I found an article on random and scary health facts I found to be interesting. These originally came from Healthy Magazine.
Those drivers talking on their cell phones are more impaired than drunk drivers with a blood-alcohol level exceeding .08
If you bang your head against a wall, you burn 150 calories an hour (now that’s really an important one, huh?)
Some part of the world protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer
“gymnasium” comes from the Greek word gymnazein, which means “to exercise naked”
A cup of coffee has more than 1,000 chemicals in it with 26 tested and half caused cancer in rats.
The average American eats at McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life
There are fewer people in the world than bacteria in your mouth
One cup of OJ is allowed to contain 10 fruit fly eggs and only 2 maggots (Yuk)
More calories are burned sleeping than when watching tv
You can go blind from smoking too heavily
People who are right handed live about 9 years longer than left handed people
We are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening
You will eat about 60,000 lbs. of food during your lifetime (weight of 6 elephants)
One bacteria cell can multiply to more than 8 million cells in less than 24 hours
Flies can’t eat solid food
The wart virus is very contagious
Attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples
No one knows why people blush
A group of scientists report you can cure the common cold by freezing the big toe
The #1 cause of blindness in the US is diabetes
The adult human heart weighs about 10 ounces
Those who laugh a lot are much healthier than those who don’t
About 25-33% of the population sneeze when exposed to light
Of the 206 bones in the adult body, 106 are in the hands and feet
The first Band-Aid bandage was 3 inches wide and 18 inches long
The human brain stops growing at the age of 18
I hope you have enjoyed some of these funky facts and have learned some of the new, weird ones. Have a great day and remember that there are hundreds more of these facts out there! You’d be surprised what you can find on the Internet.
– Dr Fredda Branyon