¤Bizarre Facts About the Human Body¤

A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at
speeds up to 60 mph.

A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.

A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair
a day.

A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single
flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.

According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is
higher on Monday than any other day of the week.

After spending hours working at a computer display, look at
a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have
only 206 in our bodies.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If
the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to
nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

If you go blind in one eye, you'll only lose about one-fifth
of your vision (but all your depth perception.)

The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a life-
time, enough to fill two swimming pools.


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