Welcome to the Wonderful World of Steph

• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue (hang on, I knew that one. What a lousy start).
• People say "Bless you" when you sneeze, because when you sneeze your heart stops for a millisecond.
• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky.
• A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white but actually clear (I knew this one too).
• More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
• 35% of people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
• Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
• Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
• Boanthropy is a disease in which a person thinks they're an ox.
• Reindeer like to eat bananas.
• Mosquito repellents don't repel. The spray blocks the mosquitos' sensors so they don't knwo you're there.
• In 4000BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from the crushed shells of beetles (I knew that - yay for Year 5).
• Butterflies taste with their feet (knew that too).
• 0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a moose.
• The average person laughs about fifteen times a day.
• 50,000 cells in your body will have died and been replaced by new cells while you have been reading this sentence (I knew that one as well).
• You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
• The largest cell in the human body is a female reproductive cells, the ovum. The smallest is the male sperm (okay, whoever did biology at some point at school should know that one).
• In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assoted insects and 10 spiders.
• The pupil of an eye expands as much as 45% when a person looks at something pleasing.

Aren't you feeling enlightened now?

# posted by Steph @ 9:39 am