I came across an old Readers Digest book from when I was younger last night whilst cleaning out the 'glory hole', it is called 'Your Amazing Body' and has loads of facts in it....here's just a few....(not sure if they're all true, but they fascinated me when I was younger)...
The average Human has as much hair as the hairy primates, but it is so short and fine we simply do not look as well covered.
Police dogs cannot distinguish between the body smells of identical twins, even if the twins live in different towns, have different jobs and eat different foods.
Compared to a dogs capacity, human smelling skills are very inferior. It is considered that the dogs nose is over a million times more sensitive that the human nose. Mans sense is incredible, a dogs is a million times more so.
An adult has an average of 9000 taste buds, but a baby has many more. Babies even have buds on the inside of their cheeks. Taste buds are lost as we get older, which in part explains a childs vigorous reaction to strong tastes.
There are generally 206 bones in an adult body, a baby has 350. The extra bones don't get lost, they fuse during the maturing process to accord with our needs.
The skeleton does not mature until the body is about 25 years of age.
The entire network of vessels whcih makes up the circulatory system measures 60,0000 miles, which is more than twice the circumference of the earth.
The average Human has as much hair as the hairy primates, but it is so short and fine we simply do not look as well covered.
Police dogs cannot distinguish between the body smells of identical twins, even if the twins live in different towns, have different jobs and eat different foods.
Compared to a dogs capacity, human smelling skills are very inferior. It is considered that the dogs nose is over a million times more sensitive that the human nose. Mans sense is incredible, a dogs is a million times more so.
An adult has an average of 9000 taste buds, but a baby has many more. Babies even have buds on the inside of their cheeks. Taste buds are lost as we get older, which in part explains a childs vigorous reaction to strong tastes.
There are generally 206 bones in an adult body, a baby has 350. The extra bones don't get lost, they fuse during the maturing process to accord with our needs.
The skeleton does not mature until the body is about 25 years of age.
The entire network of vessels whcih makes up the circulatory system measures 60,0000 miles, which is more than twice the circumference of the earth.
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