Why would I make comments about these facts? Something compelled me too. I couldn't help myself. Hay, it wouldn't be me, if it wasn't random.
1. A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day. **Ask my husband, he'll tell it's more than that. I tie my hair back (in a ponytail or braid) and he still manages to come up with a wad of my hair on cleaning day.
2. A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph. **boom!
3. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. **No calories? What's the point
4. A foetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months. **That I didn't know.
5. A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph. **sonic-boom
6. Every person has a unique tongue print. ** Really? Let's go as Gene Simmons if this is true.
7. According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week. **It's Monday! No bloody wonder people have heart attacks on Mondays.
8. After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink. **ooh prudy colours
9. An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime. **Anyone want to put out a small forest fire? That or lock the door to the loo?
10. A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip. **Funny, it seems to take forever for mine to grow.
11. An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs. **Look at #1.
12. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. ** Nah it doesn't. Only 2 for each, see - :) :(
13. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies. **I thought it was304 bones? Oh well, shows what I know.
14. 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. **Aren't beards great - for those who can grow one. I mean really, it's a great place to hid snackage when watching a movie.
15. By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds. 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.) **Why wait that long? I've heard some people who are younger than that and have no taste
16. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels. **If you cut them, will they not bleed
17. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. ** ~~playing fake trumpets~~ It's a blood platelet? Is it a vein? No, it's Amoeba Man.
18. Every person has a unique tongue print. Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it. **Okay… was buddy who thought this one up listening to
Jonathan Coulton?
19. Fingernails grow faster than toenails. **again with the nails...
20. Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin. **That's almost as bad my response for #'s: 1 & 11