Health Trivia

Here are some interesting facts about you:

• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. 
  
• The average human body holds enough: sulfur to kill all the fleas on an average dog, potassium to fire a toy cannon, carbon to make 900 pencils, fat to make 7 bars of soap, 10 gallons of water, and phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads. 
• A bird’s eye takes up about 50 percent of its head; our eyes take up about 5 percent of our head. To be comparable to a bird’s eyes, the eyes of a human being would have to be the size of baseballs.  
• The skin of the armpits can harbor up to 516,000 bacteria per square inch, while drier areas, such as the forearm, have only about 13,000 bacteria per square inch.  
• The average human scalp contains between 120,000 and 150,000 hairs.
• The air released from a sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.  
• The longest word is English language is pneumonoultramiscroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - an inflammatory lung disease caused by the inhalation of fine silica dust.
• Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. 
  

Source: http://www.ezwebsite.org/Page.asp?PID=2491