Did you know
Pencils...
did you know that the typical pencil can write 45,000 words or draw a line 35 miles long?
Cell Phones...
The average American spends 7 hours per month talking on their cell phone.
A national survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that with technology allowing nearly 24-hour media access as children and teens go about their daily lives, the amount of time young people spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically, especially among minority youth. Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week). And because they spend so much of that time 'media multitasking' (using more than one medium a
t a time), they actually manage to pack a total of 10 hours and 45 minutes (10:45) worth of media content into those 7½ hours.
January - The month of January is named after the Roman god Janus who had two heads, one looking back at last year and the other looking forward to the next.
Bones and Muscles
➢ We are all bones and muscles connected and work together to help us move.
TO MOVE MUSCLE CONTRACT OR SHORTEN WHILE OTHERS RELAX AND STRETCH).
➢ We are a skeleton with over 200 bones (actually 206 as an adult) and over
600 separate muscles in our body – they are the framework in our body.
➢ When we are born we have 350 bones, but they join together.
1. Tendons connect muscles to bones;
2. Ligaments connect bones together; tendons connect muscle to bones to help
us move.
3. The muscles in our body come in sets of 2 because one muscle is used to
flex bones, the other extends them,
4. Minerals, along with calcium keep bones strong (hard) not soft
5. Sharks, unlike us, are nothing but cartelage Our body ahs cartilage also
in our ribs, ears and nose).
6. Teeth are the strongest bone in our body
7. The ear has 3 bones in it
Types of Joints
➢ We have hindge joints (hands, knees, elbows)
➢ We have saddle joints (thumb)
➢ We have ball and socket joints (hips; femur and pelvis)
➢ We have gliding jointsIn our backs (spine 33 small bones that glide on
cartilage)
➢ We have fixed joints that don’t move (skull)
Bones
➢ Have joints or (connections) and even the skull has joints, yet they don’t move.
➢ Ball socket joints – Femur and Pelvis
➢ Birds have hollow bones so they can fly
➢ A sparrow has more bones in its neck than a giraffe
➢ The largest bone ever found was from a dinosaur; the Breakeosauras bone (7 feet long/arm bone)
➢ Bones, per inch are stronger than steel
➢ All bones work together to make us move, but the director of that movement is from
our brain and spinal cord.
➢ Bones have 3 parts, the Pareostium, Spongy bones,
➢ Do all living things have back-bones? NO! 97% of animals do not have them-
WOW!
➢ All bones start out as cartilage and change into bone throughout our
lifetime most fusing together by age 25.
Muscles
➢ Muscle makes up 85% of a person's body weight.
➢ More injuries occur to the muscles in ballet than any other sports activity. (That includes football and wrestling, guys)
➢ It takes 43 muscles to frown. It takes 17 to smile! Lets all do a little
less work!
Experiment – place chicken in vinegar (acid) for up to 2 months and bones will
become flexible because all the minerals will be “eaten” by the vinegar, thus
making it FLEXIBLE. (kind of like cartilage).
Watch how long you eat...
Did you know that the person who sits at the table longer than a half hour
consumes more calories...step away from the table when you are done eating.
The average length of a meal at the table in the United States of America; 9
minutes.
Eat slowly...it takes the stomach aproximately 20 minutes to tell the
brain--"hey, I'm full...I don't need anymore."
Drink some water with your meal...and eat more veggies...you'll consume less
calories.
Did you know that Americans on average consume 24.5 pounds of candy per
year??? That's a lot of sugar!!!
Dairy Trivia & Milk Facts
Ÿ It takes 12 pounds of whole milk to make one gallon
of ice cream!
Ÿ It takes 21.2 pounds of whole milk to make one
pound of butter!
Ÿ It takes 10 pounds of milk to make one pound of
cheese.
Ÿ Americans eat the equivalent of 10 acres of pizza
every day!
Ÿ Americans eat an average of 29 pounds of cheese
every year -- over a lifetime that’s more than a ton
of cheese!
Ÿ Greeks eat the most cheese – an average of
54 pounds per year!
Ÿ The tradition of making Swiss cheese in 200 pound wheels began in the
Middle Ages when the government taxed cheesemakers on the number of pieces of
cheese they produced - not the total weight.
Ÿ Vanilla is America’s favorite ice cream flavor.
Ÿ George Washington enjoyed ice cream so much he ran up a $200 ice cream
bill one summer. Did you know they had ice cream for our first president???
Ÿ The milk mustache advertising campaign was launched in 1995.
Ÿ Cows have an acute sense of smell - they can smell something up to 6
miles away!
Ÿ The natural yellow color of butter comes mainly from beta-carotene found
in the grass the cows graze on.
Ÿ An average dairy cow weighs about 1,400 pounds.
Ÿ Milk is better for cooling your mouth after eating spicy food. Milk
products contain casein, a protein that cleanses burning taste buds.
Ÿ Wisconsin in the only producer of limburger cheese in the U.S.
Ÿ Most cows chew at least 50 times per minute.
Ÿ There are approximately 340-350 squirts in a gallon of milk.
Ÿ Cows drink 35 gallons of water a day -- the equivalent of a bathtub full
of water!
Ÿ According to legend, cheese was discovered accidentally, when an Arabian
merchant was carrying milk in a pouch made from the stomach of a freshly
killed calf. The hot desert sun and the rennet remaining in the pouch caused
the milk to separate into curds and whey.
Ÿ The milk bottle was invented in 1884. Plastic milk containers were
introduced in 1964.
Ÿ Wisconsin has the best tasting cheeses because of the grass the cows
eat. The grass in less acidic than in other parts of the country, creating
milder flavored cheeses.
Ÿ Average U.S. cow produces 53 lb of milk per day, or 6.2 gallons
Ÿ Average cow eats . . . 20 lb hay, 20 lb corn silage, 10-20 lb corn, 6-12
lb supplement (fortified with protein, energy, vitamins & minerals)
Ÿ Consumer spending on dairy products is $74.6 billion dollars annually
about 1.33% of personal income.
Ÿ 12.27 % of the food dollar is spent on dairy products.
Ÿ In a food survey several years ago, respondents voted milk to be safer
than water.
Ÿ 1000 new products are introduced every year (ex. ice cream candy bar,
yogurt with sprinkles, Dean's Milk Chugs, etc.)
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Weightlifter...
Did you know that a Groundhog can dig up to 700lbs. of dirt to make his den?
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Interesting Human Body Facts
The human brain weights about 3 pounds - and has more than 100 billion nerve cells.
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death
will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday
than any other day of the week.
After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of
white paper. It will probably appear pink.
An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of
the body.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man
never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.
Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide.
By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion
times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)
During the 2,475,576,000 seconds of the average length life, we speak
123,205,750 words and shed 121 pints of tears.
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
Fingerprints serve a function - they provide traction for the fingers to grasp
things.
Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a
year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.
Humans shed and re-grow outer skin cells about every 27 days - almost 1,000
new skins in a lifetime.
If it were removed from the body, the small intestine would stretch to a
length of 22 feet.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide
poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
If you go blind in one eye, you'll only lose about one-fifth of your vision
(but all your depth perception.)
In a lifetime the average US resident eats more than 50 tons of food and
drinks more than 13,000 gallons of liquid.
In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for
locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.
It takes 17 muscles to smile --- 43 to frown.
It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the
average human of blood.
Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to bring the back teeth
together for chewing.
Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system.
Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100
times a day.
On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.
One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
Pregnancy in humans lasts on average about 270 days (from conception to birth).
Roughly 80% of all human beings on earth have one or more internal parasite
infestations. For America, the estimate is 95%. Almost all human beings will
suffer from internal or external parasites at least once in their lifespan and
may never even know it.
Some people never develop fingerprints at all. Two rare genetic defects, known
as Naegeli syndrome and dermatopathia pigmentosa reticularis, can leave
carriers without any identifying ridges on their skin.
The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
The average human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail, sulfur to
kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to
fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 2,200 match
heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
The average human produces 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime, enough to
fill two swimming pools.
The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length
of 20 feet
The brain is soft and gelatinous - its consistency is something between jelly
and cooked pasta.
The feet account for one quarter of all the human bodies bones.
The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.
The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body's weight.
The human brain is about 85% water.
The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet.
The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart.
The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your
temple, is called a tragus.
The longest muscle in the human body is the sartorius. This narrow muscle of
the thigh passes obliquely across the front of the thigh and helps rotate the
leg to the position assumed in sitting cross-legged. Its name is a derivation
of the adjective "sartorial," a reference to what was the traditional
cross-legged position of tailors (or "sartors") at work.
The most common blood type in the world is Type O. The rarest, Type A-H, has
been found in less than a dozen people since the type was discovered.
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a
V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the mandible and the
voice box. Its function is to support the tongue and its muscles.
The only time the human population declined was in the years following 1347,
the start of the epidemic of the plague 'Black Death' in Europe.
The permanent teeth that erupt to replace their primary predecessors (baby
teeth) are called succedaneous teeth.
The sound of a snore (up to 69 decibels) can be almost as loud as the noise of
a pneumatic drill.
The tips of fingers and the soles of feet are covered by a thick, tough layer
of skin called the stratum corneum.
There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
There are four main Blood types: A, B, AB and O and each Blood type is either
Rh positive or negative. Blood types in the US - Type O positive 38.4%, O
negative 7.7%, A positive 32.3%, A negative 6.5%, B positive 9.4%, B negative
1.7%, AB positive 3.2%, AB negative 0.7%
Though it makes up only 2 percent of our total body weight, the brain demands
20 percent of the body's oxygen and calories.
Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every minute.
Women burn fat more slowly than men, by a rate of about 50 calories a day.
Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
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.
It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
One human hair can support 3 kg (6 lb).
Human thighbones (FREDDIE FEMUR) is stronger than concrete.
The LONGEST bone in the body is the FEMUR.
The HEAVIEST bone in the human body is the FEMUR.
Bone marrow produces over 2.6 million red blood cells every second.
The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.
A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.
There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet. (GROSS!!!)
Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.
Women blink twice as often as men.
The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.
When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate. .. . .they do
the same when you are looking at someone you hate! (WE SHOULD NOT HATE ANYONE!)
Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.
There are 640 muscles in the human body...but some experts feel there are more
than that...
Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
The average woman is five inches shorter than the average man.
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FOOD SAFETY...
DID YOU KNOW...8 FOODS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OVER 90% OF ALL FOOD
ALLERGIES...MILK, EGGS, WHEAT, SOY, PEANUTS, TREE NUTS, FISH AND SHELLFISH.
BE AWARE...
1. LABELING ERRORS ABOUND ON FOOD...AND TRACES OF INGREDIENTS NOT FOUND ON
THE LABEL CAN BE IN FOODS.
2. IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE FOOD LABEL, AVOID THAT FOOD UNTIL IT IS
CLARIFIED BY THE COMPANY...CALL THE 800 NUMBER, USUALLY LISTED ON THE LABEL.
3. OATS ARE OFTEN TAINTED WITH WHEAT.
4. BEWARE OF IMPORTS.
5. SKIP UNLABELED FOOD.
SOURCE: CHICAGO TRIBUNE 12/21/08
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Toys, Toys, Toys...6 Billion toys are sold to kids EVERY YEAR!!!
TOY SAFETY...
Between December 24th and the End of January...14,000 children will be injured
badly enough by the toys and decorations to require treatment at hospital
emergency rooms.
Experts tell us that about 700,000 children are injured by toys each year.
HERE'S HOW TO PROTECT YOUR KIDS...
1...MAKE SURE THE PACKAGING SAYS THE TOYS ARE SUITABLE FOR THE CHILDREN THEY
ARE INTENDED FOR IN TERMS OF AGE, SKILL LEVEL AND INTEREST.
2...THE CONSUMER SAFETY COMMISSION STRONGLY SUGGESTS TOYS THAT SHOOT OR PROPEL
OBJECTS BE DISCARDED BECAUSE OBJECTS COULD INJURE CHILDREN'S EYES OR BECOME
LODGED IN A CHILD'S THROAT.
3...ELECTRONIC TOYS WITH HEATED ELEMENTS SHOULD BE USED UNDER ADULT
SUPERVISION AND ONLY USED BY CHILDREN OVER 8 YEARS OF AGE.
4...TOYS WITH SMALL PARTS SHOULD BE USED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF PARENTS
SINCE THEY CAN BE BECOME A CHOKING HAZARD WITH SMALL CHILDREN.
5...TOYS WITH ELECTRICAL CORDS AND LONG STRIPS CAN BE VERY DANGEROUS
(ESPECIALLY FRAYED ELECTRIRCAL CORDS...DISCARD THEM)
6...ADULT SUPERVISION AND AGE APPROPRIATENESS AS WELL AS EDUCATION ABOUT TOY
SAFETY IS ESSENTIAL.
QUESTIONS...CALL THE TOY FACT SHEET HOTLINE AT 800.638.2772 OR CHECK OUT THE
WEB AT WWW.CPSC.GOV
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Thanksgiving…the fun facts by the numbers :
7000 - the amount of calories the average adult consumes on Thanksgiving!
$1 - is the average cost per pound in of a frozen whole turkey.
3 - is the number of places nationwide named after the holiday's tasty
gobbler. Turkey, Texas, is the most populous, with 496 residents; followed by
Turkey Creek, La. (357); and Turkey, N.C. (267). There also are 16 townships
around the country named "Turkey," three of them in Kansas.
8 - is the number of places and townships in the U.S. of A. that are named
"Cranberry" or some variation of the name (e.g., Cranbury, New Jersey)
20 -is the number of places in the United States named Plymouth, as in
"Plymouth Rock," legendary location of the first Thanksgiving.
* Plymouth, Minnesota is the most populous, with 65,894 residents in 2000.
* Plymouth, Massachusetts had 51,701.
13.7 - pounds is the amount of turkey consumed by the typical American -- no
doubt a good bit of it at Thanksgiving time. Per capita turkey consumption was
virtually the same as in 1990 (13.8 pounds), but 68 percent higher than in
1980 (8.1 pounds).
256 - million is the preliminary estimate of turkeys raised in the United
States in 2005. That’s down 3 percent from 2004. The turkeys produced in 2004
weighed 7.3 billion pounds altogether and were valued at $3.1 billion. And
that's a lot of turkey.
44.5 - million is the estimate of the number of turkeys Minnesota expects to
raise in 2005. The Gopher State is tops in turkey production. It is followed
by North Carolina (36.0 million), Arkansas (29.0 million), Virginia (21.0
million), Missouri (20.5 million) and California (15.1 million). These six
states together will probably account for about 65 percent of U. S. turkeys
produced in 2005.
649 - million pounds is the forecast for U.S. cranberry production in 2005, up
5 percent from 2004. Wisconsin is expected to lead all states in the
production of cranberries, with 367 million pounds, followed by Massachusetts
(170 million). Oregon, New Jersey and Washington are also expected to have
substantial production, ranging from 18 million to 52 million pounds.
1.6 - billion pounds is the total weight of sweet potatoes — another popular
Thanksgiving side dish — produced in the United States in 2004. North Carolina
(688 million pounds) produced more sweet potatoes than any other state. It was
followed by California (339 million pounds). Mississippi and Louisiana also
produced large amounts: at least 200 million pounds each.
457 - million pounds is the record held by Illinois for total U.S. pumpkin
production — followed by California, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York
which produced at least 70 million pounds worth.
$5.2 - million is the value of U.S. imports of live turkeys during the first
half of 2005 -- all from Canada. Our northern neighbors also accounted for all
of the cranberries the United States imported ($2.2 million).
...with thanks to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural
Statistics Service, U.S. import and export trade reports, the U.S. Census and
the Statistical Abstract of the United States.
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Fun HEART Facts...
1. Your heart beats about 1,000,000 times in one day and about 35 million
times in a year. During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more
than 2.5 billion times.
2. RESTING HEART RATES:
Canary Heart – 1,000 beats a minute
Human Heart – 70 beats a minute
Mouse heart – 700 beats a minute
Whale Heart – 5 beats a minute
Elephant Heart – 25 beats a minute
3. Your heart weighs about as much as a sneaker.
4. If you could stretch your blood vessels end to end, they would reach
around the world 4 times.
5. The heart pumps 5,000 to 6,000 quarts of blood in a day!
6. Your heart is about the size of your fist.
7. Arteries and Veins carry the blood to and from the heart to the rest
of your body.
8. Give a tennis ball a good, hard squeeze. You’re using about the same
amount of force your heart uses to pump blood out to the body. Even at rest,
the muscles of the heart work hard – twice as hard as the leg muscles of a
person sprinting.
9. Feel your pulse by placing two fingers at pulse points on your neck or
wrists. The pulse you feel is blood stopping and starting as it moves through
your arteries. As a kid, your resting pulse might range from 90 to 120 beats
per minute. As an adult, your pulse slows to an average of 72 beats per minute.
10. The Aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a
garden hose. Capillaries, on the other hand, are so small that it takes ten
of them to equal the thickness of a human hair.
11. lub-DUB, lub-DUB, lub-DUB. Sound familiar? If you listen to your
heart beat, you’ll hear two sounds. These “lub” and “DUB” sounds are made by
the heart valves as they open and close.
12. A Tireless, Powerful Muscle, the Heart performs enough work in one
hour to lift 3,000 pounds – roughly the weight of a small car – about 1 foot
off the ground.
13. Blood makes up 1/3 of the body’s weight.
14. Exercise that promotes cardiovascular fitness improves your body’s
circulation to help your heart, lungs, and other organs work together more
efficiently. Cardiovascular fitness also helps you meet physical and
emotional demands more readily.
15. Be Active! It’s smart for your Heart. To name a few benefits,
regular physical activity:
· Improves blood circulation throughout your body (enabling you lungs,
heart and other organs and muscles to work together more effectively)
· Improves your body’s ability to use oxygen and provide energy needed
for an active lifestyle
· May help you handle stress
· Bolsters enthusiasm and optimism
· Can help you release tension, relax and sleep better
· Can help you control your weight, along with proper diet
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Candy Fact...
The average American consumes 24.5 pounds of candy per year…wow!
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Olympic History...
Try this link...cut and past it to your browser window...enjoy!
www.chiff.com/a/summer-olympics-trivia.htm
Michael Phelps swimming prowess gives him 8 Gold Medals, surpassing Mark
Spitz's swimming record of 7 Gold Medals set in 1972.
- Your body is made up of trillions of atoms.
- Atoms are not alive!
- A long life for a human is 650,000 hours.
- Of the billions and billions of species of plants and animals that have existed on earth, only 99.99 have survived. Congratulations, you made it!
- When you are born your body is made up of over 300 bones in…but as an adult you have only 206.
- It takes finger and toenails 6 months to grow from bottom to tip.
- The wind speed of a sneeze is over 100 mph.
Pencils...
did you know that the typical pencil can write 45,000 words or draw a line 35 miles long?
Cell Phones...
The average American spends 7 hours per month talking on their cell phone.
A national survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that with technology allowing nearly 24-hour media access as children and teens go about their daily lives, the amount of time young people spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically, especially among minority youth. Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week). And because they spend so much of that time 'media multitasking' (using more than one medium a
t a time), they actually manage to pack a total of 10 hours and 45 minutes (10:45) worth of media content into those 7½ hours.
January - The month of January is named after the Roman god Janus who had two heads, one looking back at last year and the other looking forward to the next.
Bones and Muscles
➢ We are all bones and muscles connected and work together to help us move.
TO MOVE MUSCLE CONTRACT OR SHORTEN WHILE OTHERS RELAX AND STRETCH).
➢ We are a skeleton with over 200 bones (actually 206 as an adult) and over
600 separate muscles in our body – they are the framework in our body.
➢ When we are born we have 350 bones, but they join together.
1. Tendons connect muscles to bones;
2. Ligaments connect bones together; tendons connect muscle to bones to help
us move.
3. The muscles in our body come in sets of 2 because one muscle is used to
flex bones, the other extends them,
4. Minerals, along with calcium keep bones strong (hard) not soft
5. Sharks, unlike us, are nothing but cartelage Our body ahs cartilage also
in our ribs, ears and nose).
6. Teeth are the strongest bone in our body
7. The ear has 3 bones in it
Types of Joints
➢ We have hindge joints (hands, knees, elbows)
➢ We have saddle joints (thumb)
➢ We have ball and socket joints (hips; femur and pelvis)
➢ We have gliding jointsIn our backs (spine 33 small bones that glide on
cartilage)
➢ We have fixed joints that don’t move (skull)
Bones
➢ Have joints or (connections) and even the skull has joints, yet they don’t move.
➢ Ball socket joints – Femur and Pelvis
➢ Birds have hollow bones so they can fly
➢ A sparrow has more bones in its neck than a giraffe
➢ The largest bone ever found was from a dinosaur; the Breakeosauras bone (7 feet long/arm bone)
➢ Bones, per inch are stronger than steel
➢ All bones work together to make us move, but the director of that movement is from
our brain and spinal cord.
➢ Bones have 3 parts, the Pareostium, Spongy bones,
➢ Do all living things have back-bones? NO! 97% of animals do not have them-
WOW!
➢ All bones start out as cartilage and change into bone throughout our
lifetime most fusing together by age 25.
Muscles
➢ Muscle makes up 85% of a person's body weight.
➢ More injuries occur to the muscles in ballet than any other sports activity. (That includes football and wrestling, guys)
➢ It takes 43 muscles to frown. It takes 17 to smile! Lets all do a little
less work!
Experiment – place chicken in vinegar (acid) for up to 2 months and bones will
become flexible because all the minerals will be “eaten” by the vinegar, thus
making it FLEXIBLE. (kind of like cartilage).
Watch how long you eat...
Did you know that the person who sits at the table longer than a half hour
consumes more calories...step away from the table when you are done eating.
The average length of a meal at the table in the United States of America; 9
minutes.
Eat slowly...it takes the stomach aproximately 20 minutes to tell the
brain--"hey, I'm full...I don't need anymore."
Drink some water with your meal...and eat more veggies...you'll consume less
calories.
Did you know that Americans on average consume 24.5 pounds of candy per
year??? That's a lot of sugar!!!
Dairy Trivia & Milk Facts
Ÿ It takes 12 pounds of whole milk to make one gallon
of ice cream!
Ÿ It takes 21.2 pounds of whole milk to make one
pound of butter!
Ÿ It takes 10 pounds of milk to make one pound of
cheese.
Ÿ Americans eat the equivalent of 10 acres of pizza
every day!
Ÿ Americans eat an average of 29 pounds of cheese
every year -- over a lifetime that’s more than a ton
of cheese!
Ÿ Greeks eat the most cheese – an average of
54 pounds per year!
Ÿ The tradition of making Swiss cheese in 200 pound wheels began in the
Middle Ages when the government taxed cheesemakers on the number of pieces of
cheese they produced - not the total weight.
Ÿ Vanilla is America’s favorite ice cream flavor.
Ÿ George Washington enjoyed ice cream so much he ran up a $200 ice cream
bill one summer. Did you know they had ice cream for our first president???
Ÿ The milk mustache advertising campaign was launched in 1995.
Ÿ Cows have an acute sense of smell - they can smell something up to 6
miles away!
Ÿ The natural yellow color of butter comes mainly from beta-carotene found
in the grass the cows graze on.
Ÿ An average dairy cow weighs about 1,400 pounds.
Ÿ Milk is better for cooling your mouth after eating spicy food. Milk
products contain casein, a protein that cleanses burning taste buds.
Ÿ Wisconsin in the only producer of limburger cheese in the U.S.
Ÿ Most cows chew at least 50 times per minute.
Ÿ There are approximately 340-350 squirts in a gallon of milk.
Ÿ Cows drink 35 gallons of water a day -- the equivalent of a bathtub full
of water!
Ÿ According to legend, cheese was discovered accidentally, when an Arabian
merchant was carrying milk in a pouch made from the stomach of a freshly
killed calf. The hot desert sun and the rennet remaining in the pouch caused
the milk to separate into curds and whey.
Ÿ The milk bottle was invented in 1884. Plastic milk containers were
introduced in 1964.
Ÿ Wisconsin has the best tasting cheeses because of the grass the cows
eat. The grass in less acidic than in other parts of the country, creating
milder flavored cheeses.
Ÿ Average U.S. cow produces 53 lb of milk per day, or 6.2 gallons
Ÿ Average cow eats . . . 20 lb hay, 20 lb corn silage, 10-20 lb corn, 6-12
lb supplement (fortified with protein, energy, vitamins & minerals)
Ÿ Consumer spending on dairy products is $74.6 billion dollars annually
about 1.33% of personal income.
Ÿ 12.27 % of the food dollar is spent on dairy products.
Ÿ In a food survey several years ago, respondents voted milk to be safer
than water.
Ÿ 1000 new products are introduced every year (ex. ice cream candy bar,
yogurt with sprinkles, Dean's Milk Chugs, etc.)
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Weightlifter...
Did you know that a Groundhog can dig up to 700lbs. of dirt to make his den?
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Interesting Human Body Facts
The human brain weights about 3 pounds - and has more than 100 billion nerve cells.
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death
will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday
than any other day of the week.
After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of
white paper. It will probably appear pink.
An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of
the body.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man
never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.
Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide.
By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion
times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)
During the 2,475,576,000 seconds of the average length life, we speak
123,205,750 words and shed 121 pints of tears.
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
Fingerprints serve a function - they provide traction for the fingers to grasp
things.
Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a
year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.
Humans shed and re-grow outer skin cells about every 27 days - almost 1,000
new skins in a lifetime.
If it were removed from the body, the small intestine would stretch to a
length of 22 feet.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide
poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
If you go blind in one eye, you'll only lose about one-fifth of your vision
(but all your depth perception.)
In a lifetime the average US resident eats more than 50 tons of food and
drinks more than 13,000 gallons of liquid.
In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for
locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.
It takes 17 muscles to smile --- 43 to frown.
It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the
average human of blood.
Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to bring the back teeth
together for chewing.
Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system.
Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100
times a day.
On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.
One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
Pregnancy in humans lasts on average about 270 days (from conception to birth).
Roughly 80% of all human beings on earth have one or more internal parasite
infestations. For America, the estimate is 95%. Almost all human beings will
suffer from internal or external parasites at least once in their lifespan and
may never even know it.
Some people never develop fingerprints at all. Two rare genetic defects, known
as Naegeli syndrome and dermatopathia pigmentosa reticularis, can leave
carriers without any identifying ridges on their skin.
The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
The average human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail, sulfur to
kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to
fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 2,200 match
heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
The average human produces 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime, enough to
fill two swimming pools.
The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length
of 20 feet
The brain is soft and gelatinous - its consistency is something between jelly
and cooked pasta.
The feet account for one quarter of all the human bodies bones.
The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.
The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body's weight.
The human brain is about 85% water.
The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet.
The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart.
The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your
temple, is called a tragus.
The longest muscle in the human body is the sartorius. This narrow muscle of
the thigh passes obliquely across the front of the thigh and helps rotate the
leg to the position assumed in sitting cross-legged. Its name is a derivation
of the adjective "sartorial," a reference to what was the traditional
cross-legged position of tailors (or "sartors") at work.
The most common blood type in the world is Type O. The rarest, Type A-H, has
been found in less than a dozen people since the type was discovered.
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a
V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the mandible and the
voice box. Its function is to support the tongue and its muscles.
The only time the human population declined was in the years following 1347,
the start of the epidemic of the plague 'Black Death' in Europe.
The permanent teeth that erupt to replace their primary predecessors (baby
teeth) are called succedaneous teeth.
The sound of a snore (up to 69 decibels) can be almost as loud as the noise of
a pneumatic drill.
The tips of fingers and the soles of feet are covered by a thick, tough layer
of skin called the stratum corneum.
There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
There are four main Blood types: A, B, AB and O and each Blood type is either
Rh positive or negative. Blood types in the US - Type O positive 38.4%, O
negative 7.7%, A positive 32.3%, A negative 6.5%, B positive 9.4%, B negative
1.7%, AB positive 3.2%, AB negative 0.7%
Though it makes up only 2 percent of our total body weight, the brain demands
20 percent of the body's oxygen and calories.
Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every minute.
Women burn fat more slowly than men, by a rate of about 50 calories a day.
Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
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.
It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
One human hair can support 3 kg (6 lb).
Human thighbones (FREDDIE FEMUR) is stronger than concrete.
The LONGEST bone in the body is the FEMUR.
The HEAVIEST bone in the human body is the FEMUR.
Bone marrow produces over 2.6 million red blood cells every second.
The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.
A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.
There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet. (GROSS!!!)
Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.
Women blink twice as often as men.
The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.
When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate. .. . .they do
the same when you are looking at someone you hate! (WE SHOULD NOT HATE ANYONE!)
Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.
There are 640 muscles in the human body...but some experts feel there are more
than that...
Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
The average woman is five inches shorter than the average man.
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FOOD SAFETY...
DID YOU KNOW...8 FOODS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OVER 90% OF ALL FOOD
ALLERGIES...MILK, EGGS, WHEAT, SOY, PEANUTS, TREE NUTS, FISH AND SHELLFISH.
BE AWARE...
1. LABELING ERRORS ABOUND ON FOOD...AND TRACES OF INGREDIENTS NOT FOUND ON
THE LABEL CAN BE IN FOODS.
2. IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE FOOD LABEL, AVOID THAT FOOD UNTIL IT IS
CLARIFIED BY THE COMPANY...CALL THE 800 NUMBER, USUALLY LISTED ON THE LABEL.
3. OATS ARE OFTEN TAINTED WITH WHEAT.
4. BEWARE OF IMPORTS.
5. SKIP UNLABELED FOOD.
SOURCE: CHICAGO TRIBUNE 12/21/08
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Toys, Toys, Toys...6 Billion toys are sold to kids EVERY YEAR!!!
TOY SAFETY...
Between December 24th and the End of January...14,000 children will be injured
badly enough by the toys and decorations to require treatment at hospital
emergency rooms.
Experts tell us that about 700,000 children are injured by toys each year.
HERE'S HOW TO PROTECT YOUR KIDS...
1...MAKE SURE THE PACKAGING SAYS THE TOYS ARE SUITABLE FOR THE CHILDREN THEY
ARE INTENDED FOR IN TERMS OF AGE, SKILL LEVEL AND INTEREST.
2...THE CONSUMER SAFETY COMMISSION STRONGLY SUGGESTS TOYS THAT SHOOT OR PROPEL
OBJECTS BE DISCARDED BECAUSE OBJECTS COULD INJURE CHILDREN'S EYES OR BECOME
LODGED IN A CHILD'S THROAT.
3...ELECTRONIC TOYS WITH HEATED ELEMENTS SHOULD BE USED UNDER ADULT
SUPERVISION AND ONLY USED BY CHILDREN OVER 8 YEARS OF AGE.
4...TOYS WITH SMALL PARTS SHOULD BE USED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF PARENTS
SINCE THEY CAN BE BECOME A CHOKING HAZARD WITH SMALL CHILDREN.
5...TOYS WITH ELECTRICAL CORDS AND LONG STRIPS CAN BE VERY DANGEROUS
(ESPECIALLY FRAYED ELECTRIRCAL CORDS...DISCARD THEM)
6...ADULT SUPERVISION AND AGE APPROPRIATENESS AS WELL AS EDUCATION ABOUT TOY
SAFETY IS ESSENTIAL.
QUESTIONS...CALL THE TOY FACT SHEET HOTLINE AT 800.638.2772 OR CHECK OUT THE
WEB AT WWW.CPSC.GOV
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Thanksgiving…the fun facts by the numbers :
7000 - the amount of calories the average adult consumes on Thanksgiving!
$1 - is the average cost per pound in of a frozen whole turkey.
3 - is the number of places nationwide named after the holiday's tasty
gobbler. Turkey, Texas, is the most populous, with 496 residents; followed by
Turkey Creek, La. (357); and Turkey, N.C. (267). There also are 16 townships
around the country named "Turkey," three of them in Kansas.
8 - is the number of places and townships in the U.S. of A. that are named
"Cranberry" or some variation of the name (e.g., Cranbury, New Jersey)
20 -is the number of places in the United States named Plymouth, as in
"Plymouth Rock," legendary location of the first Thanksgiving.
* Plymouth, Minnesota is the most populous, with 65,894 residents in 2000.
* Plymouth, Massachusetts had 51,701.
13.7 - pounds is the amount of turkey consumed by the typical American -- no
doubt a good bit of it at Thanksgiving time. Per capita turkey consumption was
virtually the same as in 1990 (13.8 pounds), but 68 percent higher than in
1980 (8.1 pounds).
256 - million is the preliminary estimate of turkeys raised in the United
States in 2005. That’s down 3 percent from 2004. The turkeys produced in 2004
weighed 7.3 billion pounds altogether and were valued at $3.1 billion. And
that's a lot of turkey.
44.5 - million is the estimate of the number of turkeys Minnesota expects to
raise in 2005. The Gopher State is tops in turkey production. It is followed
by North Carolina (36.0 million), Arkansas (29.0 million), Virginia (21.0
million), Missouri (20.5 million) and California (15.1 million). These six
states together will probably account for about 65 percent of U. S. turkeys
produced in 2005.
649 - million pounds is the forecast for U.S. cranberry production in 2005, up
5 percent from 2004. Wisconsin is expected to lead all states in the
production of cranberries, with 367 million pounds, followed by Massachusetts
(170 million). Oregon, New Jersey and Washington are also expected to have
substantial production, ranging from 18 million to 52 million pounds.
1.6 - billion pounds is the total weight of sweet potatoes — another popular
Thanksgiving side dish — produced in the United States in 2004. North Carolina
(688 million pounds) produced more sweet potatoes than any other state. It was
followed by California (339 million pounds). Mississippi and Louisiana also
produced large amounts: at least 200 million pounds each.
457 - million pounds is the record held by Illinois for total U.S. pumpkin
production — followed by California, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York
which produced at least 70 million pounds worth.
$5.2 - million is the value of U.S. imports of live turkeys during the first
half of 2005 -- all from Canada. Our northern neighbors also accounted for all
of the cranberries the United States imported ($2.2 million).
...with thanks to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural
Statistics Service, U.S. import and export trade reports, the U.S. Census and
the Statistical Abstract of the United States.
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Fun HEART Facts...
1. Your heart beats about 1,000,000 times in one day and about 35 million
times in a year. During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more
than 2.5 billion times.
2. RESTING HEART RATES:
Canary Heart – 1,000 beats a minute
Human Heart – 70 beats a minute
Mouse heart – 700 beats a minute
Whale Heart – 5 beats a minute
Elephant Heart – 25 beats a minute
3. Your heart weighs about as much as a sneaker.
4. If you could stretch your blood vessels end to end, they would reach
around the world 4 times.
5. The heart pumps 5,000 to 6,000 quarts of blood in a day!
6. Your heart is about the size of your fist.
7. Arteries and Veins carry the blood to and from the heart to the rest
of your body.
8. Give a tennis ball a good, hard squeeze. You’re using about the same
amount of force your heart uses to pump blood out to the body. Even at rest,
the muscles of the heart work hard – twice as hard as the leg muscles of a
person sprinting.
9. Feel your pulse by placing two fingers at pulse points on your neck or
wrists. The pulse you feel is blood stopping and starting as it moves through
your arteries. As a kid, your resting pulse might range from 90 to 120 beats
per minute. As an adult, your pulse slows to an average of 72 beats per minute.
10. The Aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a
garden hose. Capillaries, on the other hand, are so small that it takes ten
of them to equal the thickness of a human hair.
11. lub-DUB, lub-DUB, lub-DUB. Sound familiar? If you listen to your
heart beat, you’ll hear two sounds. These “lub” and “DUB” sounds are made by
the heart valves as they open and close.
12. A Tireless, Powerful Muscle, the Heart performs enough work in one
hour to lift 3,000 pounds – roughly the weight of a small car – about 1 foot
off the ground.
13. Blood makes up 1/3 of the body’s weight.
14. Exercise that promotes cardiovascular fitness improves your body’s
circulation to help your heart, lungs, and other organs work together more
efficiently. Cardiovascular fitness also helps you meet physical and
emotional demands more readily.
15. Be Active! It’s smart for your Heart. To name a few benefits,
regular physical activity:
· Improves blood circulation throughout your body (enabling you lungs,
heart and other organs and muscles to work together more effectively)
· Improves your body’s ability to use oxygen and provide energy needed
for an active lifestyle
· May help you handle stress
· Bolsters enthusiasm and optimism
· Can help you release tension, relax and sleep better
· Can help you control your weight, along with proper diet
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Candy Fact...
The average American consumes 24.5 pounds of candy per year…wow!
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Olympic History...
Try this link...cut and past it to your browser window...enjoy!
www.chiff.com/a/summer-olympics-trivia.htm
Michael Phelps swimming prowess gives him 8 Gold Medals, surpassing Mark
Spitz's swimming record of 7 Gold Medals set in 1972.