24 Healthy Facts that will blow your mind.
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24 Healthy Facts That Will Blow Your Mind!
1. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
2. There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
3. In some parts of the world, they protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.
4. The word ‘gymnasium’ comes from the Greek word gymnazein, which means ‘to exercise naked.’
5. There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee, of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
6. During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food — that’s the weight of about 6 elephants
7. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
8. Gently massage the space between your eyebrows to induce deep sleep.
9. Laughter boosts your immune system and decreases stress hormones.
10. Each pound above your ideal weight lowers your life expectancy by 34 days.
11. When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, and they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
12. The human brain can hold five-times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.
13. Stress causes ulcers
14. Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress.
15. There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee. You don’t see all of them because most are too fine and light to be noticed.
16. Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body.
17. Womens hearts beat faster than men’s do.
18. From all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain.
19. People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain
20. Your brain is 80% water.
21. The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb.
22. The brain itself cannot feel pain.
23. Feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat a day.
24. If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
1. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
2. There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
3. In some parts of the world, they protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.
4. The word ‘gymnasium’ comes from the Greek word gymnazein, which means ‘to exercise naked.’
5. There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee, of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
6. During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food — that’s the weight of about 6 elephants
7. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
8. Gently massage the space between your eyebrows to induce deep sleep.
9. Laughter boosts your immune system and decreases stress hormones.
10. Each pound above your ideal weight lowers your life expectancy by 34 days.
11. When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, and they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
12. The human brain can hold five-times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.
13. Stress causes ulcers
14. Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress.
15. There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee. You don’t see all of them because most are too fine and light to be noticed.
16. Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body.
17. Womens hearts beat faster than men’s do.
18. From all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain.
19. People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain
20. Your brain is 80% water.
21. The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb.
22. The brain itself cannot feel pain.
23. Feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat a day.
24. If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
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My mind was just blown0
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I've heard all those, except the last one. So cool!0
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22. The brain itself cannot feel pain.
LIES!! close this thread for lies,
Have you ever had a slurpee?
DUmb thread, real dumb thread.0 -
22. The brain itself cannot feel pain.
Spend enough time reading some of the "How hot is the person above you", "X food is EVIL/bad/dangerous", or "Detox" threads and your brain will start feeling pain.0 -
But honestly I do not believe most of that. What is your source?0 -
22. The brain itself cannot feel pain.
Spend enough time reading some of the "How hot is the person above you", "X food is EVIL/bad/dangerous", or "Detox" threads and your brain will start feeling pain.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:0 -
22. The brain itself cannot feel pain.
Spend enough time reading some of the "How hot is the person above you", "X food is EVIL/bad/dangerous", or "Detox" threads and your brain will start feeling pain.
haha. ok.. I stand corrected. LOL0 -
I would however.. like to test the "bathe in beer" theory.. maybe it will also serve as detox?? :~p0
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Well it isn't a lie so long as the poster believes it is true. It would just be an untruth in that scenario because a lie would be more of a knowing and willful deception.
LIES!! close this thread for lies,22. The brain itself cannot feel pain.
Have you ever had a slurpee?
DUmb thread, real dumb thread.
More to the point number 22 is actually true. If we cut off the top of your head and touched your brain directly you would not be able to feel the touch of the brain. The Slurpee example that you have pointed out is called a brain freeze but that is a misnomer. It is not the actual brain freezing that causes the head ache.
The one where is says the brain has 5 times the information of an encyclopedia. I think that is a bit short. The brain has so much storage capacity that it is would be capable of recording all of the footage on a television channel for 300 years.
I am also extremely skeptical of number one.0 -
13. Stress causes ulcers
Wrong. H. pylori causes most ulcers. And it can be found in the substance that allows flies to walk on a wall.
So cover up your food!0 -
12 is incorrect also - size of the human brain is unknown, assumed to be virtually unlimited. Accurate recall, however, is a different matter
Quite a few of them, like the ulcer one, are based on popular mythology and simplification of science.
Pity really, for many people it won't matter. For me though, it is irritating as I have to unteach many students who arrive with such tut in their 'everyone knows it is true' box of information.0 -
25. If you *kitten*, you will grow hair on the palm of your hands.0
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22. The brain itself cannot feel pain.
LIES!! close this thread for lies,
Have you ever had a slurpee?
DUmb thread, real dumb thread.
Lol! Slurpee pain is the worst! The spit ones grossed me out. I HATE spit. I'll never be able to look at a swimming pool that same way again. Thanks.0 -
I would dispute most of those facts, but I can't be bothered.......0
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25. If you *kitten*, you will grow hair on the palm of your hands.
LOL.0 -
Well it isn't a lie so long as the poster believes it is true. It would just be an untruth in that scenario because a lie would be more of a knowing and willful deception.
LIES!! close this thread for lies,22. The brain itself cannot feel pain.
Have you ever had a slurpee?
DUmb thread, real dumb thread.
More to the point number 22 is actually true. If we cut off the top of your head and touched your brain directly you would not be able to feel the touch of the brain. The Slurpee example that you have pointed out is called a brain freeze but that is a misnomer. It is not the actual brain freezing that causes the head ache.
The one where is says the brain has 5 times the information of an encyclopedia. I think that is a bit short. The brain has so much storage capacity that it is would be capable of recording all of the footage on a television channel for 300 years.
I am also extremely skeptical of number one.
umm i think the guy was joking about the brain freeze thing0 -
25. If you *kitten*, you will grow hair on the palm of your hands.
And go blind.0
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