Weird & Wonderful Medical Facts!

[aldona]

Here are some weird medical statistics collected from various sources. Everybody is encouraged to add more, or any strange medical news that has happened where you are.

An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.

Every square inch of your body is populated by an about 32 million bacteria.

Your largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet. If cut into pasta size pieces it would serve four.

85% of your brain is water.

Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every minute.

Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.

It is impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2 -6 years old.

In the course of a lifetime the average person will grow 2 Metres of nose hair.

Ladies in nudist camps tend to use more makeup than ladies elsewhere.

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.

During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged.

A pound of grasshoppers is three times as nutritious as a pound of beef.

10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria.

[Beryl]

"Your largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet. If cut into pasta size pieces it would serve four."

With or without sauce??

[aldona]

"Your largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet. If cut into pasta size pieces it would serve four."

With or without sauce??

With a pound of grasshoppers.

(I think I've just ruined my chances of being re-elected as "health & temperance secretary"...

aldona