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FACTS AND PHOBIAS

Top Ten Cell Phone Safety Facts


Last few years has seen some raging controversy on usage of cell phones.Over 80% of the world citizens are in a possession of cell phones. This year (2010) the number cell number in the world will exceed 5 billion and the number will keeps growing with broad band joining the bandwagon.Evidence seems to be pouring in about the harm of 'Electro Magnetic Radiation (EMR) from cell phones. More evidence is required before we raise our alarms about this device but the preliminary scientific report gives us reason to alert members about the need to take certain precautions. One of the first advices would be to keep cell phone usage to minimum, as even a twominute call from the cell phone alters the natural electrical activity of the brain for up to an hour. 1. Keep the handset if possible at least2 to 7 inches away from your heador use loudspeaker mode. It decreases the transmission of electro-magnetic radiation to the brain significantly. 2. Do not keep the cell phonesclose to your head when sleeping. Switch it off in the night or keep it 1.80 meters or 6 feet away from your head. 3. If keeping cell phones in pocketkeep the keypad towardsyou so that antenna faces away from you. 4. Dont use cell phonesif pregnant. The developing organs of the fetus or child are the most sensitive to any possible effects of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) exposure. 5. Avoid cell phones usage inmetal containerslike Vehicles, Elevators, Airplanes, Trains and any other type of metal container as it increases the EMR. 6.Avoid using the wired headsets. If you do use headsets use an air tube headset with ferrite beads. Blue tooth are better as they emit 1/100th the EMR of a normal cell phone. With regular headsets you get 3 times more EMR than if you hold the cell phone against your ear. 7. Cell phones are a bigNOfor Children under 15 years as currentlybrain tumorsare thesecond leading cause of deathin children. 8. Keep cell phones wellaway from newborns. EMR travel through childrens brains much more easily due to thinner skulls and hence increases the risk of cancer. 9. Avoid using cell phones in your pant pocket as radiation can affect your fertility. Avoid it in breast pocket if you have a pacemaker. 10.When buying a cell phone look for one with a low SAR or Specific Absorption Rate.Lower the SAR number the better. For example - Popular Motorola Razr V3x has a SAR of 0.14 which is amongst the lowest seen recently.

Phobias
The word phobia comes from the Greek word for fear ( , fobos). In medical terms 'Phobia' is an anxiety disorder. It is estimated that in USA - 5.1% to 21.5% people suffer from some kind of phobia. Women are more prone to have a phobia and this can be the cause for serious disability. The opposite of the suffix -phobia is a - philia or -philie (meaning "love of"). There are many more phobias described than what are medically acceptable to be called a 'mental anxiety disorder'. Some of these phobias actually mean a 'negative attitude towards something.' Medindia's 531 listed phobias include both types.

A to Z alphabetical listing of topics for easy reference A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W X Z

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Phobias Ablutophobia Acarophobia Acerophobia Achluophobia Acousticophobia Acrophobia Aeroacrophobia Aeronausiphobia Aerophobia Agliophobia Agoraphobia Agraphobia Agrizoophobia Agyrophobia Aichmophobia Ailurophobia Albuminurophobia Alektorophobia Algophobia Alliumphobia Description Fear of washing or bathing.

Total - 531 / Alphabet A - 68

Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching. Fear of sourness. Fear of darkness. Fear of noise. Fear of heights. Fear of open high places. Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness. Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances. Fear of Pain Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of sexual abuse. Fear of wild animals. Fear of streets or crossing the street. Fear of needles or pointed objects. Fear of cats. Fear of kidney disease. Fear of chickens. Fear of pain. Fear of garlic.

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Allodoxaphobia Altophobia Amathophobia Amaxophobia amaxophobia Ambulophobia Amnesiphobia Amychophobia Anablepobia

Fear of opinions. Fear of heights. Fear of dust. Fear of riding in a car. Get palpitations and get terrified while riding in any vehicle Fear of walking. Fear of amnesia. Fear of scratches or being scratched. Fear of looking up.

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Ancraophobia or Anemophobia Fear of wind.

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Androphobia Anemophobia Anginophobia Anglophobia Angrophobia Ankylophobia Anthropophobia Antlophobia Anuptaphobia

Fear of men. Fear of air drafts or wind. Fear of angina, choking or narrowness. Fear of England, English culture, etc. Fear of becoming angry. Fear of immobility of a joint. Fear of people or society. Fear of floods. Fear of staying single.

Anthrophobia or Anthophobia Fear of flowers.

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Apeirophobia Aphenphosmphobia Apiphobia Apotemnophobia Arachibutyrophobia Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia Arithmophobia Arrhenphobia Arsonphobia Asthenophobia

Fear of infinity. Fear of being touched. (Haphephobia) Fear of bees. Fear of persons with amputations. Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. Fear of spiders. Fear of numbers. Fear of men. Fear of fire. Fear of fainting or weakness.

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Astraphobia or Astrapophobia Fear of thunder and lightning. Astrophobia Asymmetriphobia Ataxiophobia Ataxophobia Atelophobia Atephobia Athazagoraphobia Atomosophobia Atychiphobia Fear of stars and celestial space. Fear of asymmetrical things. Fear of ataxia (muscular incoordination) Fear of disorder or untidiness. Fear of imperfection. Fear of ruins. Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting. Fear of atomic explosions. Fear of failure.

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Aulophobia Aurophobia Auroraphobia Autodysomophobia Automatonophobia Automysophobia Autophobia Aviophobia or Aviatophobia

Fear of flutes. Fear of gold. Fear of Northern lights. Fear of one that has a vile odor. Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being. Fear of being dirty. Fear of being alone or of oneself. Fear of flying.

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Phobias Bacillophobia Bacteriophobia Ballistophobia Barophobia Basophobia or Basiphobia Bathophobia Bathroomphobia Batonophobia Batophobia Batrachophobia Description Fear of microbes. Fear of bacteria. Fear of missles or bullets. Fear of gravity.

Total - 531 / Alphabet B - 18

Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling. Fear of depth. fear of going to the bathroom by yourself Fear of plants. Fear of heights or being close to high buildings. Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.

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Belonephobia Bibliophobia Blennophobia Bogyphobia Bolshephobia Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia Brontophobia Bufonophobia

Fear of pins and needles. (Aichmophobia) Fear of books. Fear of slime. Fear of bogies or the bogeyman. Fear of Bolsheviks. Fear of body smells. Fear of thunder and lightning. Fear of toads.

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Phobias Cacophobia Caligynephobia Cancerophobia or Carcinophobia Cardiophobia Carnophobia Catagelophobia Catapedaphobia Cathisophobia Catoptrophobia Description Fear of ugliness. Fear of beautiful women. Fear of Cancer. Fear of the heart. Fear of meat. Fear of being ridiculed.

Total - 531 / Alphabet C - 49

Cainophobia or Cainotophobia Fear of newness, novelty.

Fear of jumping from high and low places. Fear of sitting. Fear of mirrors.

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Cenophobia or Centophobia Ceraunophobia Chaetophobia Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia Chemophobia Cherophobia

Fear of new things or ideas. Fear of thunder. Fear of hair. Fear of cold. Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals. Fear of gaiety.

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Chionophobia Chiraptophobia Cholerophobia Chorophobia

Fear of snow. Fear of being touched. Fear of anger or the fear of cholera. Fear of dancing.

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Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia Chromophobia or Chromatophobia Chronomentrophobia Chronophobia Cibophobia or Sitophobia or Sitiophobia Claustrophobia Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia Cleptophobia Climacophobia Clinophobia

Fear of money. Fear of colors. Fear of clocks. Fear of time. Fear of food. Fear of confined spaces. Fear of being locked in an enclosed place. Fear of stealing. Fear of stairs, climbing or of falling downstairs. Fear of going to bed.

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Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia Cnidophobia Coimetrophobia Coitophobia Cometophobia Contreltophobia Coprastasophobia Coprophobia Coulrophobia Counterphobia

Fear of being enclosed. Fear of strings. Fear of cemeteries. Fear of coitus. Fear of comets. Fear of sexual abuse. Fear of constipation. Fear of feces. Fear of clowns. The preference by a phobic for fearful situations.

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Cremnophobia Cryophobia Crystallophobia

Fear of precipices. Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost. Fear of crystals or glass. Cyberchondria is unfounded anxiety concerning the state of one's health brought on by visiting health and medical websites.

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Cyberchondria

Cyberchondria is a growing concern among many healthcare practitioners as patients can now research any and all symptoms of a rare disease, illness or condition, and manifest a state of medical anxiety. Fear of computers or working on a computer. Fear of bicycles. Fear of waves or wave like motions. Fear of dogs or rabies.

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Cyberphobia Cyclophobia Cymophobia Cynophobia

Cypridophobia or Cypriphobia or Cyprianophobia or Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease. Cyprinophobia

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Phobias Decidophobia Defecaloesiophobia Deipnophobia Dementophobia Demonophobia or Daemonophobia Demophobia Dendrophobia Dentophobia Dermatophobia Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia Description Fear of making decisions.

Total - 531 / Alphabet D - 24

Fear of painful bowels movements. Fear of dining and dinner conversations. Fear of insanity. Fear of demons. Fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia) Fear of trees. Fear of dentists. Fear of skin lesions. Fear of skin disease.

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Dextrophobia Diabetophobia Didaskaleinophobia Dikephobia Dinophobia Diplophobia Dipsophobia Dishabiliophobia Domatophobia or Oikophobia Doraphobia

Fear of objects at the right side of the body. Fear of diabetes. Fear of going to school. Fear of justice. Fear of dizziness or whirlpools. Fear of double vision. Fear of drinking. Fear of undressing in front of someone. Fear of houses or being in a house. Fear of fur or skins of animals.

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Dromophobia Dutchphobia Dysmorphophobia Dystychiphobia

Fear of crossing streets. Fear of the Dutch. Fear of deformity. Fear of accidents.

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Phobias Ecclesiophobia Ecophobia Eicophobia or Oikophobia Eisoptrophobia Electrophobia Eleutherophobia Elurophobia Emetophobia Description Fear of church. Fear of home. Fear of home surroundings.

Total - 531 / Alphabet E - 24

Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror. Fear of electricity. Fear of freedom. Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia) Fear of vomiting.

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Enetophobia Enochlophobia

Fear of pins. Fear of crowds.

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Enosiophobia or Enissophobia Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism. Entomophobia Eosophobia Epistaxiophobia Epistemophobia Equinophobia Eremophobia Ereuthrophobia Ergasiophobia Ergophobia Fear of Insects Fear of dawn or daylight. Fear of nosebleeds. Fear of knowledge. Fear of horses. Fear of being oneself or of lonliness. Fear of blushing. 1) Fear of work or functioning. 2) Surgeon's fear of operating. Fear of work.

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Erotophobia

Fear of sexual love or sexual questions.

Erythrophobia or Erytophobia 1) Fear of redlights. 2)Blushing. 3) Red. or Ereuthophobia Euphobia Eurotophobia Fear of hearing good news. Fear of female genitalia.

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 4 5 Phobias Description Febriphobia or Fibriphobia or Fear of fever. Fibriophobia Felinophobia Flossyphobia Francophobia Frigophobia

Total - 531 / Alphabet F - 5

Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia) Fear of CandyFloss Fear of France, French culture. (Gallophobia, Galiophobia) Fear of cold, cold things.

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Phobias Galeophobia or Gatophobia Gallophobia or Galiophobia Gamophobia Geliophobia Geniophobia Genophobia Genuphobia Gephyrophobia or Gephydrophobia or Gephysrophobia Description Fear of cats.

Total - 531 / Alphabet G - 17

Fear France, French culture. (Francophobia) Fear of marriage. Fear of laughter. Fear of chins. Fear of sex. Fear of knees. Fear of crossing bridges.

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Gerascophobia Germanophobia

Fear of growing old. Fear of Germany, German culture, etc.

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Gerontophobia Geumaphobia or Geumophobia Glossophobia Gnosiophobia Graphophobia Gymnophobia Gynephobia or Gynophobia

Fear of old people or of growing old. Fear of taste. Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak. Fear of knowledge. Fear of writing or handwriting. Fear of nudity. Fear of women.

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Phobias Hadephobia Hagiophobia Hamartophobia Harpaxophobia Hedonophobia Heliophobia Hellenologophobia Helminthophobia Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia Description Fear of hell. Fear of saints or holy things. Fear of sinning. Fear of being robbed. Fear of feeling pleasure. Fear of the sun.

Total - 531 / Alphabet H - 34

Haphephobia or Haptephobia Fear of being touched.

Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology. Fear of being infested with worms. Fear of blood.

11 Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia 12 Herpetophobia 13 Heterophobia 14 Hierophobia 15 Hippophobia 17 Hobophobia 18 Hodophobia 19 Homichlophobia 20 Homilophobia

Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation. Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things. Fear of the opposite sex. (Sexophobia) Fear of priests or sacred things. Fear of horses. Fear of bums or beggars. Fear of road travel. Fear of fog. Fear of sermons.

16 Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia Fear of long words.

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Hominophobia Homophobia Hoplophobia Hormephobia Hydrargyophobia Hydrophobia

Fear of men. Fear of sameness, monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual. Fear of firearms. Fear of shock. Fear of mercurial medicines. Fear of water or of rabies.

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Hydrophobophobia Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia Hygrophobia Hylephobia

Fear of rabies. Fear of glass. Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture. Fear of materialism OR the fear of epilepsy.

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Hylophobia Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia Hypnophobia Hypsiphobia

Fear of forests. Fear of responsibility. Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized. Fear of height.

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Phobias Iatrophobia Ichthyophobia Ideophobia Illyngophobia Insectophobia Iophobia Isolophobia Isopterophobia Ithyphallophobia Description

Total - 531 / Alphabet I - 9

Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors. Fear of fish. Fear of ideas. Fear of veritgo or feeling dizzy when looking down. Fear of insects. Fear of poison. Fear of solitude, being alone. Fear of termites, insects that eat wood. Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 Phobias Japanophobia Jellyfish Phobia Judeophobia Description Fear of Japanese. Fear of Jellyfish Fear of Jews.

Total - 531 / Alphabet J - 3

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Phobias Kainolophobia Kainophobia Kakorrhaphiophobia Katagelophobia Kathisophobia Kenophobia Keraunophobia Description Fear of novelty.

Total - 531 / Alphabet K - 17

Fear of anything new, novelty. Fear of failure or defeat. Fear of ridicule. Fear of sitting down. Fear of voids or empty spaces. Fear of thunder and lightning.

Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia Fear of movement or motion.

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Kleptophobia Koinoniphobia

Fear of stealing. Fear of rooms.

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Kolpophobia Koniophobia Kopophobia Kosmikophobia Kymophobia Kynophobia Kyphophobia

Fear of genitals, particularly female. Fear of dust. (Amathophobia) Fear of fatigue. Fear of cosmic phenomenon. Fear of waves. Fear of rabies. Fear of stooping.

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Phobias Lachanophobia Laliophobia or Lalophobia Leprophobia or Lepraphobia Leukophobia Levophobia Ligyrophobia Lilapsophobia Limnophobia Linonophobia Liticaphobia Description Fear of vegetables. Fear of speaking. Fear of leprosy. Fear of the color white.

Total - 531 / Alphabet L - 17

Fear of things to the left side of the body. Fear of loud noises. Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes. Fear of lakes. Fear of string. Fear of lawsuits.

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Lockiophobia Logizomechanophobia Logophobia Luiphobia Lutraphobia Lygophobia Lyssophobia

Fear of childbirth. Fear of computers. Fear of words. Fear of lues, syphillis. Fear of otters. Fear of darkness. Fear of rabies or of becoming mad.

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Phobias Macrophobia Mageirocophobia Maieusiophobia Malaxophobia Maniaphobia Mastigophobia Mechanophobia Medomalacuphobia Description Fear of long waits. Fear of cooking. Fear of childbirth.

Total - 531 / Alphabet M - 39

Fear of love play. (Sarmassophobia) Fear of insanity. Fear of punishment. Fear of machines. Fear of losing an erection.

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Medorthophobia Megalophobia

Fear of an erect penis. Fear of large things.

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Melanophobia Melissophobia Melophobia Meningitophobia Menophobia Merinthophobia Metallophobia Metathesiophobia Meteorophobia Methyphobia

Fear of the color black. Fear of bees. Fear or hatred of music. Fear of brain disease. Fear of menstruation. Fear of being bound or tied up. Fear of metal. Fear of changes. Fear of meteors. Fear of alcohol.

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Metrophobia mexiphobia Microbiophobia Microphobia Misophobia Mnemophobia Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia Monopathophobia Monophobia Motorphobia

Fear or hatred of poetry. fear of mexicans or being stabbed Fear of microbes. (Bacillophobia) Fear of small things. Fear of being contaminated with dirt of germs. Fear of memories. Fear of dirt or contamination. Fear of definite disease. Fear of solitude or being alone. Fear of automobiles.

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Mottephobia Musophobia or Murophobia Mycophobia Mycrophobia Myctophobia Myrmecophobia Mysophobia Mythophobia Myxophobia

Fear of moths. Fear of mice. Fear or aversion to mushrooms. Fear of small things. Fear of darkness. Fear of ants. Fear of germs or contamination or dirt. Fear of myths or stories or false statements. Fear of slime. (Blennophobia)

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 Phobias Nebulaphobia Necrophobia Negrophobia Nelophobia Neopharmaphobia Neophobia Description Fear of fog. (Homichlophobia) Fear of death or dead things. Fear of Negros. Fear of glass. Fear of new drugs. Fear of anything new.

Total - 531 / Alphabet N - 18

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Nephophobia Noctiphobia Nomatophobia Nosocomephobia

Fear of clouds. Fear of the night. Fear of names. Fear of hospitals.

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Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia Fear of becoming ill. Nostophobia Novercaphobia Nucleomituphobia Nudophobia Numerophobia Nyctohylophobia Nyctophobia Fear of returning home. Fear of your mother-in-law. Fear of nuclear weapons. Fear of nudity. Fear of numbers. Fear of dark wooded areas, of forests at night Fear of the dark or of night.

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Phobias Obesophobia Ochlophobia Ochophobia Octophobia Odontophobia Oenophobia Oikophobia Olfactophobia Ombrophobia Description

Total - 531 / Alphabet O - 22

Fear of gaining weight.(Pocrescophobia) Fear of crowds or mobs. Fear of vehicles. Fear of the figure 8. Fear of teeth or dental surgery. Fear of wines. Fear of home surroundings, house. Fear of smells. Fear of rain or of being rained on.

Odynophobia or Odynephobia Fear of pain. (Algophobia)

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Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia Oneirogmophobia Oneirophobia Onomatophobia Ophidiophobia Ophthalmophobia Optophobia Ornithophobia Orthophobia Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia

Fear of eyes. Fear of wet dreams. Fear of dreams. Fear of hearing a certain word or of names. Fear of snakes. (Snakephobia) Fear of being stared at. Fear of opening one's eyes. Fear of birds. Fear of property. Fear of smells or odors.

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Ostraconophobia Ouranophobia

Fear of shellfish. Fear of heaven.

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Phobias Pagophobia Panophobia or Pantophobia Panthophobia Papaphobia Papyrophobia Paralipophobia Paraphobia Parasitophobia Paraskavedekatriaphobia Parthenophobia Description Fear of ice or frost. Fear of everything. Fear of suffering and disease. Fear of the Pope. Fear of paper.

Total - 531 / Alphabet P - 64

Fear of neglecting duty or responsibility. Fear of sexual perversion. Fear of parasites. Fear of Friday the 13th. Fear of virgins or young girls.

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Parturiphobia Pathophobia Patroiophobia Peccatophobia Pediculophobia Pediophobia Pedophobia Peladophobia Pellagrophobia Peniaphobia

Fear of childbirth. Fear of disease. Fear of heredity. Fear of sinning. (imaginary crime) Fear of lice. Fear of dolls. Fear of children. Fear of bald people. Fear of pellagra. Fear of poverty.

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Peniaphobia Pentheraphobia Phagophobia Phalacrophobia Phallophobia Pharmacophobia Pharmacophobia Phasmophobia Phengophobia Philemaphobia or Philematophobia

Fear of poverty. Fear of mother-in-law. (Novercaphobia) Fear of swallowing or of eating or of being eaten. Fear of becoming bald. Fear of a penis, esp erect. Fear of taking medicine. Fear of drugs. Fear of ghosts. Fear of daylight or sunshine. Fear of kissing.

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Philophobia Philosophobia Phobophobia Phonophobia Photoaugliaphobia Photophobia Phronemophobia Phthiriophobia Phthisiophobia Placophobia

Fear of falling in love or being in love. Fear of philosophy. Fear of phobias. Fear of noises or voices or one's own voice; of telephones. Fear of glaring lights. Fear of light. Fear of thinking. Fear of lice. (Pediculophobia) Fear of tuberculosis. Fear of tombstones.

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Plutophobia Pluviophobia Pneumatiphobia Pocrescophobia Pogonophobia Poinephobia Poliosophobia Politicophobia Polyphobia

Fear of wealth. Fear of rain or of being rained on. Fear of spirits. Fear of gaining weight. (Obesophobia) Fear of beards. Fear of punishment. Fear of contracting poliomyelitis. Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians. Fear of many things.

Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia Fear of choking of being smothered.

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Ponophobia Porphyrophobia Potamophobia Potophobia Proctophobia Prosophobia Psellismophobia Psychophobia Psychrophobia Pteromerhanophobia

Fear of overworking or of pain. Fear of the color purple. Fear of rivers or running water. Fear of alcohol. Fear of rectum. Fear of progress. Fear of stuttering. Fear of mind. Fear of cold. Fear of flying.

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Pteronophobia Pupaphobia Pyrexiophobia Pyrophobia

Fear of being tickled by feathers. Fear of puppets Pyrexiophobia Fear of Fever Fear of fire.

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Phobias Radiophobia Ranidaphobia Rectophobia Rhabdophobia Rhypophobia Rhytiphobia Rupophobia Russophobia Description Fear of radiation, x-rays. Fear of frogs.

Total - 531 / Alphabet R - 8

Fear of rectum or rectal diseases. Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic.(wand) Fear of defecation. Fear of getting wrinkles. Fear of dirt. Fear of Russians.

Phobias

Total - 531 / Alphabet S - 43

S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Phobias Sarmassophobia Satanophobia Scabiophobia Scatophobia Scelerophibia Sciophobia Sciaphobia Scoleciphobia Scolionophobia Scotomaphobia

Description Fear of love play. (Malaxophobia) Fear of Satan. Fear of scabies. Fear of fecal matter. Fear of bad men, burglars. Fear of shadows. Fear of worms. Fear of school. Fear of blindness in visual field.

Scopophobia or Scoptophobia Fear of being seen or stared at.

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Scotophobia Scriptophobia Selaphobia Selenophobia Seplophobia Sesquipedalophobia Sexophobia Shamhainophobia Siderodromophobia Siderophobia

Fear of darkness. (Achluophobia) Fear of writing in public. Fear of light flashes. Fear of the moon. Fear of decaying matter. Fear of long words. Fear of the opposite sex. (Heterophobia) Fear of Halloween. Fear of trains, railroads or train travel. Fear of stars.

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Sinistrophobia Sinophobia Sitophobia or Sitiophobia Snakephobia Soceraphobia Social Phobia Sociophobia Somniphobia Sophophobia Soteriophobia

Fear of things to the left, left-handed. Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture. Fear of food or eating. (Cibophobia) Fear of snakes. (Ophidiophobia) Fear of parents-in-law. Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations. Fear of society or people in general. Fear of sleep. Fear of learning. Fear of dependence on others.

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Spacephobia Spectrophobia Spermatophobia or Spermophobia Spheksophobia Staurophobia Stenophobia Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia Suriphobia Symbolophobia

Fear of outer space. Fear of specters or ghosts. Fear of germs. Fear of wasps. Fear of crosses or the crucifix. Fear of narrow things or places. Fear of hell. Fear of mice. Fear of symbolism.

Stasibasiphobia or Stasiphobia Fear of standing or walking. (Ambulophobia)

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Symmetrophobia Syngenesophobia Syphilophobia

Fear of symmetry. Fear of relatives. Fear of syphilis.

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Phobias Tachophobia Taphephobia Taphophobia Tapinophobia Taurophobia Technophobia Teleophobia Telephonophobia Teratophobia Testophobia Description Fear of speed.

Total - 531 / Alphabet T - 34

Taeniophobia or Teniophobia Fear of tapeworms. Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries. Fear of being contagious. Fear of bulls. Fear of technology. 1) Fear of definate plans. 2) Religious ceremony. Fear of telephones. Fear of bearing a deformed child or fear of monsters or deformed people. Fear of taking tests.

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Tetanophobia Teutophobia Textophobia Thaasophobia Thalassophobia Thanatophobia or Thantophobia Theatrophobia Theologicophobia Theophobia Thermophobia

Fear of lockjaw, tetanus. Fear of German or German things. Fear of certain fabrics. Fear of sitting. Fear of the sea. Fear of death or dying. Fear of theatres. Fear of theology. Fear of gods or religion. Fear of heat.

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Tocophobia Tomophobia Tonitrophobia Topophobia Toxiphobia or Toxophobia or Toxicophobia Traumatophobia Tremophobia Trichinophobia Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia or Hypertrichophobia Triskadekaphobia

Fear of pregnancy or childbirth. Fear of surgical operations. Fear of thunder. Fear of certain places or situations, such as stage fright. Fear of poison or of being accidently poisoned. Fear of injury. Fear of trembling. Fear of trichinosis. Fear of hair. (Chaetophobia) Fear of the number 13.

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Tropophobia Trypanophobia

Fear of moving or making changes. Fear of injections.

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Tuberculophobia Tyrannophobia

Fear of tuberculosis. Fear of tyrants.

Phobias S. No 1 2 Phobias Uranophobia Urophobia Description Fear of heaven. Fear of urine or urinating.

Total - 531 / Alphabet U - 2

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Phobias Vaccinophobia Venustraphobia Verbophobia Verminophobia Vestiphobia Virginitiphobia Vitricophobia Description Fear of vaccination. Fear of beautiful women. Fear of words. Fear of germs. Fear of clothing. Fear of rape. Fear of step-father.

Total - 531 / Alphabet V - 7

Phobias S. No 1 2 Phobias Walloonphobia Wicaphobia Description Fear of the Walloons. Fear of witches and witchcraft.

Total - 531 / Alphabet W - 2

Phobias S. No 1 2 3 4 Phobias Xanthophobia Xenophobia Xerophobia Xylophobia Description

Total - 531 / Alphabet X - 4

Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow. Fear of strangers or foreigners. Fear of dryness. 1) Fear of wooden objects. 2) Forests.

Phobias S. No Phobias Description

Total - 531 / Alphabet Z - 3

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Zelophobia Zemmiphobia Zoophobia

Fear of jealousy. Fear of the great mole rat. Fear of animals.

Amazing Medical Facts of the Body


1. The average red blood cell lives for 120 days.

There are 2.5 trillion (give or take) of red blood cells in your body at any moment. To maintain this 2. number, about two and a half million new ones need to be produced every second by your bone marrow.That's like a new population of the city of Toronto every second.

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Considering all the tissues and cells in your body, 25 million new cells are being produced each second. That's a little less than the population of Canada - every second !

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A red blood cell can circumnavigate your body in under 20 seconds.

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Nerve Impulses travel at over 400 km/hr (25 mi/hr).

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A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr (100 mi/hr), and a cough moves out at 100 km/hr (60 mi/hr).

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Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day.

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Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.

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Our eyes can distinguish up to one million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.

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Our lungs inhale over two million litres of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.

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We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.

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When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph

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We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.

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We are about 70 percent water.

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We make one litre of saliva a day.

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Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.

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In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.

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We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon in our bodies.

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It is believed that the main purpose of eyebrows is to keep sweat out of the eyes.

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A person can expect to breathe in about 40 pounds of dust over his/her lifetime.

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There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.

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From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.

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Your body contains enough iron to make a spike strong enough to hold your weight.

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The surface area of a human lung is equal to that of a tennis court.

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Most people have lost fifty per cent of their taste buds by the time they reach the age of sixty.

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The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9,000 'lead' pencils.

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One square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands.

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When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens.

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The human body has less muscles in it than a caterpillar.

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If you could save all the times your eyes blink in one life time and use them all at once you would see blackness for 1.2 years!

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The life span of a taste bud is ten days.

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It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

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Give a tennis ball a good, hard squee ze. You're using about the same amount of force your heart uses to pump blood out to the body.

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The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose.

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Capillaries, on the other hand, are so small that it takes ten of them to equal the thickness of a human

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Your body has about 5.6 liters (6 quarts) of blood. This 5.6 liters of blood circulates through the body three times every minute.

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The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime--that's enough to fill more than 3 super tankers.

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Babies start dreaming even before they're born.

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The human body can function without a brain.

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Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.

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10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria.

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There is more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of the United States and Canada combined .

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Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.

44.

A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months

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You sit on the biggest muscle in your body, the gluteus maximus a.k.a. the butt. Each of the two cheeky muscles tips the scales at about two pounds (not including the overlying fat layer).

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The tiniest muscle, the stapedius of the middle ear , is just one-fifth of an inch long.

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The average human head weighs about 10 pounds.

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The average human brain weighs three pounds.

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The DNA helix measures 80 billionths of an inch wide.

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Your eyeballs are three and a half percent salt.

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Head lice actually prefer to live on clean heads, not on dirty ones.

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If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

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It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

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An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.

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Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

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Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.

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It only takes 7lbs of pressure to rip your ear off.

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When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop - even your heart.

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Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

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You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching T.V.

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Our eyes never grow, and our nose and ears never stop growing.

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The thumbnail grows the slowest; the middle nail grows the fastest

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Children grow faster in the springtime.

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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.

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People are the only animals in the world who cry tears.

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Every month you grow a brand new outer layer of skin..."a new you!".

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In your very own lifetime, you'll produce enough spit to fill two swimming pools.

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You breathe in about 7 quarts of air every minute. Good ! Air is cost free.

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Your dad sweats enough each day to fill up a 6 pack of soda cans...and then some.

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Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

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If you toot consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps blood, that it could squirt blood 30 feet.

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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

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On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

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Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

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Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?

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Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

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If you blink one eye you move over 200 muscles.

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The length of your foot is the same as that of your forearm between your wrist and the inside of your

82.

In 24 hours, the blood in the body travels a total of 12,000 miles - that's four times the width of North America.

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The human gut contains about 1kg (2.2 lbs) of bacteria. In fact, there are more bacteria growing in and on the body than there are human cells.

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Humans have more facial muscles than any other animal on earth - 22 on each side of the face.

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Before their first birthday, average babies will have dribbled 255 pints of saliva. By the time they're two years old, they will have crawled 93 miles.

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The human hand contains three main nerves, two major arteries and 27 different bones - more of the body is devoted to controlling the hands than any other part of the body.

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In the average lifetime, we spend five years eating and we consume around 7,000 times our own weight in food.

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When we go to sleep and enter REM (Rapid Eye Movement),our bodies become completely paralysed as areas of the brain that control movement are de-activated. It is this that stops us falling out of bed.

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By the time a woman has reached her 60s, she will have released around 450 baby making eggs

90.

When full, the human bladder can hold two pints of urine.

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In a lifetime, a human being will grow six feet of nose hair and shed 42 lbs of dead skin.

92.

A human being can look forward to having sex an average of 2,580 times with five different partners.

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Skin can now be artificially grown.One amazing result of this is that the skin from one hand could be grown into enough to cover six football pitches.

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There are 137 million light sensitive cells in the eye's retina and the fluid that fills the eye is changed 15 times a day.

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Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

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The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

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During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!

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In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow!

99.

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!

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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

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A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realises it's there.

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At birth we have over 300 bones. As we grow up, some of the bones begin to fuse together as a result an adult has only 206 bones.

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The human hand has 27 bones.

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The femur/thigh bone is the longest bone in our body, it is about a quarter of ones height.

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The human body has 230 movable and semi- movable joints

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Our Brain has over 100 billion nerve cells.

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The human skull is made up of 29 different bones.

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A newborn babys brain grows almost 3 times during the first year of life.

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The left side of human brain controls the right side of the body and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body.

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The length of human blood vessel is such that it circles the globe 2 times.

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The human heart beats 30 million times a year.

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80 hairs are likely to fall every day.

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The muscles of the eye move more than 100,000 times a day.

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We breathe 13 pints of air every minute.

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Human skin has a tendency to shed 40 pounds of skin in lifetime.

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Human kidneys have about 1 million nephrons that filters out liquids and wastes.

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Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day.

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Human blood is on a 60,000mile journey.

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Fingernails contain keratin and they seem to be strongest component in the human body.

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The human skin contains 45 miles of nerves.

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Most people blink about 25 times per minute.

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For every 2 weeks, the human stomach produces new layer of mucous lining, otherwise the stomach will digest itself.

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An average of 17 muscles contracts for a smile.

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Every person has a unique tongue print.

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A sneeze moves out of our mouth at a speed of 100 meters per hour.

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An average human eye blinks about 6,205, 000 times.

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The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal and repair by its own.

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In one square inch of skin there are 4 yards of nerve fibers.

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The human eye has the ability to distinguish about 1 million color surfaces.

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A square inch of skin has 100 sweat glands.

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The human ear can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different sounds.

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On an average the human scalp has about 100,000 hairs.

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Nails of toes or fingers take about 6 months to grow from base to tip.

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A square inch of skin consists of 1300 nerve cells.

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On an average an individual produces human being consumes about 500 kg of food per year.

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The adult human brain is about 2 % of total body weight.

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On an average 1.7 liters of saliva produces each day.

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In one square inch of skin, there are 3 million cells.

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The human body consists of over 600 muscles.

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As we get older, the brain loses almost one gram per year.

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Oesophagus/or food pipe, which is the passage for the food we eat to the stomach, is approximately 25 cm long.

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A square inch of skin consists of three yards of blood vessel.

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There are about 13, 500,00 neurons in the human spinal cord.

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The human tongue has 10,000 taste buds.

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The cells of taste buds are constantly being renewed, roughly on every ten hours.

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An average human head weighs about 8 pounds.

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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, unlike our nose and ears.

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The human body is composed of 80 percent of water.

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The human eyeball is 24.5 mm long.

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The total weight of skin in an average human adult is 61 pounds.

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Taste buds are present inside the mouth and also at the roof of the mouth.

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The human spinal cord is 45 cm long in men and 43 cm long in women.

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The weight of human cerebellum is 150g.

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The strongest muscles of the human body are masseters, which are present on either side of the mouth.

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The human liver performs 500 different functions.

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The heart muscles will stop working only when we die.

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Children have more sensitive ears than adults.

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Shivering is a way of trying to keep our body warm.

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Humans have the ability to distinguish 4,000 to 10, 000 smells.

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Every hour, the human eye can process 36,000 bits of information.

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Nails and corneas are the only two tissues in the body that do not receive oxygen from blood.

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The length of the finger indicates how fast the nail grows. The nail of the middle finger grows faster than

others. 163.

The human ears can hear in the frequency of 1,000 to 50, 000 hertz.

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The total surface area of the human brain is about 25, 000 square cms.

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When the sounds are above 130 decibels, it causes pain to the ears.

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There are around 100 receptors in each of our fingertips.

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The weight of skin in a human adult is 4 to 5 kg.

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The middle part of the back is the least sensitive part of our body.

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Children have better sense of smell than adults.

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The eyelashes shed by a human in his entire life is of 30 m of length.

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After death, the body starts to dry out creating an illusion that the nails and hairs are growing even after

The surface of human skin is 6.5 square feet.

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Every second, 15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body.

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An average human being will breathe about 23,040 times per hour.

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The base of the spinal cord has a cluster of nerves, which are most sensitive.

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The surface area of the human lung is equal to that of a tennis court.

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When we reach 60 years of life, we lose 50 % of our taste buds.

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Blinking of one eye causes movement of 200 muscles.

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Platelets, which are one of the constituents of the blood is produced at the rate of 200 billion per day.

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The sense of taste is the weakest of the five senses.

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Humans have the ability to differentiate about 10, 000 odour.

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It takes time for the newborn baby to learn to turn the pictures right side up, as it sees the world upside down in the beginning.

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If human sense of smell is affected, sense of taste is also affected as the brain interprets signals from the nose and tongue.

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There are around 1,200,000 optic fibers in the human eye.

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The lens of the human eye is composed of 65 % of water and 3 % of protein.

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We shut our eyes for 0.3 seconds, when we blink.

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Color blind people find it hard to distinguish colors like green and red.

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A blink of an eye lasts for 1/10th of a second.

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Eyes are the only part of the human body that functions at 100 percent ability at any movement.

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The human skin contains 280,000 heat receptors.

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A drop of blood contains 250 million cells.

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The liver is the largest and heaviest internal organ of the body and weighs about 1.6 kilos.

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In the womb, the baby's body is covered by a thin layer of hair but as soon as the baby is born it disappears.

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At birth every one is color blind.

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Babies crawl to an average of 200 m a day.

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The only joint less bone in the human body is the hyoid bone, which is present in the throat area.

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A baby gender is determined after the first 6-8 weeks of pregnancy.

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Eating Break fast helps to burn 5 to 20 percent of calories throughout the day.

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The surface of human tongue is covered with 100 of tiny structures called papillae.

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On an average, a persons left hand does 56 % of typing.

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On an average the cough that comes out of our mouth is 60 m per hour.

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A person can live without food for about a month, but only a week without water.

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Threshold pain of women is 9 times stronger than men.

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The palms of the hands and soles of the feet contain more sweat glands than other parts of the body.

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10 % of men and 8 % of women are left-handed.

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On an average the human body contains enough water to fill 1 gallon of a tank.

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An average human body contains enough amount of fat to make seven bars of soap.

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The human body releases growth hormones during sleep.

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Red blood cells are about seven micrometer in diameter.

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The thighbone is so strong that it withstands the axial load of about 1600-1800 kilos.

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An average adult male brain weighs about 1375 grams.

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On an average the weight of an adult female brain is about 1275 grams.

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Only four percent of the brains cells work and the remaining cells are kept in reserve.

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On an average thousands of neurons dies every day.

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The human eye has 110-130 million receptors to perceive light.

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The human eye contains five to seven million receptors for color perception.

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The human eye cannot perceive a motionless image.

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The average life span of a sperm is about 36 hours.

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The life span of an ovule is about 12 - 24 hours.

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Only one person in two billion will live for more than 115 years of life.

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On an average, we speak about 5,000 words per day.

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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

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Liver is the only organ of the body, which regenerates itself completely even after being removed completely.

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The human heart pumps 6,000 liters of blood daily through a man lifetime.

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The human brain is capable of creating more ideas equivalent to that of the atoms of the universe.

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Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, the next being bone marrow.

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On an average, in an adult scalp 35m of hair fiber is produced every day.

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An average scalp has 100,000 hairs.

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The maximum length of hair can be 70 to 90 cms.

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The life span of hair is two to seven years.

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Frequent washing of hair does not cause hair loss.

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Brain uses 20 % of our body energy and makes up only 2 % of our body weight.

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Any damage to brain cells cannot be repaired completely.

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Human brain stops growing at the age of 18.

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Male hairs are denser and grow faster than females.

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Depending on the area of the human body, the thickness of the skin varies from to 6 mm.

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Tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.

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A Pair of feet contains about 250,000 sweat glands.

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The human skin sheds and re-grows after every 27 days.

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A Blind person looses only about 1/5th of vision.

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One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.

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Pregnancy in women lasts on average of about 270 days from the time of conception till birth.

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Sneezing too hard can cause rib fracture and suppressing the sneeze can cause damage to the blood vessels of head or neck.

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On freeze drying, 10 % of body weight is contributed by the micro organisms of our body.

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About 80 % of ultra- violet rays from the sun can get through the cloud and can cause sunburn or tan even on a cloudy day.

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The human stomach contains about 35 million small digestive glands.

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The ovaries of a female contain about 600,000 immature eggs at birth.

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The human body has 4 million pain sensitive structures.

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Each lung contains 300-350 million respiratory units called alveoli.

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Human blood contains 22,000 million cells.

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Human skin is re-newed itself every 5 weeks.

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A New stomach lining is formed every five days.

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A human ear contains about 24,000 fibers in it.

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The largest cell in the woman is the egg or ovum present that is released from the ovaries.

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Women burn fat more slowly than men.

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The leg bone is the fastest growing bone in the human body.

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There are 22 bones in the human skull.

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A muscle called the diaphragm controls the human breathing process.

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The human brain is made up of more than 10 billion nerve cells and over 50 billion other cells and weighs about less than three pounds.

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2/3 of the human body is made up of water.

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Vitamin C and E fights against Dementia - a disease of forgetfulness in the elderly person.

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Half a liter of water per day is lost through breathing.

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Drinking coffee prevents Parkinsons disease.

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Cold weather improves human memory and concentration.

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Most of the bones in the human body constitutes about 3/4 of water.

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An adult human body contains five to six quarts of blood and an infant has about one quart of blood.

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Blind people understand spoken words quicker than sighted people.

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A human lung contains about 700 million alveoli.

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Vitamin E protects the brain cells from damage caused by alcohol consumption.

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The human body contains more bacteria than the number of cells present in it.

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The longest muscle in the human body is sartorius, which is present in the hip region and it is commonly called as tailors muscle.

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Melanin, a pigment present in the skin is responsible for the color of the skin in a person.

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Except the heart and lungs, all other parts of the body receive their blood supply from the largest artery of the body, the aorta.

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The Pulmonary vein is the only vein in the human body that carries oxygenated blood while all the other veins of the body carry de-oxygenated blood.

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The human blood is colorless. It is the hemoglobin; a pigment present in the red blood cells is responsible for the red color of the blood.

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The smallest muscle in the human body is the stapedius, which is present deep inside the ear.

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The human brain is very soft like that of butter.

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A heartbeat is nothing but the sound produced by the closure of valves of the heart when the blood is pushed through its chamber.

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Hold out your hand and make a fist. If you are a kid, the size of your heart is same as the size of your fist and if you are an adult it is about the same size as twice as your fist.

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About 500 million sperm mature every day in a normal male adult.

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Sixty percent of the human body nerve ends in the forehead and the hands.

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A human body contains about 200,000 temperature detectors.

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A human body has 500,000 touch detectors.

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If all the alveoli from both lungs were spread flat they would cover an area nearly the size of a tennis

Each human eye contains 130 million light receptors.

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The human scalp contains about 100,000 hair follicles, from which the hair grows.

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The human skeleton renews once in every three months.

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The human skin cells multiply every second to replace the worn ones.

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The cells of the heart and brain do not multiply through out their lifetime.

290.

The whole leg constitutes of 31 bones.

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The human skull and upper jaw consist of 21 bones.

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When we see an image, the human eye captures the inverted image of it. It is the brains interpretation that makes us to see the upside down captured image in to a normal erect image.

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An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

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A womens heart beats faster than a mens.

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The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

296.

The food will get in to the stomach even if one stands on their head.

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The eyes have the fastest reacting muscle in the whole body. It contracts in 1/100th of a second.

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Almost every seven years, the human body replaces the equivalent of an entirely new skeleton.

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Laughing and coughing creates more pressure on the spine than walking or standing.

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The human heart continues to beat even though it is taken out of the body or cut in to pieces.

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On an average, the human blood circulates the body for every 23 seconds.

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In an average person, it takes 8 seconds for food to travel down the food pipe,3-5 hours in small intestine and 3-4 days in large intestine.

303.

The brain continues to send out electric wave signals until approximately 37 hours after death.

304.

People under 30 years of age take in double the amount of oxygen as people over 80 years of age.

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The human body takes 6 hours to digest a high fat meal and it takes 2 hours for a carbohydrate meal.

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On an average an adults heart pumps about 4,000 gallons of blood each day.

307.

The muscles of our body constitute 40% of our body weight.

308.

Iris is the part of the eye that determines the color of the eye.

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Red Blood Cells comprise about 40 % of blood volume.

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The human eye contains structures called Rods and cones. Rods register the shapes of images and respond to low levels of light and Cones responds to bright lights and registers the color of images.

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We tend to get cold very easily in the winter season because we are indoors and in close proximity to each other.

312.

Our Muscles often work in pairs so that they can pull in different or opposite directions.

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The left side of the human heart is much thicker and stronger than the right side

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Human blood is a make up of Red Blood Cells carrying oxygen, White Blood Cells that fight disease, Platelets that help the blood to clot and a liquid called plasma.

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Human hair is made up of a body protein called keratin and it grows out of an opening of the skin called Follicle.

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Every day 440 Gallons of blood flows through the kidney.

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Red Blood Cells lasts only for about 4 months before they wear out.

318.

Every minute 30,000 to 40, 000 dead skin cells fall from our body.

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Straight hair lies flat because it is round and grows out of round follicles.

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Curly hair comes out of an oval follicle.

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Goose bumps on our skin are caused by pull of muscles attached to hair follicles and make the hair upright.

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The color of our hair is also determined by the melanin, a pigment present in the human body.

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The human adult heart pumps about 4,000 gallons of blood each day.

324.

The human body contains 30 amazing hormones, which regulates activities like sleep, body temperature, hunger, and managing stress in times of crisis and so on.

325.

A person growth like being tall or short is not determined only by the genes. Growth hormone also is responsible for it.

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Red Blood Cells constitutes about 40 % of the blood.

327.

The human body makes 2.5 million Red Blood Cells every second or about 200 billion Red Blood Cells every day.

328.

Arterial blood contains a lot of oxygen and nutrients for the body whereas venous blood contains low oxygen level and nutrients.

329.

Red Blood Cells are the only cells in the body that do not have a nucleus.

330.

If the blood vessels were laid from end to end, they would reach around the world four times.

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On an average, the human growth hormone, which is responsible for a person growth is produced at the rate of 500 microgram per day at the age of twenty, 200 microgram per day at the age of fourty and 25

microgram per day at the age of eighty. 332.

It is estimated that there are over 1, 000,000,000,000,000 connections in the human brain.

333.

Human brain constitutes 60 % of white matter and 40 % of grey matter.

334.

The average length of the human brain is about 167 mm and its average height is 93mm.

335.

A human heart pumps about 1,314,000 gallons of blood a year through its blood vessels.

336.

There are about 30 - 40 billion white blood cells present in our body to fight against infective and foreign organisms.

337.

The human bladder can stretch to hold about 400ml of urine.

338.

All the blood in our body passes 400 times through each kidney per day.

339.

The human Liver consists of 100,000 tiny clusters called lobules.

340.

On an average, the human stomach holds about 2 liters of contents.

341.

We produce 1 liter of saliva per day.

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The human sense of smell has the ability to identify the chemical smell of an object in one part per trillion

An average capillary is only 1mm.

344.

Humans have about 2 to 3 million sweat glands, which can produce up to 13 liters of sweat on a hot day.

345.

On an average, 100, 000 to 1000, 000 chemical reactions takes place in our brain.

346.

1,000,000,000,000 nerve cells are present in each and every person head.

347.

Liver cells take several years to replace themselves.

348.

The white part of our fingernail is called as Lunula.

349.

We are more likely to catch cold from a person by shaking his hand than from his sneeze.

350.

The shoulder blade is connected to the body by means of 15 different muscles and it is not attached to a single bone.

351.

The human brain uses 20 % of one blood and oxygen.

352.

A healthy liver processes 720 liters of blood per day.

353.

Plaque begins to form 6 hours after brushing our teeth.

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59, 951 miles of blood vessels are present in our body.

355.

Newborns will cry out without tears for the first three to six weeks.

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The Nervous system transmits messages to the brain at the speed of 180 miles per hour.

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The human nose can remember 50,000 different smells.

358.

There is enough iron in the human body to make a small nail.

359.

Women have better sense of smell than men

360.

It is evaluated that the human eye can detect over 10,000,000 different colors.

361.

The wax present inside the ear is made up of oil and sweat.

362.

The female body is capable of giving birth to 35 children in one lifetime.

363.

The spinal cord, which controls over 10 billion nerve cells, is less than two feet in length and its diameter is same as that of the index finger.

364.

In the middle of the day, our eyesight will be sharper.

365.

A newborn baby has more than 26 billion cells.

366.

Sneezing clears dirt from the nose.

367.

Inner ear is the main organ of balance.

368.

Yawning brings more oxygen to the lungs.

369.

Coughing clears mucous secretion from the throat.

370.

Human speech is produced by the interaction of 72 muscles.

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A New born baby loses about half of its nerve cells before it is born.

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A neglected child brain can be substantially smaller than that of a healthy child.

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On an average, the number of connections in the brain increases from 50 trillion to 1 quadrillion in a newborn during his first month of life.

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On an average it takes about 13 days for a grey hair to grow.

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Healthy human hair emits sound.

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The human brain stores memories of fear.

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The nerve cells present in the nose, allows us to smell and regenerates through out ones life.

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Reading aloud to children helps to stimulate brain development.

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A hair grows by 0.3 to 0.5 mm per day, 1 to 1.5 cm per month and 12 to 15 cm per year.

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Children lose an average of 90 hairs per day, which increases to 120 by old age.

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A childs ability to learn can increase or decrease by 25 % or more depending on whether the child grows up in a stimulating environment.

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On an average a persons head has 100, 000 to 150, 000 hair.

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A single hair has the ability to support up to 100 grams of weight and the whole hair has the ability to support up to 12 tones of weight.

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The pigment of human hair is produced in the shaft of hair beneath the skin.

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In lifetime, the human heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood, which is enough to fill more than three tankers.

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The width of an average human brain is 140 mm.

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It takes 5- 30 seconds to chew food.

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Swallowing of the food takes about 10 seconds.

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The enzyme in the stomach that breaks down alcohol is produced less in men than women.

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In a year on an average person sleeps for 122 days out of 365 days.

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There are around 9,000 taste buds present on the tongue.

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Capillaries are so small that it would take ten of them to equal the thickness of a human hair.

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It is impossible to tickle our selves.

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In a human body, the small intestine is 21 feet and the large intestine is 6 feet long.

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For every 24 hours, in a healthy adult, more than a gallon of water containing over an ounce of salt is absorbed from the intestine.

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The right side of the human brain is responsible for self-recognition.

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Men listen with the left side of the brain and women use both sides of the brain.

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In a lifetime, the human kidneys clean over 1 million gallons of blood.

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Identical twins have identical DNA but not identical fingerprints.

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Babies recognize sounds while in mothers womb.

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Human bone is as strong as steel but 50 times lighter

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Bones make up only 14% of our weight

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The brain is faster than a super computer processing billions of signals per second. Vishwanath Ananad the Indian Chess grandmaster has many times beaten the computer at chess.

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Seven out of ten people cross their left arm over their right

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Your foot contains 25% of all the bones within your body.

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Human eye is the only multifocus lens in the world which can adjust in 2 milliseconds

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Human brain is the most powerful computer which has the processing speed of 3000+ Ghz

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The gastric acid in your stomach is so powerful that it is able to eat away an iron table in about 5 minutes.

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sperm containing the xy chromosomes to become a male can swim faster but not for as long as the female xx chromosomes.

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The ears never stop growing through lifetime.

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The heart is accually more in the middle, just off to the left.

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Do you know every human spent about half an hour as a single cell

Brain - Facts
The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers far exceeding any of the silicon machines we have built to mimic it. - William F. Allman inApprentices of Wonder. Inside the Neural Network Revolution, 1989. The brain is the most amazing and complex organ in this universe and its research continues to throw up new facts that surprises us. The brain is capable of being modified or improved even as we age. It is never used to its full capacity. 1. The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 or100 billion neurons. From the age of 35 years about 7000 neurons are lost daily. 2. During early pregnancy the neurons in the fetus canmultiply at a rate 250,000 neurons/minute. 3. Brain is composed of75 to 80% water. Dehydration can affect proper functioning of brain. 4. Brain consists of60% White matter and 40% Grey matter. White is the supporting matter and Grey is the thinking matter of the brain. If the brain was a computer the grey matter would be the computer itself and the white matter its cables. 5. Adult brain weighs about3 pounds or 1300 to 1400 Grams. This is about 2% of the body weight if you weigh 150 pounds or 70 kgs. Sperm whales brain weighs 7800 gms. 6. Although the brain only accounts for 2 percent of our body weight but it consumes20% of the oxygenthat we breathe androughly 20 percent of our daily calories. 7.15-20% of all blood pumpedout of the heart goes directly to the brain. 8. All the thinking in the brain is aboutelectricity and chemicals. The brain is more active and thinks more at night than during the day. 9. The brain itself isincapable of feeling pain. Once the skull is opened it is possible to operate on the brain with the patient awake. 10.You cant feel your own tickle either. The brain is smart enough to neutralize the sensation. The cerebellum sends a signal to rest of the brain of your intentions and as a result the sensation is ignored.

15 Fascinating Facts About Smiling


Everyone loves the quote laughter is the best medicine, and as a nurse, I have experienced the benefits of smiling and laughter with my patients. In fact, smiling can boost your mood and even your immune system. Keep reading for more fascinating facts about our smiles. 1. Forcing yourself to smile can boost your mood: Psychologists have found that even if youre in bad mood, you can instantly lift your spirits by forcing yourself to smile.

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It boosts your immune system: Smiling really can improve your physical health, too. Your body is more relaxed when you smile, which contributes to good health and a stronger immune system.

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Smiles are contagious: Its not just a saying: smiling really is contagious, scientists say. In a study conducted in Sweden, people had difficulty frowning when they looked at other subjects who were smiling, and their muscles twitched into smiles all on their own.

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Smiles Relieve Stress: Your body immediately releases endorphins when you smile, even when you force it. This sudden change in mood will help you feel better and release stress.

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Its easier to smile than to frown: Scientists have discovered that your body has to work harder and use more muscles to frown than it does to smile.

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Its a universal sign of happiness: While hand shakes, hugs, and bows all have varying meanings across cultures, smiling is known around the world and in all cultures as a sign of happiness and acceptance.

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We still smile at work: While we smile less at work than we do at home, 30% of subjects in a research study smiled five to 20 times a day, and 28% smiled over 20 times per day at the office.

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Smiles use from 5 to 53 facial muscles: Just smiling can require your body to use up to 53 muscles, but some smiles only use 5 muscle movements.

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Babies are born with the ability to smile: Babies learn a lot of behaviors and sounds from watching the people around them, but scientists believe that all babies are born with the ability, since even blind babies smile.

10. Smiling helps you get promoted: Smiles make a person seem more attractive, sociable and confident, and people who smile more are more likely to get a promotion. 11. Smiles are the most easily recognizable facial expression: People can recognize smiles from up to 300 feet away, making it the most easily recognizable facial expression. 12. Women smile more than men: Generally, women smile more than men, but when they participate in similar work or social roles, they smile the same amount. This finding leads scientists to believe that gender roles are quite flexible. Boy babies, though, dosmile less than girl babies, who also make more eye contact.

13. Smiles are more attractive than makeup: A research study conducted by Orbit Complete discovered that 69% of people find women more attractive when they smile than when they are wearing makeup. 14. There are 19 different types of smiles: UC-San Francisco researcher identified 19 types of smiles and put them into two categories: polite social smiles which engage fewer muscles, and sincere felt smiles that use more muscles on both sides of the face. 15. Babies start smiling as newborns: Most doctors believe that real smiles occur when babies are awake at the age of four-to-six weeks, but babies start smiling in their sleep as soon as theyre born.

10 Facts about Smiling


Smiling is something that we do on a daily basis but we rarely think about the power that a smile can have. People tend to think more positively of those who are smiling then of those who are not. There are many interesting facts that revolve around a smile. In fact, did you know that women smile more often then men and that babies save a particular smile for only their loved ones. Read on to learn more cool facts about Smiling.

Fun Facts about Smiling


1. When someone smiles in is universally known as an expression of happiness whihc is recognized by almost all cultures. 2. When a person studies laughter they are known as a 'gelotologist'. 3. There are over 18 different types of smiles that are used in a variety of social situations. For instance, people can use a smile to say a hello, and they can also use a different type of smile to show their understanding of a particular situation. 4. A frown uses more muscles to contract and expand then a smile does. 5. A smile is one of the most used human facial expressions. Smiles can use between 5 to all 53 muscles. 6. Smiling releases endorphins and makes us feel better, even when you fake a smile you can feel better. 7. A person that smiles more is deemed to be more pleasant, sincere, attractive and more sociable then a onsmiling person.

8. We are born with the ability to smile, it is not something that we copy. For instance, even blind babies are able to smile. 9. Humans are able to differentiate between a real smile and a fake smile by seeing the difference in a persons eyes when they smile. 10. Newborns tend to have more preference for a person with a smile then a person that is not smiling. Don't forget to smile!

10 Delicious Facts about Chocolate


Chocolate is one of the most popular and yummiest types of foods that will likely stay at the top of most peoples favorite food lists. Chocolate is something most of us have grown up enjoying, but very few of us have taken the time to learn the many facts that are associated with Chocolate. There are actually hundreds of facts that are associated with Chocolate and I have created a list of the ones that I find most interesting. If you want to know the nutritional values in the different types of chocolate, check out these chocolate nutrition facts.

1. It is a known fact that chocolate has caffeine in it. But did you know that you would have to eat more then a dozen chocolate bars to get the same amount of caffeine from a cup of coffee? There are about 5 to 10 mg's of caffeine in one ounce of bitter chocolate, 5 mgs in milk chocolate, and 10mgs in a six-ounce cup of cocoa.

2. Chocolate is actually a valuable energy source. A single chocolate chip can provide enough energy for an adult human to walk 150 ft. 3. Chocolate has great health benefits. It helps with depression, high blood pressure, Tumors and Pre-menstrual syndromes. 4. Chocolate does not cause or aggravate acne, this is a myth. 5. One ounce of baking chocolate or cocoa contains 10% of the daily recommended intake of iron. 6. Chocolate can be deadly for dogs. Chocolate contains an ingredient called "Theobromine" which can be toxic to a dogs central nervous system and cardiac muscles. 7. People spend more than $7 billion dollars a year on chocolate. 8. The per capita consumption of chocolate indicates that each person consumes 12 pounds of chocolate each year.

9. Milk Chocolate is the most preferred type of chocolate, however dark chocolate is especially popular among men. 10. In Alfred Hitchcock's movie "Psycho" chocolate syrup was used to indicate blood in the famous shower scene.

Bon Appetite!

Interesting Facts about Babies


Did you know that every 3 seconds a baby is born? Did you know that the most children one woman has had is recorded at 69? These are just a few of the fun facts that are associated with babies. Read on to learn some more interesting tidbits about our little ones.

Baby Facts
1. Men are the best at changing a baby's diaper. Men take just over a 1 minute while women can take over 2 minutes to change a diaper. 2. About 1/4 of a baby's weight is accounted for by their head. 3. If you eat fish during pregnancy you can increase your baby's brain development as well as provide them with better communication skills. 4. It is determined at around 10 weeks after birth whether your baby is right-handed or left-handed. 5. It is the father's sperm that decides the sex of your baby. 6. Aerosols and Air fresheners may cause stomach and ear discomfort in babies. 7. About 1 in five toddlers can open bottles with child-resistant tops. 8. If your child is overweight, they are up to 5 times more likely to have a heart attack by the age of 65. 9. When babies are born they have 300 bones, but by adult they only have 206 boned in their body. This is due to the fact that some bones fuse together. 10. If your child is born in the month of May they are on average 200 grams heavier at birth then other babies.

Top 10 Reasons to Smile


1. Smiling Makes Us Attractive We are drawn to people who smile. There is an attraction factor. We want to know a smiling person and figure out what is so good. Frowns, scowls and grimaces all push people away -- but a smile draws them in (avoid these smile aging habits to keep your smile looking great). 2. Smiling Changes Our Mood Next time you are feeling down, try putting on a smile. There's a good chance you mood will change for the better. Smiling can trick the body into helping you change your mood. 3. Smiling Is Contagious When someone is smiling they lighten up the room, change the moods of others, and make things happier. A smiling person brings happiness with them. Smile lots and you will draw people to you.

4. Smiling Relieves Stress Stress can really show up in our faces. Smiling helps to prevent us from looking tired, worn down, and overwhelmed. When you are stressed, take time to put on a smile. The stress should be reduced and you'll be better able to take action. 5. Smiling Boosts Your Immune System Smiling helps the immune system to work better. When you smile, immune function improves possibly because you are more relaxed. Prevent the flu and colds by smiling. 6. Smiling Lowers Your Blood Pressure When you smile, there is a measurable reduction in your blood pressure. Give it a try if you have a blood pressure monitor at home. Sit for a few minutes, take a reading. Then smile for a minute and take another reading while still smiling. Do you notice a difference? 7. Smiling Releases Endorphins, Natural Pain Killers and Serotonin Studies have shown that smiling releases endorphins, natural pain killers, and serotonin. Together these three make us feel good. Smiling is a natural drug. 8. Smiling Lifts the Face and Makes You Look Younger The muscles we use to smile lift the face, making a person appear younger. Don't go for a face lift, just try smiling your way through the day -- you'll look younger and feel better. 9. Smiling Makes You Seem Successful Smiling people appear more confident, are more likely to be promoted, and more likely to be approached. Put on a smile at meetings and appointments and people will react to you differently. 10. Smiling Helps You Stay Positive Try this test: Smile. Now try to think of something negative without losing the smile. It's hard. When we smile our body is sending the rest of us a message that "Life is Good!" Stay away from depression, stress and worry by smiling. More Fun Ways to Live Longer

SmileEveryone Is Watching!
Think back to all the miserable faces you see on the way to school or work each day. These hollow stares and sour-puss faces reflect dissatisfaction and unhappiness, almost as if they were headed to a torture chamber! These expressions reflect a negative and rebellious attitude, and many teens are trapped in this mentality! Yet, when smiled at, these same people will often smile in return. Notice the following facts about smiling: y y 72% of people think of those who smile frequently as being more confident and successful. 86% of people say that they are more likely to strike up conversations with strangers if they are smiling. y y y Bosses are 12% more likely to promote people who smile a lot. Research shows that 65% of communication is non-verbal (many claim an even higher percentage). Non-verbal communication comprises facial expressions, eye movement, gestures, posture, and all other bodily signs primarily facial expressions. y y The effects of a smile are so powerful that even a smile on the telephone produces positive results. When someone comes into a room, people are automatically drawn to their face, and a smile provides a warm greeting. y Studies show that happiness is a by-product of smiling, not the other way around as most people assume.

Research shows that when two people in conversation use the same kind of body movements and gestures (such as smiling), they will experience greater empathy for each other, which they may not even consciously notice.

The Value of Your Smile


Has anyone ever unexpectedly smiled at you when you were having a bad day or werent in the best of moods? How did it make you feel? Didnt it make you feel better? The following are a few points on why you should do the same, and share your smile with others: (1) A picture is worth a thousand words. So also does a smile convey more emotion than words can. (2) Smiling makes others feel welcome, special and appreciated. (3) You can brighten up someones day. (4) A smile has the power of melting away insecurities and troubles people may have. Try it out and see for yourself! You will find that almost every person you smile at will return the gesture. The hardest part is usually being the first person to smile. Dale Carnegie, in his book How to Win Friends and Influence People, best summed up the lasting impacts of a smile: It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich or mighty that they can get along without it, and none are so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends. It is rest to the weary, daylight to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and natures best antidote for trouble. Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is no earthly good to anybody till it is given away... Some people are too tired to give you a smile, may we ask that you leave them one of yours? For nobody needs a smile so much as those who have none left to give! With this knowledge, begin putting your smile to work! Make it a project to seek out at least one person who seems to be having a bad day and smile at him. The next day, smile at two individuals, then three, and so on. Learn to effectively use this communication tool. It will dramatically improve your relationship with others. King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, wrote, ...HE THAT WINS SOULS IS WISE (Prov. 11:30). Smiling will no doubt move you toward practicing the words of this wise king and will help you win the affection and friendship of others!

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