Volume 7, Number 7 SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE HEALTH AND WELLNESS April 2003
Do you really care???
It is
impossible to lick your elbow...
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the
bacteria in your ear
by 700 times.
The
average American will eat 35,000 cookies
in their lifetime.
A one minute kiss
burns 26
calories...
The greatest recorded number of children that have been born by one mother is 69! The poor lass gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and a measly 4 sets of quadruplets!
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910...
An average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick
in her lifetime.
The average chocolate bar
has 8 insects' legs in it!!!
Brain waves
can be used to run an electric train...
On average, 90% of Dutch teenagers can speak fluent English whereas only 80% of American teenagers can speak fluent English.
The average human eats 8 spiders
in their lifetime
while sleeping!!!
An average western crap contains more vitamins and goodness than what an average third-world child eats in a week from food.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
1/4 of the bones in your body are in your foot...
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes
open...
The tongue
is the fastest healing part of the human body.
On average, a human being will spend 2 weeks kissing in
their lifetime...
Over 75% of people who read this page will try to lick their elbow!
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