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fingernail
  • Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails

lice
  • Head lice actually prefer to live on clean heads, not dirty ones

lung
  • The right lung is slightly larger than the left
  • If you spread out the surface area of the lung, it would fit a tennis court

Intestine
  • Food passes through the small intestine in just two hours, zipping along at 0.002 mph. Inside the large intestine, it takes about 14 hours, traveling at a more leisurely rate of 0.00007 mph

DNA
  • If the information in DNA were put in the form of a book, these books put on top of each other would reach 70 meters high
  • A simple list of the bases of the entire DNA is enough to fill 200 New York City phone books
  • Scientist don’t know what 50% of genes do
  • 8 mysteries were solved using DNA including: Where is Columbus Buried? Was Albert DeSalvo the Boston strangler? Did Sam Sheppard Kill His Wife? Did Thomas Jefferson Father Children with His Slave, Sally Hemings? Did Jesse James Die in 1882, or Did He Fake His Death? Could the Romanovs Have Survived the Russian Revolution? Was Anna Anderson Really Anastasia? Did the Last Dauphin Escape?

duelling
  • Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors

coffee
  • There are more coffee drug addicts in the US than drug addicts of any other kind.

colour blindness
  • Colour blind people are used to detect camouflaged units in previous war-fare
  • Everyone is colourblind at birth

beans
  • A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell
  • The Mexican Jumping Bean is actually a thin-shelled seed containing the larva of the jumping bean moth (Laspeyresia saltitans).

mouth
  • There is more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of U.S and Canada combined. Thanx Julie for this and a couple more


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