http://somethinbeautiful.blogspot.com/2009/03/50-weird-facts-about-humans-amazing.html
Some of my favorites...
While sitting at your desk make clockwise circles with your right foot. (go ahead no one will see you) While doing this, draw the number “6″ in the air with your right hand.Your foot will change direction that is a fact.
1. People with higher number of moles tend to live longer than people with lesser number of moles.
I wonder if the fact isn't a bit... spotty
4. Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.
Hmm, right about now I'd be able to toss King Kong across a football field...
5. 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.
Betcha there'll be a run to the grocery stores after this is read
7. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you’ll have a bad dream.
Wonder why that is?
8. There are more people alive today than have ever died.
Not for long if we keep going the way we've been
10. Women blink twice as many times as men do.
That's only because they're flirting half the time
11. The average person who http://somethinbeautiful.blogspot.com/2009/03/50-weird-facts-about-humans-amazing.html#stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
Interesting
12. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
Well it is the best medicine :uhyeah:
15. The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb. The cartoon image of a light bulb over your head when a great thought occurs isn’t too far off the mark. Your brain generates as much energy as a small light bulb even when you’re sleeping.
Some folks we know (collectively and individually) couldn't even produce HALF of that much energy...
16. The brain is much more active at night than during the day.
*written at 6:18 pm* uh...what?
20. Human hair is virtually indestructible. Aside from it’s flammability, human hair decays at such a slow rate that it is practically non-disintegrative. Hair cannot be destroyed by cold, change of climate, water, or other natural forces and it is resistant to many kinds of acids and corrosive chemicals. http://somethinbeautiful.blogspot.com/2009/03/50-weird-facts-about-humans-amazing.html#
Wonders if a bullet-proof vest could be made by tightly woven human hair?
21. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades. Hydrochloric acid, the type found in your stomach, is not only good at dissolving the pizza you had for dinner but can also eat through many types of metal.
So parents shouldn't worry too much if their kid swallows a penny successfully ... the stomach lining has got to be uniquely tough
22. The surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court.
that is an amazing fact I didn't know
24. Approximately 75% of human waste is made of water.
THAT I didn't NEED to know
25. The average person expels flatulence 14 times each day. Even if you’d like to think you’re too dignified to pass gas, the reality is that almost everyone will at least a few times a day.
is that why it's so funny when someone does it?
28. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
and some remain that way... or at least their brain does
30. Women are born better smellers than men and remain better smellers over life.
which is why a man's mistress shouldn't wear perfume
31. Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
can it remember this one? :fart:
34. Your eyes are always the same size from birth but your nose and ears never stop growing.
see!! I told you I wasn't lying
36. Monday is the day of the week when the risk of heart attack is greatest. A ten year study in Scotland found that 20% more people die of heart attacks on Mondays than any other day of the week. Researchers theorize that it’s a combination of too much fun over the weekend with the stress of going back to work that causes the increase.
So... we should have a petition to remove Monday from our calendars
38. Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress.
This isn't surprising
39. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated. While it might be gross to think about, the blood in the head may be enough to keep someone alive and conscious for a few seconds after the head has been separated from the body, though reports as to the accuracy of this are widely varying.
This was proven in the Reanimator :uhyeah:
42. It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it. Lazy people out there shouldn’t use this as motivation to not work out, however. It’s relatively easy to build new muscle tissue and get your muscles in shape, so if anything, this fact should be motivation to get off the couch and get moving.
So what are you all doing here reading this... for that matter what am I doing here posting this??
44. It is not possible to tickle yourself. Even the most ticklish among us do not have the ability to tickle ourselves.
Disagree... run your fingers lightly over your neck and see if you don't have the urge to smile or even giggle
45. The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body. While not exact down to the last millimeter, your armspan is a pretty good estimator of your height.
I learned about this in art class and DaVinci showed it with that drawing of his
46. Humans are the only animals to produce emotional tears.
*sniff* I'm all choked up about this
49. One human hair can support 3.5 ounces. That’s about the weight of two full size candy bars, and with hundreds of thousands of hairs on the human head, makes the tale of Rapunzel much more plausible.
Don't they make a cable out of human hair?
+ 51. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
And it earned more than any movie ever.
Some of my favorites...
While sitting at your desk make clockwise circles with your right foot. (go ahead no one will see you) While doing this, draw the number “6″ in the air with your right hand.Your foot will change direction that is a fact.
1. People with higher number of moles tend to live longer than people with lesser number of moles.
I wonder if the fact isn't a bit... spotty
4. Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.
Hmm, right about now I'd be able to toss King Kong across a football field...
5. 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.
Betcha there'll be a run to the grocery stores after this is read
7. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you’ll have a bad dream.
Wonder why that is?
8. There are more people alive today than have ever died.
Not for long if we keep going the way we've been
10. Women blink twice as many times as men do.
That's only because they're flirting half the time
11. The average person who http://somethinbeautiful.blogspot.com/2009/03/50-weird-facts-about-humans-amazing.html#stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
Interesting
12. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
Well it is the best medicine :uhyeah:
15. The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb. The cartoon image of a light bulb over your head when a great thought occurs isn’t too far off the mark. Your brain generates as much energy as a small light bulb even when you’re sleeping.
Some folks we know (collectively and individually) couldn't even produce HALF of that much energy...
16. The brain is much more active at night than during the day.
*written at 6:18 pm* uh...what?
20. Human hair is virtually indestructible. Aside from it’s flammability, human hair decays at such a slow rate that it is practically non-disintegrative. Hair cannot be destroyed by cold, change of climate, water, or other natural forces and it is resistant to many kinds of acids and corrosive chemicals. http://somethinbeautiful.blogspot.com/2009/03/50-weird-facts-about-humans-amazing.html#
Wonders if a bullet-proof vest could be made by tightly woven human hair?
21. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades. Hydrochloric acid, the type found in your stomach, is not only good at dissolving the pizza you had for dinner but can also eat through many types of metal.
So parents shouldn't worry too much if their kid swallows a penny successfully ... the stomach lining has got to be uniquely tough
22. The surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court.
that is an amazing fact I didn't know
24. Approximately 75% of human waste is made of water.
THAT I didn't NEED to know
25. The average person expels flatulence 14 times each day. Even if you’d like to think you’re too dignified to pass gas, the reality is that almost everyone will at least a few times a day.
is that why it's so funny when someone does it?
28. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
and some remain that way... or at least their brain does
30. Women are born better smellers than men and remain better smellers over life.
which is why a man's mistress shouldn't wear perfume
31. Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
can it remember this one? :fart:
34. Your eyes are always the same size from birth but your nose and ears never stop growing.
see!! I told you I wasn't lying
36. Monday is the day of the week when the risk of heart attack is greatest. A ten year study in Scotland found that 20% more people die of heart attacks on Mondays than any other day of the week. Researchers theorize that it’s a combination of too much fun over the weekend with the stress of going back to work that causes the increase.
So... we should have a petition to remove Monday from our calendars
38. Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress.
This isn't surprising
39. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated. While it might be gross to think about, the blood in the head may be enough to keep someone alive and conscious for a few seconds after the head has been separated from the body, though reports as to the accuracy of this are widely varying.
This was proven in the Reanimator :uhyeah:
42. It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it. Lazy people out there shouldn’t use this as motivation to not work out, however. It’s relatively easy to build new muscle tissue and get your muscles in shape, so if anything, this fact should be motivation to get off the couch and get moving.
So what are you all doing here reading this... for that matter what am I doing here posting this??
44. It is not possible to tickle yourself. Even the most ticklish among us do not have the ability to tickle ourselves.
Disagree... run your fingers lightly over your neck and see if you don't have the urge to smile or even giggle
45. The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body. While not exact down to the last millimeter, your armspan is a pretty good estimator of your height.
I learned about this in art class and DaVinci showed it with that drawing of his
46. Humans are the only animals to produce emotional tears.
*sniff* I'm all choked up about this
49. One human hair can support 3.5 ounces. That’s about the weight of two full size candy bars, and with hundreds of thousands of hairs on the human head, makes the tale of Rapunzel much more plausible.
Don't they make a cable out of human hair?
+ 51. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
And it earned more than any movie ever.
