It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
One human hair can support 3 kg (6.6 lb).
The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb.
Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
Women blink twice as often as men.
The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.
Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
Women reading this will have finished by now.
Men are still busy checking their thumbs.
I'm going to be busy checking out men's thumbs!!!
Didn't know about some of those. And some of those I did. The thumbs comment at the end was hilarious.
OMG! And why am I busy checking my thumbs!?!
I'd like to write a reply, but I'm too busy checking my thumbs to think of anything.
3 of my thumbs would make me a porn star. I will have to discount that one.
Haha, that's awesome. I didn't check my thumb, thank you very much!!
Maybe they meant 3 of the thumbs in girth rather than length?
I thought feet were the sure-fire give-away, too. Thanks for the update. I shall observe more carefully when I shake hands with a man from now on. (oooh - hand sex ?!?! LOL)
maybe the guy (and yes, I'm assuming guy) who came up with the thumb thing had tiny thumbs...or huge thumbs...
Geeze does that mean 'Shrek' will be banned soon too
I mean he got the feet AND the thumbs all happenin..
Xaverier Hollander was the first to connect size and hands (in print)...but that might be dating myself lol...
I might add, her calculations have not been proven wrong (either that or my math sucks )
You just gotta' love everyone's different point of view...
my thumb is got to be smaller than average:) or vica versa...
by Don W 15 years ago
Hi, still new, still learning. Quick question.Is there a rule of thumb for an ideal hub length or for splitting a hub into two seperate parts?
by Holle Abee 13 years ago
while slicing an onion. I have nerve damage, so that hand is sometimes completely numb. I didn't realize I was sawing through my own digit until I was almost halfway through. My nurse-daughter was here in a couple of minutes, and she and hubby tried to make me go get stitches, but I refused. She...
by Grace Marguerite Williams 9 years ago
Do you contend that most people are on the varying scale of being average/in-between lookingwith beautiful & ugly people being in the minute percentage?
by NGRIA Bassett 14 years ago
There are people with smaller and larger than normal feet sizes and I wonder how you manage with purchasing shoes.
by H P Roychoudhury 15 years ago
Why are the Chinese people short in length in average?
by Justin Choo 11 years ago
I have been here for more than 3 years. This elusive "thumb up thumb down" accolade has yet to appear in my "table of achievement". Not that it is important to me, but I kind of feeling "ostracized"! (LOL)
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