Facts About the Human Body

Can you feel the pulse in your wrist? For humans the normal
pulse is 70 heartbeats per minute. Elephants have a slower pulse
of 27 and for a canary it is 1000!
If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they
would reach about 60,000 miles.
Abraham Lincoln probably had a medical condition called
Marfans syndrome. Some of its symptoms are extremely long
bones, curved spine, an arm span that is longer than the persons
height, eye problems, heart problems and very little fat. It is a
rare, inherited condition.
In one day your heart beats 100,000 times.
Half your bodys red blood cells are replaced every seven days.
By the time you are 70 you will have easily drunk over 12,000
gallons of water.
Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster
than the speed of sound over a thousand feet per second!
Germs only cause disease, right? But a common bacterium, E.
Coli, found in the intestine helps us digest green vegetables and
beans (also making gases pew!). These same bacteria also
make vitamin K, which causes blood to clot. If we didnt have
these germs we would bleed to death whenever we got a small
cut!
It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.
That dust on rugs and your furniture is not only dirt. Its mostly
made of dead skin cells. Everybody loses millions of skin cells
every day which fall on the floor and get kicked up to land on all
the surfaces in a room. You could say, Thats me all over.
It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach
via the esophagus.
Submitted by: Lovella
A humans small intestine is 6 meters long.
The human body is 75% water.
Submitted by: veggykid15
Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you
could stretch out all of a humans blood vessels, they would be
about 60,000 miles long. Thats enough to go around the world
twice.
Submitted by: Todd
The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and
its hollow!
Submitted by: aquagirl
The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your
whole body.
Submitted by: blue120
The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.
The average American over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting
in lines.
The farthest you can see with the naked eye is 2.4 million light
years away! (140,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles.) Thats the
distance to the giant Andromeda Galaxy. You can see it easily as
a dim, large gray cloud almost directly overhead in a clear
night sky.
Submitted by: Todd
The average person has at least seven dreams a night.
Submitted by: Christina & Jessica
Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during
the day.
Submitted by: Christina & Jessica
Your brain is 80% water.
85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.
Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds.
Your forearm (from inside of elbow to inside of wrist) is the
same length as your foot.
Submitted by: Josh
A sneeze travels at over 100 miles per hour. Gesundheit!
Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.
Your fingernails grow almost four times as fast as your toenails.
You blink your eyes over 10,000,000 a year.
There were about 300 bones in your body when you were born,
but by the time you reach adulthood you only have 206.
The smallest bones in the human body are in your ear!
Submitted by: The Phoenix
Your mouth uses 75 muscles when you speak!
Submitted by: Devin
When you wake up in the morning you are at taller than when
you go to sleep, because you have let your spine straighten back
out after all the bending, sitting, and moving you have done!
Submitted by: Katie Mae
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Submitted by: Mazda Roxx
The average growth of hair is half an inch per month.
Submitted by: Amylia
If hair remains uncut, it can grow up to 5 feet long.
Submitted by: Amylia
Your tongue, eye, and jaw muscles are among the strongest
muscles in your body.
Submitted by: Jazzy T

Facts About Language
The language of a society changes slowly but steadily with the
result that an educated person will not be able to read or
understand words in his language written 500 years ago.
Do you feel like you cant talk to your parents? Maybe its
because you belong to the Niger-Congo family. More than 1,400
languages are spoken by different members of this family from
Africa.
It has been estimated that the number of actively spoken
languages in the world today is about 6,000.
There is no word that rhymes with orange.
Pinocchio is Italian for pine head.
The most common letters in English are R S T L N E.
There is no word that rhymes with purple.
There was only one code during World War II that was never
broken by the enemy and was used by the US Army. Navajo
soldiers, called Codetalkers, developed a radio code based on
their native language. It was the only way US soldiers on the
battlefield could be sure that messages were from there own side
and not from Japanese imitators.
Did you know that the word typewriter is the longest word in
the English Language that can be spelled with the the top of the
keyboard?
You speak about 4,800 words a day.
HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPPEDALIOPHOBIA is the
fear of long words.
The holiday Boxing day was originally celebrated in
England,for the servants to the rich people. After chrismas,the
servants boxed up all the left-overs from the rich people and
bring them home.
A palindrome is a word that is spelled the same way from both
ends. For example: racecar

Facts About Valentines Day
When two lovebirds appear to be kissing, they are actually
grooming each other with their bills to keep clean and neat.
In 1995, 35 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate were sold
for Valentines Day.
The world record for the most people kissed is held by Alfred
Wolfram of Minnesota who kissed 11,030 people in 8 hours, at a
festival in 1998.
Wedding rings are worn on the fourth finger of your left hand
because people used to believe that the vein in this finger goes
directly to your heart.
Some people believe that birds choose their mates on the 14th of
February each year. Seeing a goldfinch meant you would marry
a millionaire. Seeing a sparrow meant you would marry a poor
man but you would be very happy.

Facts About Weather and Nature
You may have heard someone say, Its raining cats and dogs.
There have been actual documented cases from all over the
world of fish, frogs, dead birds, snakes, snails, beetles, worms
and jellyfish raining down from the sky in great numbers, but no
reports of showers of cats or dogs.
Almost two-thirds of the earths surface is covered by water. If
the earth were flat, water would cover everything in a layer two
miles deep!
During a solar eclipse, the shadows of leaves make the same
crescent shape of the eclipsing sun. The image is made by light
passing through tiny holes in the leaves.
Tired of the cold weather? Take a vacation on the hottest planet
in the solar system Venus. At over 800 degrees, it is hotter
than Mercury because the clouds and abundant carbon dioxide
hold in most of the heat received from the sun.
Geologists have discovered there seems to be more water miles
deep between the rocks of Earths mantle than in all the oceans of
the world. The intense pressure of the tons of rocks above keeps
the hot water from turning to steam and escaping.
Water is the only substance on earth that is lighter as a solid than
a liquid.
The biggest canyons in the world are under water. Beneath the
Bering Sea off Alaska there are seven giant canyons: Bering
Canyon, 240 miles long; Navarin Canyon, 60 miles wide;
Zhemchung Canyon, 9000 feet deep. In comparison, the Grand
Canyon in Arizona is only 10 miles wide, one mile deep and 250
miles long.
The Sahara, one of the worlds largest and driest deserts with
sand up to thirty feet deep was once a land with flowing rivers,
humid swamps and lush fields. Cave painting, 9,000 years old,
found in the heart of the Sahara, show men herding cattle and
hunting lions and hippos. About 2,000 years ago the cave
painters, herders and animals left because the area that was
rapidly becoming the desert we know today.
Seeds from a wild flower, the Artic Lupine, found in Alaska,
have grown in the lab after being frozen in the ground for
10,000 years.
The bristle-cone pine, which grows in the deserts of Nevada and
California, is the oldest living species in the United States. Some
are believed to be 4600 years old and can live to be 5500 years
old.
Monster waves of over 100 feet tall can suddenly appear at sea
when there is no storm to cause them. They are actually
accidental meetings of several waves that can combine to form
one huge one that can easily sink a freighter.
When scientist drilled through the ice of Antarcticas Lake
Vanda, they discovered that the water at the bottom of the lake
was an amazingly warm 77 degrees Fahrenheit. Ice crystals
actually heat the water by focusing on the bottom of the lake.
The 6,288-foot summit of New Hampshires Mount Washington
has some of the worst weather in the world. The strongest wind
measured was 231 miles per hour. The official low is 47 below
zero Fahrenheit, but the cold often combines with the wind to
produce wind-chills of 150 degrees below zero. The ground is
permanently frozen in a layer from 20 to 100 feet below the
surface. Since 1851, over 100 people have died of falls or
exposure on the mountain.
8,200 below the surface of the ocean a ridge of volcanoes stretch
around the globe. Vents in the ridge spew mineral rich water at
temperatures of 700 degrees Fahrenheit or more. In the hot
waters, bacteria live feeding on the minerals. Tube worms grow
to six feet long and foot long clams grow 500 times faster than
their relatives living near the surface.
On February 20, 1943 in a cornfield near the village of
Paricutin, Mexico, the ground cracked open and began to spew
red-hot rocks. A volcano was born. It grew to 35 feet the first
day. By 1952, it had soared to 1,352 feet and had buried two
towns.
A two-mile thick dome of glacial ice covers most of Greenland.
The weight of the ice is so great that if it suddenly melted the
bedrock of the island would rise 2500 feet!
Iceland is a 39, 000 square mile island that is built of lava from
volcanoes. Major eruptions occur every 6 or 7 years. Almost 1/3
of the worlds lava output since 1500 has poured out onto
Iceland.
There are giant waterfalls under the ocean! The largest is
between Greenland and Iceland. This submarine waterfall drops
11,500 feet; three times the height of any land waterfall.
The loudest sound in history was recorded in July 1883 when a
volcano on the tiny Indian Ocean island of Krakatau erupted.
The explosion was heard 3,000 miles away in Madagascar. Ash
clouds shot 25 miles into the sky. The eruption also created
giant tsunami, sea waves, that reached heights of 175 feet,
speeding across the ocean at 400 miles an hour and destroyed
over 300 towns.
Ball lightning can sometimes float through a glass window
without breaking it; other times the glass is smashed to pieces!
Have you ever heard the expression, knock your socks off? If
you are struck by lightning, your socks and shoes may be
knocked off. Rapid evaporation and expansion of sweat on your
skin blows your clothes off. You may not be hurt if the current
does not enter your body.
The place with the most number of rainy days per year is Mount
Waialeale on Kauai, Hawaii up to 350 days. The longest
time that a place remained without rain was Arica, Chile from
October, 1903 to January, 1918 14 years!
The more salt you put on ice, the more the ice melts.
The hottest continent on earth is Africa, where a record high of
136.4 degrees F was once recorded.
Antarctica is the coldest continent on earth, where a temperature
of 126.9 degrees F below zero was once recorded.
It gets as cold as minus 160 degrees F. ten miles above the
ground on earth!
Raindrops arent really shaped like drops; they are perfectly
round!
Antarctica gets less precipitation than any other continent on
earth.
The Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest place on earth, where
it has an average of three-hundredths of an inch of rain per year.
The greatest snowfall recorded in a day was 75.8 inches at Silver
Lake, Colorado on April 14-15, 1921. I wonder how long
schools were closed?
Submitted by: Todd
Hold on to your hat! The fastest wind speed ever recorded was
231 miles per hour on Mount Washington, New Hampshire on
April 12, 1934.
Submitted by: Todd
The hottest place on earth is in Dallol, Ethiopia, which is a
sizzling 94 degrees in the shade on a typical day!
A lightning bolt is 4 times hotter than the sun.
Submitted by: B
Once in England, because of a water spout, it rained frogs!
Submitted by: Taylors
Roy Sullivan, A U.S. park ranger, was struck by lightning seven
times during his life and lived to tell about each of those strikes!
Lightning strikes 1,000 times per second on the planet earth.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise, unless theyre in
Ireland.
Cows sometimes sit down in a field when they know its going
to rain. (that way, they are saving a dry spot to sit for
themselves).
How long can you tread water? The greatest rainfall recorded in
a day was 73.62 inches at Reunion in the Indian Ocean on
March 15, 1952.
Submitted by: Todd
One inch of rain is equal to 10 inches of snow.
The number of bacteria in a quart of soil from your backyard
garden is 30 times greater than the population of the world.
Steamboat Geyser, located in Yellowstone National Park, is the
most powerful geyser in the world, and can shoot super-hot
water 300 feet in the air.
Every year, plants make and store ten times the amount of
energy that people use.
Glass is made of sand.
Did you know that the Empire State Building once got stuck by
lightning 9 times in 20 minutes.
Submitted by: Kathryn
In the tropical rainforest it gets about 80 to 400 inches of rain
yearly. If it is raining really hard, it gets about 2 inches of rain
per hour.
Submitted by: Emily
One tree can provide enough oxygen for 2 people to live off of
for their whole lives.
Submitted by: Michelle
The lowest place in North America is Death Valley at 282 feet
below sea level.
Submitted by: Tina

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at
home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are
registered blood donors.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named
after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its
A Wonderful Life"

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

1 pound of lemons contain more sugar than 1 pound of
strawberries.

A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a
man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a
few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord
Perry hit his first (and only) home run.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a
mate.

A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.

A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel
wire of the same size.

The microwave oven was invented by mistake when an engineer
testing a magnetron tube noticed that the radiation from it
melted the chocolate bar he had in his pocket.

An average American will spend an average of 6 months during
his lifetime waiting at red lights.
Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti
soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and
numbered the dialog starting with a D. Sound designer Walter
Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying "R2D2".
George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that
into another project he was working on.

Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.

Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.

They have square watermelons in Japan - they stack better.

Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

Armadillos can be housebroken.

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.

Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called
Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a
calorie.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per
year.

The State of Florida is bigger than England.

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.

Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food.
That's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.

In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so
the tears can't flow.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you
breathe.

In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.

Slugs have 4 noses.

Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3
hours.

Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.

It's against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland.

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.

America once issued a 5-cent bill.

You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in your lifetime.

Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool.
He changed it every 2 innings.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.

In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Linggo(Sunday) is the only day of a week in the Philippines that
is not a Spanish word. The days of a week in Filipino are
Lunes(Monday), Martes(Tuesday), Miyerkules(Wednesday),
Huwebes(Thursday), Biyernes(Friday), Sabado(Saturday) and
Linggo(Sunday).
Linggo was derived from the Malay word Minggu which also
means Sunday. And Minggu was derived from the Portuguese
word domingo which also means Sunday. Domigo is also used
by Spain to call their Sunday.
Lunes in Filipino came from the Spanish word lunes.
Martes came from the Spanish word martes. Miyerkules came
from the Spanish word mircoles. Huwebes came from the
Spanish word jueves. Biyernes came from the Spanish word
viernes. And Sabado came from the Spanish word sbado.
Trivia 026 : Alam niyo ba na ang mga astronaut sa outer space
ay walang kakayahang umiyak, wala kasing gravity, kaya
walang lumalabas na luha sa kanilang mga mata.
Trivia 024 : Kilala niyo ba si Donald Duck? Alam niyo ba na
bawal sa Finland ang komiks o anumang cartoon shows ni
Donald Duck, at ang dahilan? Wala itong suot na brief!
Trivia 023 : Alam niyo ba noong hindi pa naimbento ang mga
COLORED Television at kapanahunan pa ng BLACK and
WHITE TV ( mga dekada 50's,60's,70's,80's ) , pati rin ang ating
mga panaginip sa gabi ay BLACK and WHITE rin !
Trivia 019 : Sa modernong panahon ngayon kung saan samo't -
saring mga hightech na mga "Computer" ang nagsusulpotan,
minsan niyo na bang naitanong sa sarili niyo kung ano ang
kauna-unahang Modelo ng Computer?

Ang kauna - unahang Computer ay tinawag na Z1 na inimbento
ni Konrad Zuse noong 1936 at pagkalipas ng tatlong taon,
naimbento rin ang Z2, ang kauna - unahang Computer na
gumagamit ng Kuryente. Ito'y kasalukuyang matatagpuan isang
Museum.
Trivia 017 : Alam niyo ba na hindi naman talaga madulas ang
Yelo? Kapag tatapakan/hahawakan ang Yelo, natutunaw ang
ibabaw na surface nito at nagiging Tubig. Kaya ang TUBIG ang
nagpapadulas rito.
Trivia 015 : Walang malisya mga kaibigan, pero alam niyo ba na
ang mga daga ay nagtatalik ng dalawampung beses ( 20 times )
sa isang araw ? Ito'y napatanuyan sa isang pagsusuri na ginanap
sa Estados Unidos. Kaya pala kapansin pansin ang mabilis
nilang pagdami na talagang pumepeste hindi lang sa ating mga
kabahayan kundi pati rin sa ating mga kabuhayan
(pataniman,kabukiran,sakahan).
Trivia 013 : Ang ating DILA ang siyang responsable sa panlasa
ng ating mga kinakain. Alam niyo ba na ang may hawak sa may
pinakamahabang DILA sa buong mundo ay si Stephen Taylor
ng Italy? May habang 3.74 pulgada ang kanyang dila.
rivia 010 : Sikat sa Pilipinas ang mga laro ng NBA. Alam niyo
ba na ang kauna - unahang nagkampyon sa kasaysayan ng NBA
ay Philadelphia Warriors? Noong April 20, 1947 (GAME 5) ,
tinalo ng Warriors ang Chicago Stags (4 - 1), Pinangunahan ni
Joe Fulks ang nasungkit nilang kampyonato.
Trivia 011 : Madalas tayong pagsabihan na "MATIGAS ANG
ULO". Alam niyo ba na 80 % ng ating utak ay tubig? Isipin niyo
na lang kung wala ang ating bungo na siyang sumusuporta at
nagbibigay hugis sa ating ulo.
Bonus Trivia008 : Alam nyo ba na ang feeling ng pagiging in-
love ay hindi naman talaga nanggagaling sa ating puso? Ito ay
galing sa base ng ating UTAK na kung tawagin ay
"PITUITARY GLAND" naglalabas ito ng HORMONE na kung
tawagin ay ENDORPHINS, ito naman ay pumupunta sa ating
dugo at ito'y nagbibigay ng FEELINGS sa atin na parang
"KINIKILIG"
Trivia 009 : Alam niyo ba na ang mga Itik tuwing gabi ay
Kalahati Tulog at Kalahati Gising ? Nahahati sa dalawa ang
tungkulin ng kanilang Utak- ang isa ay upang ipangtulog habang
ang isa naman ay upang iprotekta laban sa anumang banta sa
paligid.
Trivia : Kulay ASUL ang pangunahing kulay ng Facebook ito'y
dahil may "red-green color-blindness" si Mark Zuckerberg, kung
kaya't Asul ang kanyang pinili imbes na pula/berde/dilaw/.
Trivia 018 : Bakit nga ba kulay dilaw (Yellow) ang lapis ?
Noong 18th century, sa China matatagpuan ang pangunahing
sangkap sa paggawa ng lapis (Graphite). Naisip ng mga
Amerikanong Imbentor na kulayan ng dilaw ang mga Lapis
sapagkat sa China, ang kulay DILAW ay nangangahuluhagang
ng "Kadakilaan at Kagalang - galang.