Human

By Jab

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  • 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.
  • 54% of Americans fold toilet paper neatly. 35% wad it. What about the other 11%?
  • Nearly all boys grow at least as tall as their mothers.
  • A person would die if all of the toxic ingredients of one cigarette were directly injected into the bloodstream.
  • 55,700 people in the US are injured by jewelry each year.
  • Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
  • An estimated one in five Americans – some 38 million – don’t like sex.
  • 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.
  • An estimated 6,000 American teenagers lose their virginity every day.
  • Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
  • More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.
  • On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
  • A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  • According to the World Heath Organization, there are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
  • 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 life time your body will produce more than 25,000 quarts of saliva.
  • Over 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
  • Official studies have found that right handed people tend to scratch with their left hand and visa-versa.
  • The average American eats at McDonalds 1,811 times in their life.
  • On male shirts the buttons are on the right side, on female shirts the left side. This is due to wealthy women using slaves many years ago to dress them. The buttons were on the right side to the slaves who buttoned up the shirts…
  • 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 equivilant of three times around the world.
  • In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps.
  • Most people take an average of seven minutes to fall asleep.
  • Official studies have found that right handed people tend to scratch with their left hand and visa-versa.
  • When asked to name a color, 3 out of 5 people will say red.
  • The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!