- Having a diagonal crease in your earlobe is accurate in determining if you have coronary artery disease.
- You cannot fully yawn or sneeze with your eyes open.
- One in 2,000 people has synesthesia, a condition in which they “taste” words and hear sounds when they look at certain colors.
- Just like fingerprints, everyone has a unique “tongue” print.
- Humans shed 600,000 flakes of skin every hour. That’s more than one pound a year, or 105 pounds by the time you turn 70.
- You have 60,000 miles of blood vessels in your body, through which 2,000 gallons of blood are pumped every day.
- The sound of the average snore is 60 decibels, but can go as high as 80 decibels, which is equivalent to a drill busting through concrete. Anything over 85 decibels is considered hazardous to your hearing.
- Your fingernails grow faster on the hand you write with, as well as on your longest fingers.
- If you go without sleep for 11 straight days, you will die. Yes, die.
- In addition to being gray, your brain is also white, black and red.
- Canned white tuna (albacore) has three times more mercury than chunk light tuna.
- In people under the age of 75, the radius bone in the wrist is the most commonly broken bone. In those over age 75, hip fractures are most common.
- Greek yogurt has twice as much protein as regular yogurt, but less calcium.
- You cannot tickle yourself.
- Drinking green or black tea with your dinner can decrease iron absorption from your meal by up to 50 percent.
- Middle-aged and older people can boost weight loss efforts by drinking two cups of water before each meal.
- Cucumbers and celery contain at least 95 percent water.
- Those baby carrots that come in those handy bags are often washed in a solution comprised of chlorine and water.
- Quinoa is technically not a grain. It is a seed of a plant in the spinach family.
- When you blush, your stomach lining also turns red.
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