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KickChick
13-Jun-2003, 02:31 AM
Useless Facts about the Human Body (http://www.geocities.com/transactoid/body.htm)

.. useless maybe, but interesting!!
pesilat
13-Jun-2003, 06:09 AM
Originally posted by KickChick
Useless Facts about the Human Body (http://www.geocities.com/transactoid/body.htm)

.. useless maybe, but interesting!!

Yup. Some interesting stuff.

Here's another (though slightly more morbid) one: a person's body temperature will drop about 1 degree / hour after death (external factors such as immersion in water notwithstanding).

Mike
Bon
13-Jun-2003, 10:42 AM
lol, very cool KickChick!

When I read the one about my foot being as big between my wrist and elbow I thought that couldn't be right! So I had to put my foot there to make sure it was true :D
KickChick
13-Jun-2003, 01:03 PM
.... so I guess that is all a myth about guys with big feet huh?? ;)
Bon
13-Jun-2003, 02:27 PM
LOL! good call :D
Jazman
13-Jun-2003, 06:09 PM
nope, it's not a mith, there are still guys with big feet :D
YounGrasshopper
15-Mar-2004, 05:34 AM
just bringing this back from the dead... i thought there was some interesting stuff on here that everyone should know...lol
Kwajman
15-Mar-2004, 01:54 PM
KC, I wear size 16's...
KickChick
15-Mar-2004, 02:21 PM
LOL .... question is though, do they fit? ;)


.... and here's more! (http://facts.330.ca/body/)
Anth
15-Mar-2004, 03:20 PM
yep, theres peeps here with big feet. wear size 16's, and yes they fit :)
quartermaster
15-Mar-2004, 03:26 PM
I wish i could fall asleep in 7 minutes
Poop-Loops
15-Mar-2004, 06:35 PM
Yeah, I know. It takes me at least twice as long.

What % of people are ambidextrious then? :)

PL
Kinjiro Tsukasa
15-Mar-2004, 06:39 PM
And of course, you know about this, right?

http://www.geocities.com/thesciencefiles/eyelash/creatures.html
Shortfuse
15-Mar-2004, 09:48 PM
Oh my God!!! dear lord, im speechless
Mwabukabuti
15-Mar-2004, 10:29 PM
ARggg... Kinjiro Tsukasa after reading that i couldn't stop scratching.
Shortfuse
15-Mar-2004, 10:36 PM
Im Still Not Clean
redi knight
16-Mar-2004, 02:48 AM
cool
..lol, it said smart people have more zinc in their hair..i wonder what they based that on ?..
Virtuous
16-Mar-2004, 03:08 AM
I am curious how they derrived the storage capacity of the human brain. Sounded pretty arbitrary to me.

As for the eyelash guys, not much you can do about that, next to plucking your eye lashes out :).

If you want a good gross out check out fecal coliform, its EVERY WHERE...
Poop-Loops
16-Mar-2004, 03:44 AM
cool
..lol, it said smart people have more zinc in their hair..i wonder what they based that on ?..

Smart people are lazy. Lazy people don't wash their hair often.

PL
redi knight
16-Mar-2004, 03:52 AM
! are you saying smart people have bad cleaning habits?..

..Then again, lots of genius types do have bad hair :D
YounGrasshopper
18-Mar-2004, 12:49 PM
How in the world are there 55miles of canal in the human tooth??? i dont understand lol
Mo Lung
18-Mar-2004, 09:58 PM
A few of those are just wrong, or at least misinformed:

The sound of knuckles cracking is generated by imploding synobial fluid. - This is only one theory of an unknown phenomenon. And it's synovial!

A pack-a-day smoker will loose approx. 2 teeth every 10 years. - Come on! I mean really!

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. - Damned average people! ;)

etc...
Greyghost
18-Mar-2004, 10:09 PM
my foot is loads smaller than the distance between the wrist and elbow....

and i would give my left arm to be ambidextrous.
Picksey
23-Mar-2004, 10:19 AM
How on earth did I manage to lose 96 bones just by growing up?!?! (taking into account the two kneecaps I grew when I was two) :confused:
Picksey
23-Mar-2004, 10:22 AM
And the fact that lefties on average live nine years less than the rest of us - is thier average brought down by things like unfortunate mishaps with canopeners designed primarily for right-handed people? :D
Shortfuse
23-Mar-2004, 12:28 PM
And the fact that lefties on average live nine years less than the rest of us - is thier average brought down by things like unfortunate mishaps with canopeners designed primarily for right-handed people? :D

what about the ambidextrious!?!? i want my nine years back
Kwajman
23-Mar-2004, 01:31 PM
The reason you lose bones as you age is really quite simple. As a toddler, you have, for example, five bones that make up the femur. They are two small growth plates at each end, and one larger middle section. Then as you grow, they grow longer and eventually fuse together. This goes on through out the body with many other bones.
Picksey
24-Mar-2004, 04:32 PM
Ah, I thought that might be the case, Kwajman - I was thinking specifically of the skull, which I know is made up of several plates that slide over each other during birth (which is why babies often have funny shaped heads :) ), but which fuse together sometime later.

So, if when you are born the femur is initially made up of five bones, can you bend babies legs in all the wrong directions? :rolleyes:

Thanks for the biology lesson!