- One out of 20 people have an extra rib.
- One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!
- One quarter of the human brain is used to control the eyes.
- Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116.
- Only 1% of bacteria cause disease.
- Pain travels through your body at 350 ft. per second.
- People that suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart attack.
- Perspiration is odorless; it is the bacteria on the skin that creates an odor.
- Redheads require more anesthesia to 'go under' than other hair colors do.
- Research indicates that babies who suck on pacifiers are more prone to ear aches.
- Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don't .
- Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
- The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose.
- The average female will have 3.3 pregnancies in her life.
- The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
- The average human body contains enough iron to make a small nail.
- The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
- The average person can live for eleven days without water, assuming an average temperature of 60 degrees fahrenheit.
- The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
- The average tastebud lives only 10 days before it dies and is replaced by a new one.
- The chemicals indole and skatole, which help to account for the particular smell of human feces, are used as ingredients in perfume!
- The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime!
- The human brain is insensitive to pain.
- The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 ft.
- The lense of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.
- The most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001.
- The right lung takes in more air than the left.
- The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.
- There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
- Unlike dogs, pigs, and some other mammals, humans cannot taste water. They taste only the chemicals and impurities in the water.
- Vaccines contain formaldehyde, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), phenol (disinfectant / pesticide), and aluminum.
- We blink 25 times a minute.
- When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.
- When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.
- While 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000 suffers from it.
- Womens' hearts beat faster than mens'.
- You have no sense of smell when you're sleeping!
- You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.
- You mostly breathe from only one nostril at a time!
- You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
- Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
- Your hair grows faster in the morning than at any other time of day.
- Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
- Your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood each day!
- Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn.
- Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
- Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.
- Your skin is actually an organ.
- No human being can ever lick his/her elbow.
- As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by your head!
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