* On male shirts the buttons are on the right side, on female shirts the left side. This is because in Victorian times, the men were right handed and buttoned their own shirts, but women had a maid to dress them and the buttons were on the correct side for the maids to do up.* It typically takes twelve years and close to billion dollars to develop a new medicine.
* Cystallite is the material snooker balls are made from.
* In February 2001 it was announced that the human genome contains not 100,000 genes as originally expected, but only 30,000.
* Until 1936 in New York, it was against the law to wear topless bathing suits, for women and men.
* Simply making a basic memory chip and running it for the typical lifespan of a computer eats up 800 times the chip's own weight in fossil fuel.
* The average American will eat a half-ton of cheese in his/her lifetime. The main source of which will come from pizza, where in America there are 4.2 billion pizza purchases made every year, which equates to 11.5 million purchases every day, half of which are on Friday and Saturday.
* Perfume scent retains longer on oily skin, apply a layer of petroleum jelly (eg, Vaseline) onto your skin before putting on perfume.
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