* 1/4 of all the bones in the human body are in your feet.* Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
* Most of the dust particles in your house (prepare yourself if grossed out easily over these things) are made of dead skin.
*You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you grow to an adult, you have only 206. This is due to growth plates, which allow not only for the rapid growth of children, but also help during the birthing process - the plates in the baby's head allow it to contract some during the trip through the birth canal, otherwise the whole thing would be much more uncomfortable for mommy.
*It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
* The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9,000 years old.
* Healthy human thigh bones are stronger that concrete.
* Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
* Your ribs move about 5 million times a year - each time you breathe.
* The average lead pencil (no idea if its the same with graphite, tho I'd think it would be similar) will draw a line 35 miles long, or write approximately 50,000 average length English words. (It does not say what length the average word is, but in typing you judge the wpm, or words per minute, by 5 keystrokes.)
* Queen Elizabeth I of England considedered herself a paragon of cleanliness. She [very seriously] declared that she bathed once every 3 months, whether she needed it or not. And this, of course, would be the real source of the similar redneck jokes today of the same subject. But in her time, people really did rarely bathe. They instead used lots of perfume and cologne to cover up the scent. Supposedly, some French people today are not that big on baths or showers - though they take them considerably more often than good Queen Lizzy did. I've read some Parisians say - in some fashion magazine I've forgotten the name of that was comparing French and American women - that the combined smell of perfume and natural body odor is sexy ... pheremonal and all I suppose. If that is true, I'll just be unsexy, thanks. I do want to go back and stress that I got this info on the modern French from one fashion mag, and then it was only a percentage, not all, nor even most, tho the percentage was oddly large to me.
* Months that begin on Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.
* It's against the law to burp or sneeze in a church in Nebraska.
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