Fun Facts
It
only takes 17 muscles to smile but 43 to frown.
According to German researchers and other studies, the risk of
heart
attack is higher on Monday mornings than on any other day of the
week!
Did you know that the only letter not appearing on the periodic
table is
the letter J?
There are nearly 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
That's
like the distance from Princeton to Philly!
You've heard of having a sixth sense, but you may also have a
third eye.
Eastern religions sometimes portray people with an eye in the
middle of
their forehead. Turns out, that's located in about the same spot
as the
pineal gland in your brain. That pineal gland actually senses
light the
way your eyes would!
Did you know that a baby is born with approximately 300 bones, but
the
average adult human being has only 206 bones? The difference comes
from a
number of small bones, such as the sacrum and coccyx, that fuse
together
during growth.
The biggest threat to your hearing is loud noise. Normal
conversation60
decibels | Snoring = 85 decibels | Lawn mower= 90 decibels. Eight
hours
of exposure to 90 decibels or more could cause damage. So,
essentially,
that's like saying IF YOU SLEEP NEXT TO A PERSON WHO SNORES LOUDLY
FOR
MORE THAN 8 HOURS, YOU COULD POSSIBLY GO DEAF- oops, sorry, didn't
mean to
shout!
Do you ever forget things during a stressful situation that you
should
have remembered? Cortisol, a class of steroid hormones secreted by
the
adrenal glands during stressful situations, interferes with the
function
of neurotransmitters, the chemicals that brain cells use to
communicate
with each other. Thus, excessive cortisol interferes with thinking
and
retrieving memories.
The total length of DNA present in an adult human being is
equivalent to
nearly 70 trips from the Earth to the sun and back!
We are about 1 cm shorter during the evening than in the morning.
Because
of the pull of gravity on your spinal column, layers of cartilage
in the
joints get compressed during the day. Haha, so convince your
friends that
you can get taller overnight...precisely measure your height
before you go
to bed, and then immediately after you wake up...see what happens
and just
nod when you see their surprised looks!~
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and
ears never
stop growing!!
Studies have shown that eating breakfast with high protein food
(eggs,
dairy, etc.) and high-fiber starch (whole wheat bread, healthy
cereal,
etc.) can improve memory and enhance attention. Mom was right all
along!
"The average human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch
nail,
sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900
pencils,
potassium to fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap,
phosphorous to
make 2,200 match heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank."
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