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.

10878. Body Facts

Most people fart about 14 times a day.

10879. Body Facts

The botfly lays its eggs on a mosquito, and they hatch when the mosquito bites someone.The maggot grows for six weeks in a lump under the persons' skin called a warble until it pops out when it's fully grown.

10880. Body Facts

Air you swallow, and gas released from food as you digest it, comes out as a burp or a fart – which one depends on how far through your intestines it has got.

10881. Body Facts

Expert botfly squeezers (employed to remove botfly maggots from people) can shoot a botfly from a warble distances of 3 metres (10 feet) or more.

10882. Body Facts

When you die, the bacteria in your gut start to eat away at you from the inside.

10883. Body Facts

The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 8 metres (27 feet)!

10884. Body Facts

A man with the stage name of Enigma has had surgery to give him horns on his head. He is hoping to get a tail sometime in the future.

10885. Body Facts

In some parts of the world, people wear extremely heavy ear-rings to weigh their ears down and stretch the lobes.They can weigh up to half a kilogram (1 pound) and hang from huge, long holes in the ear lobe.

10886. Body Facts

Rhinotillexomania is the scientific word for picking your nose.

10887. Body Facts

When you breathe normally, air goes into your nose at about 6.5 kilometres (4 miles) per hour.When you take a good sniff at something, it goes in at 32 kilometres (20 miles) per hour. When you sneeze, it comes out at 160 kilometres (100 miles) per hour!

10888. Body Facts

You swallow about 2 pints of mucus (snot) every day.

10889. Body Facts

A scab forms because cells in your blood called platelets make a very thin fibre that traps other blood cells and holds them in a layer that dries out over a scratch or cut.

10890. Body Facts

If you could lay out all your blood vessels end to end they would go round the world over twice.

10891. Body Facts

The mental disorder called ‘walking corpse' disease leads people to believe parts of their body are missing or that they are dead.

10892. Body Facts

Hookworms can infest people who walk barefoot. They bore through the skin of the feet and travel in the blood to the lungs, where they come out and crawl up to the throat, to be swallowed and start a new life in the gut.

10893. Body Facts

There is enough iron in the human body to make a nail.

10894. Body Facts

Your body absorbs about two-thirds of the volume of the food you eat – the rest is squished into faeces.

10895. Body Facts

A dead body quickly looks greyish as the blood drains down to the part of the body closest to the ground.The effect is most noticeable in people with white skin.

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