Interesting Facts

81-100 Human Body Facts

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The number one cause of blindness in adults in the United States is diabetes.

The length of the finger indicates how fast the nail grows. The nail of the middle finger grows faster than others.

Half a liter of water per day is lost through breathing.

The oldest known disease in the world is leprosy.

Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.

When the sounds are above 130 decibels, it causes pain to the ears.

Around 85% of humans primarily breathe out of one nostril at a time and this breathing pattern happens cyclically, with about four hours or so between your body switching from one nostril to the other via erectile tissue in your nose that is somewhat similar to erectile tissue in a penis or clitoris.

When we see an image, the human eye captures the inverted image of it. It is the brains interpretation that makes us to see the upside down captured image in to a normal erect image.

On an average, the number of connections in the brain increases from 50 trillion to 1 quadrillion in a newborn during his first month of life.

The leg bone is the fastest growing bone in the human body.

Ancient Egyptians used to think having facial hair was an indication of personal neglect.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

Red blood cells are the only cells in the body that do not have a nucleus.

Babies recognize sounds while in mothers womb.

On an average the human scalp has about 100000 hairs.

Most of the bones in the human body constitutes about 3/4 of water.

Arterial blood contains a lot of oxygen and nutrients for the body whereas venous blood contains low oxygen level and nutrients.

The human brain is constituted of 60% of white matter and 40% of grey matter.

There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.

The gastric acid in your stomach is so powerful that it is able to eat away an iron table in about 5 minutes.

61-80 Human Body Facts

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Sneezing clears dirt from the nose.

The study of the iris of the eye is called iridology.

Babies always have blue eyes when they are born. Melanin and exposure to ultraviolet light are needed to bring out the true color of babies' eyes. Until then they all have blue eyes.

Ophthalmic surgery was one of the most advanced areas of medicine in the ancient world. Detailed descriptions of delicate cataract surgery with sophisticated needle syringes is contained in the medical writings of Celsus (A.D. 14-37)

We are visual creatures, as almost 90% of the information we receive about our environment comes from our eyes.

A square inch of skin consists of 1300 nerve cells.

A hair grows by 0.3 to 0.5mm per day, 1 to 1.5cm per month and 12 to 15cm per year.

In an average healthy adult, the volume of blood is one-eleventh of the body weight, or between 5 and 6 quarts. (The amount of oil used in the average V8 engine)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

Humans have the ability to distinguish 4000 to 10000 smells.

A cluster of dead end tubules near the ovaries are the remains of what could have turned into sperm ducts.

Women are better than men at identifying smells.

There are 137 million light sensitive cells in the eye's retina and the fluid that fills the eye is changed 15 times a day.

Constipation is caused when too much water is absorbed in the large intestine and poops become dry.

The human eye is the only multifocus lens in the world which can adjust in 2 milliseconds

The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.

According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.

Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for about 180000 deaths per year.

We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.

There are about 13500000 neurones in the human spinal cord.

41-60 Human Body Facts

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The ears never stop growing through lifetime.

The human tongue has 10,000 taste buds.

If the blood vessels were laid from end to end, they would reach around the world four times.

The average human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail, sulphur 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 2200 match heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.

About 500 million sperm mature every day in a normal male adult.

To make brain freeze pass faster, press your tongue against the top of your mouth.

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

The human hand has 27 bones.

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

The eyes have the fastest reacting muscle in the whole body. It contracts in 1/100th of a second.

A 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his foot in 1977.

Men are able to read fine print better than women can.

On average, a hair strand's life span is five and a half years.

The length of human blood vessel is such that it circles the globe two and half times.

The human skeleton renews once in every three months.

An average scalp has 100000 hairs.

The enamel in your teeth is the hardest substance in your body.

A square inch of skin has 100 sweat glands.

Vitamin E protects the brain cells from damage caused by alcohol consumption.

The human body has 230 movable and semi-movable joints

21-40 Human Body Facts

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Most people can't sneeze with their eyes open. Suppressing a sneeze can cause damage to your body.

Most people blink about 25 times per minute.

The fastest moving muscle in the human body is the one that opens and closes the eyelid.

All babies are color blind when they are born.

You forget 50-80% of what you learn each day if you do nothing with the new information, such as review, rethink or reread it, on the same day.

Childhood dreams are shorter than adult dreams and nearly 40% of them are nightmares, which may act as a coping mechanism

2/3 of the human body is made up of water.

The condition known as "broken heart syndrome" has effects similar to a heart attack. It can be caused by a breakup or physical separation from a loved one.

Our Brain has over 100 billion nerve cells.

On an average, the human blood circulates the body for every 23 seconds.

People who clean their teeth often have 1,000 to 100,000 bacteria living on each tooth, while less clean mouths can have between 100 million to a billion bacteria on each tooth.

The human liver performs about 500 functions.

People who meet their calcium need reduce their risk of developing kidney stones.

On average, a man spends about five months of his life shaving.

Laid end to end, the arteries, capillaries, and veins of an average adult measure about 60,000 miles, enough to wrap around the earth nearly two and a half times.

In a lifetime, the human kidneys clean over 1 million gallons of blood.

The human body is composed of 80% of water.

Nails and corneas are the only two tissues in the body that do not receive oxygen from blood.

The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.

The DNA of humans is closer to a rat than a cat.

1-20 Human Body Facts

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You can not see your own eyes in motion when looking in a mirror since, as your eyes move, your brain automatically blocks blurred images, making you blind at these moments.

The human heart is not on the left side of the chest. It's in the middle, between your right and left lung, tilted slightly to the left..

The fastest growing tissue in the human body is hair.

When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles. Walking uses a great deal of muscle power especially if you take your 10000 steps.

Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.

You can disable your gag reflex by making a fist with your left hand and squeezing your thumb.

Bones make up only 14% of our weight.

Our bodies contain about 0.2 milligrams of gold, most of it in our blood. It would take 5,000 people to make a 0.35 ounce of gold.

The skin is the heaviest organ. The average adult skin weighs about 20 pounds.

Only 4% of the brains cells work and the remaining cells are kept in reserve.

In 24 hours, the blood in the body travels a total of 12000 miles - that's four times the width of North America.

The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.

For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin of your elbows, it barely hurts.

The human body consists of over 600 muscles.

Thickness of skin varies greatly throughout the body. For example, the delicate skin around your eyes is only as thick as a few sheets of paper. The pads on your feet can be as thick as a pencil eraser.

The reason your nose gets runny when you cry is because your tears drain into it.

Children grow faster in the springtime.

The average 150 lbs man loses almost a quart of water a day by breathing. It is visible as water vapor when we breathe on glass.

A women's heart beats faster than a mens.

The adult human brain is about 2% of total body weight.

4. Interesting facts about animals and birds

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If a lobster loses an eye or a claw it can usually grow a new one.

The male Darwin's frog keeps his tadpoles in his vocal sac until they develop into frogs. He then coughs them up.

A honey bee has four wings.

The head of a jellyfish is called the "Bell".

Male moths can smell female moths from over seven miles away. They do not have noses but detect odor molecules using their antennae.

The dragonfly has not changed over the last 300 million years.

Save a Spider Day, celebrated on March 14th, encourages people to appreciate spiders, who eat lots of insects that can spread disease.

The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

The Tuatara, a lizard-like reptile from New Zealand has three eyes. The third eye is on top of its head.

A housefly can only ingest liquid material. They regurgitate their food to liquify the food that they are going to eat.

Sharks have upper and lower eyelids, but they do not blink.

Sometimes octopuses eat their own arms, a behavior probably caused by a virus.

Giant squids have the largest eyes on the planet, the size of soccer balls.

The majority of cats do not have any eyelashes.

The polar bear is the largest and most powerful carnivore on land, has no natural predators, and knows no fear of humans,

An octopus can squeeze through a one inch hole.

A white tiger can only be born when both parents carry the gene for white colouring.

5. Interesting facts about Animals and Birds

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Koalas sleep up to 20 hours a day.

The clown fish has the ability to change its sex. If a breeding female dies, the male fish will change its sex and mate with another male.

Hippos can have skin 2.4 inches thick.

The puma and the leopard are the highest jumping mammals. They are able to reach a height of 16.5 feet.

Male owls weigh less and are smaller than female owls.

Cows drink anywhere from 25-50 gallons of water each day.

A swordfish can live as long as 25 years and weigh up to 1,200 pounds.

The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.

Turkeys have a wingspan of approximately 4.5 feet.

Squids move through the ocean using a jet of water forced out of the body by a siphon.

Some turtles can breathe through their butts.

Aptostichus barackobamai is a spider named after Barack Obama.

The bonobos, formerly known as pygmy chimpanzees, are exceptionally peaceful apes. They are an endangered species with only 30-50,000 left.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

Polar bears can eat as much as ten percent of their body weight in less than one hour.

The largest earthworm on record was found in South Africa and measured 22 feet.

Whooping cranes are born with blue eyes that change to bright gold by the time they six months old.

The American Kestrel hawk weighs only four ounces.

Chameleons can move their eyes independently. One eye can be looking forward and one eye backward at the same time.

3. Interesting facts about Animals & Birds

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Minnows have teeth located on a bone in their throat.

A sword-billed hummingbird can have a beak over four inches long, almost as long as the rest of its body.

Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time.

Iguanas can recognize their human handlers and greet them differently, compared with strangers.

Average hummingbirds weigh less than a penny, beat their wings up to 80 times a second, and are the only birds that can fly backwards.

Snails and slugs have teeth, which are arranged in rows along their tongues, and used like a file to saw or slice through food.

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

Wild turkeys can run at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour.

The only sound Seahorses make is a small clicking or popping sound during feeding or courtship.

Cicadas can make sounds at up to 120 dB, loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss in humans.

The giant huntsman spider has the largest leg span, which can reach up to 11 inches.

Dogs produce sweat only where they are not covered with fur, such as the nose and paw pads.

In 1681, the last dodo bird died.

Owls are equipped with 3 eyelids. They have a normal upper and lower eyelid, the upper closing when the owl blinks, and the lower closing up when the Owl is asleep. The third eyelid is called a nictitating membrane, and is a thin layer of tissue that closes diagonally across the eye, from the inside to the outside. This cleans and protects the surface of the eye.

Atlantic salmon can jump as high as 4.5 meters out of the water.

There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica and Greenland.

The extinct ancestor of the horse, eohippus, had a short neck and was a bit taller than a normal sized dog.

Lions drink daily when water is available, but they often go without water for 4-5 days.

A salmon with two mouths, two sets of teeth and two tongues was caught by Bob Bateman of Canada.

Unlike most species of snakes, Anacondas give birth to live young, instead of laying eggs.

20 Amazing Facts About Animals and Birds

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20 Amazing Facts About Animals and Birds

The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest.

Female Lion

The blue whale is the largest creature that has ever lived on earth. It tips the scales at a whopping 170 tons - that's the same as about 22 elephants. Its heart is the size of a small car, and its largest blood vessels are wide enough for an adult to swim through without much difficulty.

Blue Whale

A hummingbird's eggs are pea sized. A newborn is about an inch long and weighs about one-third of a U.S. Dime.

Humming Bird's Egg

The lion's mane jellyfish is the largest species of jellyfish, reaching a width of 7.5 feet, with tentacles up to 121.4 feet long.

Lion Mane Jellyfish

A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

Female Lion

Sea otters sometimes hold hands while sleeping to keep from drifting apart.

Sea Otter

In one day, a queen bee can lay up to 1500 eggs in one day.

Queen Bee

Leaf insects take on the appearance of leaves, and even rock back and forth when walking, to mimic a real leaf being blown by the wind.

Leaf Insect

Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water, such as a stream.

Goldfish

The purple frog spends most of the year underground, surfacing for about two weeks, during the monsoon season, in order to mate.

Purple Frog

Dolphins have been trained to turn in trash in exchange for fish. One dolphin was smart enough to hide paper under a rock and tear off small pieces in order to get more fish.

Dolphin

A chicken loses feathers when it becomes stressed.

Chicken without Feather

Koalas rarely drink. They generally get enough fluids just from eating eucalyptus leaves.

Koala

A honey bee strokes its wings about 11,500 times a minute.

Honey Bee

Snakes and lizards shed their skin when they grow. Researchers believe that dinosaurs may have done the same.

Snake

Humans have about 10,000 taste buds, but catfish have over 100,000, while chickens have only 24.

Marine iguanas can stay underwater for up to 30 minutes.

Marine Iguana

The world's largest bat is the giant golden-crowned flying fox, a rare fruit bat. It has a wingspan of 5 to 6 feet (1.5 to 1.8 m)

Flying Fox

The world's fattest cat, Himmy, weighed 46.8 pounds.

Himmy

Elephants can communicate by sound waves below normal human hearing. They can also communicate with seismic, vibrations produced by impacts on the earth's surface.

Elephants

Interesting Facts about Animals and Birds

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Interesting Facts about Animals and Birds

1. The smallest known chameleon, Brookesia micra, from the islet of Nosy Hara in Antsiranana, Madagascar, can grow up to 1.1 inches in length.

Chameloon

Horses and cows sleep while standing up.

Horse

A cow can give far more milk than a human can consume their lifetime. Any guesses? Almost 200,000 glasses full of milk!

Cow

Scientists have attached stilts to ants' legs to prove that ants reach their goal by counting their steps.

An Ant

Ants with stilts marched past their goal due to the new length of their stride.

Howler monkeys spend up to 80% of their time resting

Howler Monkey

6. The fastest underwater swimming bird is the Gentoo Penguin, able to swim up to 22 mph (36 km/h)

Genta Penguin

7. A giraffe's tongue grows to about 21 inches in length.

Giraffe

Crickets taste like roast nuts, scorpions taste like shrimp, and some termites have a mint taste.

Cricket

When a hippopotamus stays out of water for too long, it secretes red-colored sweat, to protect itself from the sun.

Hippopotamus

Bears live as long as 30 years in the wild. One captive brown bear lived to the age of 47.

Bears

The New Zealand Kiwi bird cannot fly.

Kiwi

Parrots are some of the best known birds in the world. There are about 315 species of parrots found worldwide both in rainforests and other environments.

Parrot

Sharks are capable of going at least 6 weeks without eating; the record observed in an aquarium is 15 months by a species of shark known as the swell sharks.

Shark

It takes about 12 bees their entire lifetime to make one teaspoon of honey.

Bees

Many animals swallow rocks, including chickens, penguins, crocodiles, and seals. Rocks that have been swallowed are called gastroliths, meaning "stomach stones".

Donkeys can live between 30 to 50 years in captivity.

Donkey

The largest fish in the world is the whale shark. It can weigh several tons and grow to more than fifty feet in length.

In the U.S., about 1.2 million dogs and 1.4 million cats are euthanized (put to death) each year.

Cat and Dog

The world camel population is close to 19 million.

Camel