Funny Weird Amazing Facts!!

"Hang on Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.

"Flushable" toilets were in use in ancient Rome.

"Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

"Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between.

"A motion to table a motion to reconsider a vote to table an appeal of a ruling that a point of order was not in order against a motion to table another point of order against a motion to bring to a vote the motion to call up the resolution that would institute a rules change."

Frank Baum, the writer of "The Wizard of OZ", looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs.

Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

Penguins are not found in the North Pole.

More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world.
MISS SCORPIO39491.8464583333

A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

Electrical stimulation of certain areas of the brain has been proven to revive long-lost memories.

Crocodiles have brains no larger than a cigar and they cannot stick their tongue out.

'Crack Cocaine' is still cocaine. It is simply a different chemical process applied to cocaine powder that allows cocaine to be smoke able. This means that the 'high' from Crack Cocaine is much stronger and more immediate (taking about 8 seconds to reach the brain); and also shorter lived then from the powder.

Cocaine works in a totally different way from narcotics such as morphine or heroin. Heroin works on receptor sites in the brain which are stimulated by the drug to produce pain-relieving and mood-enhancing chemicals. Cocaine on the other hand works by stimulating the central nervous system, and like alcohol, is processed through the liver.

There was no soap in the ancient Mediterranean world. Olive oil was used to wash the body in addition to cooking.

The largest body of fresh water in the world is Lake Superior.

The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet.

Chameleons can reel in food from a distance as far away as more than two and a half times their body lengths.

A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of its body.

A leech is a worm that feeds on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill itself with three to four times its own body weight in blood, and will not feed again for months. Leeches were once used by doctors to drain "bad blood" from sick patients.

A flea can jump 350 times is own body length. (say. you jumping the length of a soccer field)thanks seraph

A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

When Swiss cheese ferments, a bacterial action generates gas. As the gas is liberated, it bubbles through the cheese leaving holes. Cheese-makers call them "eyes."

The song "When Irish Eyes are smiling" was written by George Graff, who was German, and was never in Ireland in his life.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

Faye Wong received a 7 digit fee for recording 'eyes on me' and it took her about 4 hours.

Only 5 to 10 percent of cheetah cubs make it to adulthood.

Cheetahs are the fastest land animal and can reach speeds up to 72mph.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two.

An adult lion's roar is so loud, it can be heard up to five miles away.

A lion feeds once every three to four days.

Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.

A white tiger can only be born when both parents carry the gene for white colouring.

Some wild tigers can eat up to 40 pounds of meat at a time, and not eat again for several days.

The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest.

A cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).

A cheetah can run 76 kilometers per hour (46 miles per hour) - that's really fast! The fastest human beings runs only about 30 kilometers per hour (18 miles per hour).

A female seahorse lets her husband store her babies inside his stomach!

Sea horses pull themselves around with their chins leading them.

Male zebras are called stallions. Zebras usually travel in herds.

No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike.

Zebras enemies include hyenas, wild dogs, and lions.

A horse will respond to your emotions/feelings mainly because they are very sensitive animals. Example: if you are angry / frustrated the horse will be frustrated also. But if you are happy and smiling the horse should be good in your lesson or ride.

There are no two zebras who have stripes that are exactly the same.

There are approximately 75,000,000 horses in the world.

It's not only zebra's fur that is striped, their skin is also striped.

All racehorses in the U.S. celebrate their birthday on January 1st.

A full grown horse's intestines are approximately 89 feet long.

If a horse rests it head on your shoulder it means the horse trusts you.

When you hold your hand out to a horse and the horse comes over and blows out warm air onto the palm of your hand it normally means that the horse wants to be friends with you.

Horses have stomachs also and they need to eat. Horses should be fed two times a day.

The snow leopard protects itself from extreme cold when it sleeps by wrapping its 3-foot-long tail around its nose.

The puma and the leopard are the highest jumping mammals. They are able to reach a height of 16.5 feet.

A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with another cat. This is an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural and instinctive.

The smallest cat is the Singapore and weighs only 4 pounds.

Cats can make over 100 vocal sounds, while dogs can only make 10.

A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.

The majority of cats do not have any eyelashes.

Pound for pound, leopards are said to be seven times stronger than humans.

Panthers are known as black leopards, as they are the same species of leopard. If looked at closely, black spots can be seen on a panther.

One out of four American households own a cat.

Just like fingerprints, every cats nose pad is different.

In the 1800's cats were used to deliver mail. In 1879, in Belgium 37 cats were used to deliver mail to villages, however they found that the cats were not disciplined enough to do this.

In a lifetime, the average house cat spends approximately 10,950 hours purring.

In 1888, an Egyptian peasant discovered an estimated three hundred thousand mummified cats in Beni Hassan, Egypt. Of the cats that were not stolen once, the find was made public, the remaining mummified cats were shipped to Great Britain to be used as agricultural fertilizer.

A house cat spends 70% of its time sleeping.

A fall of 30 feet can be survived my most cats.

25% of cat owners blow dry the cat's hair after giving it a bath.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.

A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.

A cat can run about 20 kilometers per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up. This one is going nowhere today - it is too lazy !.

It costs an average of $5,000 to raise a dog to ten years old.

There are almost 60 million dogs in the United States.

Irish Wolfhound dogs have a short lifespan and live about 7-8 years.

In the United States, every year about 15 people die from dog bites.

In 2002, dogs have killed more people in the U.S. than the Great White shark has killed in the past 100 years.

If you were to remove the scent receptors from a dog's nose and lay them out flat, they would cover an area greater than the dog itself.

Dogs can be trained to detect an upcoming epileptic seizure.

Dalmatian puppies do not have any spots on them when they are born. They actually develop them as they get older.

Border collies are the most intelligent breed of dog.

Bloodhounds have been used since the 1600's for tracking criminals.

Approximately 87% of dog owners say that when they watch T.V. their dog curls up beside them or at their feet.

An average city dog lives approximately three years longer than an average country dog.

There is a doggy disco held in Italy every year where owners can dance with their dogs.

The largest dog in the world is the Irish Wolfhound.

The dumbest dog in the world is the Afghan Hounds.

The dog with the largest ears in the world is a Basset Hound named Mr. Jeffries. The dog's ears are 11.5 inches longs, and are insured for $47,800.

The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark.

Pixie, a Siberian Husky, gave birth to 7 puppies, one of which was bright green.

Nose prints are used to identify dogs, much like humans use fingerprints.

All dogs are the descendant of the wolf. These wolves lived in eastern Asia about 15,000 years ago.

About 30% of American admit to talking to their dogs or leaving messages on their answering machines for their dogs while they are away.

A dog by the name of Laika was launched into space aboard the Russian spacecraft.

Dogs can't see colors. They're color blind.

Dogs sweat only through their tongues.

Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!

The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of upto 41.7 miles per hour.

Alaskan brown bears, world's largest meat-eating animals that live on land, can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds (771 kilograms)

The grizzly bear can run as fast as the average horse!!

Bears are native to the continents of North America, Asia, Europe, and South America.

At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.

The wild panda's diet consist 99% of bamboo.

The only predator that polar bears have are humans.

The Kodiak, which is native to Alaska, is the largest bear and can measure up to eight feet and weigh as much as 1,700 pounds.

Polar bears have been known to swim more than 60 miles without resting.

Polar bears can smell seals who are 20 miles away.

Polar bears can eat as much as ten percent of their body weight in less than one hour.

Polar bears are excellent swimmers. They have been known to swim more than 60 miles without a rest.

Polar bear livers contain so much Vitamin A that it can be fatal if eaten by a human.

Not all polar bears hibernate; only pregnant females polar bears do.

In the last 30 years, only seven people have been killed by a polar bear in Canada.

If you spray an antiseptic spray on a polar bear, its fur will turn purple.

98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.

Female and male black bears cannot tolerate being around each other except when they breed.

All polar bears are left handed.

Male bears are called boars.

The smallest species of bears is called sun or Malayan bears.

Bears whose brown fur is tipped with lighter-colored hairs are called grizzly bears.

The lunula is the half-moon shaped pale area at the bottom of finger nails.

The term "honeymoon" is derived from the Babylonians who declared mead, a honey-flavored wine, the official wedding drink, stipulating that the bride's parents be required to keep the groom supplied with the drink for the month following the wedding.

The Sea of tranquility is found on the moon.

The saying 'once in a blue moon ' refers to the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month. The last two occurred in January & March 1999. The next one isn't until the end of 2001.

The moon actually has mirrors on it. They were left there by astronauts who wanted to bounce laser beams off them, so that the distance to the moon can be measured.

The Earths core is a ball of Iron-Nickel at 7,000 C and is 80% the size of the moon.

Moon was Buzz Aldines mother’s maiden name. (Buzz Aldine was the second man on the moon).

Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.

Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System, and is larger than the planets Mercury and Pluto.

It takes about 1.25 seconds for moonlight to reach the Earth.

If you pile up the cans of Yeo's products, you would be able to reach the moon.

If you fold a piece of A4 paper in half 44 times it will reach the moon

All the moons of the Solar System are named after Greek and Roman mythology, except the moons of Uranus, which are named after Shakespearean characters.

A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.

A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it used to take to travel the length of England by stagecoach.

A "Blue Moon" is the second full moon in a calendar month (it is rarely blue).

27% of Americans believe we never landed on the moon.

The lunula is the half-moon shaped pale area at the bottom of finger nails.

When the moon is directly over your head, you weigh slightly less.

The moon weighs 81 billion tons.

Our sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years.

Our sun and the surrounding planets orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy once every 250 million years.

Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

On its trip around the sun, the earth travels over a million and a half miles per day.

No solar eclipse can last longer than 7 minutes 58 seconds because of the speed at which the sun moves.

Lightning bolts can sometimes be hotter than the sun. (about 50 000º F)

It takes only 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth, which also means, if you see the sun go out, it actually went out 8 minutes ago.

In Spit Bergen, Norway at one time of the year the sun shines continuously for three and a half months.

In Newport, Rhode Island it is illegal to smoke from a pipe after sunset.

In Devon, Connecticut, it is unlawful to walk backwards after sunset.

If the sun stopped shining suddenly, it would take eight minutes for people on earth to be aware of the fact.

For 186 days you can not see the sun in the North Pole.

Every eleven years the magnetic poles of the sun switch. This cycle is called"Solarmax".

Because of the speed at which the sun moves, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.

Aztecs believed that the sun died every night and needed human blood to give it strength to rise the next day. So they sacrificed 15,000 men a year to appease their sun god, Huitzilopochtli. Most of the victims were prisoners taken in wars, which were sometimes started solely to round up sacrificial victims.

At the distance at which our sun is located from the center of the Milky Way galaxy, Earth and the rest of our solar system are moving at a speed of about 170 miles per second around the center.

At its center, the sun has a density of over a hundred times that of water, and a temperature of 10-20 million degrees Celsius.

All the coal, oil, gas, and wood on Earth would only keep the Sun burning for a few days.

An area of the Sun's surface the size of a postage stamp shines with the power of 1,500,000 candles.

Your fingernails can turn yellow from wearing nail polish and from the sun.

If the entire solar system were the size of a quarter, the sun would be visible only under a microscope, and the nearest star would be 300 feet away.

The Sun provides our planet with 126,000,000,000,000 horsepower of energy every day.

If the earth were the size of a quarter, the sun would be as large as a 9 foot ball and would be located a football field distance from the earth.

More than 1 million earths would fit inside the sun.

99% of our solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

There are more stars than all of the grains of sand on earth.

You can see stars from the bottom of a well even in day light.

Stars with really strong gravity cause themselves to become smaller and smaller and eventually turn into black holes.

Stars come in different colors; hot stars give off blue light, and the cooler stars give off red light.

In honor of the original thirteen states, the U.S. $1 bill has the following on the back: 13 steps on the pyramid. The motto above the pyramid has 13 letters (annuity coatis). E pluribus Unum, written on the ribbon in the eagle's beak, has 13 letters. 13 stars appear over the eagle's head. 13 stripes are on the shield. 13 war arrows are in the eagle's left talon.

All of the stars comprising the Milky Way galaxy revolve around the center of the galaxy once every 200 million years or so.

Until the mid sixteenth century, Comets were believed to be not astronomical phenomena, but burning vapors that had arisen from distant swamps and were propelled across the sky by fire and light.

Our galaxy has approximately 250 billion stars and it is estimated by astronomers that there are 100 billion other galaxies in the universe.

A galaxy of typical size, about 100 billion suns produces less energy than a single Quasar.

A Comet's tail always points away from the sun.

A Pulsar is a small star made up of neutrons so densely packed together that if one the size of a silver dollar landed on earth, it would weigh approximately 100 million tons.

The Star Alpha Herculis is twenty five times larger than the circumference described by the earth's revolution around the sun. This means that twenty five diameters of our solar orbit would have to be placed end to end to equal the diameter of this Star.

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.

At one time the earth consisted of one land mass and a huge body of water. Geologists today call the land Pangaea (from the Greek words "all land" while the water was called Panthalassa (from the Greek words "all sea"). Between 180 and 200 million years ago, Pangaea split into two parts: Laurasia, which consisted of North America, Europe and Asia; and Gondwanaland, which consisted of Africa, South America, India, Antarctica and Australia.

Astronauts brought back about 800 pounds of lunar rock to Earth. Most of it has not been analyzed.

Approximately 40,000 tons of meteoric dust hits the Earth each year.

According to Hawaiian lore, the earth mother Papa mated with the sky father Wake to give birth to the Hawaiian Islands.

About one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice.

A Red Giant(a kind of exploded star) has a lower density than any vacuum here on earth.

A Blue Earth, Minnesota, law declares that no child under the age of twelve may talk over the telephone unless monitored by a parent.

You would need to travel at 6.95 miles per second to escape the Earth’s gravitational pull. This is equivalent to traveling from New York to Philadelphia in about twenty seconds.

Venus rotates so slowly that in a typical day lasts approximately 244 Earth days (5,856 hours).

If you dig in your backyard, don’t worry about running into the earth’s core. You’d have to dig a hole 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) deep!

Some scientists believe that the earth began billions of years ago as a huge ball of swirling dust and gases.

Some parts of the earth receive direct rays from the sun all year and are always warm. Other places receive indirect rays, so the climate is colder.

Uranus' axis is at 97 degrees. which means that it orbits on its side. (Most of the planets spin on an axis nearly perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic but Uranus' axis is almost parallel to the ecliptic.)

The three most recently discovered planets were Uranus in 1781, Neptune in 1846, and Pluto in 1930.

Mercury is the only planet whose orbit is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit.

Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets. Although it has a circumference of 280,000 miles compared with Earth's 25,000 Jupiter manages to make one turn in 9 hours and 55 minutes.

If you are having problems remembering the planets in their correct order, just remember this sentence "My very educated mother justed served us nine pickles," Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.

According to scientists, Gold exists on Mars, Mercury, and Venus.

The universe is so vast in relation to the matter it contains that it can be compared in the following way: A building 20 miles long, 20 miles wide and 20 miles high that contains 1 grain of sand.

The three most common elements in the universe are 1) hydrogen; 2) helium; 3) oxygen.

As late as 1820, the universe was thought to be 6,000 years old. It is now thought to be between 15 and 20 billion years old.

Scientists believe that hydrogen comprises approximately 90 to 99 percent of all matter in the Universe.

A bucket filled with earth would Weigh about five times more than the same bucket filled with the substance of the sun. However, the force of Gravity is so much greater on the sun that a man Weighing 150 pounds on our planet would Weigh 2 tons on the sun.

A space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second to escape the earth's Gravitational pull. This is equivalent to going from New York to Philadelphia in about twenty seconds.

There are approximately 10,000 pieces of equipment revolving around the earth. About 3,000 of these pieces are satellites, the rest are odd bits of Debris.

Astronomers believe that the universe contains one atom for every 88 gallons of space.

The world's first test tube twins are Stephen and Amanda Mays born June 5, 1981.

Some people drink the urine of pregnant women to build up their immune system.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

Every day, over 1,300 babies are born prematurely in the USA.

During pregnancy, the average woman's uterus expands up to five hundred times its normal size.

Changing a cat's litter box can be dangerous to pregnant women, as cat feces sometimes carry a parasite that can cause harm to the developing baby.

A pregnant woman's dental health can affect her unborn child.

May babies are on avearge 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months.

When a women is pregnant, her senses are all heightened.

Studies show that couples that smoke during the time of conception have a higher chance of having a girl compared to couples that do not smoke.

The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone which is located in the ear.

There are 54 bones in your hands including the wrists.

The only bone fully grown at birth is located in the ear.

The human face is made up of 14 bones.

The chances of getting a cavity is higher if candy is eaten slowly throughout the day compared to eating it all at once and then brushing your teeth.

If an identical twin grows up without having a certain tooth, the other twin will most likely also grow up with that tooth missing.

Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.

Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.

Enamel is hardest substance in the human body.

Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% water.

Adult human bones account for 14% of the body's total weight.

In 2000 babies are born with a tooth that is already visible.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.

The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it's hollow!

People that use mobile phones are 2.5 time more likely to develop cancer in areas of the brain that are adjacent to the ear they use to talk on the mobile phone.

Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress.

Over 436,000 U.S. Troops were exposed to depleted uranium during the first Gulf war.

On average, 90% of the people that have the disease Lupus are female.

Many cancer patients that are treated with chemotherapy lose their hair. For some when the hair grows back, it can grow back a different colour, or be curly or straight.

Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for about 180,000 deaths per year.

Chances of a women getting breast cancer are increased by excessive use of alcohol.

A popular superstition is that if you put a piece of bread in a baby's crib, it will keep away diseases.

A person that is struck by lightning has a greater chance of developing motor neurons disease.

Every year in the U.S., there are 178,000 new cases of lung cancer.

Every three minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer.

Asthma affects one in fifteen children under the age of eighteen.

Every eleven minutes in the U.S., a woman dies of breast cancer.

Due to eating habits in the USA, one in three children born in the year 2000 have a chance of getting type II diabetes.

The oldest known disease in the world is leprosy.

The number one cause of rabies in the United States are bats.

Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound — over a thousand feet per second!

A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries.

The incidents of immune system diseases has increased over 200% in the last five years.

The flu pandemic of 1918 killed over 20 million people.

Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.

Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company, Wayne McLaren, died of lung cancer.

Soldiers disease is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a disease caused by ticks.

A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.

A study indicates that smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.

A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years.

Lady Peseshet is known to be the world's first known female physician. She practiced during the time of the pyramids, which was the fourth dynasty.

The DNA of humans is closer to a rat than a cat.

Teenage suicide is the second cause of death in the state of Wisconsin.

Teenage cosmetic surgeries nearly doubled in the USA between 1996 and 1998.

Studies indicate that weightlifters working out in blue gyms can handle heavier weights.

Studies indicate that listening to music is good for digestion.

Studies indicate that epileptic patients that listen to Mozart's Piano Sonata can dramatically decrease their chance of a seizure.

Lack of sleep can affect your immune system and reduce your ability to fight infections.

It takes about three hours for food to be broken down in the human stomach.

Over 40 million Americans have chronic bad breath.

Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.

Fourteen people die each day from asthma in the United States.

Every day the human stomach produces about 2 liters of hydrochloric acid.

Nearly half of all Americans suffer from symptoms of burnout.In humans, the epidermal layer of skin, which consists of many layers of skin regenerates every 27 days.

Native Americans used to use pumpkin seeds for medicine.

In ancient Egypt, doctors used jolts from the electric catfish to reduce the pain of arthritis.

The lining of the a person's stomach is replaced every 36 hours.

The purpose of tonsils is to destroy foreign substances that are swallowed or breathed in.

In the United States, poisoning is the fourth leading cause of death among children.

The risk of cardiovascular disease is twice as high in women that snore regularly compared to women who do not snore.

The stomach of an adult can hold 1.5 liters of material.

The stomach can break down goat's milk faster than the milk of a cow.

The smoke that is produced by a fire kills more people than a burn does because of carbon monoxide and other dangerous gases.

It has been medically been proven that laughter is an effective pain killer.

Influenza caused over twenty-one million deaths in 1918.

In a year, there are 60,000 trampoline injuries that occur in the U.S.

Even if you eat food standing on your head, the food will still end up in your stomach.

A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery.

3000 children die every day in Africa because of malaria.

Two million red blood cells die every second.

There are approximately 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

Seven percent of a humans body weight is made up of blood.

In the early nineteenth century some advertisements claimed that riding the carousel was good for the circulation of blood.

Each day 400 gallons of recycled blood are pumped through the kidneys.

By donating just one pint of blood, four lives can be saved.

Blood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for paint.

The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day.

The average life span of a single red blood cell is 120 days.

Blood accounts for about 8% of a human's body weight.

A woman has approximately 4.5 liters of blood in her body, while men have 5.6 liters.

Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a human's blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That's enough to go around the world twice.

Half your body’s red blood cells are replaced every seven days.

If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 60,000 miles.

Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression than men in the United States.

The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons.

From all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain.

People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.

Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.

It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.

A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder.

In America, the most common mental illness is Anxiety Disorders.

Your brain is 80% water.

Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day.

The smile is the most frequently used facial expression. A smile can use anywhere from a pair of 5 to 53 facial muscles.

The slowest growing finger nail is on the thumb nail and the fastest growing is the finger nail on the middle finger.

The sensitivity of a woman's middle finger is reduced during menstruation.

The same amount of calories are burned by doing 6 sessions that are 5 minutes each of an activity and doing 1 session of that activity for 30 minutes.

The pectin that is found in apples aids in lowering cholesterol levels.

The most frequent season for most suicides to occur is in the spring. The winter months have the lowest number of suicides.

The majority of American models are skinnier than 98% of American women.

The longest hiccups on record was by an American pig farmer whose hiccups persisted from 1922 to 1987.

The longer white infants from low-income families are breast-fed, the less likely they will be overweight as young children, researchers said on Monday.

The length of a human esophagus is 25 centimeters.

The human liver performs over 500 functions.

The feet have approximately 250,000 sweat glands.

The eight most popular foods to cause food allergies are: milk, eggs, wheat, peanuts, soy, tree nuts, fish, and shellfish.

The early occurrence of a fetus yawning is at eleven weeks after conception.

The average ear grows 0.01 inches in length every year.

The Gastric Flu can cause projectile vomiting.

The Dutch people are known to be the tallest people in Europe.

Studies have shown that the scent of Rosemary can help in better mental performance and make individuals feel more alert.

Some brands of toothpaste contain glycerin or glycerol, which is also an ingredient in antifreeze.

Soaking beans for twelve hours in water before they are cooked can reduce flatulence caused by beans.

Scientists say that babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.

Scientists have determined that having guilty feelings may actually damage your immune system

Research has indicated that approximately eleven minutes are cut off the life of an average male smoker from each cigarette smoked.

People have the tendency to chew the food on the side that they most often use their hand.

Over 600,000 people died as a result of the Spanish influenza epidemic.

Only one out of every three people wash their hands when leaving a public bathroom.

One ragweed plant can release as many as a million grains of pollen in one day.

One out of 20 people have an extra rib.

One average, men spend 60 hours a year shaving.

On average, falling asleep while driving results in 550 accidents per day in the United States.

On average, Americans spend 33% of their life sleeping.

On average a person passes gas 14 times a day.

On average 1,668 gallons of water are used by each person in the United States daily.

Nerve impulses for muscle position travel at a speed of up to 390 feet per second.

Nerve cells can travel as fast as 120 meters per second.

Mummy powder was once thought to be a cure for all remedies. English men used to carry the powder with them in a tiny bag wherever they went.

Men in their early twenties shave an average of four times a week.

Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth.

Medical reports show that about 18% of the population are prone to sleepwalking.

Manicuring the nails has been done by people for more than 4,000 years.

Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.

Ironically, when doctors in Los Angeles, California went on strike in 1976, the daily number of deaths in the city dropped 18%.

In the United States, 8.5 million cosmetic surgical and non-surgical procedures were done in the year 2001.

People with darker skin will not wrinkle as fast as people with lighter skin.

People with allergies can lower allergy reactions by laughing.

People who meet their calcium need reduce their risk of developing kidney stones.

People that smoke have 10 times as many wrinkles as a person that does not smoke.

People still cut the cheese shortly after death.

People over the age of fifty will start to lose their dislike for foods that taste bitter.

People of Ancient China believed that swinging your arms could cure a headache.

The average weight of a newborn baby is 7 lbs. 6 oz. For a triplet baby it is 3 lbs. 12 oz.

The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.

The average person falls asleep in about 12 to 14 minutes.

There are approximately one hundred million people in the United States that have a chronic illness.

There are approximately 60 muscles in the face.

There are 50% more males that are left handed compared to females.

There are 400 species of bacteria in the human colon.

There are 10 million bacteria at the place where you rest your hands at a desk.

In a lifetime, an average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva.

In a lifetime, an average driver will release approximately 912 pints of wind inside a car.

In Canada, men are three times more likely than women to have seen a doctor in the last year.

In 1832, in Paisley, Scotland the first municipal water filtration works was opened.

Humans breathe in and out approximately one litre of air in ten seconds.

Girls have more tastebud than boys.

From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.

Flu shots only work about 70% of the time.

Gases that build up in your large intestine cause flatulence. It usually takes about 30 to 45 minutes for these gases to pass through your system.

Fat is important for the development of children and normal growth.

Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of snot.

Eighty percent of 10 year old girls in the USA go on a diet.

Air is passed through the nose at a speed of 100 miles per hour when a person sneezes.

About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.

A yawn usually lasts for approximately six seconds.

Children who are breast fed tend to have an IQ seven points higher than children who are not.

Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.

Eating chocolate three times a month helps people live longer as opposed to people who overeat chocolate or do not eat chocolate at all.

Constipation is caused when too much water is absorbed in the large intestine and poops become dry.

A ear trumpet was used before the hearing aid was invented by people who had difficulty hearing.

The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.

The average person has at least seven dreams a night.

Bile produced by the liver is responsible for making your feces a brownish, green colour.

It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.

By the time you are 70 you will have easily drunk over 12,000 gallons of water.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.

The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.

The average person laughs about 15 times a day.

The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.

About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.

We should never put anything in or near our eyes, unless we have a reason to use eye drops. We would only do that if our doctor or parent told us to use them.

Blinking helps to wash tears over our eyeballs. That keeps them clean and moist. Also, if something is about to hit our eye, we will blink automatically.

Our body has some natural protection for our eyes. Our eyelashes help to keep dirt out of our eyes. Our eyebrows are made to keep sweat from running into our eyes.

Our eyes are very important to us, and we must protect them. We don't want dirt, sand, splinters or even fingers to get in our eyes. We don't want our eyes to get scratched or poked. That could damage our sight!

The study of the iris of the eye is called iridology.

The shark cornea has been used in eye surgery, since its cornea is similar to a human cornea.

The number one cause of blindness in adults in the United States is diabetes.

The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.

The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of the gray.

The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels.

The conjunctiva is a membrane that covers the human eye.

Sailors once thought that wearing a gold earring would improve their eyesight.

Research has indicated that a tie that is on too tight cam increase the risk of glaucoma in men.

People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.

Men are able to read fine print better than women can.