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​​ =CuRiOuS FaCtS = ​ __by: Susana García Álvarez ***Information from "Muy Interesante" Magazine. (Copies of August and September 2008)**__

How does the hair grow? The life cycle of our hair is divided into three different stages: Birth Growing Death** A healthy, young person looses around 100 hairs a day!!!!
 * Hair is a result of the division and multiplication of a specific type of cells named “keratin[[image:hair.jpg width="267" height="281" align="right"]]ocytes”, that are on the capillaries – small region inside the skin, with small structures where the hair strands develop in hair follicles. As keratinocytes divide, they’re pushed to the exterior, making hair grow. In six years it will have grown 1meter long!!

The “Mujer del Peñón” (“Woman of the Rock”) is the most ancient human remain found in America and was discovered in Mexico when the capital airport was being built in 1959. It was discovered in an area known as “El Peñón de los Baños” (“The Rock of the Bath”), by a group of Mexican and British investigators. It is around 12,700 years old
 * Where were found the Columbian most ancient remains of Mexico?

The first underarm deodorant was invented in 1870.

__1.El Bulli..............Spain __ __2.The Fat Duck...United Kingdom __ __ 3.Pierre Gagnaire...France __ __4.The French Laund ...United States __ __5. Tetsuya’s .................. Australia __ __6. Bras.............................France __ __7. Mugaritz...................Spain __ __8. Le Louis XV.............Monaco __ __9. Per SE................United States __ __10.Arzak....................Spain __
 * __The Best 10 Restaurants of the World, according to 650 gastronomy experts of 23 different regions of the globe. __

5%, is used to generate light!
 * 95% of its energy a light bulb is wasted;

= Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries = ==

90% of teens have acne problems

Isaac Newton predicted the world would end[[image:newton.png align="left"]] In the year 2060
 GOLD FOR FREE?? Easy! With the bacterium //<span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #808000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; text-align: right;">Ralstonia metallidurans, //<span style="background-color: #00b050; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14.3pt; text-align: right;">that creates gold nuggets in its belly! If only we could all get sick with that bacterium!!! <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff3300; display: block; font-family: Algerian; text-align: center;">In Yap, island of the South Pacific, stones are used as money!<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff3300; display: block; font-family: Algerian; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Let’s gather up some rocks and get going!!!



Nintendo was created in Japan in 1886

Shrimps have the heart in the head… and I wonder why men won’t cross their legs? Because they’ll crash their brain, or even their heart?? <span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 22pt;">

Elvis Presley had blonde hair but he dye it <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 22pt;">black <span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 22pt;">.

One of every five Mexicans <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #50009f; display: block; font-size: 20pt; text-align: left;">has access to Internet <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'One Stroke Script LET'; font-size: 20pt; text-align: left;">

=<span style="background-color: #ff00a1; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20pt; text-align: center;">:: mOrE curiOus facts!! :: = = = <span style="background-color: #ff00a1; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20pt; text-align: center;">by [ zOé, TiARé & andREa! ]

:: MEXICO ::
<span style="color: #832dd7; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Do you know that Mexico means “in the Moon navel.” From Nahuatl "Metztli" (moon) and "xictli" (navel). Do you know that México has 29 humanity patrimony places? One of them is the National Autonomus University of Mexico (UNAM) for the construction and the paintigs. Mexico is the top country in the American Continent above United States (20), Brazil (17), Cánada (15), Perú (10), Argentina (8) y Colombia (6).

<span style="background-color: #c8f0fe; color: #148ce1; display: block; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">__//Cuexcomate Volcano-Do you know that some people considerate it as the littlest world volcano and you found it in the Puebla City? It has a measure of 13 m. height and is the result of the Popocatepetl volcano eruption in 1664//__ <span style="background-color: #f4fcb1; color: #e3a10a; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 191.52%; text-align: center;">Do you know that Chapultepec Castle was used as Juliet's home in the movie Romeo & Juliet?? and that is the only castle built in the America continent. <span style="background-color: #fde3ce; color: #f05519; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">All the homes in Taxco are painted in white and the roof tile is red-orange, the purpose of this is to preserve the image of a little town.



<span style="background-color: #6cf4e6; color: #353bb1; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">:: ANIMALS ::
<span style="color: #863aee; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 20pt; text-align: left;">The octopus has 3 different hearts, with different functions each one. <span style="color: #f05519; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">

Swans and mice are the most faithful animals in the animal kingdom.



The most sleepy animal is the koala, sleeps 22 hrs. per day!

<span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; text-align: center;">__**The**__ camels have 3 eyelids that use as a protection for the sandstorms.

<span style="background-color: #6cf4e6; color: #353bb1; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> __**//:: FUN//**__ FACTS :: <span style="background-color: #ff00a1; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In Bangladesh teenagers can be send to prision for cheating in their final exams. And I am for it!!!**

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