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Facts About Eyes

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Eyes Are the most complex organs you possess except for your brain. Eyes Are composed of more than two million working parts. Eyes Can process 36,000 bits of information every hour. Eyes Under the right conditions, can discern the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles. Eyes Contribute towards 85% of your total knowledge.

Fascinating Facts about Brain

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

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We’ve long known that the brain is an amazing thing, but did you specifically know that: • Every person has more than 75km of nerves in their body. • Your nerves can send messages faster than a Grand Prix car travels. • The brain is the most complex machine in the universe – it has over 100,000,000, 000 [...]

Amazing Facts – 2

Saturday, February 21, 2009

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People who ride on roller coaters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain. Black bears are not always black they can be brown, cinnamon, yellow and sometimes white. People with blue eyes see better in dark. Each year 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment. The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its [...]

Amazing Facts – 1

Thursday, February 19, 2009

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Dalmatians are born without spots Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings). Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left. The owl is the [...]

Interesting Human Body Facts

Thursday, February 19, 2009

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A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball. Approximately 75% of human feces is made of water. It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach. One human hair can support 3kg. Human thighbones are stronger than concrete. The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples. Your thumb is the [...]

Did you know – Part IV

Monday, November 24, 2008

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1. The Great Wall of China is the only man made structure visible from space? There are several variations on this folkloric statement, and they are all quantifiably false. Astronauts can spot the Great Wall from low-Earth orbit, along with plenty of other things like the Giza pyramids and even airport runways. But they can’t see [...]