Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Today's Facts - Read after you have had lunch

+--------------- Bizarre Facts About Humans ---------------+

People who live in the city have longer, thicker nose hairs than people who live in the country.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.

The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.

We shed an average of 40 pounds of dead skin in a lifetime.

When we blush, our stomach lining also turns red.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.

We get goose bumps where our ancestors used to have hair.

On a square inch of our skin, there are 20 million micro-scopic animals.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.


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Submitted by my colleague, KN.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.

Now there's a biometric I don't want to see.