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Amazing 57 Facts
1. People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
2. Black bears are not always black they can be brown, cinnamon, yellow and sometimes
white.
3. People with blue eyes see better in dark.
4. Each year 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
5. The placement of a donkey?s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet.
6. The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.
7. The cow gives nearly 200000 glass of milk in her lifetime.
8. There are more female than male millionaires in the U.S.A.
9. A male baboon can kill a leopard.
10. When a person dies, hearing is usually the first sense to go.
11. Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer.
12. Nearly 22,000 cheques will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.
13. Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.
14. Some lions mates over 50 times a day.
15. American did not commonly use forks until after the civil war.
16. The most productive day of the week is Tuesday.
17. In the 1930?s America track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn
a living.
18. There is a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. It Covers 3.4 square miles of
land and is still growing.
19. Jimmy Carter is the first USA president to have born in hospital.
20. Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
21. Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
22. Human birth control pill works on gorillas.
23. The right lung takes in more air than the left.
24. It is illegal to own a red car in shanghai china.
25. A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
26. Astronauts cannot burp in space.
27. The snowiest city in the USA is Blue Canyon, California.
28. Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.
29. Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
30. The great warrior Genghis khan died in bed while having sex.
31. No matter how cold it gets gasoline will not freeze.
32. SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
33. A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
34. Dolphins sleep with 1 eye open.
35. A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live
without food for 6 months.
36. The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000
other species.
37. The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to
attack & eat other dinosaurs.
38. DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to
cool the body of the animal.
39. CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRDS that can kill a man or animal by tearing off
with its dagger like claw.
40. The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
41. OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
42. POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of
speed.
43. KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
44. ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
45. OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
46. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
47. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
48. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
49. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
50. Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
51. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
52. A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
53. Crane sleeps standing on one leg.
54. Shark cannot see, they are very sensitive to sound.
55. Sneezing stops heart beat for a second and then continues.
56. Shape of the backbone is important to have sufficient breathing.
57. Tortoise has very sharp teeth it can rip open the stomach of whale with its teeth.

61 Amazing True Facts

1. In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.
2. The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth’s
magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the
South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.
3. The idea for “tribbles” in “Star Trek” came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born
pregnant.
4. Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.
5. Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the
entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.
6. Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.
7. The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren’t for the fact that the wings
would shear off when trying to roll it over.
8. The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.
9. The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there’s no penalty if a
monkey steals your golf ball.
10. Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say “gesundheit” to a sneezer was never
repealed.
11. Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don’t
do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.
12. SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.
13. Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.
14. Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the
sender’s system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.
15. Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
16. The first McDonald’s restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and
featured the McHaggis sandwich.
17. The Air Force’s F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how
bumblebees fly.
18. You can get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.
19. Silly Putty was “discovered” as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were
produced. It’s not widely publicized for obvious reasons.
20. Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.
21. The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.
22. The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their
tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their
claws, thus enabling players to catch them.
23. A cat’s purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.
24. The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his “signature”
on the keyboard.
25. The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains
enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.
26. King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.
27. Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet,
libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now
in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.
28. In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of
starvation.
29. Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire
Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor
of developing the 911 system.
30. Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
31. Calvin, of the “Calvin and Hobbes” comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin
Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.
32. Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball
game.
33. Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.
34. You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in
aluminum foil before inserting them.
35. To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.
36. Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For
Canadians who don’t play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.
37. A dog’s naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.
38. A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of
picking one’s nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from
infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.
39. Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden’s headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues
of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid
reader.
40. Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern
fuel.
41. At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually
monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.
42. Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.
43. If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight
in honey.
44. Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during
sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
45. Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your
eyeballs.
46. Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated
in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence
an expensive purchase was said to cost “an arm and a leg.”
47. When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small
intestine.
48. Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.
49. Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when
translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.
50. If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on
the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.
51. When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.
52. In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of Playboy
magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models’ turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was
scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal.
53. Although difficult, it’s possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch
Doritos.
54. Napoleon’s favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.
55. The world’s smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the
multiplication tables up to 12.
56. Due to the natural “momentum” of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.
57. In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them
hairless throughout their lives.
58. It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is
to return from Louisville to Amarillo.
59. The “nine lives” attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers.
60. The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German
propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan
features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun.
61. The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving
safely back at his cave completely dry.

Amazing Facts of the Human Body

• Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day.
• Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.
• Our eyes can distinguish up to one million colour surfaces and take in more information
than the largest telescope known to man.
• Our lungs inhale over two million litres of air every day, without even thinking. They are
large enough to cover a tennis court.
• Our hearing is so sensitive it can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different
sounds.
• Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.
• Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion
nerve cells.
• We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.
• When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph.
• We have over 600 muscles.
• We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.
• We are about 70 percent water.
• We make one litre of saliva a day.
• Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and
filters impurities.
• In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000
nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
• We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon in our
bodies.
Human Body Facts
 The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.
 Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km)
per hour.
 The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.
 The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat
 It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
 Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it
would digest itself.
 It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
 The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.
 The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.
 Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
 Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
 When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.
 Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches
2-6 years of age.
 Children grow faster in the springtime.
 It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow milk.
 Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
 Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.
 There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg
ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
 If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all
your sense of depth.
 The average human head weighs about 8 pounds.
 Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
stop growing.
 In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around
the equator.
 An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
 The length of the finger dictates how fast the fingernail grows. Therefore, the
nail on your middle finger grows the fastest, and on average, your toenails grow
twice as slow as your fingernails.
 The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.
 The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98
feet (30 m).
 Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
 Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life.
 After you die, your body starts to dry out creating the illusion that your hair
and nails are still growing after death.
 Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.
 The average surface of the human intestine is 656 square feet (200 m).
 A healthy adult can draw in about 200 to 300 cubic inches (3.3 to 4.9 liters)
of air at a single breath, but at rest only about 5% of this volume is used.
 The surface of the human skin is 6.5 square feet (2m).

15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.
100 Very Cool Facts About The Human Body
The human body is an incredibly complex and intricate system, one that
still baffles doctors and researchers on a regular basis despite
thousands of years of medical knowledge. As a result, it shouldn’t be
any surprise that even body parts and functions we deal with every
day have bizarre or unexpected facts and explanations behind them.
From sneezes to fingernail growth, here are 100 weird, wacky, and
interesting facts about the human body.
The Brain
The human brain is the most complex and least understood part of the human anatomy.
There may be a lot we don’t know, but here are a few interesting facts that we’ve got
covered.

1. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per
hour. Ever wonder how you can react so fast to things around you or why that
stubbed toe hurts right away? It’s due to the super-speedy movement of nerve
impulses from your brain to the rest of your body and vice versa, bringing
reactions at the speed of a high powered luxury sports car.
2. The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb. The
cartoon image of a light bulb over your head when a great thought occurs isn’t
too far off the mark. Your brain generates as much energy as a small light bulb
even when you’re sleeping.
3. The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the
Encyclopedia Britannica. Or any other encyclopedia for that matter. Scientists
have yet to settle on a definitive amount, but the storage capacity of the brain in
electronic terms is thought to be between 3 or even 1,000 terabytes. The
National Archives of Britain, containing over 900 years of history, only takes up
70 terabytes, making your brain’s memory power pretty darn impressive.
4. Your brain uses 20% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream.The brain
only makes up about 2% of our body mass, yet consumes more oxygen than any
other organ in the body, making it extremely susceptible to damage related to
oxygen deprivation. So breathe deep to keep your brain happy and swimming in
oxygenated cells.
5. The brain is much more active at night than during the day.Logically, you
would think that all the moving around, complicated calculations and tasks and
general interaction we do on a daily basis during our working hours would take a
lot more brain power than, say, lying in bed. Turns out, the opposite is true.
When you turn off your brain turns on. Scientists don’t yet know why this is but
you can thank the hard work of your brain while you sleep for all those pleasant
dreams.
6. Scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream. While this may be
true, don’t take it as a sign you’re mentally lacking if you can’t recall your dreams.
Most of us don’t remember many of our dreams and the average length of most
dreams is only 2-3 seconds–barely long enough to register.
7. Neurons continue to grow throughout human life. For years scientists and
doctors thought that brain and neural tissue couldn’t grow or regenerate. While it
doesn’t act in the same manner as tissues in many other parts of the body,
neurons can and do grow throughout your life, adding a whole new dimension to
the study of the brain and the illnesses that affect it.
8. Information travels at different speeds within different types of
neurons. Not all neurons are the same. There are a few different types within the
body and transmission along these different kinds can be as slow as 0.5
meters/sec or as fast as 120 meters/sec.
9. The brain itself cannot feel pain. While the brain might be the pain center when
you cut your finger or burn yourself, the brain itself does not have pain receptors
and cannot feel pain. That doesn’t mean your head can’t hurt. The brain is
surrounded by loads of tissues, nerves and blood vessels that are plenty
receptive to pain and can give you a poundingheadache.
10. 80% of the brain is water. Your brain isn’t the firm, gray mass you’ve seen on
TV. Living brain tissue is a squishy, pink and jelly-like organ thanks to the loads
of blood and high water content of the tissue. So the next time you’re feeling
dehydrated get a drink to keep your brain hydrated.

Hair and Nails

While they’re not a living part of your body, most people spend a good amount of time
caring for their hair and nails. The next time you’re heading in for a haircut or manicure,
think of these facts.

11. Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body. If you’ve ever had a
covering of stubble on your face as you’re clocking out at 5 o’clock you’re
probably pretty familiar with this. In fact, if the average man never shaved
his beard it would grow to over 30 feet during his lifetime, longer than a killer
whale.
12. Every day the average person loses 60-100 strands of hair. Unless you’re
already bald, chances are good that you’re shedding pretty heavily on a daily
basis. Your hair loss will vary in accordance with the season, pregnancy, illness,
diet and age.
13. Women’s hair is about half the diameter of men’s hair. While it might sound
strange, it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that men’s hair should be
coarser than that of women. Hair diameter also varies on average between
races, making hair plugs on some men look especially obvious.
14. One human hair can support 3.5 ounces. That’s about the weight of two full
size candy bars, and with hundreds of thousands of hairs on the human head,
makes the tale of Rapunzel much more plausible.
15. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger. And the nail on the middle
finger of your dominant hand will grow the fastest of all. Why is not entirely
known, but nail growth is related to the length of the finger, with the longest
fingers growing nails the fastest and shortest the slowest.
16. There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a
chimpanzee. Humans are not quite the naked apes that we’re made out to be.
We have lots of hair, but on most of us it’s not obvious as a majority of the hairs
are too fine or light to be seen.
17. Blondes have more hair. They’re said to have more fun, and they definitely
have more hair. Hair color determines how dense the hair on your head is. The
average human has 100,000 hair follicles, each of which is capable of producing
20 individual hairs during a person’s lifetime. Blondes average 146,000 follicles
while people with black hair tend to have about 110,000 follicles. Those with
brown hair fit the average with 100,000 follicles and redheads have the least
dense hair, with about 86,000 follicles.
18. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. If you notice that you’re
trimming your fingernails much more frequently than your toenails you’re not just
imagining it. The nails that get the most exposure and are used most frequently
grow the fastest. On average, nails on both the toes and fingers grow about one-
tenth of an inch each month.
19. The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average. While you quite a
few hairs each day, your hairs actually have a pretty long life providing they
aren’t subject to any trauma. Your hairs will likely get to see several different
haircuts, styles, and even possibly decades before they fall out on their own.
20. You must lose over 50% of your scalp hairs before it is apparent to
anyone. You lose hundreds of hairs a day but you’ll have to lose a lot more
before you or anyone else will notice. Half of the hairs on your pretty little head
will have to disappear before your impending baldness will become obvious to all
those around you.
21. Human hair is virtually indestructible. Aside from it’s flammability, human hair
decays at such a slow rate that it is practically non-disintegrative. If you’ve ever
wondered how your how clogs up your pipesso quick consider this: hair cannot
be destroyed by cold, change of climate, water, or other natural forces and it is
resistant to many kinds of acids and corrosive chemicals.

Internal Organs
Though we may not give them much thought unless they’re bothering us, our internal
organs are what allow us to go on eating, breathing and walking around. Here are some
things to consider the next time you hear your stomach growl.

22. The largest internal organ is the small intestine. Despite being called the
smaller of the two intestines, your small intestine is actually four times as long as
the average adult is tall. If it weren’t looped back and forth upon itself it wouldn’t
fit inside the abdominal cavity.
23. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.No
wonder you can feel your heartbeat so easily. Pumping blood through your body
quickly and efficiently takes quite a bit of pressure resulting in the strong
contractions of the heart and the thick walls of the ventricles which push blood to
the body.
24. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades. While
you certainly shouldn’t test the fortitude of your stomach by eating a razorblade
or any other metal object for that matter, the acids that digest the food you eat
aren’t to be taken lightly. Hydrochloric acid, the type found in your stomach, is not
only good at dissolving the pizza you had for dinner but can also eat through
many types of metal.
25. The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels. To put
that in perspective, the distance around the earth is about 25,000 miles, making
the distance your blood vessels could travel if laid end to end more than two
times around the earth.
26. You get a new stomach lining every three to four days. The mucus-like cells
lining the walls of the stomach would soon dissolve due to the strong digestive
acids in your stomach if they weren’t constantly replaced. Those with ulcers know
how painful it can be when stomach acid takes its toll on the lining of your
stomach.
27. The surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court. In order to more
efficiently oxygenate the blood, the lungs are filled with thousands of branching
bronchi and tiny, grape-like alveoli. These are filled with microscopic capillaries
which oxygen and carbon dioxide. The large amount of surface area makes it
easier for this exchange to take place, and makes sure you stay properly
oxygenated at all times.
28. Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s.The main reason for this is simply that
on average women tend to be smaller than men and have less mass to pump
blood to. But women’s and men’s hearts can actually act quite differently,
especially when experiencing trauma like a heart attack, and many treatments
that work for men must be adjusted or changed entirely to work for women.
29. Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions. You may not think
much about your liver except after a long night of drinking, but the liver is one of
the body’s hardest working, largest and busiest organs. Some of the functions
your liver performs are: production of bile, decomposition of red blood cells,
plasma protein synthesis, and detoxification.
30. The aorta is nearly the diameter of a garden hose. The average adult heart is
about the size of two fists, making the size of the aorta quite impressive. The
artery needs to be so large as it is the main supplier of rich, oxygenated blood to
the rest of the body.
31. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your
heart. For most people, if they were asked to draw a picture of what the lungs
look like they would draw both looking roughly the same size. While the lungs are
fairly similar in size, the human heart, though located fairly centrally, is tilted
slightly to the left making it take up more room on that side of the body and
crowding out that poor left lung.
32. You could remove a large part of your internal organs and survive.The
human body may appear fragile but it’s possible to survive even with the removal
of the stomach, the spleen, 75 percent of the liver, 80 percent of the intestines,
one kidney, one lung, and virtually every organ from the pelvic and groin area.
You might not feel too great, but the missing organs wouldn’t kill you.
33. The adrenal glands change size throughout life. The adrenal glands, lying
right above the kidneys, are responsible for releasing stress hormones like
cortisol and adrenaline. In the seventh month of a fetus’ development, the glands
are roughly the same size as the kidneys. At birth, the glands have shrunk
slightly and will continue to do so throughout life. In fact, by the time a person
reaches old age, the glands are so small they can hardly be seen.

Bodily Functions
We may not always like to talk about them, but everyone has to deal with bodily
functions on a daily basis. These are a few facts about the involuntary and sometimes
unpleasant actions of our bodies.

34. Sneezes regularly exceed 100 mph. There’s a good reason why you can’t keep
your eyes open when you sneeze–that sneeze is rocketing out of your body at
close to 100 mph. This is, of course, a good reason to cover your mouth when
you sneeze.
35. Coughs clock in at about 60 mph. Viruses and colds get spread around the
office and the classroom quickly during cold and flu season. With 60 mph coughs
spraying germs far and wide, it’s no wonder.
36. Women blink twice as many times as men do. That’s a lot of blinking every
day. The average person, man or woman, blinks about 13 times a minute.
37. A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball. No wonder you have to run to
bathroom when you feel the call of the wild. The average bladder holds about
400-800 cc of fluid but most people will feel the urge to go long before that at 250
to 300 cc.
38. Approximately 75% of human waste is made of water. While we might
typically think that urine is the liquid part of human waste products, the truth is
that what we consider solid waste is actually mostly water as well. You should be
thankful that most waste is fairly water-filled, as drier harder stools are what
cause constipation and are much harder and sometimes painful to pass.
39. Feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat
a day. With that kind of sweat-producing power it’s no wonder that your gym
shoes have a stench that can peel paint. Additionally, men usually have much
more active sweat glands than women.
40. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming
pools. Saliva plays an important part in beginning the digestive process and
keeping the mouth lubricated, and your mouth produces quite a bit of it on a daily
basis.
41. The average person expels flatulence 14 times each day. Even if you’d like to
think you’re too dignified to pass gas, the reality is that almost everyone will at
least a few times a day. Digestion causes the body to release gases which can
be painful if trapped in the abdomen and not released.
42. Earwax production is necessary for good ear health. While many people find
earwax to be disgusting, it’s actually a very important part of your ear’s defense
system. It protects the delicate inner ear from bacteria, fungus, dirt and even
insects. It also cleans and lubricates the ear canal.
Sex and Reproduction
As taboo as it may be in some places, sex is an important part of human life as a facet of
relationships and the means to reproduce. Here are a few things you might not have
known.

43. On any given day, sexual intercourse takes place 120 million times on
earth. Humans are a quickly proliferating species, and with about 4% of the
world’s population having sex on any given day, it’s no wonder thatbirth
rates continue to increase in many places all over the world.
44. The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the
male sperm. While you can’t see skin cells or muscle cells, the ovum is typically
large enough to be seen with the naked eye with a diameter of about a
millimeter. The sperm cell, on the other hand, is tiny, consisting of little more than
nucleus.
45. The three things pregnant women dream most of during their first trimester
are frogs, worms and potted plants. Pregnancy hormones can cause mood
swings, cravings and many other unexpected changes. Oddly enough, hormones
can often affect the types of dreams women have and their vividness. The most
common are these three types, but many women also dream of water, giving
birth or even have violent or sexually charged dreams.
46. Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born. While few babies are
born with teeth in place, the teeth that will eventually push through the gums of
young children are formed long before the child even leaves the womb. At 9 to 12
weeks the fetus starts to form the teeth buds that will turn into baby teeth.
47. Babies are always born with blue eyes. The color of your eyes depends on the
genes you get from your parents, but at birth most babies appear to have blue
eyes. The reason behind this is the pigment melanin. The melanin in a newborn’s
eyes often needs time after birth to be fully deposited or to be darkened by
exposure to ultraviolet light, later revealing the baby’s true eye color.
48. Babies are, pound for pound, stronger than an ox. While a baby certainly
couldn’t pull a covered wagon at its present size, if the child were the size of an
oxen it just might very well be able to. Babies have especially strong and
powerful legs for such tiny creatures, so watch out for those kicks.
49. One out of every 2,000 newborn infants has a tooth when they are
born. Nursing mothers may cringe at this fact. Sometimes the tooth is a regular
baby tooth that has already erupted and sometimes it is an extra tooth that will
fall out before the other set of choppers comes in.
50. A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months. When only a small
fraction of the way through its development, a fetus will have already developed
one of the most unique human traits: fingerprints. At only 6-13 weeks of
development, the whorls of what will be fingerprints have already developed.
Oddly enough, those fingerprints will not change throughout the person’s life and
will be one of the last things to disappear after death.
51. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. All life has to begin
somewhere, and even the largest humans spent a short part of their lives as a
single celled organism when sperm and egg cells first combine. Shortly
afterward, the cells begin rapidly dividing and begin forming the components of
a tiny embryo.
52. Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep. Most
people’s bodies and minds are much more active when they’re sleeping than
they think. The combination of blood circulation and testosterone production can
cause erections during sleep and they’re often a normal and necessary part of
REM sleep.

Senses
The primary means by which we interact with the world around us is through our senses.
Here are some interesting facts about these five sensory abilities.

53. After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp. If you’re heading to a
concert or a musical after a big meal you may be doing yourself a disservice. Try
eating a smaller meal if you need to keep your hearing pitch perfect.
54. About one third of the human race has 20-20 vision. Glasses and contact
wearers are hardly alone in a world where two thirds of the population have less
than perfect vision. The amount of people with perfect vision decreases further
as they age.
55. If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it. In order for foods, or
anything else, to have a taste, chemicals from the substance must be dissolved
by saliva. If you don’t believe it, try drying off your tongue before tasting
something.
56. Women are born better smellers than men and remain better smellers over
life. Studies have shown that women are more able to correctly pinpoint just
what a smell is. Women were better able to identify citrus, vanilla, cinnamon and
coffee smells. While women are overall better smellers, there is an unfortunate
2% of the population with no sense of smell at all.
57. Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents. While a bloodhound’s nose
may be a million times more sensitive than a human’s, that doesn’t mean that the
human sense of smell is useless. Humans can identify a wide variety of scents
and many are strongly tied to memories.
58. Even small noises cause the pupils of the eyes to dilate. It is believed that
this is why surgeons, watchmakers and others who perform delicate manual
operations are so bothered by uninvited noise. The sound causes their pupils to
change focus and blur their vision, making it harder to do their job well.
59. Everyone has a unique smell, except for identical twins. Newborns are able
to recognize the smell of their mothers and many of us can pinpoint the smell of
our significant others and those we are close to. Part of that smell is determined
by genetics, but it’s also largely do to environment, diet and personal hygiene
products that create a unique chemistry for each person.

Aging and Death

From the very young to the very old, aging is a necessary and unavoidable part of life.
Learn about the process with these interesting, if somewhat strange facts.
60. The ashes of a cremated person average about 9 pounds. A big part of what
gives the human body weight is the water trapped in our cells. Once cremated,
that water and a majority of our tissues are destroyed, leaving little behind.
61. Nails and hair do not continue to grow after we die. They do appear longer
when we die, however, as the skin dehydrates and pulls back from the nail beds
and scalp.
62. By the age of 60, most people will have lost about half their taste
buds. Perhaps you shouldn’t trust your grandma’s cooking as much as you do.
Older individuals tend to lose their ability to taste, and many find that they need
much more intense flavoring in order to be able to fully appreciate a dish.
63. Your eyes are always the same size from birth but your nose and ears
never stop growing. When babies look up at you with those big eyes, they’re
the same size that they’ll be carrying around in their bodies for the rest of their
lives. Their ears and nose, however, will grow throughout their lives and research
has shown that growth peaks in seven year cycles.
64. By 60 years of age, 60-percent of men and 40-percent of women will
snore. If you’ve ever been kept awake by a snoring loved one you know the
sound can be deafening. Normal snores average around 60 decibels, the noise
level of normal speech, intense snores can reach more than 80 decibels, the
approximate level caused by a jackhammer breaking up concrete.
65. A baby’s head is one-quarter of it’s total length, but by age 25 will only be
one-eighth of its total length. As it turns out, our adorably oversized baby
heads won’t change size as drastically as the rest of our body. The legs and
torso will lengthen, but the head won’t get much longer.

Disease and Injury

Most of us will get injured or sick at some point in our lives. Here are some facts on how
the human body reacts to the stresses and dangers from the outside world.

66. Monday is the day of the week when the risk of heart attack is greatest. Yet
another reason to loathe Mondays! A ten year study in Scotland found that 20%
more people die of heart attacks on Mondays than any other day of the week.
Researchers theorize that it’s a combination of too much fun over the weekend
with the stress of going back to work that causes the increase.
67. Humans can make do longer without food than sleep. While you might feel
better prepared to stay up all night partying than to give up eating, that feeling will
be relatively short lived. Provided there is water, the average human could
survive a month to two months without food depending on their body fat and
other factors. Sleep deprived people, however, start experiencing radical
personality and psychological changes after only a few sleepless days. The
longest recorded time anyone has ever gone without sleep is 11 days, at the end
of which the experimenter was awake, but stumbled over words, hallucinated and
frequently forgot what he was doing.
68. A simple, moderately severe sunburn damages the blood vessels
extensively. How extensively? Studies have shown that it can take four to fifteen
months for them to return to their normal condition. Consider that the next time
you’re feeling too lazy to apply sunscreen before heading outside.
69. Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress. That high stress
job you have could be doing more than just wearing you down each day. It could
also be increasing your chances of having a variety ofserious medical
conditions like depression, high blood pressure and heart disease.
70. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is
been decapitated. While it might be gross to think about, the blood in the head
may be enough to keep someone alive and conscious for a few seconds after the
head has been separated from the body, though reports as to the accuracy of
this are widely varying.

Muscles and Bones

Muscles and Bones provide the framework for our bodies and allow us to jump, run or
just lie on the couch. Here are a few facts to ponder the next time you’re lying around.

71. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Unless you’re trying to give your
face a bit of a workout, smiling is a much easier option for most of us. Anyone
who’s ever scowled, squinted or frowned for a long period of time knows how it
tires out the face which doesn’t do a thing to improve your mood.
72. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood the number is reduced to
206. The reason for this is that many of the bones of children are composed of
smaller component bones that are not yet fused like those in the skull. This
makes it easier for the baby to pass through the birth canal. The bones harden
and fuse as the children grow.
73. We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. The cartilage
between our bones gets compressed by standing, sitting and other daily activities
as the day goes on, making us just a little shorter at the end of the day than at
the beginning.
74. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. While you may not
be able to bench press much with your tongue, it is in fact the strongest muscle
in your body in proportion to its size. If you think about it, every time you eat,
swallow or talk you use your tongue, ensuring it gets quite a workout throughout
the day.
75. The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone. The next time someone
suggests you take it on the chin, you might be well advised to take their advice
as the jawbone is one of the most durable and hard to break bones in the body.
76. You use 200 muscles to take one step. Depending on how you divide up
muscle groups, just to take a single step you use somewhere in the
neighborhood of 200 muscles. That’s a lot of work for the muscles considering
most of us take about 10,000 steps a day.
77. The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself.If you’ve
ever chipped a tooth you know just how sadly true this one is. The outer layer of
the tooth is enamel which is not a living tissue. Since it’s not alive, it can’t repair
itself, leaving your dentist to do the work instead.
78. It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did
to gain it. Lazy people out there shouldn’t use this as motivation to not work out,
however. It’s relatively easy to build new muscle tissue and get your muscles in
shape, so if anything, this fact should be motivation to get off the couch and get
moving.
79. Bone is stronger than some steel. This doesn’t mean your bones can’t break
of course, as they are much less dense than steel. Bone has been found to have
a tensile strength of 20,000 psi while steel is much higher at 70,000 psi. Steel
is much heavier than bone, however, and pound for pound bone is the stronger
material.
80. The feet account for one quarter of all the human body’s bones. You may
not give your feet much thought but they are home to more bones than any other
part of your body. How many? Of the two hundred or so bones in the body, the
feet contain a whopping 52 of them.

Microscopic Level
Much of what takes place in our bodies happens at a level that we simply can’t see with
the naked eye. These facts will show you that sometimes that might be for the best.

81. About 32 million bacteria call every inch of your skin home.Germaphobes
don’t need to worry however, as a majority of these are entirely harmless and
some are even helpful in maintaining a healthy body.
82. Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells about every 27 days. Skin protects
your delicate internal organs from the elements and as such, dries and flakes off
completely about once a month so that it can maintain its strength. Chances are
that last month’s skin is still hanging around your house in the form of the dust on
your bookshelf or under the couch.
83. Three hundred million cells die in the human body every minute.While that
sounds like a lot, it’s really just a small fraction of the cells that are in the human
body. Estimates have placed the total number of cells in the body at 10-50 trillion
so you can afford to lose a few hundred million without a hitch.
84. Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour. You may not think
much about losing skin if yours isn’t dry or flaky or peeling from a sunburn, but
your skin is constantly renewing itself and shedding dead cells.
85. Every day an adult body produces 300 billion new cells. Your body not only
needs energy to keep your organs up and running but also to constantly repair
and build new cells to form the building blocks of your body itself.
86. Every tongue print is unique. If you’re planning on committing a crime, don’t
think you’ll get away with leaving a tongue print behind. Each tongue is different
and yours could be unique enough to finger you as the culprit.
87. Your body has enough iron in it to make a nail 3 inches long.Anyone who
has ever tasted blood knows that it has a slightly metallic taste. This is due to the
high levels of iron in the blood. If you were to take all of this iron out of the body,
you’d have enough to make a small nail and very severe anemia.
88. The most common blood type in the world is Type O. Blood banks find it
valuable as it can be given to those with both type A and B blood. The rarest
blood type, A-H or Bombay blood due to the location of its discovery, has been
found in less than hundred people since it was discovered.
89. Human lips have a reddish color because of the great concentration of tiny
capillaries just below the skin. The blood in these capillaries is normally highly
oxygenated and therefore quite red. This explains why the lips appear pale when
a person is anemic or has lost a great deal of blood. It also explains why the lips
turn blue in very cold weather. Cold causes the capillaries to constrict, and the
blood loses oxygen and changes to a darker color.

Miscellaneous
Here are a few things you might not have known about all different parts of your
anatomy.

90. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you’ll
have a bad dream. It isn’t entirely clear to scientists why this is the case, but if
you are opposed to having nightmares you might want to keep yourself a little
toastier at night.
91. Tears and mucus contain an enzyme (lysozyme) that breaks down the cell
wall of many bacteria. This is to your advantage, as the mucus that lines your
nose and throat, as well as the tears that wet your eyes are helping to prevent
bacteria from infecting those areas and making you sick.
92. Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of
water to a boil. If you’ve seen the Matrix you are aware of the energy potentially
generated by the human body. Our bodies expend a large amount of calories
keeping us at a steady 98.6 degrees, enough to boil water or even cook pasta.
93. Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you
aren’t. The chemicals and hormones released when you are afraid could be
having unseen effects on your body in the form of earwax. Studies have
suggested that fear causes the ears to produce more of the sticky substance,
though the reasons are not yet clear.
94. It is not possible to tickle yourself. Even the most ticklish among us do not
have the ability to tickle ourselves. The reason behind this is that your brain
predicts the tickle from information it already has, like how your fingers are
moving. Because it knows and can feel where the tickle is coming from, your
brain doesn’t respond in the same way as it would if someone else was doing the
tickling.
95. The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole
body. While not exact down to the last millimeter, your armspan is a pretty good
estimator of your height.
96. Humans are the only animals to produce emotional tears. In the animal
world, humans are the biggest crybabies, being the only animals who cry
because they’ve had a bad day, lost a loved one, or just don’t feel good.
97. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed
people do. This doesn’t have a genetic basis, but is largely due to the fact that a
majority of the machines and tools we use on a daily basis are designed for
those who are right handed, making them somewhat dangerous for lefties to use
and resulting in thousands of accidents and deaths each year.
98. Women burn fat more slowly than men, by a rate of about 50 calories a
day. Most men have a much easier time burning fat than women. Women,
because of their reproductive role, generally require a higher basic body fat
proportion than men, and as a result their bodies don’t get rid of excess fat at the
same rate as men.
99. Koalas and primates are the only animals with unique fingerprints.Humans,
apes and koalas are unique in the animal kingdom due to the tiny prints on the
fingers of their hands. Studies on primates have suggested that even cloned
individuals have unique fingerprints.
100. The indentation in the middle of the area between the nose and the
upper lip has a name. It is called the philtrum. Scientists have yet to figure out
what purpose this indentation serves, though the ancient Greeks thought it to be
one of the most erogenous places on the body.