Life Style: 12 Living Facts, Health And More.

LIFE STYLE

If you've ever doubted the click, Everything has a story, we would like to direct your eyes to just about anything around you. That's right: All of the simple, everyday items that you don't think twice about but that populate your very existence.

The tools you use on a daily basis, the things you have lying around the house, and even the clothes you wear on the daily all have unexpected histories, quirky backstories, or strange facts about them that you likely had no idea about. Here, we pull back the curtain on all of them. You'll never look at the world around you the same again !

Here are Couple of facts of  Various life Style

#1. High Heels Were Originally Men's Shoes:

Sometime around the 10th century, some enterprising soul in a horse-riding culture figured out that your foot would stay more firmly in the stirrups if your shoe had a bit of a raised heel. The innovation spread quickly, and soon whole armies of men-rode into battle wearing pumps.

since having a horse was a symbol of high status, wearing a high-heeled shoe meant you had the medieval equivalent of a Mercedes-Benz. Both men and women of means wore heels until they ultimately fell out of fashion for men.

#2. Playing Cards Have Historical Meaning:

Legend has it that the four suites of a deck of playing cards come from the four pillars of the medieval economy: hearts for the Church, spades for the military, diamonds for the merchants, and clubs for the farmers. 

Each king is also said to represent a real historical ruler: the King of Hearts is Charles or Charlemagne, the king of Spades is the biblical King David, the King of Diamonds is Julius Caesar, and the King of Clubs is Alexander the Great. Whether that's what the makers of the deck intended or whether it was a tale added over time, it is undoubtedly true that the King of Hearts is the only one without a mustache !

#3. More People Have Cell Phones Than Toilets:

According to a UN report from 2015, 2.2 billion of the world's 7 billion people  lack access to a toilet, particularly in areas of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Since another report put the number of mobile phone users at 6 billion, that means more than twice as many people have phones as proper plumbing. 

This is not to say there are too many cell phones but to say that we still have a long way to go when it comes to providing sanitation to everyone.

#4. Wearable Eyeglasses Have Been Around Since 1284:

Imagine that every time you needed to read something, you had to lift a piece of glass the size of a mirror to your face. 

That was the best solution that humankind had come up with for vision problems before the 13th century, when some enterprising folks in Italy shrank the glass and heavy frames enough that they could finally be worn on the nose. 

#5. The Blob of Toothpaste on a Toothbrush is Called a Nurdle:

That artfully wavy bit of toothpaste that sits atop toothbrushes in advertisements has its own name ("nurdle"), and its own lawsuit, as well. In 2010, colgate palmolive sued its largest toothpaste manufacturing rival, GlaxoSmithKline, for claiming that it owned the exclusive rights to use a picture of the nurdle on its packaging. 

Glaxo, makers of Aquafresh, countersued, and the matter was settled confidentially out of court.

#6. Salt Was Used as Currency:

salt has been vital to human history and exploration, since—among other things—it allows people to preserve food and take it with them on long journeys. Salt was so important that the ancient Romans used it as money, paying their soldiers in rations of salt. 

In fact, that's where we get the English word "salary." It's also where we get the English word "salad," which was named not for leafy greens but for those same Romans who liked to sprinkle their greens with salt to improve the flavor.

#7. Your Smartphone Could Send Astronauts to the Moon:

You probably know that the phone you carry around in your pocket is light-years ahead of the technology of five decades ago. However, it's hard to grasp just how advanced it is. In terms of processing ability, your phone is millions of times more powerful than the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) that NASA used to send astronauts to the moon in 1969. 

AGCs cost $3.5 million each and were the size of a car, but even just the clock function of an iPhone 6 is comparable to sending 120000000 similtaneius apollo era spacecraft to the moon and back.

#8. Rice is the Oldest Food that We Still Eat Today:

Humans have been cultivating rice plants—which are actually species of grass—for somewhere between 12,000 and 15,000 years. 

All of our modern, domesticated rice can be traced back to a single crop in the Pearl River Valley of ancient China. The only other food that might be as old is corn, which was domesticated in Mexico between 7,500 and 12,000 years ago.

#9. The First Webcam Was Created to Check a Coffee Pot:

Nowadays, people use FaceTime and Skype to see and chat with friends all over the world. However, webcam technology originated with a slightly less ambitious goal. 

In 1993, researchers at the computer science department at the University of Cambridge just hated getting up from their chairs to check the coffee pot only to find that it was empty. 

They wired up a system that would stream images—three per minute—from the Trojan Room where the pot was kept to the internal computer network.

#10. It Takes a Lot of Bees to Make Honey:

"Busy as a bee" is a saying for a reason—colonies of bees work tirelessly to convert nectar into honey to eat when the flowers aren't blooming. However, each bee certainly can't do it alone. 

An individual bee will only make about one-twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its entire lifetime. Luckily, a single colony usually contains between 20,000 and 60,000 bees and honey is a very high-energy food. It contains natural preservatives, meaning that honey is one of the very few foods that, if stored properly, will never go bad.

#11. Sitting and sleeping are great moderation, but too much can increase your chances of an early death:

Living a sedentary lifestyle can be dangerous to your health. The less sitting or lying down you do during the day, the better your chances for living a healthy life.

If you stand or move around during the day, you have a lower risk of early death than if you sit at a desk. If you live a sedentary lifestyle, you have a higher chance of being overweight, developing type 2 diabetes or heart disease, and experiencing depression and anxiety.

Now, a new study suggests that indulging in too much sleep and inactivity are also unhealthy. Researchers found that people who spend most of the day sitting and sleeping too much may be as likely to die early as people who smoke or drink too much.

#12. Chocolate Was Used as a Medicine:

which it comes—wasn't discovered by Europeans until the late 1500s. Explorer Francisco Hernandez observed the Aztecs using cacao as, among other things, a medicine. 

When chocolate came to Western Europe soon after, the Church was suspicious of its stimulating properties, but since it could be used for medical applications, it was deemed acceptable. 

European doctors prescribed it for everything from fevers to indigestion to melancholy. Though these cacao mixtures were quite different from the chocolate of today, chocolate might have been banned from Europe altogether had it not been used as a medicine.

Health Facts

With new studies and reports being released daily it can be hard to keep track of what’s new in health and wellness.

#1. Drink something hot to cool down:

Conventional wisdom may tell you that if you are hot, drinking something cold will cool down your body. However, research has shown that on a hot day, drinking a hot beverage may help your body stay cool. 

The reason being that when you drink a hot drink, your body produces sweat to cool down your body temperature. Initially you may be adding heat by drinking the hot liquid, but the amount of sweat that your body produces to cool down more than makes up for the added heat from the liquid. The increased perspiration is key; when the sweat evaporates from your skin, it is able to cool down your body temperature.

#2. Your sweat is mostly made up of water:

Speaking of sweat, our sweat is composed mostly of water – about 99 percent! How much we sweat is unique to each individual; factors like gender and/or age can contribute to a person sweating more or less.

#3. The strongest muscle in your body is.....

Our muscle strength can be measured in different ways. If you are referring to the muscle that can exert the most force, then your calf muscle, the soleus, would be the winner. 

However, if you want to find the muscle that can exert the most pressure, then the jaw muscle, or the masseter, would be the strongest. The human jaw can close teeth with a force as great as 200 pounds, or 890 newtons ! 

#4. More than half your bones are located in your hands and feet:

We are born with approximately 300 bones and cartilage which eventually fuse together by the time we reach adulthood. The adult human body consists of  206 bones.  

Of these bones, 106 of them are located in our hands and feet. Bones in the arms are among the most commonly broken bones and account for almost half of all adults’ bone injuries.

#5. You can physically see high cholesterol:

It is possible to see signs on your body that you may have high cholesterol. xanthelasma is cholesterol-filled bumps that form under your skin. It can be an indicator of possible heart disease. 

The lesions can be found all over the body and tend to appear on the skin of older people with diabetes or other heart ailments.