22. A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr (100 mi/hr), and a cough moves out at 100 km/hr(60 mi/hr).


23. Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey per day.


24. Our eyes can distinguish up to ten million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.


25. Our lungs inhale over two million litres of air every day, without even thinking.


26. When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph.


27. We exercise at least 36 muscles when we smile.


28. We are about 70 percent water.


29. Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.


Source: http://www.medindia.net/facts/

Explorers:
21. The Self Appendectomy.


It happened during 6th Soviet Antarctic Expedition at Novolazarevskaya Station. The patient "Leonid Rogozov" was the only physician on station, so the assistant was a mechanic. It was on April 30, 1961. The operation took 2 hours. He positioned himself so that he could see his own body using a mirror when doing the surgery, he made a 12 cm cut through which he found and removed the appendix. After 5 days the doctor felt good, and after 7 days he removed the wires which had been used to sew up the body.

source: http://www.southpolestation.com/trivia/igy1/appendix.html

BADASS !!!!!!!!

Nice one

Kidney related problem is just too much. Dats why it's advisable to take enough water daily

Interesting and educating.

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NICE ONE ... AND THE TICKLE PART TOTALLY TRUE

wow..... d arm span =total height anthropometrics in architecture

d rest...... hm

no

Explorers:
3. For every pound of fat gained, you add seven miles of new blood vessels.


New tissue needs blood supply, so your vascular system expands to accommodate it. This also means your heart must work harder to pump blood through the new network, which may reduce oxygenation andnutrient replenishment in other tissues. Losea pound? Your body will break down and reabsorb the unneeded blood vessels from the previous tissue.

Nice 1 op,

But why is one foot blue and the other red, abi they get different nutrient ?

interesting and informative




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No. 14 got me smiling

Cool

Explorers:
9. On any given day, sexual intercourse takes place over 120 million times on earth. Humans are a quickly proliferating species, and with about 4% of the world’s population having sex on any given day, it’s no wonder thatbirth ratescontinue to increase in many places all over the world.

I contributed to number 100million or so, just this morning...

Simply put... Amazing!

loomer:
This one doesn't apply to nigeria na

So what are in the body of Nigerians? stones? nawaooo

I blame buhari for this. ;DI blame buhari for this.

So if u dey f*ck... more than a million people are doing the same. Damn!!! God is Great

AwesomelyMade:
Explorers you are very educative. Keep it up

Thanks.

Explorers:
1. Avoiding Lawsuits Instead of Providing Health Care.


A Jackson Healthcare survey uncovered that the vast majority of doctors, 92 percent, made medical decisions according to legal concerns rather than providing the best standard of diagnostic care for their patients. Every year, patients endure hundred of thousands of unnecessary tests and procedures, ordered to avoid any potential of medical malpractice. Eight percent of all surgeries, 14 percent of prescriptions and more than a quarter of all tests are performed to avoid litigation. The resulting cost to the American health care system alone measures between $650-$850 billion per year. Even worse, some doctors actively avoid treating patients listed as “high-risk cases” for lawsuits.

Reminds me of the proverb, as men had learnt to shoot with out missing the bird had learnt to fly without perching .. No be doctors fault.. It's also partly due to the increasing unemployment amongst lawyers

Great information. OP, well done.

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30. An estimated 5 to 10% of cancers are entirely hereditary. Most cancers develop through a combination of hereditary and environmental factors.


31. .Smoking causes an estimated 90% of lung cancer. Tobacco has killed 50 million people in the last decade. If trends continue, a billion people will die from tobacco use and exposure this century, which equates to one person every six seconds.


32. Those who sleep less than six hours a night are more likely to develop colon cancer than those who sleep more.


33. Cancer has two main characteristics: Abnormal cell growth and the ability to spread to other parts of the body(metastasis).


34. In 2008, there were an estimated 12,667,500 new cases of cancer worldwide. Eastern Asia had the most new cases (3,720,000) and Micronesia the fewest (700). North America had approximately 1,603,900 new cases.


35. One in eight deaths in the world are due to cancer. Cancer causes more deaths than AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined.


36. Cancer is the leading cause of death in developed countries and the second leading cause of death in developing countries, after heart disease. Globally, heart disease is the number one killer.


37. In 2008, 7.6 million people died of cancer globally, which equatesto 21,000 cancer deaths a day. By 2030, 21.4 million new cancer cases are expected to occur globally with 13.2 million cancer deaths.


38. The most common cancer in women globally is breast cancer, with an estimated 1.4 million new cases diagnosed in 2008. Breast cancer is also the leading cause of cancer death in women worldwide, with an estimated 458,400 deaths a year.


39. Cancer patients have twice the risk of suicide than the general population. Men are more likely to kill themselves immediately after a diagnosis.


40. Cancer drugs are the largest category of drugs in terms of sales.



Pls read more here/source: http://facts.randomhistory.com/cancer-facts.html

cosmic22:
wow..... d arm span =total height
anthropometrics in architecture


d rest...... hm

True this. ANTHROPOMETRICS.

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hmmm,self appendectomy, that's kind if wield but not hard to believe though

Explorers:
8. You could remove a large part of your internal organs and survive.The human body may appear fragile but it’s possible to survive even with the removal of the stomach, the spleen, 75 percent of the liver, 80 percent of the intestines, one kidney, one lung, and virtually every organfrom the pelvic and groin area. You might not feel too great, but the missing organs wouldn’t kill you.

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Very nice

callmelanner:
Kidney related problem is just too much. Dats why it's advisable to take enough water daily

Why e no go plenty these days, too much Alcohol, monkey tail, jedi, sk, Alomo, ori maalu, tramadol and lacasera, refnol, dagrin, Chelsea, squady, red label etc etc etc.....

Highly informative

0.5kg of fat equal almost 11km of new blood vessels formed

One more reason y u shud exercise

Very educative. No 13 affects me the most. I have lost hope now of my tooth's part regenerating.