Random facts ?

[Aaron4174]

Hahaa, i love random facts for some reason, especially human body facts..

-The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.

- Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.

- The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat

- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

- Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself (Personally think this is the coolest fact)

- It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

- The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.

-The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.

- Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

- When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.

- Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

- Children grow faster in the springtime.

- It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow milk.

- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

- Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.

- There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).

- If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.

- The average human head weighs about 8 pounds.

- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

- In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

- An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

- The length of the finger dictates how fast the fingernail grows. Therefore, the nail on your middle finger grows the fastest, and on average, your toenails grow twice as slow as your fingernails.

- The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.

- The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).

- Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.

- Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life.

- After you die, your body starts to dry out creating the illusion that your hair and nails are still growing after death.

- Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.

- The average surface of the human intestine is 656 square feet (200 m).

- A healthy adult can draw in about 200 to 300 cubic inches (3.3 to 4.9 liters) of air at a single breath, but at rest only about 5% of this volume is used.

- The surface of the human skin is 6.5 square feet (2m).

- 15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.

- The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.

- The human body is comprised of 80% water.

- The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.

- Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.

- The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).

- You were born with 300 bones. When you get to be an adult, you have 206.

- Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

- Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

- There are 45 miles (72 km) of nerves in the skin of a human being.

- The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood.

- Each square inch (2.5 cm) of human skin consists of 20 feet (6 m) of blood vessels.

- During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.

- Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.

[MrHawk]

Hahaa, i love random facts for some reason, especially human body facts..

-The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.

- Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.

- The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat

- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

- Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself (Personally think this is the coolest fact)

- It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

- The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.

-The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.
Mine comes out faster.
- Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

- When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.
Wow
- Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

- Children grow faster in the springtime.

- It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow milk.

- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

- Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.

- There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).

- If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.

- The average human head weighs about 8 pounds.

- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

- In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

- An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

- The length of the finger dictates how fast the fingernail grows. Therefore, the nail on your middle finger grows the fastest, and on average, your toenails grow twice as slow as your fingernails.

- The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.
I blink much more than average male.

- The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).

- Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.

- Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life.
I wish they dont.
- After you die, your body starts to dry out creating the illusion that your hair and nails are still growing after death.

- Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.

- The average surface of the human intestine is 656 square feet (200 m).

- A healthy adult can draw in about 200 to 300 cubic inches (3.3 to 4.9 liters) of air at a single breath, but at rest only about 5% of this volume is used.

- The surface of the human skin is 6.5 square feet (2m).

- 15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.

- The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.

- The human body is comprised of 80% water.

- The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.

- Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
Wow
- The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).

- You were born with 300 bones. When you get to be an adult, you have 206.

- Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

- Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

- There are 45 miles (72 km) of nerves in the skin of a human being.

- The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood.

- Each square inch (2.5 cm) of human skin consists of 20 feet (6 m) of blood vessels.

- During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.

- Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.

.... plus green rep for you.

[Prodigy the 5]

Random Fact #28:
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why

It has already been proven wrong. Many believe this because the echo if a duck blends in with its own sound appearing to not echo at all.

[MrHawk]

I cant argue since i dont know for sure.

[King Alboin]

Here is another set:


Butterflies taste with their feet

What if they land on a jalapeno? HOT HOT HOT!!!


Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating

Well you would too, if it took you all day to run four inches.

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men

B!sh ... I heard that!! '-.-'

If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow

flamingos would get soooo confuzzled, and and would not know which way was down ... no?

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself

Studies also show that throwing a cat off of a twenty story building only makes emo'gothic death metal sidewalk art.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo

Of course! FDR was a Democrat. =P

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

An American woman can divorce her husband, for no reason at'all. Why she dont even have to make anything up, just get an attorney and literally sue the pants, shoes, house, car, kids, toolbox, the next twenty years of his paycheck and and and and? his favorite coffee mug, right off of her husband before he can say, pootsnickles three times fast. O.O


King alboin, whales arent mammels arent they ?

Yes, no, uh huh, yeppers, whales and porpoises and manatees and humans, and platypusses and my ex-wife #3 and moderators and noobs and shrews and killer whales and some french people and zombies and killer tomatoes from outer space. all are mammals.

- It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

and still no one listens. *grumbles grrrrr*

- There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).


dont forget a$$. that makes 11, correct?

it is a fact, that if you walk down the street, smiling, people will wonder what you are up to.

[KMD]

I am on a mission...a mission to test each and everyone of these fact...an prove them wrong...even tho they are facts and I will most likely fail in doing so LOL

I will swallow a toothpick...AH IT HURTS GET IT OUT

I will go back in time and steel the first coca cola...100 years later...I give up

I will...oh heck no im not wearing no lipstick you will have to kill me first

I will chew gum in singapore...5mins later im sorry officer I did not know

I will find my shoe...one day

Ok this is taking too long i'm only at 5 and I have died twice...been arrested once...and lost my shoe witch I am still looking for

That was not worth 2 of my life's...now i'm down to 7...WAIT i'm not a cat???

[Rodri]

All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.

Each year 40,000 tons of matter from space is added to the planet Earth's mass. This matter comes from space in the form of asteroids, meteoroids, interplanetary dust, and comet debris.

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star to our solar system.

A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.

[Lucas101]

Most of the facts in this thread were googled ... How's that for an original random fact

[Sickness]

A large swarm of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) can consume 20,000 tons (18,160,000 kilograms) of vegetation a day

sloth's spend about 80% of their lives sleeping.

An inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain water is equivalent to 15 inches (38.1 centimeters) of dry, powdery snow.

Ten minutes of one hurricane contains enough energy to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world.

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

[Deathslayr]

fact: fake statistics are made up 76% of the time to prove a point.

Does that mean there is a 76% chance that that is a fake statistic? :P