[Michaelangelica]

This may/should be used as a hypography moto?

page 209,The Odd Body 2 S Juan

[Michaelangelica]

The Odd Body 2 by S Juan is full of such facinating trivia.
For example body size.
US surveys show that men who are 173 centimetres tall, consider themselves short.
In fact, they are exactly average.

Human beings on average are probably taller today than ever before in history (better nutrition & disease prevention etc.,).
But Cro-Magnon human was taller than today's average human.

Cro-Magnon also had a larger brain mass.

[Boerseun]

No Old World monkey can swing by its tail! Tail-swinging is an exclusive New World invention!

Another quirky monkey fact is that New World and Old World monkeys can be distinguished by their nostrils - American monkeys' nostrils point sideways, whereas European, African and Asian monkeys' nostrils point downwards.

Betcha didn't know that!

Well, now you do!

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by Boerseun

Betcha didn't know that!

Well, now you do!

(Not allowed to give you reputation for that- mean computer programme).

You betcha right.
Now how come, I either:-
1. never get asked this in trivia contests
2. never remember anyway?

[Racoon]

* The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone.

* During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.

* One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by Racoon

* The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone.

What about the patella?
Kneecap?

How the patella is connected to the femur
The whole patella is attached to those tendons and is not connected to femur or tibia by any means other than the tendons.
The patella claims for itself alone that it is not attached to another bone by ligaments but is connected by the tendons which bypass the knee joint and is very powerfully bound to the femur.

Chapter 32 On the Patella
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It is possible for one woman and one man to produce 64 billion decendants without any genetic duplicates.
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Everyone on earth is at least a 50th cousin to everyone else on earth
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10% of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion
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SOURCE:
The Odd Body 2, S Juan

[Michaelangelica]

More living eubacteria inhabit the human mouth than the total number of mammals on earth
Source:-'The Handy Biology Answer Book', Bobick et al

I am going to bed and cleaning my teeth!

[Boerseun]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

I am going to bed and cleaning my teeth!

Don't do it! It'll be a holocaust!

Quirky Fact #12334:
Mammalian blood can hold more than 30 times the amount of oxygen in suspension than the same volume of water, thanks to heamoglobin!

The purple blood of molluscs and bivalves can only hold about 8 times as much.

[Michaelangelica]

My teeth are going all furry

How Much is a Million? Billion?

[eric l]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

My teeth are going all furry

How Much is a Million? Billion?

The last line in the post (a trillion seconds is 31,688 years) is even more remarkable because :

1 year = 31,557,600 seconds

No wonder that some people think they recognize the number PI is such numbers !

And still with that number PI : a tidal cycle takes approximately 4 PI hours !