1. Fingernails grow four times faster than toenails 2. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people 3. If you rub an onion on your foot
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15 Amazing Science Facts
1. Fingernails grow four times faster than toenails 2. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people 3. If you rub an onion on your foot – within 30 – 60 minutes you will be able to taste it – this is because it travels through the blood stream 4. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath (if you hold it until you go unconscious, you begin to breath normally as soon as you do) 5. On one square inch of human skin there are 20 million microscopic creatures 6. Armadillos are the only creatures apart from men that can catch leprosy – there are known cases of armadillo to human transfers of the disease 7. A snail can sleep for 3 – 4 years – during which period it does not need food 8. Giraffes can live longer without water than camels 9. The songs of humpback whales can change dramatically from year to year, yet each whale in an oceanwide population always sings the same song as the others [Source] 10. The forces required to remove a foot from quicksand at a speed of one centimeter per second would require the same amount of force as “that needed to lift a medium-sized car.” 11. To test if a pearl is real, you can rub vinegar on it – the composition of the pearl will cause it to bubble furiously 12. Goldfish kept in a dark room turn much paler – and if it wasn’t for the color in the food they eat, they would turn completely white 13. Unlike normal bees, the Queen bee’s stinger is not barbed and can be used repeatedly without harming her 14. Quicksand doesn’t directly kill humans as it is usually not very deep at all – it is the fact that it can be incredibly difficult to remove yourself from quicksand that causes death by the environment – such as exposure. 15. Oysters can change between being female or male if you learned/like, + rep |
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Interesting... I guess being left-handed means I'll have 9 years less of nursing home and colostomy bag experiences.
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Concerning number 3, that's why a lot of orthopedic inserts tell you to ask your doctor, especially if you have diabetes. Strangely enough, everything goes through your feet; all the blood in your system has, at one point or another, gone through the foot, and it does so several times in a day. What's even stranger is that if a person were to wear foam socks, completely white, and it was damp, it would turn a color on the inside, not from possible foot fungus, but because certain bodily wastes go through your feet!
I think they use that same concept in herbal medicine that basically tells you to steep your feet in herbal water.
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These are fun facts here, you never know when you'll need to answer a jeopardy question, you could think back...I saw that on the370z.com forum
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There are quite a lot of things I've learned in my time at the370z.com that I highly doubt would ever be safe enough to be discussed publicly on a game show...
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