- In the 1893 court case Nix v. Hedden, the United States Supreme Court determined the tomato was a vegetable rather than a fruit.
- It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
- The average person loses about 200 head hairs a day.
- You use 200 muscles to take one step.
- Scientists have counted more than 500 different liver functions.
- For every pound a person gains, the knees need to endure an extra three pounds of pressure.
- The average office desk houses 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
- Sounds greater than 130 decibels trigger pain.
- Perspiration is odorless. It is the bacteria on the skin that creates the odor.
- Flu shots are only effective about two-thirds of the time.
- The average adult produces about half a liter of flatulent gas per day, which results in an average of about 14 instances of gas-passing daily.
- Gardening is one of the best forms of exercise for maintaining healthy bones.
- The colors red, yellow and orange stimulate appetite.
- Cholesterol is needed to produce hormones.
- If your liver stopped working, you’d die within 24 hours.
- According to Aztec lore, the deity Quetzalcoatl came from heaven on the beam of the morning star, bringing with him a cocoa tree he stole from heaven. Hence chocolate being deemed the “food of the gods.”
- During World War II, in the Pacific campaign, both sides of the war used coconut water (taken directly from the coconut) to give emergency plasma transfusions to wounded soldiers.
- Saccharin (Sweet ‘N Low®) is commonly manufactured by combining anthranilic acid (a corrosive agent for metal) with nitrous acid, sulfur dioxide, chlorine and ammonia.
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