Mountain Oak Vapors - TRIVIA CONTEST!!!

[lettucehead]

The tips of fingers and the soles of feet are covered by a thick, tough layer of skin called the stratum corneum.

 

[lettucehead]

There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.

 

[36tinybells]

French poodles did not originate in France – they came from Germany.

 

[Speedgoat]

A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.

 

[AzIrish]

The squids eye is the size of a volleyball.

 

[Uncle]

There is enough iron in a human being to make one small nail

 

[lettucehead]

There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

 

[Uncle]

The world`s first test-tube twins were born in June 1981

 

[lettucehead]

Though it makes up only 2 percent of our total body weight, the brain demands 20 percent of the body's oxygen and calories.

 

[36tinybells]

Cat owners are 30% less likely to suffer a heart attack.

 

[lettucehead]

Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every minute.

 

[Uncle]

A 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his foot in 1977.

 

[36tinybells]

Shark corneas are being used in human eye transplants.

 

[thehangdude]

On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.

I had to leave for a bit, and this contest is already half over? I wonder if women talk more virtually than men.

 

[lettucehead]

Women burn fat more slowly than men, by a rate of about 50 calories a day.

darn it

 

[lettucehead]

Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

 

[Uncle]

Your thumb is approximately the same size as your nose.

* * * THEY Said Nothing about any other parts of the body . . .

 

[basementcat]

80% of people who die in the USA die on hospitals.

 

[lettucehead]

Your stomach cells secrete hydrochloric acid, a corrosive compound used to treat metals in the industrial world. It can pickle steel, but mucous lining the stomach wall keeps this poisonous liquid safely in the digestive system.

 

[36tinybells]

Even though a polar bears average body temperature is 37°C; they don’t give off any detectable heat, so they won’t show up in infrared photographs.