Thirty-eight facts about women you probably didn't know.
(Knowable.com)
- Women live longer than men, partly because their immune systems age more slowly.
- 19 of the 20 richest women in the world inherited their wealth from their husband or their father.
- Women spend approximately 9 years (or 3500 days) of their lives menstruating.
- Research has found that women are more prone to nightmares than men and have more emotional dreams.
- Jamaica, Colombia, and St. Lucia are the only countries where a woman is more likely to be a boss than a man.
- In the 1920s and early 1930s, most screenwriters in Hollywood were women.
- 30% of businesses in the US are owned by women.
- 20% of women in the US earn at least $5,000 more than their male spouse.
- Every 90 seconds a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth.
- 80% of women are wearing the wrong size bra.
- Women speak about 20,000 words a day - 13,000 more than the average man.
- In Ancient Rome, women wore the sweat of gladiators to improve their complexion.
- There are 9 million more women than men in Russia.
- 40% of births in the US come from unmarried women.
- Women spend nearly one year of their lives deciding what to wear.
- Men lie 6 times a day, twice as often as women.
- The youngest girl to ever be divorced is 10-year-old Nujood Ali.
- In the 1600s men wore heels as a sign of aristocracy. Women started wearing them afterwards to appear more masculine.
- Israel is the only country in the world to draft women into military service.
- Heart attacks in women present as nausea, indigestion, and shoulder aches instead of traditional chest pains.
- 4% of women in the US are pregnant right now.
- The women who underwent the world's first successful womb transplant became pregnant in 2013.
- The average women in the UK changes her hairstyle 150 times in her lifetime.
- According to a recent study, women who snore during pregnancy are more likely to have smaller babies.
- 2% of women have a genetic mutation resulting in an extra retina cone in their eyes, allowing them to see 99 million more colours than the average person.
- An average woman in the UK will own 111 handbags in her lifetime.
- 30% of pregnant women develop pica, an eating disorder characterized by an appetite for nonfood items.
- Women can get pregnant 5 to 8 days after having sex.
- 68% of women say they would have an affair if they knew they could get away with it.
- Women weren't allowed to participate in the Olympic Games until 1900.
- The leading cause of death for American women is heart disease.
- 1 in every 6 women has been a victim of sexual assault in the US.
- 2% of women worldwide would describe themselves as beautiful.
- Women in Niger have an average of 7 children, the highest rate in the world.
- In China, women who remain unmarried in their late 20s and 30s are called "sheng nu" which means "leftover women".
- Miami is the only major US city founded by a woman.
- In middle school, 74% of girls express an interest in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math). By the time they declare a college major, just 0.4% of them select computer science.
- The most children born to a mother is 69. She birthed 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets.