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Mar 9, 2006

Interesting facts...

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.

Cats cannot taste sweet things Antarctica is a desert.

An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.

Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes.

25% of your bones are located in your feet.

When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.

The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Your brain is 80% water.

The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.

The best diamonds are colored blue-white There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.

One quarter of the human brain is used to control the eyes.

The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.

Every three seconds, a new baby is born.

The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.

It takes 17 muscles to smile, 43 to frown.

When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.

If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.

All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.

Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.

The human brain is insensitive to pain.

The average human body contains .1 mg of uranium, .2 mg of gold, and 7 mg of arsenic!

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