The average human body contains enough phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, though few average humans can quite ignite a fire.

The bacteria found on human skin is roughly the numerical equivalent of all the humans on Earth...and increases when you shower.

For flu season, remember that the swine flu vaccine that was distributed in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent.

The average human eyelash lives about 150 days, though the first wink to the right person can last forever.

The sound heard by a listener when holding a seashell to his ear does not come from the shell itself -- it is the echo of the blood pulsing in the listener's own ear. The sound of screaming also does not come from the shell itself.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue; also, tongue prints are as unique as fingerprints...which makes some of us criminals.

We filter out 99 percent of the sights, sounds, and other sensations around us if they don’t seem threatening or important. If we didn’t filter, the sensory overload would drive us insane. Some filters are better than others.

The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night. Rip Van Winkle gave up his stogies after 31 years.

In the adult human body, there are 46 miles of nerves; boy, do we have a lot of nerve.

The average weight of the human heart is about 0.5% of the total weight of the body; I often feel like I weigh a million pounds.

A bowl of lime Jell-O, when hooked up to an EEG machine, exhibited movement which is virtually identical to the brain waves of a healthy adult man; also true is that the brain waves of a man are virtually identical whether he is having sex with a woman, or the bowl of lime Jell-O.

The stomach must produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks or it will digest itself. Given enough time and no mucus, the stomach could devour the body. Now, that's irony.

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