Amazing Facts

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Sep 262013
 

Your left lung is smaller in size than your right lung, it is like that in order to make room for your heart.

Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time.

Male human brains are about 10 percent heavier than female brains.

Before 1800 there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet.

The glossy look to lipstick comes from fish scales, which are iridescent.

To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.

Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures.

The original name for the butterfly was ‘flutterby’.

Your body weight is lower at 9 A.M. than at any other time of the day.

The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

Without any greenhouse effect, Earth would be cold and lifeless with an average temp of 0.4.

 

50 Common Misconceptions

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Jun 282013
 

Who knew?

A weekly show hosted by John Green, where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John debunks 50 common misconceptions that most people have about topics such as vikings, exploding birds and peanut butter.

 

The Amazing Human Body

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May 272013
 

It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

One human hair can support 6.6 pounds.

The average man’s penis is two times the length of his thumb.

Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s.

There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

Women blink twice as often as men.

The average person’s skin weighs twice as much as the brain.

Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.

If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

Women
Will be finished reading this by now!

Men
Will still be busy measuring their thumbs!