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Mar 10, 2009

50 Weird Facts about Humans | Amazing Facts

Here are some amazing Facts about humans. Pretty interesting facts, huh? Keep on reading..

Humans body

While sitting at your desk make clockwise circles with your right foot. (go ahead no one will see you) While doing this, draw the number “6″ in the air with your right hand.
Your foot will change direction that is a fact.

1. People with higher number of moles tend to live longer than people with lesser number of moles.

3. When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes just before the camera rolls - it cools their mouths so their breath doesn’t condense in the cold air.

4. Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.

5. Grapefruit scent will make middle aged women appear six years younger to men. The perception is not reciprocal and the grapefruit scent on men has no effect on women’s perception.

6. The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

7. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you’ll have a bad dream.

8. There are more people alive today than have ever died.

9. Women’s hair is about half the diameter of men’s hair

10. Women blink twice as many times as men do.

11. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

12. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

13. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

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

15. The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb. The cartoon image of a light bulb over your head when a great thought occurs isn’t too far off the mark. Your brain generates as much energy as a small light bulb even when you’re sleeping.

16. The brain is much more active at night than during the day.

17. The brain itself cannot feel pain. While the brain might be the pain center when you cut your finger or burn yourself, the brain itself does not have pain receptors and cannot feel pain.

18. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger. And the nail on the middle finger of your dominant hand will grow the fastest of all. Why is not entirely known, but nail growth is related to the length of the finger, with the longest fingers growing nails the fastest and shortest the slowest.

19. The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average.

20. Human hair is virtually indestructible. Aside from it’s flammability, human hair decays at such a slow rate that it is practically non-disintegrative. Hair cannot be destroyed by cold, change of climate, water, or other natural forces and it is resistant to many kinds of acids and corrosive chemicals.

21. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades. Hydrochloric acid, the type found in your stomach, is not only good at dissolving the pizza you had for dinner but can also eat through many types of metal.

22. The surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court.

23. Sneezes regularly exceed 100 mph.

24. Approximately 75% of human waste is made of water.

25. The average person expels flatulence 14 times each day. Even if you’d like to think you’re too dignified to pass gas, the reality is that almost everyone will at least a few times a day.

26. Earwax production is necessary for good ear health. While many people find earwax to be disgusting, it’s actually a very important part of your ear’s defense system. It protects the delicate inner ear from bacteria, fungus, dirt and even insects. It also cleans and lubricates the ear canal.

27. Babies are always born with blue eyes. The melanin in a newborn’s eyes often needs time after birth to be fully deposited or to be darkened by exposure to ultraviolet light, later revealing the baby’s true eye color.

28. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

29. After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

30. Women are born better smellers than men and remain better smellers over life.

31. Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

32. Nails and hair do not continue to grow after we die. They do appear longer when we die, however, as the skin dehydrates and pulls back from the nail beds and scalp.

33. By the age of 60, most people will have lost about half their taste buds. Perhaps you shouldn’t trust your grandma’s cooking as much as you do.

34. Your eyes are always the same size from birth but your nose and ears never stop growing.

35. By 60 years of age, 60-percent of men and 40-percent of women will snore.

36. Monday is the day of the week when the risk of heart attack is greatest. A ten year study in Scotland found that 20% more people die of heart attacks on Mondays than any other day of the week. Researchers theorize that it’s a combination of too much fun over the weekend with the stress of going back to work that causes the increase.

37. Provided there is water, the average human could survive a month to two months without food depending on their body fat and other factors.

38. Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress.

39. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated. While it might be gross to think about, the blood in the head may be enough to keep someone alive and conscious for a few seconds after the head has been separated from the body, though reports as to the accuracy of this are widely varying.

40. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood the number is reduced to 206.

41. We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening.

42. It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it. Lazy people out there shouldn’t use this as motivation to not work out, however. It’s relatively easy to build new muscle tissue and get your muscles in shape, so if anything, this fact should be motivation to get off the couch and get moving.

43. Tears and mucus contain an enzyme (lysozyme) that breaks down the cell wall of many bacteria.

44. It is not possible to tickle yourself. Even the most ticklish among us do not have the ability to tickle ourselves.

45. The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body. While not exact down to the last millimeter, your armspan is a pretty good estimator of your height.

46. Humans are the only animals to produce emotional tears.

47. Women burn fat more slowly than men, by a rate of about 50 calories a day. Most men have a much easier time burning fat than women. Women, because of their reproductive role, generally require a higher basic body fat proportion than men, and as a result their bodies don’t get rid of excess fat at the same rate as men.

48. Koalas and primates are the only animals with unique fingerprints. Humans, apes and koalas are unique in the animal kingdom due to the tiny prints on the fingers of their hands.

49. One human hair can support 3.5 ounces. That’s about the weight of two full size candy bars, and with hundreds of thousands of hairs on the human head, makes the tale of Rapunzel much more plausible.

50. Cna yuo raed tihs? I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it

+ 51. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
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Strange Facts About Insects | Amazing facts

Some amazing things you've got to know about amazing facts insects.


* According to studies, half of all known animals are insects.
* Insect is a good source of protein so in several countries it is a delicacy.
* Majority of insects use their antennae in search of food.
* Insects are the cold-blooded animals.
* All insects have jointed legs, 3 pairs to be exact.
* Insects can lift objects 50 times or more its natural weight.
Here are other facts about insects:
Beetle
* Almost 1/3 of all known insects are beetles.
* A 100 gram African Goliath beetle is the heaviest insect in the world.
* The South American Acteon Beetle holds the record for the biggest known insect. The males can grow up to 9cms long.
* The hairy winged beetles are the tiniest insects in the world.
* Believe it or not 278 Japanese beetles were once found on a single apple.
Beetles
Bees
* 15 miles per hour at an average, that‘s how fast a bee can fly.
* A worker bee can generate 1/12th teaspoon of honey in its entire life span.
* In order to produce a tablespoon of honey, bees need to be busy sipping the nectar from 2,000 flowers.
* More human death are attributed to honeybees sting than all poisonous snakes bite.
* A bee’s buzz is generated by moving its wings at a rate of 11,400 strokes per minute.
* A bee can sting only once then dies after it pulled-out its stinger.
Bees
Cockroaches
* A baby cockroach can run side by side with its parents.
* A head-less cockroach can survive for a week but dies of thirst because it can’t drink water.
* Cockroaches can survive for a month eating nothing but have only a week to live without water.
* The world's largest cockroach found in South America is the world’s biggest cockroach measuring six inches and a one-foot wingspan.
* The Madagascan Hissing Cockroach (shown in photo) is one of the few insects who give birth to live young, rather than laying eggs.
Cockroaches
Dragonflies
Dragonflies
Ants
* Believe it or not, ants stay awake all their life.
* Ants have to move their jaws sideways just to chew its meal.
* An ant colony can housed half a million individuals.
* Amazon ants (red ants found in the western U.S.) who are good warriors have to snatch other ants larvae to make them slaves. In so doing, Amazon ants can’t survive without their slaves.
* Certain honey-pot ants become a colony’s warehouse. Their bloated abdomen produces a liquid food that serve as food to other individuals living in a colony.
* The fire ant (shown in photo), who grows as big as a grain of rice has a sting that is worse than a hornet’s sting.
Ants
Crickets
* Crickets sense of hearing comes from their knees.
* Take note only adult male crickets are capable of making a chirp.
* Crickets chirp is a product of rubbing its wings together.
* Some crickets are intelligent, they make a conical-shaped hole that help amplify the sound of their chirps allowing it to be heard as far as 2,000 feet away.
* Crickets are good temperature reader. People know whether its hot or cold depending on the chirps crickets make.

Crickets
Mosquitoes
* According to studies, majority of human death caused by animals is due to mosquito bite
* Mosquitoes feet are irritated by citronella, so they hate it much.
* Mosquitoes will likely bite children and blondes.
* Don’t worry about male mosquitoes, only the females bite. They need blood protein to produce eggs.
* It would take more than a million mosquito bite to sap all your blood.
Mosquitoes
Houseflies
* Common diseases such typhoid fever, dysentery and cholera are usually associated with a housefly.
* The house fly life span at the most 21 days.
* The housefly complex eye has more than 4,000 lenses.
* House flies hairy and sticky toe pads to walk upside down on the ceiling.
* A house fly "hums" in the key of F and beats its wings over 20,000 beat a minute.

Houseflies
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Amazing Facts About Humans | interesting facts

Some interesting facts about the human body and great people.

1. Rafael "Paeng" Nepomuceno, named the greatest Filipino athlete of all time by Philippine Congress, was also inducted into the International Bowling Hall of Fame in St. Louis, MO. He is bowling world champion in 4 different decades (1970s,1980s, 1990s, and 2000s)
2. Blood vessels of one human being, if laid end to end, would encircle the globe twice over.
3. Jose P. Rizal, the Philippine National Hero, could read and write at age two and grew up to speak more than 20 languages including Latin, German, French, Chinese and Japanese.
4. Muscles produce enough heat to boil one liter of water for an hour - that's what shivering is all about.
5. David Blaine spent over 60 hours frozen in a block of ice in Time Square, New York in 2000. In 2002, he spent 35 hours without food or water perched atop a 10-storey-tall pillar in a New York park. And in 2003, he spent 44 days without food in a glass box suspended thirty feet in the air in London.
6. Would you believe that the largest ovarian cyst weighed 134 kg? It had to be carried out of the operating room on a trolley.
7. Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez hit his 400th career homerun in 2005 making him the youngest player in MLB history to pass that milestone at the age of 29.
8. Most people shed 40 lb of skin in a lifetime.
9. Jack Nicklaus, a Pro golfer, had won the most major championships with 18.
10. The brain consumes about 20 percent of the oxygen that your body takes in, even when asleep - it never rests.
11. Pete Sampras holds record of most number of All-Time Grand Slam singles win with a total of 14.
12. The Deoxyribonucleic Acid or DNA in a single human cell is 37 meters long when unraveled.
13. LeBron James is the youngest-ever NBA All-Star MVP in 2006.
14. Hair grows faster in the summer than in winter, just like the nails do
15. Jeff Gordon is four-time NASCAR Cup Series Champion. At 16, he was the youngest person ever granted a racing license by the United States Auto Club (USAC)
16. A Russian woman, between the years 1725 and 1765, produced 69 children including 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets.
17. The baseball player with most homeruns is Hank Aaron with 755 career homeruns while Nolan Ryan has the most strikeouts with 5,714 career strikeouts and Pete Rose has the most hits with 4,256 career hits.
18. Every four days, the world's population increases by one million people. Then why is it that the world is not yet filled with people? Of course not, people are dying as well.
19. The All-Time NBA record for career points is Kareem Abdul-Jabar with 38,387 while record for career assists is John Stockton with 15,806. The rebound king is Wilt Chamberlain with 23,924 and the 3-points king is Reggie Miller with 2,560.
20. There's no reason to be sad during your birthday even if you're alone. Just bear in mind that there are ten million people around the world celebrating their birthday on the same day as you.
21. Omar Bongo, Gabon's President since 1967, is Africa's longest serving head of state.
22. Podiatrist is one who specializes in treatment of foot problems and an internist is one who specializes in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of all forms of adult diseases.
23. James Garfield, who shares his last name with a feline cartoon character, is an ambidextrous president. He could write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other at the same time.
24. Heart disease is the number one cause of death worldwide with 13% of all causes followed by stroke with 10%.
25. Harry Truman's middle name was just a single letter, representing the middle names of both his grandfathers. He became president in 1945.
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Mar 4, 2009

Beautiful Pictures taken at sea | Nature Photos

These are just some Beautiful pictures taken half in he water and half out

Beautiful Pictures taken at sea | Nature Photos
Beautiful Pictures taken at sea | Nature Photos
Beautiful Pictures taken at sea | Nature Photos
Beautiful Pictures taken at sea | Nature Photos
Beautiful Pictures taken at sea | Nature Photos
Beautiful Pictures taken at sea | Nature Photos
Beautiful Pictures taken at sea | Nature Photos
Beautiful Pictures taken at sea | Nature Photos
Beautiful Pictures taken at sea | Nature Photos
Beautiful Pictures taken at sea | Nature Photos
Beautiful Pictures taken at sea | Nature Photos
Beautiful Pictures taken at sea | Nature Photos
Beautiful Pictures taken at sea | Nature Photos
Beautiful Pictures taken at sea | Nature Photos
Beautiful Pictures taken at sea | Nature Photos
Beautiful Pictures taken at sea | Nature Photos
Beautiful Pictures taken at sea | Nature Photos
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Jesus made from Balloon | jesus behind the balloon (Video)

Jesus made from Balloon

To learn more about the man behind the balloon.


There really aren’t words to describe this....
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