Facts About All

Saturday, 8 January 2011

The biological sign for the female sex ♀, is also the symbol for the planet Venus.
The average height of a woman in the United States is approximately 1.62 m (5' 4").
The term woman is usually reserved for an female adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent.
The Latin fēmina, whence female, is likely from the root in fellāre (to suck), referring to breastfeeding.
Many cultures have rites of passage to symbolize a girl's coming of age, like the Quinceañera of Latin America.
The most common cause of death for American women is heart disease.
Gynophobia is the fear of women.
Human women have proportionately larger breasts than any other female mammal
Approximately twenty-five percent of all women will experience severe depression at some point in their lives.
In almost every country worldwide, the life expectancy for women is higher than for men.
Over ninety percent of all cases of eating disorders occur in women.

The foot is the terminal portion of a limb which bears weight and allows locomotion.
The foot can be subdivided into the hindfoot, the midfoot, and the forefoot.
The Roman shoemakers were the first to create distinct left and right shoes.
The largest feet in the world belong to Matthew McGrory (United States) whose feet are a whopping size 28½ (US size).
The average people walks about 10,000 steps a day.
By 12, a child’s foot is about 90% of its adult length.
Twenty-five percent of bones in the human body are located in the feet (52 bones).
For 2 out of every 10 people the second toe is the longest.
Early symptoms for arthritis, diabetes and circulatory problems can often show themselves initially in the feet.
Foot problems occur in females 4 times more than in males.
The feet produces as much as half a pint of perspiration every day.
It’s inusual that 2 feet are exactly the same; one of them is often larger than the other.

May is the 5th month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar.
May is a month of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere.
The month May has been named for the Greek goddess Maia.
The Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology, in which he says that the month of May is named for the maiores, Latin for "elders," and that the following month (June) is named for the iuniores, or "young people".
The Zodiac signs for the month of May are Taurus and Gemini.
May 1 is celebrated as Labor Day in many countries.
The birth flower of May is the Lily of the Valley and the Crataegus monogyna.
Charles Lindberg made the first historic solo Trans Atlantic airplane flight in May of 1927, in his plane “The Spirit of Saint Louis”.
May's birthstone is the emerald.
The 2nd Sunday in May is Mother's Day in the United States and Canada.
May 10 is Mother's Day in Mexico, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
The last Monday of May is Memorial Day in the United States.
May 1 is May Day in the U.K.
Cinco de Mayo (May 5th), celebrates Mexico's victory over French Troops on this day in the 1862 Battle of Puebla.

Electronic mail (email) predates the inception of the Internet, and was in fact a crucial tool in creating it.
The first electronic mail, or "email", was sent in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson.
35,000,000,000 e-mails are sent each day throughout the world.
There are about 1,4 billion registered e-mail addresses.
Windows Live Hotmail is the world's largest web-based email service with nearly 364 million users (2010).
23 percent of spam servers are in the United States, 64 percent are in Taiwan
The average business user spends 2.6 hours per day reading and responding to e-mail
The time spent deleting SPAM costs U.S. businesses $21.6 billion annually.
34.1 percent of users open an e-mail by 5 pm
Email click through ratio is best on Wednesdays, reaching 3.9%
Email bombing is the intentional sending of large volumes of messages to a target address.
38 percent of US companies monitor and read emails written by employees.

Enrique Iglesias was born on May 8, 1975.
Real name: Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler.
He is a famous Spanish pop music singer-songwriter.
In 1982, his mom sent him to live in Miami, with his father, Julio Iglesias.
Enrique has a sister named, Chabeli.
Parents: Julio Iglesias and Isabel Preysler.
Enrique Iglesias was born in Madrid, Spain.
Enrique started his musical career on Mexican label Fonovisa
Enrique Iglesias won a Latin Grammy in 2003 for best male pop album.
Iglesias won an American Music Award for favorite Latin Artist in 2003.
Enrique's favorite movie is Raiders of the Lost Ark.
His song " Por Amarte" was included in Televisa's telenovela Marisol.
On July 4, 2008 Iglesias became the first Western artist to play a concert in Syria in three decades when he performed for a sold-out crowd of 10,000 in the capital city of Damascus and in the same week performed on Live Earth.
Enrique Iglesias started dating tennis star Anna Kournikova in late 2001.

Eva Perón was born on May 7, 1919 in Los Toldos, Argentina.
Parents: Juan Duarte and Juana Ibarguren,
Eva was the highest paid radio actress of Argentina.
Eva Perón became the First lady of Argentina by the age of 27.
Eva started her own charitable foundation in 1947.
She is often referred by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita.
Eva underwent an emergency appendectomy in 1950.
Eva tried to become Vice-President but was stopped by Juan Domingo Peron and the military in 1951.
In 1952 shortly before her death from cancer at the age of 33, Eva Perón was given the official title of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation" by the Argentine Congress.
Eva Perón died of Uterine cancer on July 26 1952.
She died at just 33.
Eva Perón was instrumental in bringing to "los descamisados" (shirtless ones) social services.
She is portrayed by Faye Dunaway on Evita Peron (1981) and Madonna on Evita (1996).

Eczema is a form of inflamation of the epidermis.
In England, 1 in every 9 people have been diagnosed with eczema by a clinician at some point in their lives.
In some languages, eczema and dermatitis are synonymous.
Some studies provide hints that food allergy may trigger atopic dermatitis.
Xerotic eczema is very common among the older population.
51 percent of hospital episodes for dermatitis and eczema are for women in England.
The hygiene hypothesis postulates that the cause of asthma, eczema and other allergic diseases, is an unusually clean environment.
No cure is presently known for most types of dermatitis.
Three days are the median length of stay in hospitals for dermatitis and eczema in England.
Prevalance Rate for Eczema in the United States: approx 5.51% or 15 million people.