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.

10865. Body Facts

Vomiting a lot can give you a black eye the pressure can burst the blood vessels around your eyes.

10866. Body Facts

If you could line up all your blood cells all 25 billion of them they would go round the world four times.

10867. Body Facts

A bruise is bleeding under your skin.The blood can't get out if there isn't a cut, so it just leaks around – it's purple because that's the colour of blood that doesn't have any oxygen in it.

10868. Body Facts

Even a bald person has very fine hair on their head, called vellus.

10869. Body Facts

The Binderwur tribe in India used to kill and eat sick and old people to please their goddess Kali.

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