Amazing Facts about Health and Body

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.

1 out of every 4 kids in the USA is overweight.

41% of women apply body or hand moisturizer a minimum three times a day.

75-90% of primary physician visits are due to stress.

A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.

A blink lasts approximately 0.3 seconds.

A ear trumpet was used before the hearing aid was invented by people who had difficulty hearing.

A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks.

A fetus starts to develop fingerprints at the age of eight weeks.

A fetus that is four months old, will becomes startled and turn away if a light is flashed on the mother's stomach.

A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries.

A human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at four weeks old.

A kiss for one minute can burn 26.

A little under one quarter of the people in the world are vegetarians.

A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery.

A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years.

A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.

A sneeze can travel as fast as one hundred miles per hour.

A study concludes that kids who snore do poorly in school.

A study indicates that smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.

A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder.

A world record 328 pound ovarian cyst was removed from a woman in Galveston, Texas, in 1905.