Seen.By.Ice.Queen: coming to my senses

My son came home from playschool one day and told me, "Mommie, the largest bone in your body is called a FEMUR and the smallest bone is STIRRUP. There are 206 bones in a human body".

This info took me by surprise and I was ashamed at my lack of knowledge to furnish him with more scientific facts about the human body. Today, a colleague kindly beefed up my general knowledge again with the following facts and illustrations. I shall go home and tell my son about them.. :)

Scientists say the higher your I.Q. The more you dream (OK before you get excited, it DIDN'T say that if you dream a lot, you HAVE high I.Q.)


The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm


You use 200 muscles to take one step


The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man (which means to say that either I am taller than the average woman.. OR alot of the men I know are shorter than average men..hmmm)


Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three


A pair of human feet contains 250,000 sweat glands


A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball


The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades (so ladies, if you ever get attacked by a man, just puke at him buahahaha...)


The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica (erm.. ok... not mine..)


It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach (one, two, three.. yeah i'm eating)


The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds (i can almost swear that mine are longer. i even get continuing dreams that follows where it ends off after waking up to pee)


Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair (hairless = weaker liver? double depressing for these men)


At the moment of conception, you spent about half an hour as a single cell


There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet (now you know why mum always nags at you to wash your feet when you get home huh?)


Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil (energy conservation ideas anyone?)


The enamel in your teeth is the hardest substance in your body


Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born


When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, and they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate (hence the saying that you can only hate someone you love?)


Your thumb is the same length of your nose (and I know you are measuring it now o_O'")