TRIVIA

DID YOU KNOW?

A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph. DID YOU KNOW? A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months. DID YOU KNOW? A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip. DID YOU KNOW? A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day. DID YOU KNOW? A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day. DID YOU KNOW? A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks. DID YOU KNOW? A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph. DID YOU KNOW? According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week. DID YOU KNOW? According to the Kinsey Institute, the biggest erect penis on record measures 13 inches. The smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches. DID YOU KNOW? After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink. DID YOU KNOW? An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime. DID YOU KNOW? An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs. DID YOU KNOW? An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day. DID YOU KNOW? An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body. DID YOU KNOW? Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies. DID YOU KNOW? 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. DID YOU KNOW? Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people. DID YOU KNOW? Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide. DID YOU KNOW? By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds. DID YOU KNOW? By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.) DID YOU KNOW? During the 2,475,576,000 seconds of the average length life, we speak 123,205,750 words, have sex 4,239 times, shed 121 pints of tears. DID YOU KNOW? Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels. DID YOU KNOW? Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. DID YOU KNOW? Every person has a unique tongue print. DID YOU KNOW? Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it. DID YOU KNOW? Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.