1) There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.
2) Each person sheds 40 lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
3) Males produce one thousand sperm cells each second – 86 million each day.
4) One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
5) Human saliva contains a painkiller called opiorphin that is six times more powerful than morphine.
6) Girls have more taste buds than boys.
7) When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
8) Gorillas and potatoes have two more chromosomes than humans do.
9) A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
10) Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.
11) The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.
12) A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.
13) Octopuses have three hearts.
14) At over 2000 kilometres long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
15) The name of the first human being in the Norse mythology is Ask
16) The Queen is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth’s land surface
17) As it grows, sweet corn makes a squeaking noise like two balloons rubbing against each other.
18) Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection. (IT’S JUST A MASK IN THE PICTURE!)
19) Biologically speaking, bugs are insects that “suck”.
20) If the 5 trillion spiders in Netherlands took to eating humans rather than insects, they’d consume all 16.7 million Dutch people just in three days.
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