Usual Or Unusual Facts About The Body – You Be The Judge

The other day Bossy was researching What makes our stomachs growl. Those of you wondering why Bossy was researching What makes our stomachs growl obviously don’t have a house in dire need of cleaning. Which is to say Bossy was procrastinating.

So anyway, there was Bossy researching What makes our stomachs growl, when she happened upon a list of 16 Unusual Facts About The Human Body. Well, we’ll be the judge of that! Shall we?

1. Your tongue has as unique a print as your fingerprint. Bossy admits this is a pretty unusual fact, and vows to stop licking the doorknobs when on her next diamond heist.
2. The average person sheds over one-hundred pounds of skin in their lifetime. Bossy is no stranger to shedding anything, but she admits this factoid is pretty unusual. This means we can all feel okay when scarfing that hot fudge sundae because, listen y’all, we’re shedding skin!
3. An adult has fewer bones than a baby because as we age our bones fuse together. Grand. Because now Bossy thinks she feels her bones fusing together as she types. Oh well, let’s all agree this is an unusual fact.
4. Every three to four days we generate a new stomach lining. Bossy is relieved to learn this since without this regeneration, our digestive juices would eventually break down the lining and digest itself. However, Bossy is a wee bit wishing she could regenerate something even more useful every four days, like a new face. Still, this fact is unusual.
5. Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents. Fail! Because any pregnant woman can tell you your nose actually remembers 200,000 different scents, all of them unacceptable. Sorry, but let’s label this a usual fact.
6. The small intestine is 18-23 feet long. Sorry. Unless you’ve been living inside this lengthy intestine, you already know all about how this twisty thing, if a hose, could reach your second floor window box. Usual fact.
7. Every square inch of skin contains 32 million bacteria. Really? Alert the media! Someone really should invent an anti-bacteria industry of soaps and other products meant to prey on people’s fears of the 32 million bacteria we’ve already all seen, magnified in photos. Usual.
8. A pair of feet can produce more than a pint of sweat in a day. Bossy doesn’t even want to judge this one because Ew.
9. A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour. This is a fairly unusual fact, yes, but more unusual is the fact somewhere out there is a job description in need of someone to hold a sneeze radar gun.
10. Blood has to travel 60,000 miles within one body’s blood vessels. Unusual fact.
11. If you saved all your spit in a lifetime, it would fill two swimming pools. The fact someone thought about spit in terms of a swimming pool is way more disturbing than the fact we all drool. Let’s call this an unusual comparison, and not an unusual fact.
12. By 60 years of age, 60 percent of men and women snore, sometimes 20 decibels above the level of normal speech. This fact makes Bossy feel as though she needs a calculator. And Bossy doesn’t like to feel that mathy way. Let’s call this usual in an unusual way.
13. Blondes have more hair. Fail fail fail. Everyone in the universe knows blondes have more hair, where everyone in the universe equals Bossy. Also, when Bossy says she knows blondes have more hair, what she means to say is she has more hair. Usual fact.
14. Fingernails grow faster than toenails because they get more exposure. Whoever said that doesn’t obsess over all the cute peep-toe sandals on endless.com. Unusual way to state something usual.
15. The human head is one-quarter the size of our whole body at birth, but only one-eighth our total length in adulthood. Didn’t the Jerry Maguire kid say this? Fail. Usual fact.
16. You can go without eating for weeks, but you die after eleven days of no sleep. Whoever said that never had a newborn.

And that, dear friends, is that. If you want to see the list for yourself — and more explanations twice as boring as what you already read – go here!