic hot springs. Troops that live near hot springs will spend about 30 minutes a day in them. This practice was first seen about 40 years ago in monkeys who had observed humans bathing in the natural hot springs. A monkey reportedly tried it, liked it, and passed on his new habit to her troop. 

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Fun Facts About English Language

Fun Facts About English Language

1. Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!

2. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

3. "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

4. No word in the English language rhymes with month.

5. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

6. Four words end in"-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

7. The longest word is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

8. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."

9. There is only 1 word with three consecutive sets of double letters: Bookkeeper .

10. There is a word with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."!

11. The longest one syllable word in the English language is "screeched".

12. The letter most in use in the English language is "E" and the letter "Q" is least used.

13. Only 3 words in the English language end in "ceed": "proceed," "exceed," and "succeed."

14. No language has more synonyms than English!

15. Of all the languages in the world, English has the largest vocabulary about 800,000 words.

16. French was the official language of England for over 600 years.

17. The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.

18. "Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.

19. "Go. Go. Go. Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

20. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

21. There is a seven letter word that contains ten words "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

22. "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

23. The verb "cleave" has two opposite meanings. It can mean to adhere or to separate.

24. "mate", "eight" and "strait" all make the same sound they are spelled totally differently!

25. There are 3 one-syllable words with 9 letters: "stretched," "scratched" and "screeched."

26. "Scissors", "binoculars" and "tongs" exist only as a plural!

27. The shortest sentence using all the alphabet is "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".

28. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!

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111 FACTS ABOUT GOATS

111 FACTS ABOUT GOATS

1. Goats were the first animals domesticated by man in 10,000 B.C

2. The phrase Judas goat is a term that has been used to describe a goat that is trained to herd other animals to slaughter while its own life is spared.

3. Most goats can be found in Asia and the Mid-East.

4. Goats were the first animals to be used for milk by humans.

5. There are over 210 breeds of goats in the world.

6. There are approximately 450 million goats around the world.

7. Goats were first brought to America by Columbus in 1493.

8. Goats were regularly imported into America in the early 1900’s.

9. The female goat is called a “doe” or “nanny.”

10. The male goat is called a “buck” or “billy.”

11. A castrated male goat is called a “wether.”

12. A baby goat is called a “kid.”

13. The act of giving birth is called “kidding.”

14. The doe can have 1 to 6 kids per litter, however, 4 to 6 kids are rare.

15. Goats do not have teeth in their upper front jaw.

16. Goats have 24 molars and 8 incisors.

17. Both male and female goats can have beards.

18. Normally goats have two teats and cows have four.

19. Goats prefer browse over grass and grass to clover.

20. Goats do not eat tin cans, clothing or garbage, but are selective eaters when provided with a well-balanced diet.

21. Male goats go through a period called a “rut” when they are ready to mate. This period coincides with the start of the breeding season.

22. The “rut” is characterized by a decrease in appetite, obsessive interest in the does, fighting between bucks and most notable is a strong foul-smelly musky odor.

23. Lactating does that are kept in a pen with a musky buck may produce milk that taste “goaty” and can be offensive to humans.

24. Goats can be born with or without horns.

25. Goats and sheep are seasonal breeders.

26. Yearlings does should be bred when they have reached 80 pounds of body weight or when they have reached 60-75%  of the adult weight for their breed. They must also be in good body condition and health.

27. Chevon is the French word for goat. These are animals that are slaughtered near or shortly after weaning.

28. Goats are hollow-horned, bearded, ruminant mammals of the genus Capra and the species Hircus. They are raised for wool, milk, and meat in the U.S.  Goats are also used to make gelatin, the manure is used for fertilizer, they are used for research models in biological studies, they are used to pull carts and for pack animals.

29. Goats are bovines and are closely related to cows and antelopes.

30. The natural life expectancy for goats is around 8 to 12 years and in some cases, goats can live over 15 years.

31. Worldwide, more people eat and drink milk from goats than any other animal.

32. The age of puberty for female goats is between 7-10 months and 4-8 months in male goats.

33. The breeding age for male goats is between 8-10 months

34. A mature, healthy male buck can breed 20 to 40 does.

35. The length of gestation (pregnancy) in does is between 146 to 155 days.

36. The traditional breeding season for goats in the U.S. is between late August and the early part of January, however some goats can breed out-of-season.

37. Goats do no like to get wet and prefer to seek shelter when it is raining.

38. Goats are more susceptible to parasites and other infectious diseases when they are mismanaged.

39. Cabrito is the Spanish word for little goat (slaughtered one week or shortly after birth).

40. Goats deposits less fat externally and more fat internally (around the organs) compared to sheep and cattle.

41. Estrus (heat) is the period in which does are receptive to mating.

42. The estrous cycle is between 18-22 days in does.

43. The duration of estrus is 12-36 hours.

44. Signs, of heat include tail wagging, mucous discharge, swollen vulva, bleating, mounting or being mounted by other goats etc.

45. The normal body temperature for goats is between 101.7 to 104.5 degrees.

46. The heart rate of goats is between 70 to 135 beats per minute.

47. The normal respiration rate for goats is 12 to 15 breaths per minute.

48. Goats are quite agile creatures and in some cases they can jump over 5 feet.

49. Goats have a four chamber stomach that contains fermenting bacteria and protozoan that aid in breaking down their food.

50. Most medications that are currently used on goats were developed for use in other livestock species (i.e., cattle and swine).

51. Bucks can be quite aggressive to their handlers during the breeding season.

52. Depending on the breed, adult female goats can weigh between 22 to 300 pounds and adult males between 27 to 350 pounds of body weight.

53. A large group of goats is called a herd.

54. A hermaphrodite is a goat that exhibits both male and female sexually characteristics and organs.

55. Azalea bushes are poisonous to goats.

56. Vomiting in goats is almost always due to poisonous plants.

57. Goats can become lame after an injection has hit the sciatic nerve. This nerve runs from the hips down to the leg.

58. Blood in the milk or “pink” milk may be a sign of udder trauma and not mastitis.

61. Before coins were used for money, goats were traded for silver because they were so valuable.

62. The pharaoh Cephranes thought, so much of his goats that he had 2,234 buried with him.

63. Goats are very social creatures.

64. Wattles are those little tufts of hair that covers the skin that dangles from the throat of some goats. Wattles serve no function and are thought to be remnants of gill slits that mammals shared somewhere back down the evolutionary tree.

65. A ruminant is any hoofed animal that digests its food in two steps. First by eating the raw materials and regurgitating a semi-digested form known as “cud” then eating the cud. Ruminants include goats, sheep, cattle, deer, camels, llamas, giraffes, bison, buffalos etc.

66. Goat’s milk is easily digestible and less allergenic than cow’s milk.

67. Goat’s milk is higher in calcium, vitamin A and niacin than cow’s milk.

68. Goat meat is lower in fat and cholesterol compared to beef, pork, mutton and poultry.

69. 12,000 year old paintings of goats have been found on the walls of caves in Europe.

70. Goats are one the cleanliest animals and is much more selective feeders than cows, sheep, pigs, swine and even dogs.

71. Dairy goats have little subcutaneous fat.

72. Goats do not like eating food that has been soiled, contaminated or has been on the ground.

73. Mahatma Gandhi consumed goat milk everyday for more than 30 years.

74. Carl Sandburg loved his goats so much that when Life Magazine (1938 issue) asked him to pose for a picture with his favorite dog he insisted the picture be taken with his goats.

75. Goat’s milk is naturally homogenized and it can be digested in less than 20 minutes where as cow’s milk can take almost all day.

76. Meat goat production is the fastest growing livestock industry in the U.S. today (2005).

77. The top ten states with the largest population of meat goats are Texas (1,010,000), Tennessee   (98,000), Georgia (77,000), Oklahoma (65,000), Kentucky (63,500), North Carolina (52,200), California (50,000), South Carolina (41,000), Alabama (37,800) and Florida (36,000;NASS, 2005).

78. The top ten states with the largest dairy herds are Texas (30,000), California (30,000), Wisconsin (28,000), Iowa (13,000), New York (13,000), Philadelphia (13,000), Ohio (9,500), Oklahoma (9,000), Indiana (8,800) and Missouri (8,600; NASS,2005).

79. Ethnic consumers are the backbone of the meat goat industry in the U.S. Demand for goat meat will continue to increase as the population in the U.S. becomes more ethnically diverse by consumers who traditionally eat goat meat.

80. At this time, the marketing infrastructure of the goat industry in the  U.S. is  relatively disorganized. Nationwide there are no mechanisms in place by which the animal is moved from the farm, to the processor and the product is accessible to the consumer.

81. To check for dehydration, pull the skin that is over the shoulder area. If the skin snaps back quickly the animal is adequately hydrated. If the skin does not snap back quickly and remains erect the animals is dehydrated.

82. Goats are herbivores (plant-eaters) that spend most of their day grazing.

83. Goats are usually between 17 to 42 inches tall from the shoulders.

84. Approximately 1.5 million pounds of goat meat is imported into the U.S. every week from Australia and New Zealand because domestic production and processing systems in this country can not keep pace with demand.

85. Goats are able to consume 3 to 5% of their body weight in dry matter (perhaps more if the forage is highly digestible).  To consume this amount of forages, goats must be pastured in an area with a large quantity of available vegetative forage. Goats will eat less when they are moved to poor quality pastures.

86. In the biblical town of Jericho, people kept goats as long as 6,000 to 7,000 years before Christ.

87. Healthy kids can stand within minutes after birth and are able to move with the herd almost immediately.

88. In many parts of the world, goats are economically valuable for a variety of purposes such as skins for leather and the pelts are used for making rugs and robes.

89. The early explorers used goat skins for water and wine bottles when they traveled.

90. During biblical times, goat skins were used for parchment for writing.

91. Does can produce 3 litters of kids every 2 years.

92. Older animals store more body fat if nutritional conditions are favorable.

93. Plant poisoning most often occurs in goats in the spring after the herd has been released into a new pasture.

94. Goats do not grow as fast as sheep nor can they utilize feed as efficiently.

95. Goats do not have tear ducts.

96. Some does and bucks that are naturally polled are also infertile. They are of no use to the owner, either as breeding stock or milk producers.

97. Goats and octopus’ pupils of their eyes are rectangular.

98. Boer goats are considered the leading meat breed in the U.S. today. Mature males can weigh between 260 to 380 pounds and the females may weigh between 210- 300 pounds.

99. The Tennessee Stiff-Leg also known as the wooden leg or fainting goat is native to the U.S. This breed suffers from a recessive trait called myotonia. When frightened this animal will experience extreme muscle stiffness causing extension of the neck and hind legs before it topples over onto the ground.

100. Colostrum is produced in the first milk of the doe and it contains high levels of immunoglobulins (antibodies), vitamin A, minerals, fat and energy. Newborn kids must ingest colostrum within the first 24 hours of life to help protect them against diseases.

101. The larger the scrotal circumference of the buck, the higher his libido and fertility.

102. Coffee was first discovered when goat herders noticed the animals acting very energetic after nibbling on coffee beans.

103. Abraham Lincoln’s sons had two goats that lived in the white house with them.

104. In earlier centuries, goats were often used to nurse babies.

105. China has the most goats (over 170 Million).

106. According to Roman history, on February 15th, young men would run around wearing only the skins of goats they sacrificed earlier and hit women with strips of goat skin, known as februa,  to promote fertility. It is from these purification instruments that the month of February gets its name.

107. A goat has only two teats for milking, whereas a cow has four.

108. Many people who are allergic to cow's milk can digest goat's milk without difficulty.

109. Goats are mammals, which are raised for milk production, meat or their fibre, depending on the breed.

110. A male goat is called a buck, the female is called a doe and young goats are called kids.

111. Captain Cook first released goats in New Zealand in 1773 to provide food for castaways.

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Interesting Facts About Boys And Girls

Interesting Facts About Boys And Girls

Here i have posted facts for educational purposes only.

Interesting Facts about Girls
1. The vagina is only as deep as your middle finger.

2. The vagina keeps itself clean and healthy by constantly producing mucus which turns white when it’s exposed to the air.Discharge also prevents the vagina from drying out.

3. Discharge will begin to appear some time before your first period begins.

4. Females can ovulate before they have their period.

5. Cramps and painful periods may be caused by low calcium and magnesium levels.

6. The usual amount of blood lost during a period isbetween one and six tablespoons. (120 ml blood and tissue)

7. Menstrual fluid is mostly made up of water.

8. A lot of girls’ hymen are broken through using a tampon or during active sportssuch as horse back riding or cycling. Masturbation, too, can break the hymen. There is an opening in the hymen that lets menstrual fluid flow out.

9. The fallopian tubes are about 10 cm long. The egg travels from the ovary to the uterus along these tubes.

10. Girls are born with about 300,000 eggs.

11. Ovary is about the size of a walnut/olive. The uterus is about the size of a pear/ clenched fist.

12. The average woman has about 500 periods in her lifetime.

13. If a tampon has absorbed as much as it can and has to be changed within 4 hours, try a tampon with a higher absorbency. If a tampon still has lots of whitepatches showing when you take it out after about four hours, try a tampon with lower absorbency. Change your tampon every 4-8 hours.

14. PMS symptoms: breast tenderness, feeling swollen or bloated, change in appetite, headaches, acne or skin rash, constipation or diarrhea, abdominal cramps, feeling sad/tired/irritable or clumsy.

15. You get cramps when your uterus contracts (squeezes) slightly to helpget rid of most of its lining.

16. If you are taking the birth control pill these fivedrugs may interfere with its effectiveness: antihistamines, alcohol, analgesics, antacids, antibiotics.

17. A pregnancy test only works 2 weeks after a suspected conception.

Interesting Facts about Boys

1. 17 weeks into a pregnancy, baby boys can have erections.

2. When boys are 8 or 9 years old, their testicles begin tomake sperm for practice.

3. Males have several erections while they are asleep.

4. The epididymis is a coiled tube that is6 metres long (tube that stores sperm)

5. Ejaculate is only one spoonful of fluid.

6. Between the ages of twelve and fourteen the scrotum grows bigger and turns a darkish red and the testicles start to produce testosterone, the male sex hormone, which makes the penis grow.

7. Once puberty starts, testicles produce onemillion sperm per minute, 24 hours/day.

8. Testicles are kept 4-5 degrees cooler than body temperature.

9. The scrotum is made of special skin that is stretchable and shrinkable.

10. Average size penis is about two inches long whenit’s limp and six inches long when erect.

11. Many boys develop breasts during puberty. They need to know that this is normal and that, when their rib cage grows to adult size, those little breasts will spread out and not be so noticeable.

12. It takes boys about three years after the onset of puberty to grow their testicles to adult size.

13. It takes eight to ten years after the onset ofpuberty to grow their penises to adult size.

14. When an erection occurs, a valve at the mouth ofthe bladder closes off so no urine can escape.

15. Adam’s apple- growth of the larynx.

Other Interesting Facts

1. Fraternal twins come from two separate ova and two separate sperm.

2. Identical twins or multiples happen when one sperm fertilizes an ovum and for some unknown reason, it splits into two or more babies.

3. Pregnancy can occur without actual sexual intercourse, and even before ejaculation.

4. Sperm may be present at the tip of the penis, and if the vagina is very aroused and lubricated, sperm may rub off against the vagina.

5. The ovum must be fertilized within 12-24 hours. It takes 10 hours for a sperm to fertilize an egg.

6. Sperm can survive 4-5 days inside a woman’s body.

7. Lack of sleep – try calcium rich bedtime snacks = grilled cheese sandwiches, hot milk, warm baths, hot water bottle, back or foot rub, story.

8. In a recent survey of Grade 9 and 11 students, the main reason for not using condoms was that sex was not planned.

9. 38% of boys and 21% of girls in Grade 11 reported using alcohol or drugs before sex. 2/3 of all STI’s occur in people 25 and younger.

10. Hepatitis B is 100 times more infectious than HIV.

11. 1 out of 4 girls and 1 out of every 8 boys are sexually abused.

12. There are over 40 brands of condoms on the market.

13. There are two different kinds of sweat glands: eccrine (no odour) and apocrine (odour when it comes into contact with bacteria). Apocrine glands only become active after puberty starts. Females have a lot more apocrine glands than males.

14. Sweat glands are everywhere on your body, exceptyour lips and ears. Each person has about 2.5 million sweat glands.

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