Medical Bizarre Facts - Page 2

Bizarre Fact #51:
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If you squeezed out all of the bacteria from your intestines, you could almost fill up a coffee mug.

Bizarre Fact #52:
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In 1815 French chemist Michael Eugene Chevreul realized the first link between diabetes and sugar metabolism when he discovered that the urine of a diabetic was identical to grape sugar.

Bizarre Fact #53:
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In 1918 and 1919, a world epidemic of simple influenza killed 20 million people in the United States and Europe.

Bizarre Fact #54:
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In 1972, a group of scientists reported that you could cure the common cold by freezing the big toe.

Bizarre Fact #55:
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In 1977, a 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot.

Bizarre Fact #56:
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In 1990, a 64-year old Hartsville, Tennessee, woman entered a hospital for surgery for what doctors diagnosed as a tumor on her buttocks. What surgeons found, however, was a four-inch pork chop bone, which they removed. They estimated that it had been in place for five to ten years. The woman could not remember sitting on it, or eating it for that matter.

Bizarre Fact #57:
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In Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, in the late 50's thru early 70's, there was a dentist named Dunat Yelle.

Bizarre Fact #58:
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It only takes 7 lbs of pressure to rip off your ears.

Bizarre Fact #59:
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It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

Bizarre Fact #60:
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Lacrimal fluid lubricates the eyes.

Bizarre Fact #61:
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Lead poisoning is known as plumbism.

Bizarre Fact #62:
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Medical researchers contend that no disease ever identified has been completely eradicated.

Bizarre Fact #63:
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Men have more blood than women. Men have 1.5 gallons for men versus 0.875 gallons for women.

Bizarre Fact #64:
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Mouth ulcers are the most common human affliction.

Bizarre Fact #65:
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No one seems to know why people blush.

Bizarre Fact #66:
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Of the 206 bones in the average human adult's body, 106 are in the hands and feet. (54 in the hands and 52 in the feet)

Bizarre Fact #67:
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One group, the Hunza in Northwest Kashmir, reportedly have not experienced cancer. The group is also said to have unusual longevity.

Bizarre Fact #68:
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Over 25% of Zaire is infected with a form of the Ebola virus that does not kill.

Bizarre Fact #69:
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Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second.

Bizarre Fact #70:
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People who have a tough time handling the stress of money woes are twice as likely to develop severe gum disease, a new study finds.

Bizarre Fact #71:
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People who have never been married are seven and a half times more likely than married people to be admitted to a psychiatric facility.

Bizarre Fact #72:
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People who laugh a lot are much healthier than those who don't. Dr. Lee Berk at the Loma Linda School of Public Health in California found that laughing lowers levels of stress hormones, and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds have it best - they laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

Bizarre Fact #73:
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Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana.

Bizarre Fact #74:
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Sarin, the nerve gas believed to have been used in a Tokyo subway attack, can be made by anyone with an undergraduate degree in chemistry using easily obtainable chemicals and a formula readily available on the Internet. The agent, a type of organophosphate pesticide, causes paralysis by interfering with the breakdown of acetylcholine at nerve junctions. (If you do this, don't blame me when you get put on death row.)

Bizarre Fact #75:
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Scientists have identified more than 300 viruses capable of bringing fatal diseases to insects. The organisms are believed to be entirely different than those that cause disease in humans, and are thus harmless to man.

Bizarre Fact #76:
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Several well documented instances have been reported of extremely obese people flushing aircraft toilets whilst still sitting on them. The vacuum action of these toilets sucked the rectum inside out.

Bizarre Fact #77:
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Skin is the largest organ of the human body.

Bizarre Fact #78:
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Smoking makes it almost impossible for a male to have a natural erection and it shrinks the penis. It also reduces the mobility of sperm.

Bizarre Fact #79:
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Soldiers disease is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.

Bizarre Fact #80:
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Sometimes when you belch, a little bit of your stomach acids comes along. This makes for a very disgusting and burning burp.

Bizarre Fact #81:
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Spontaneous human combustion is the process of the body's temperature becoming heated to the point that the body simply bursts into flame and incinerates. No one knows the actual cause of why this happens. Some blame a chemical reaction within the body, others blame supernatural causes.

Bizarre Fact #82:
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Studies shown by the Psychology Department of DePaul University show that the principal reason to lie is to avoid punishment.

Bizarre Fact #83:
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Sumerians (from 5000 BC) thought that the liver made blood and the heart was the center of thought.

Bizarre Fact #84:
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The adult human heart weighs about ten ounces.

Bizarre Fact #85:
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The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

Bizarre Fact #86:
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The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.

Bizarre Fact #87:
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The average person can go as many as eleven days without water. That's assuming a mean temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

Bizarre Fact #88:
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The average square inch of skin holds 650 sweat glands, 20 blood vessels, 60,000 melanocytes, and during the summer months, six or seven mosquito bites.

Bizarre Fact #89:
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The brain requires 25 percent of all oxygen used by the body.

Bizarre Fact #90:
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The first Band-Aid Brand Adhesive Bandages were three inches wide and eighteen inches long. You made your own bandage by cutting off as much as you needed.

Bizarre Fact #91:
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The first drug that was offered as a water-soluble tablet, was aspirin in 1900.

Bizarre Fact #92:
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The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English garden. In 1799, physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of the common plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action. Still used in heart medications, digitalis slows the pulse and increases the force of heart contractions and the amount of blood pumped per heartbeat.

Bizarre Fact #93:
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The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.

Bizarre Fact #94:
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The hardest substance in the human body is enamel.

Bizarre Fact #95:
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The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.

Bizarre Fact #96:
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The human kidney consists of over 1 million little tubes with a total length of about 40 miles in both kidneys.

Bizarre Fact #97:
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The iris membrane controls the amount of light that enters your eye.

Bizarre Fact #98:
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The kidneys filter about 500 gallons of blood each day.

Bizarre Fact #99:
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The lens of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.

Bizarre Fact #100:
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The lens of the human eye continues to go throughout a person's life.