Medical Bizarre Facts - Page 3

Bizarre Fact #101:
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The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.

Bizarre Fact #102:
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The Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland was a symbolic character for the hat makers in towns of the late 1800's. The large felt hats of the day had supports made out of lead. The lead caused an organic form of psychosis (brain damage) to develop in the hat makers causing them to be declared crazy.

Bizarre Fact #103:
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The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay.

Bizarre Fact #104:
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The number one cause of blindness in the United States is diabetes.

Bizarre Fact #105:
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The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

Bizarre Fact #106:
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The right lung takes in more air than the left lung.

Bizarre Fact #107:
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The sense of touch: electrical impulses travel from the skin toward the spinal cord at a rate of up to 425 feet per second.

Bizarre Fact #108:
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The short-term memory capacity for most people is between five and nine items or digits. This is one reason that phone numbers were kept to seven digits for so long.

Bizarre Fact #109:
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.

Bizarre Fact #110:
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The substance that human blood resembles most closely in terms of chemical composition is sea water.

Bizarre Fact #111:
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There are 10 trillion living cells in the human body.

Bizarre Fact #112:
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There are more than one form of the Ebola virus. Different strains are named after the area they were discovered in.

Bizarre Fact #113:
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There have been cases of people dying from paper cuts. The paper cut gets infected, and without proper treatment you can die from the infection.

Bizarre Fact #114:
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Undertakers report that human bodies do not deteriorate as quickly as they used to. The reason, they believe, is that the modern diet contains so many preservatives that these chemicals tend to prevent the body from decomposition too rapidly after death.

Bizarre Fact #115:
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Urine was once used as a detergent for washing.

Bizarre Fact #116:
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When honey is swallowed, it enters the blood stream within a period of 20 minutes.

Bizarre Fact #117:
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You blink every 2-10 seconds. As you focus on each word in this sentence, your eyes swing back and forth 100 times a second, and every second; the retina performs 10 billion computer-like calculations.

Bizarre Fact #118:
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You can see a candle flame from 50 Kilometers on a clear, dark night. You can hear the tick of a watch from 6 meters in very quiet conditions. You can taste one gram of salt in 500 liters of water (.0001M). You can detect one drop of perfume diffused throughout a three-room apartment. You can detect the wing of a bee falling on your cheek from a height of one centimeter.

Bizarre Fact #119:
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You lose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight five-pound flour bags.

Bizarre Fact #120:
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Your hearing is less sharp if you eat too much.

Bizarre Fact #121:
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Your jaw muscle is the most powerful muscle in your body.

Bizarre Fact #122:
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Your thumb is the same length as your nose.