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Giethoorn-Venice of Holland
The village Giethoorn is special in the Netherlands because of it's caracteristic wooden arch bridges and canals, in the center is not a road but a canal where you have to travel by boat. That is why Giethoorn is called the Venice of Holland.
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Fun and Interesting Facts
1. Airplanes and headaches. A study showed a correlation between flying and headaches and states that around 6% of people who fly get headaches brought on by the flight itself
2. Juggling. Juggling has shown to change the brain in as little as seven days. The study indicates that learning new things helps the brain to change very quickly.
3. Disney and sleep. A study published in the journal Sleep Medicine describes how Disney creators used real sleep disorders in many of their animated pets.
4. Blinking. Each time we blink, our brain kicks in and keeps things illuminated so the whole world doesn't go dark each time we blink (about 20,000 times a day).
5. Laughing. Laughing at a joke is no simple task as it requires activity in five different areas of the brain.
6. Yawns are contagious. Ever notice that you yawned after someone around you did? Scientists believe this may be a response to an ancient social behavior for communication that humans still have.
7. Brain Bank. Harvard maintains a Brain Bank where over 7,000 human brains are store for research purposes.
8. Outer space. The lack of gravity in outer space affects the brain in several ways. Scientists are studying how and why, but you may want to hold off on your next trip to the moon.
9. Thoughts. The average number of thoughts that humans are believed to experience each day is 70,000.
10. Ambidexterity. Those who are left-handed or ambidextrous have a corpus collosum (the part of the brain that bridges the two halves) that is about 11% larger than those who are right-handed.
11. Stressful job. According to a study by Bristol-Myers Squibb, accountants have the highest incidence of on-the-job headaches, followed by librarians, then bus and truck drivers.
12. Aristotle. Aristotle mistakenly thought that the functions of the brain actually took place in the heart.
13. Shakespeare. The word "brain" appears 66 times in the plays of William Shakespeare.
14. Music. Music lessons have shown to considerably boost brain organization and ability in both children and adults.
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