HUMAN BODY FACTS

1. The Dutch people are known to be the tallest people in Europe.
2. Studies have shown that the scent of Rosemary can help in better mental performance and make individuals feel more alert.
3. Some brands of toothpaste contain glycerin or glycerol, which is also an ingredient in antifreeze.
4. Soaking beans for twelve hours in water before they are cooked can reduce flatulence caused by beans.
5. Scientists say that babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.
6. Scientists have determined that having guilty feelings may actually damage your immune system
7. Research has indicated that approximately eleven minutes are cut off the life of an average male smoker from each cigarette smoked.
8. People have the tendency to chew the food on the side that they most often use their hand.
9. Over 600,000 people died as a result of the Spanish influenza epidemic.
10. Only one out of every three people wash their hands when leaving a public bathroom.
11. One ragweed plant can release as many as a million grains of pollen in one day.
12. One out of 20 people have an extra rib.
13. One average, men spend 60 hours a year shaving.
14. On average, falling asleep while driving results in 550 accidents per day in the United States.
15. On average, a person has two million sweat glands.
16. On average, Americans spend 33% of their life sleeping.
17. On average a person passes gas 14 times a day.
18. On average 1,668 gallons of water are used by each person in the United States daily.
19. Nerve impulses for muscle position travel at a speed of up to 390 feet per second.
20. Nerve cells can travel as fast as 120 meters per second.
21. 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.
22. Men in their early twenties shave an average of four times a week.
23. Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth.
24. Medical reports show that about 18% of the population are prone to sleepwalking.
25. Manicuring the nails has been done by people for more than 4,000 years.
26. Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.
27. Ironically, when doctors in Los Angeles, California went on strike in 1976, the daily number of deaths in the city dropped 18%.
28. In the United States, 8.5 million cosmetic surgical and non-surgical procedures were done in the year 2001.
29. People with darker skin will not wrinkle as fast as people with lighter skin.
30. People with allergies can lower allergy reactions by laughing.
31. People who meet their calcium need reduce their risk of developing kidney stones.
32. People that smoke have 10 times as many wrinkles as a person that does not smoke.
33. People still cut the cheese shortly after death.
34. People over the age of fifty will start to lose their dislike for foods that taste bitter.
35. People of Ancient China believed that swinging your arms could cure a headache.
36. The average weight of a newborn baby is 7 lbs. 6 oz. For a triplet baby it is 3 lbs. 12 oz.
37. The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.
38. The average person falls asleep in about 12 to 14 minutes.
39. There are approximately one hundred million people in the United States that have a chronic illness.
40. There are approximately 60 muscles in the face.
41. There are 50% more males that are left handed compared to females.
42. There are 400 species of bacteria in the human colon.
43. There are 10 million bacteria at the place where you rest your hands at a desk.
44. In a lifetime, an average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva.
45. In a lifetime, an average driver will release approximately 912 pints of wind inside a car.
46. In Canada, men are three times more likely than women to have seen a doctor in the last year.
47. In 1832, in Paisley, Scotland the first municipal water filtration works was opened.
48. Humans breathe in and out approximately one litre of air in ten seconds.
49. Girls have more tastebud than boys.
50. From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
51. Flu shots only work about 70% of the time.
52. 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.
53. Fat is important for the development of children and normal growth.
54. Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of snot.
55. Eighty percent of 10 year old girls in the USA go on a diet.
56. Air is passed through the nose at a speed of 100 miles per hour when a person sneezes.
57. About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
58. A yawn usually lasts for approximately six seconds.
59. Children who are breast fed tend to have an IQ seven points higher than children who are not.
60. Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.
61. Eating chocolate three times a month helps people live longer as opposed to people who overeat chocolate or do not eat chocolate at all.
62. Constipation is caused when too much water is absorbed in the large intestine and poops become dry.
63. A ear trumpet was used before the hearing aid was invented by people who had difficulty hearing.
64. The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.
65. The average person has at least seven dreams a night.
66. Bile produced by the liver is responsible for making your feces a brownish, green colour.
67. It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.
68. By the time you are 70 you will have easily drunk over 12,000 gallons of water.
69. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
70. The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
71. The average person laughs about 15 times a day.
72. The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.
73. About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.