Sunday, December 8, 2013

Some other random science facts

  • Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
  • Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
  • Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
  • Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
  • When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
  • You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV
  • A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away
  • The brain uses over a quarter of the oxygen used by the human body.
  • The colour of a humans skin is determined by the level of pigment melanin that the body 
  • produces. Those with small amounts of melanin have light skin while those with large amounts have dark skin.
  • Your nose and ears continue growing throughout your entire life.
  • It takes the body around 12 hours to completely digest eaten food.
  • Your sense of smell is around 10000 times more sensitive than your sense of taste.

-Minz-

2 comments:

  1. My sense of smell? Is 100000 times stronger than taste, what it would be if we ate with our noses...

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  2. Eat salts --> RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

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