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Several
well-documented instances have been reported of extremely obese people flushing
aircraft toilets whilst still sitting on them. The vacuum action of these
toilets sucked the rectum inside out.
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The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
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The average American butt is 15 inches long.
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The
average 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, Phosphorus to make 2,200 match heads, Water
to fill a ten gallon tank.
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The
average human being will walk 160 billion millimeters in a lifetime.
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The
average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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The
average person flexes the joints in their fingers 24 million times during a
lifetime.
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The
hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
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The
palms of your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan.
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The
two most common surgeries are biopsies and cesarean sections.
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The
typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
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The
typical person swallows 295 times during dinner.
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Twenty
thousands plants have been used for therapeutic purposes.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
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You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching T.V.
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You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
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Your body creates as much as 2 quarts of saliva every day.
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Your hearing is less sharp if you eat too much.
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Your muscles make up one half of your body weight.
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You lose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill
eight five-pound flour bags.
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Type O is the most common blood type in the world. Type AB
is the most rare.
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Unconsciousness will occur 8-10 seconds after loss of blood
supply to the brain.
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In 1977, a 13-year-old child found a tooth growing out of
his left foot.
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On average, half of all false teeth have some form of
radioactivity.
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The most frequently broken bone in the body is the
collarbone.
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The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot
repair itself.
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Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
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Electrical stimulation in certain areas of the brain can
revive long lost memories.
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Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170
miles per hour.
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One
human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the
world's telephones put together.
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The
human brain is so complex; that it would cost over $8 billion for anyone to
program and sell a computer to do all the things it does!
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