I thought I would bore you all with some not so interesting facts about humans.
There are also some biology jokes as well – sorry!!!!!!!!!!
1. There are 19,000,000 cells per square inch of skin.2. Your skin is a major sensory organ and contains 32 feet of nerves per square inch.
3. Your skin has over 8 feet of blood vessels per square inch. 4. As the skin regenerates, it sheds off dead cells amounting to approximately one gram per day. During the average lifetime, you will lose approximately 44 pounds of skin.
5. Squeezing spots can be fatal - There is an area within the T-zone called the ‘danger triangle’; essential blood vessels that supply the brain run through this area, a bacterial infection could cause brain damage and even death.6. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the
body to squirt blood 30 feet.
7. No matter how tall you are in the morning, by evening you will be about 1cm shorter. This is because your cartilage gradually squeezes together over the course of the day. You regain your original height while asleep. 8. On average, muscles make up 40% of the body weight.
9. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes opened.10. Four out of five of men in Europe shared a common male ancestor that lived as a primitive hunter on a wild continent some 40,000 years ago, researchers say.
11. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.12. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
13. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year14. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
15. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.16. It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
17. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.18. Almost everyone who reads this article will try to lick their elbow
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Confucius's once said, "When you breathe, you inspire, and when you do not breathe, you expire."
---------------------------------------------------------At NIH (National Institute of Health), there is a sign on the door of a microbiology lab that reads "STAPH ONLY!"
---------------------------------------------------------Q: What is the fastest way to determine the sex of a chromosome?
A: Pull down its genes.
---------------------------------------------------------One day after sleeping badly, an anatomist went to his frog laboratory and removed from a cage one frog with white spots on its back. He placed it on a table and drew a line just in front of the frog. "Jump frog, jump!" he shouted. The little critter jumped two feet forward. In his lab book, the anatomist scribbled, "Frog with four legs jumps two feet."
Then, he surgically removed one leg of the frog and repeated the experiment. "Jump, jump!" To which, the frog leaped forward 1.5 feet. He wrote down, "Frog with three legs jumps 1.5 feet." Next, he removed a second leg. "Jump frog, jump!" The frog managed to jump a foot. He scribbled in his lab book, "Frog with two legs jumps one foot."
Not stopping there, the anatomist removed yet another leg. "Jump, jump!" The poor frog somehow managed to move 0.5 feet forward. The scientist wrote, "Frog with one leg jumps 0.5 feet." Finally, he eliminated the last leg. "Jump, jump!" he shouted, encouraging forward progress for the frog. But despite all its efforts, the frog could not budge. "Jump frog, jump!" he cried again. It was no use; the frog would not response. The anatomist thought for a while and then wrote in his lab book, "Frog with no legs goes deaf."
For anyone wanting to know their personal death date – either click on the link below(if it works) or copy and paste into your browsers address bar.http://www.deathclock.com/index.cfm
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by (16%):
16.01.2004 18:28
I probably do fear Spiders more than dying... Gem x
25.12.2003 19:23
v good
16.12.2003 00:56
I have only got 49 years to live then...