| On average,
a person has two million sweat glands.
On average, Americans spend
33% of their life sleeping.
On average a person passes
gas 14 times a day.
On average 1,668 gallons of
water are used by each person in the United States daily.
Nerve impulses for muscle position
travel at a speed of up to 390 feet per second.
Nerve cells can travel as fast
as 120 meters per second.
Mummy powder was once thought
to be a cure for all remedies. English men used to carry
the powder with them in a tiny bag wherever they went.
Men in their early twenties
shave an average of four times a week.
Medical research has found
substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth.
Medical reports show that about
18% of the population are prone to sleepwalking.
Manicuring the nails has been
done by people for more than 4,000 years.
Left-handed people are better
at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast
reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.
Ironically, when doctors in
Los Angeles, California went on strike in 1976, the daily
number of deaths in the city dropped 18%.
In the United States, 8.5 million
cosmetic surgical and non-surgical procedures were done
in the year 2001.
People with darker skin will
not wrinkle as fast as people with lighter skin. |