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1129. Body Facts
Adult feet produce about a quarter of a cup of sweat a day from 250,000 pores – wait four days and you could make a cup of foot-sweat tea!

1130. Body Facts
Ten billion scales of skin fall off your body every day.

1131. Fact
A comet's tail always points away from the sun. The lense of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.

1132. Fact
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.

1133. Body Facts
Your body needs sleep. Staying awake for two weeks can be enough to kill you.

1134. Fact
A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water.

1135. Fact
A diet high in fat is said to impede memory.

1136. Fact
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

1137. Fact
A dog's average body temperature is 101 degrees farenheit.

1138. Fact
A Dog's mucus membrane is the size of fifty postage stamps

1139. Fact
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

1140. Body Facts
Dentists in the Far East used to pull teeth out with their bare hands! In China, they practised by pulling nails out of wood with their fingers.

1141. Body Facts
Urine doesn't contain bacteria. Becalmed or shipwrecked sailors used to drink it with no ill-effects.

1142. Fact
A duck has three eyelids.

1143. Fact
A duck's quack has no echo.

1144. Fact
A female mackerel lays 500,000 eggs at a time.

1145. Fact
A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!

1146. Fact
A frog can't empty its stomach by vomitting. To empty its stomach contents, a frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the s

1147. Fact
A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.

1148. Body Facts
When diarrhoea turns pale, it contains bits of the lining of your gut.

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