Some interesting info

by Chello Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:52 am

Women blink twice as many times as men do.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.

There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.

If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.

Grapefruit scent will make middle aged women appear six years younger to men. The perception is not reciprocal and the grapefruit scent on men has no effect on women's perception.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

Kidney stones come in any color--from yellow to brown.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.

Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.

The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.

The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.

After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

A person swallows approx. 295 times while eating dinner.

Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagus.

If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.

A baby is born every seven seconds.

You breathe about 10 million times a year.

There are more people alive today than have ever died.

The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.

A man's beard contains between 7000 and 15,000 hairs.

A beard grows an average of 140mm a year

A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes

4 million people die annually from diarrhea infections, caused by poor sanitary conditions

The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.

Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair

The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.

The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.

The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.

The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.

The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.

The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.

The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.

When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes just before the camera rolls - it cools their mouths so their breath doesn't condense in the cold air.

Humans were first infected with the HIV virus in the 1930s.

4.5 million people have their health 'adversely affected' by air pollutants each year.
4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and Dung

Coca-Cola was originally green.

the most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States .

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath .

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you Sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to Suppress a sneeze; you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from History. "Spades" - King David; "Clubs" - Alexander the Great; " Hearts" - Charlemagne; "Diamonds" - Julius Caesar.

11 x 11=121
111 x111=12321
1111x1111=1234321
11111x11111= 123454321
111111x111111= 12345654321
1111111x1111111= 1234567654321
111111111x111111111 =123456787654321
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321

What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.

Honey - This is the only food that doesn't spoil.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All polar bears are left handed.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.