1674. Body Facts

Stomach gurgling – called borborygmus by scientists – is the sound of half-digested food, gas and stomach acid churning around.

1675. Fact

If you shake a can of mixed nuts, the larger ones go to the top.

1676. Body Facts

Slime oozes from the inside of your stomach to stop the acid in the stomach dissolving its walls and eating into your body – digesting you from the inside.

1677. Fact

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will come up heads approximately 4950 times because the heads picture weighs more than the tails side, so it ends up on the bottom more often.

1678. Fact

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom more often.

1679. Fact

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

1680. Fact

If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

1681. Fact

If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

1682. Fact

If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.

1683. Fact

If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure

1684. Fact

If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure. On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.

1685. Fact

If you were randomly inserted into the universe, the chances that you would be on or near a planet are less then one in a billion trillion trillion. (The is a lot of space in Space!)

1686. Fact

If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court.

1687. Fact

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

1688. Fact

If you’re over 100 years old, there’s an 80% chance you’re a woman.

1689. Body Facts

Your eyes make 4.5 litres (8 pints) of tears a year – they keep your eyes wet even if you're not crying.

1690. Fact

Iguanas have two penises!

1691. Fact

Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the United States.

1692. Body Facts

The disease necrotising fasciitis causes the flesh to rot from within and drop off in chunks. Holes up to 15 centimetres (6 inches) across can form in sufferers' bodies.

1693. Fact

In 1845 Boston had an ordinance banning bathing unless you had a doctor's prescription.

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When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone back in 1876, only six phones were sold in the first month.      .. More >>