Learn something new?

[Smurfette_76]

I am always pleased when I learn something new, even surprised when it's something that catches me off guard or perhaps something I think I should have known.

Today, I learned that while the Federal gov't ended prohibition in 1933, Mississippi didn't until 1966. Surprised me greatly.

What did you learn recently that surprised you?

[just joe]

I'm working on my graduate degree and recently learned that American Indians who live on reservations and are members of federally recognized tribes are not covered by the U.S. Constitution since they are considered residents of a sovereign nation. There have been various federal laws enacted that allows Indians to have basically the same protection, but that protection is afforded by other legislative processes and not the constitution.

[Smurfette_76]

I remember hitting on that briefly in a Constitutional law class, but I never explored it further. Interesting.

[jcioccke]

I learned to never agree with my wife when she say's " I have gained some weight" I have also learned that your testicals don't really turn blue

In all honesty

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete and Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

I was more suprised reading the first one.

[Smurfette_76]

human thigh bones are stronger than concrete? I knew the blinking thing...

[-Erik-]

Apparently 50sq miles of Georgia is in Tennessee because of a mapping error made when the state borders were drawn.

Jimmy Carter is the first US President to be born in a Hospital.

[jcioccke]

Here are some more.

Human Quick Facts

1. If stomachs did not have a lining of mucus, your stomach would digest itself.

2. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

3. It takes about 60 seconds for a human blood cell to make a complete circuit of the body.

4. The average person will shed 40 pounds of skin in his/her lifetime.

5. 1/15th of a pint of blood is pumped with every heartbeat.

6. Humans share 98.4% of our DNA with chimps. In comparison, we share 70% of our DNA with a slug.

7. The lightest baby to survive weighed a mere 283 grams.

8. On average, women say 7,000 words per day while men manage just over 2,000 words.

9. The human brain uses 20% of the body’s energy but is only 2% of the body’s weight.

10. On average, humans lose 40-100 strands of hair per day.

11. A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100mph.

12. A cough can reach the speed of 60mph.

13. The average person will drink about 16,000 gallons of water in his/her lifetime.

14. It takes 17 muscles to smile while taking 43 muscles to frown.

15. The human brain is composed of 75% water.

16. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

17. More germs are transferred while shaking hands compared to kissing.

18. There are approximately 550 hairs in a person’s eyebrow.

19. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.

20. A person produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in an average lifetime.

21. The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.

22. The number of eye blinks varies greatly from about 29 blinks each minute if you are talking to someone to only 4 blinks each minute if you are reading.

23. The average human blinks 25 times per minute.

24. A nail takes around 6 months to grow from base to the tip.

25. Each second 10,000,000 cells die and are replaced in your body.

26. Your liver performs over 500 functions in your body.

27. The average person spends 1/3 of their lifetime sleeping.

28. More germs are transferred when shaking hands than kissing.

29. The average person (from western culture) consumes 10 liters of alcohol per year.

30. Roughly 75% of people who play the radio in their car sing along to it.

31. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

32. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

33. The human brain is composed of 75% water.

34. 70% of the composition of dust in your home is made up of shed human skin and hair.

35. The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself.

36. One human hair can support 3kg.

37. Humans are the only animals that cry tears and blush.

38. It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

39. If the normal one hundred thousand hairs on a head were woven into a rope, it could support a weight of more than twelve tons.

40. The fingernail grows about 1.5 inches per year.

41. The total amount of skin covering an adult human weighs 6 lbs.

42. The average person flexes the joints in their fingers 24 million times during a lifetime.

43. Each person inhales about seven quarts of air every minute.

44. On average, we breathe between 12 and 18 times a minute.

45. The average guy will grow about 27 feet of hair out of his face during his lifetime.

46. Approximately 1 out of 25 people suffers from asthma.

47. The average man sweats 2 1/2 quarts every day.

48. One out of every hundred American citizens is color blind.

49. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

50. A human heart beats 100,000 times a day.

[jcioccke]

human thigh bones are stronger than concrete?

Infact, for size all bones are much stronger thatn concrete. About 8 times. They're flexible, lightweight and super hard. Yet will break if alot of force is given. A thigh bone can withstand about a tonne of stress before snapping. This depening on a person's health. The lower joint of a femur, pretty much impossible to break with a hammer, yet hollow bones will break with a brick, slab of concrete or a hammer. Imagine a bit of concrete the size of a bone, it would break easily... Wouldn't it?



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[Southflaguy]

I can't believe we know more about the moon and space then we do the ocean(s), mostly the deepest parts of the ocean(s)...

I just find it intresting they just found the Air France plane that went down in the Atlantic Ocean, it flew out of Brazil and was going to France...They found the wreckage about 12,800 feet or so underwater...

[crass cop]

"19. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue."
...Giggity...mine is very strong, BTW

I rently learned that a its NOT a good idea to have your dog watch your food for you while you run to the bathroom

[jannino]

I actually consider this site a great place of learning. I usually read things from here and then read about it further from various other sources.

The day you stop learning is the day you become a know it all

[Pogue Mahone]

I actually consider this site a great place of learning. I usually read things from here and then read about it further from various other sources.

The day you stop learning is the day you become a know it all

Who usually end up knowing very little at all.

[Iowa #1603]

Today, I learned that while the Federal gov't ended prohibition in 1933, Mississippi didn't until 1966. Surprised me greatly.

There are still some counties in Kansas that are dry.

I learned that while traveling thru on my way to Colorado once.................ended up spending the night in a dry county.
(It wasn't recently)

[deputy x 2]

Recently...........................ummmm that there isn't really four seasons.

Peeps back here are frogs.

You can't eat cow corn.

Liquid manure smells really bad. The whole town of -------smells like it. Do you really get used to the smell?

People run around town with cow sheeot all over their boots...to the bank...to the grocery store....etc.

Amish men look creepy.

[ICEAGENT]

I recently learned something about the speed of light. If you are looking at a star that is 10,000 light years away, you are actually seeing what it looked like 10,000 years ago because it takes 10,000 year for the light to reach your eyes. So you may actually be looking at something that is no longer there.