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.

10870. Body Facts

The medical name for burping is eructation.

10871. Body Facts

Romans used to clean their teeth with urine, and it was used as a mouthwash until the 1800s in Europe.

10872. Body Facts

The gunge that collects in your belly button is a mix of dirt, dead skin cells and oils from your body.

10873. Body Facts

Your belly button is formed from the shrivelled up stump of the umbilical cord – the tube that connected you to your mother's body before you were born.

10874. Body Facts

Over a ton of pubic hair has to be filtered out of London's sewage each year and removed to landfill sites.

10875. Body Facts

A very fat person who flushes an aeroplane toilet while still sitting on it can have their rectum sucked out by the pull of the toilet's flush.

10876. Body Facts

At any one time, parasites account for onehundredth of your body weight.

10877. Body Facts

Human hair grows about just over a centimetre (half an inch) a month.

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