10845. Body Facts

An amoeba common in warm water can travel up your nose while you are swimming and live in your brain, where it multiplies rapidly and kills you in three to seven days.

10846. Body Facts

If you unravelled all the tiny tubes in your kidneys and laid them end to end, they would stretch 80 kilometres (50 miles).Yet they scrunch up to fit into kidneys only 10 centimetres (4 inches) long.

10847. Body Facts

You will produce 45,000 litres (around 95,000 pints) of urine in your life enough to fill a small swimming pool!

10848. Body Facts

The old Chinese medical technique of acupuncture involves sticking lots of very thin needles into a person's body.The theory is that putting the needles on ‘energy pathways' around the body relieves pain and cures illness.

10849. Body Facts

Head lice can change colour to merge in with the hair they are hiding in.

10850. Body Facts

Athlete's foot is a fungus that grows in the warm, sweaty spaces between your toes. It causes itching and split skin.

10851. Body Facts

Liposuction is a popular operation in Europe and the USA amongst people who feel they are too fat. A surgeon sticks a long, hollow needle into the fat part – such as the tummy or thighs – uses ultrasound to turn the fat to yellow mush, and then sucks it out through the needle.

10852. Body Facts

Urine is a good remedy for jellyfish stings, so if you're standing in the sea and get stung, just urinate down your legs.

10853. Body Facts

The medical name for ear wax is cerumen; it is produced by more than 4,000 glands in your ears.

10854. Body Facts

It's possible to get dandruff in your eyebrows as well as in the hair on top of your head.

10855. Body Facts

Chewing gum and using straws both make you burp more as they encourage you to swallow air.

10856. Body Facts

The palms of the hands are the sweatiest parts of the body, followed by the feet.

10857. Body Facts

When Ancient Egyptians mummified someone, they used a special long-handled spoon to scoop the brains out through the dead person's nose. They often fed the brain to animals.

10858. Body Facts

If you don't brush plaque off your teeth, it hardens into a substance called tartar which is like cement and impossible to remove with your toothbrush.

10859. Body Facts

The Bedouin people in the Middle East consider it polite to burp after a meal.

10860. Body Facts

Hair grows all over your body except the palms of your hands, soles of your feet and your lips.

10861. Body Facts

A single drop of blood contains 250 million blood cells.

10862. Body Facts

A facelift to remove wrinkles involves cutting away part of the skin, pulling the remainder tight again and stitching it in place.

10863. Body Facts

Some people have injections of collagen to ‘plump up' their wrinkles.The collagen – a fibre found in skin – is usually taken from pigs or cows.

10864. Body Facts

If you never wear shoes, the skin on the soles of your feet eventually thickens and hardens so that you can walk over sharp stones without hurting yourself.

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