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-It is impossible to lick your elbow. -Your body requires 1000-1500 calories per day just to simply survive (breathing, sleeping, eating). -Every day an adult body produces 300 billion new cells. -Scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream. -The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest it the male sperm. -You use 200 muscles to take one step. -Muscle cells live as long as you do while skin cells live less than 24 hours. -A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball. -Your brain operates on the same amount of power that would light a 10-watt light bulb. -There are 5 million hair follicles on an average adult. -The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades. -The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Brittanica. -Approximately 75% of human poop is made of water. -Your eyes are always the same size from birth but your nose and ears never stop growing. -It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach. -The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds. -Your brain is more active during the night than the day. -One human hair can support 3kg. -Human thighbones are stronger than concrete. -The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself. -An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day. -The white part of your fingernail is called the Lunula. -There is enough iron in a human being to make one small nail. -A shank is the part of the sole between the heel and the ball of the foot. -The talus is the second largest bone in the foot. -The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples. -A 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his foot in 1977. -Your thumb is the same length of your nose. -A woman's heart beats faster than a man's. -Dogs and Humans are the only animals with prostates. -It only takes 7lbs of of pressure to rip off your ears. -There are nine muscles in your ear. -The navel divides the body of a newborn baby into two equal parts. -If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died. -Experts say the human body has 60,000 miles of blood vessels. -The tongue is the only muscle attached at one end. -Fetuses can hiccup. -Your brain uses 40% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream. -Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair. -The longest recorded bout of hiccups lasted for 65 years. -The longest recorded sneezing fit lasted 978 days. -Your stomach has 35 million digestive glands. -At the moment of conception, you spent about half an hour as a single cell. -There is about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet. -Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch. -There are no two tongue prints that are alike. -Your body contains about four ounces of salt. -Injured fingernails grow faster than uninjured ones. -Women blink twice as much as men. -It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. -The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain. -When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dialate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate. -It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it. -The three things pregnant women dream most of during their first trimester are 1) frogs 2) worms 3) potted plants. -Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil. -If they were laid end to end, the blood vessels in your body would wrap around the equator three times. -Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people. -Bone is stronger, inch for inch, than the steel in skyscrapers. -About one third of the human race has 20-20 vision. -In a hot climate, you can sweat as much as 3 gallons of water a day. -Fingernails are made from the same substance as a bird's beak. -A runner consumes about 7 quarts of oxygen while running a 100-yard dash. -The enamel in your teeth is the hardest substance in your body. -Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born. -Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three. -A pair of human feet contain 250,000 sweat glands. -Living brain cells are bright pink. -You're ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't. -Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still. -If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it. -Your body contains the same amount of iron as an iron nail. -The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.
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Frances the Mute
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The Mars Volta
Release date: 01 March, 2005
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