Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.
Yellowstone is the world's 1st national park. It was dedicated in 1872.
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 fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow
from base to tip.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands
of hair a day.
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than
from starvation. Death will occur in about 10 days without sleep, while starvation can take much longer.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
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.
An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water
in a lifetime.
An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we
have only 206 in our bodies.
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.
Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.
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.)
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet
of blood vessels.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Every square inch of the human body has an average
of 32 million bacteria on it.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10
of a calorie.
Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
Fingerprints serve a function - they provide traction
for the fingers to grasp things.
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.
Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells about every
27 days - almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime.
If it were removed from the body, the small intestine
would stretch to a length of 22 feet.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you
will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
If you go blind in one eye, you'll only lose about
one-fifth of your vision (but all your depth perception.)
In a lifetime the average US resident eats more than 50 tons of food and drinks more than 13,000 gallons
of liquid.
In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies
were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt
where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.
It takes 17 muscles to smile --- 43 to frown.
Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to
bring the back teeth together for chewing.
Lab tests can detect traces of alcohol in urine six
to 12 hours after a person has stopped drinking.
Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens
the immune system.
Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day.
Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
The
average human 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, phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, and water
to fill a ten-gallon tank.
The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in
a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
The average person releases nearly a pint of intestinal
gas by flatulence every day. Most is due to swallowed air. The rest is from fermentation of undigested food.
The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine
at an average length of 20 feet
The feet account for one quarter of all the human bodies'
bones.
The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of
soap.
The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body's
weight.
The human brain is about 85% water.
The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum,
or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000
sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.
The largest cell in the human body is the female reproductive
cell, the ovum. The smallest is the male sperm.
The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface
area of about 25 square feet.
The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make
room for the heart.
The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal,
right next to your temple, is called a tragus.
The longest muscle in the human body is the sartorius.
This narrow muscle of the thigh passes obliquely across the front of the thigh and helps rotate the leg to the position assumed
in sitting cross-legged. Its name is a derivation of the adjective "sartorial," a reference to what was the traditional cross-legged
position of tailors (or "sartors") at work.
The most common blood type in the world is Type O.
The rarest, Type A-H, has been found in less than a dozen people since the type was discovered.
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
The only bone in the human body not connected to another
is the hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the mandible and the voice box. Its function is to
support the tongue and its muscles.
The permanent teeth that erupt to replace their primary
predecessors (baby teeth) are called succedaneous teeth.
The sound of a snore (up to 69 decibels) can be almost
as loud as the noise of a pneumatic drill.
The tips of fingers and the soles of feet are covered
by a thick, tough layer of skin called the stratum corneum.
There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human
being.
Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every
minute.
Women burn fat more slowly than men, by a rate of about
50 calories a day.
Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
