By Paula Mann RN
1. Our stomach is full of digestive acid, strong enough to melt zinc. Don’t worry though; the stomach lining renews itself so quickly that the acids don’t have time to eat through it.
2. The lungs consist of over 300,000 million capillaries which are tiny blood vessels. If they were laid out end to end, they would span 1500 miles.
3. The human bone (especially the femur) is about 4 times stronger than concrete. A cubic inch of bone can bear a load of 19,000 pounds.
4. The largest organ in/on the human body is skin; each person will shed off nearly 40 pounds of it in his or her lifetime.
5. You go to sleep and wake up two different sizes, being the tallest right after getting out of bed but shrinking during the day by being weighed down by the forces of gravity. Did you ever have to change your rear view mirror at the end of a stressful day?
6. The average human body gives off enough heat in only a half hour to boil a half gallon of water.
7. If all the blood vessels in the human body were placed end to end, they would circle the globe with a combined length of over 25,000 miles.
8. When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens. HMMMM I wonder what kind of study was done to verify that fact?
9. In your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools. (Awful thought)
10. Your feet have about 500,000 sweat glands and have the ability to produce up to a pint of sweat each day.
11. Your nose has quite the memory, and has the ability to remember 50,000 different scents.
12. The air from a sneeze can travel at unbelievable speeds of 100 mph or more!
Ok I think I have prepared you to play Trivial Pursuit.
