Thursday, January 30, 2014
Human statistics
- The average adult male shaves off 1 lb of beard per year.
- A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there though!
- Men get hiccups more often than women do.
- Nearly all boys grow at least as tall as their mothers.
- 55,700 people in the US are injured by jewelry each year.
- Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
- On average, people spend more than five years of their lives dreaming.
- The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
- In the course of a lifetime the average person will grow 2 meters of nose hair.
- The average American makes six trips to the bathroom every day; that's about 2 1/2 years of your life down the drain.
- The average American spends six months at red lights throughout his or her life.
- By the age of 75, the average American has created about 110,000 pounds of garbage.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- On average, humans have 9,000 taste buds in their mouths, tongues, and throats.
- The average person will swallow 295 times while eating.
- In your lifetime your body will produce more than 25,000 quarts of saliva.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
- The average person laughs 13 times a day.
- In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivalent of three times around the world.
- In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps.
- A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
- Most people take an average of seven minutes to fall asleep.
- When asked to name a color, 3 out of 5 people will say red.
- Americans consumed 2 billion dollars worth of mayonnaise last year, and only 800 million dollars worth of Kethcup.
No comments:
Post a Comment