Amazing Facts About: Human Body

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1. The lungs contain over 300 million capillaries (very small blood vessels) and if they were laid end to end, they would be 1500 miles long.

2. A man’s testicles manufacture 10 million new sperm cells each day – enough that he could repopulate the entire planet in only 6 months!

3. Human bone is as strong as granite in supporting weight. A block of bone the size of a matchbox can support 9 tonnes – that is four times as much as concrete can support.

4.The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 50 miles every day.

5. The eyes receive approximately 90 percent of all our information, making us basically visual race.

6. In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels

7. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

8. Every two thousand frowns, creates one wrinkle.

9. The average human body contains enough, Sulphur 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, Phosphorus to make 2,200 matchheads, and enough Water to fill a ten-gallon tank.

10. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

11. When you eat meat and drink milk in the same meal, your body does not absorb any of the milk's calcium. It is best to have 2 hours between the milk and meat intake.

Amazing Facts About: Celebrities

1. George Clooney sometimes sleeps in the walk-in closet of his LA mansion because, he says, "all the bedrooms are too light".

2. Matthew Perry is missing part of his middle finger on his right hand due to a door-shutting accident.

3. Early in her career, Whitney Houston sang the jingle used in commercials for Bounce fabric sheets.

4. Even though she appears in ads for Tommy Hilfiger's True Star fragrances, Beyonce is reportedly allergic to perfume.

5. Colin Farrell says that Marilyn Monroe was the first woman he fell in love with. "I used to leave Smarties, the Irish equivalent of M&Ms, under my pillow with a little note saying, "I know you're dead but these are very tasty and you should come and have a few. i wont tell anyone"

6. As a 2nd grader Jamie Foxx was so talented at telling jokes, his teacher used him as a reward. If the class behaved, Jamie would entertain them.

7. In the early 70s, Richard Gere played Danny Zuko in a London production of Grease.

8. As a child, Jim Carrey wore tap shoes to bed just in case his parents needed cheering up in the middle of the night.

9. Mariah Carey was nicknamed "Mirage" in high school because she never showed up for class.

10. Comic actor Jack Black is the son of rocket scientists. His mother worked on the Hubble telescope, and his father worked on "some stuff that i can't tell you about," Jack says.

11. When he was little, Ben Affleck asked his mom for a dog and she tested him by making him walk an imaginary pup for a week. In the end, he only lasted five days and didn't get the dog

12. Usher holds the Star Search record for the longest note by a child: 12.1 seconds

13. Brad Pitt belonged to the Key Club and the Forensics Club in High School, and before he became an actor he supported himself as a chauffeur, a furniture mover and a costumed mascot for the restaurant, El Pollo Loco.

Amazing Facts About: Animals

1. The blue whale is the largest creature that has ever lived on earth. It tips the scales at a whopping 170 tons - that's the same as about 22 elephants. Its heart is the size of a small car, and its largest blood vessels are wide enough for an adult to swim through without much difficulty.

2. Owls are the only bird that can see the color blue.

3. Giraffes have no vocal chords.

4. The tongue of a chameleon are faster than a fighter jet.

5. The eyes of ostrich’s are bigger than their brains.

6. An ant can lift fifty times of it’s own weight

7. A cockroach can survive without it’s head for nine days. At the end of nine day, it dies because of hunger.

8. A tarantula can survive for more than two years without food.

9. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

10. Woodpeckers slam their heads into wood at a rate of 20 pecks per second. What protects them from injury is a spongy area that sits behind their beaks and acts as a shock absorber.

11. Giraffes and humans have the same number of bones in their necks seven

12. African elephants produce approximately 100 kilograms of manure per day. Most of this manure is eaten up by beetles.

13. The hummingbird flaps its wings 55 to 75 times per second. In order to fuel this activity, it eats approximately twice its weight in nectar every day.

14. On average, sharks kill 10 humans every year. Approximately 100 people die each year when they are stepped on by cows.

Amazing Facts About: Random

1. Icebergs are approximately 1/8 (12.5 %) of the ice is above water and 7/8 (87.5 %) of the ice to be below the surface.

2. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second

3. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

4. Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.

5. George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

6. In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans every year.

7. It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.

8. King Kong was Adolf Hitler''s favorite movie.

9. Ants never sleep.

10. No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH".

11. The earth is weighs approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons

12. Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

13. The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

14. Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.

15. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

16. Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales.

17. Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.

18. One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.

19. Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.

20. A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

21. In Sweden there is a ski-thru Mcdonalds.

22. If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.

23. Babies are born without knee caps.

24. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.