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Nail on the middle finger grows the fastest

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Nail on the middle finger grows the fastest

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It is not sure why, but the speed of nail growth and the length of the finger relates, so the finger that is the longest, the middle finger, grows nails the fastest.

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It is not sure why, but the speed of nail growth and the length of the finger relates, so the finger that is the longest, the middle finger, grows nails the fastest.

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Everyone has saliva, but actually one person's saliva in the lifetime can fill out about two swimming pools!

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The amount of water women drink correlates to their risk of colon cancer, with heavy water drinkers reducing their risk up to 45 percent.

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100 Amazing Things You Never Knew About Your Body

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Robert Phipps - The UKs leading body language expert, author, speaker and trainer. Specialist in all areas of body language and Non verbal communication. Sales, Leadership, Management, Deception Detection and Investigation Training.

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One percent of adults have zero interest in sex and have never felt sexually attracted to anyone at all.

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Female egg is the largest cell in the human body and male sperm is the smallest. Unlike skin cells or muscle cells, female egg is large enough to be seen with a naked eye. Female egg has a diameter of approximately a millimeter. On the other hand, sperm is tiny, so that it cannot be seen with a naked eye.

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Most Mankind NEVER Know They Have These Living On Them

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Most Mankind NEVER Know They Have These Living On Them

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There are 48,000 species of mites, and two of those are confirmed living on human faces.  It could be true that everyone has these face mites living on them, but no one knows how common they are.

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Think of all the adults you know. Think of your parents and grandparents. Think of the teachers you had at school, your doctors and dentists, the people who collect your rubbish, and the actors you see on TV. All of these people probably have little mites crawling, eating, sleeping, and having sex on their faces.

There are more than 48,000 species of mites. As far as we know, exactly two of those live on human faces. While their relatives mostly look like lozenges on spindly legs, face-mites are more like wall plugs -long cones with stubby legs at one end. They don't look like much, and most of us have never looked at one at all. But these weird creatures are almost certainly the animals we spend the most time with.

They live in our hair follicles, buried head-down, eating the oils we secrete, hooking up with each other near the surface, and occasionally crawling about the skin at night. They do this on my face. They probably do it on yours. A group of scientists led by Megan Thoemmes and Rob Dunn at North Carolina State University found that every adult in a small American sample had face-mites on their faces-something that was long suspected but never confirmed. If you want to find humanity's best friend, ignore dogs; instead, swab a pore and grab a microscope.

As I wrote back in 2012, the mites were discovered in 1841, but only properly described a year later by German dermatologist Gustav Simon. He was looking at acne spots under a microscope when he noticed a "worm-like object" with a head and legs. Possibly an animal? He extracted it, pressed it between two slides, and saw that it moved. Definitely an animal. A year later, Richard Owen gave the mite its name, from the Greek words 'demo', meaning lard, and 'dex', meaning boring worm. Demodex: the worm that bores into fat. We host two species: Demodex folliculorum (bigger, round-bottomed) and Demodex brevis (smaller, short-bottomed).

Scientists have since found Demodex in every ethnic group where they've have cared to look, from white Europeans to Australian aborigines to Devon Island Eskimos. In 1976, legendary mite specialist William Nutting wrote "One can conclude that wherever mankind is found, hair follicle mites will be found and that the transfer mechanism is 100% effective! (One of my students noted it was undoubtedly the first invertebrate metazoan to visit the moon!)"

But it's always been hard to say exactly how common they are. The first estimate came from a 1903 study, which found the critters in 49 out of 100 French cadavers. The next count, from 1908, found them in 97 out of 100 German cadavers. Most studies since then have fallen in the range of 10 to 20 percent.

But these censuses were all based on visual counts. Someone would apply cellophane tape to skin to pull the mites off, or scrape an oily patch of face with a small spatula, or pluck eyelashes and eyebrows. But the creatures live in our pores and aren't easy to extract. They're also unevenly distributed. You might have a population living in your cheek; I might have one on my forehead. Unless you're scraping and taping and plucking all over someone's face, you might miss their mites.

So Thoemmes did something different. She searched for their DNA. The mites have this helpful habit where they... er... have no anus and never poo. Instead, they release a lifetime's worth of waste when they die. That contains their DNA, which gives away the presence of the mites even when the creatures themselves are inaccessibly hidden.

Thoemmes developed a test for Demodex DNA and recruited willing volunteers at " Meet Your Mites" face-sampling events. "We had really good responses," she says. "People act grossed out at first, but they get excited when they see the mites under the microscope." She recruited 253 volunteers and saw the actual mites on 14 percent of them, in line with previous estimates. She also checked for mite DNA in 19 adults... and found it on all of them. Those results are published today in PLOS ONE, but Thoemmes tells me that the team has continued their work and more than doubled their sample size. Same result.

Obviously, this is a small and unrepresentative sample, but it clearly shows that visual counts grossly underestimate the proportion of people with mites. That, combined with over a century of other studies, strongly suggests that the mites are to faces as smoke is to fire.

Or, at least, on adults. Thoemmes also sampled ten 18-year-olds and found Demodex DNA on just 70 percent of them. This fits with what earlier studies had shown-the mites seem to become more common with age. They're rare on babies, more common on teenagers, and universal in adults. No one really knows where we get them from. Dogs get their face-mites during nursing, and humans might do the same-after all, one study found a lot of Demodex living in nipple tissue. But the fact that some teens aren't colonised suggests that we pick up these creatures throughout our lives.

The team also compared their mite DNA to sequences from other parts of the world. They found that D.follicorum doesn't have a lot of genetic diversity. The ones living on someone in China are probably very similar to those living on an American face. D.brevis, on the other hand, is much more diverse, and a single face can house many different lineages.

These differences probably reflect the lifestyles of the two species. D.brevis snuggles deeply in our pores and stays there. As we travelled the world, it hitched along and co-evolved with us, giving rise of many distinct lineages. D.folliculorum is a shallower resident, and may move between people more easily. Brevis epitomises insularity, folliculorum symbolises globalisation. "This is an arthropod that's likely living on everyone's body," says Thoemmes. "That's a huge deal. They could tell interesting stories about the spread of humans across the world."

Considering how common these creatures are, there's still so much we don't know about them. We don't know where our two face-mite species came from, or what their closest relatives are. We also don't know how many other face-mites exist. Each Demodex species seems to stick to one mammal host, and humans, dogs, and cats all have more than one. There are over 5,000 species of mammals, which means that there could potentially be 10,000 species of Demodex left to discover.

Reference: Thoemmes, Fergus, Urban, Trautwein & Dunn. 2014. Ubiquity and diversity of human-associated Demodex mites. PLOS ONE, citation tbc.

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You Almost Certainly Have Mites On Your Face

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Think of all the adults you know. Think of your parents and grandparents. Think of the teachers you had at school, your doctors and dentists, the people who collect your rubbish, and the actors you see on TV. All of these people probably have little mites crawling, eating, sleeping, and having sex on their faces.

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With the 60,000 miles of blood vessels inside the average human body, you could circumnavigate Earth two and a half times.

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 GUYS AMASING FACTS                          It’s possible for your body to survive without a surprisingly large fraction of its internal organs. Even if you lose your stomach, your spleen, 75% of your liver, 80% of your intestines, one kidney, one lung, and virtually every organ from your pelvic and groin area, you wouldn’t be very healthy, but you  would live.

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 GUYS AMASING FACTS                          It’s possible for your body to survive without a surprisingly large fraction of its internal organs. Even if you lose your stomach, your spleen, 75% of your liver, 80% of your intestines, one kidney, one lung, and virtually every organ from your pelvic and groin area, you wouldn’t be very healthy, but you  would live.

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The Human Body is a treasure trove of mysteries, one that still confounds doctors and scientists about the details of its working. It's not an overstatement to say that every part of your body is a miracle. Here are fifty facts about your body that will leave you stunned.

1. It's possible for your body to survive without a surprisingly large fraction of its internal organs. Even if you lose your stomach, your spleen, 75% of your liver, 80% of your intestines, one kidney, one lung, and virtually every organ from your pelvic and groin area, you wouldn't be very healthy, but you would live.

3. The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm. The egg is actually the only cell in the body that is visible by the n*k*d eye.

4. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue and the hardest bone is the jawbone.

6. Feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat a day.

7. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades. The reason it doesn't eat away at your stomach is that the cells of your stomach wall renew themselves so frequently that you get a new stomach lining every three to four days.

9. Sneezes regularly exceed 100 mph, while coughs clock in at about 60 mph.

10. Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil.

11. Your body has enough iron in it to make a nail 3 inches long.

12. Earwax production is necessary for good ear health. It protects the delicate inner ear from bacteria, fungus, dirt and even insects. It also cleans and lubricates the ear canal.

13. Everyone has a unique smell, except for identical twins, who smell the same.

14. Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born. This is why one out of every 2,000 newborn infants has a tooth when they are born

15. A baby's head is one-quarter of it's total length, but by the age of 25 will only be one-eighth of its total length. This is because people's heads grow at a much slower rate than the rest of their bodies.

16. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood the number is reduced to 206. Some of the bones, like skull bones, get fused into each other, bringing down the total number.

17. It is not possible to tickle yourself. This is because when you attempt to tickle yourself you are totally aware of the exact time and manner in which the tickling will occur, unlike when someone else tickles you.

18. Less than one third of the human race has 20-20 vision. This means that two out of three people cannot see perfectly.

19. Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents. But if you are a woman, you are a better smeller than men, and will remain a better smeller throughout your life.

20. The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels.

21. The three things pregnant women dream most of during their first trimester are frogs, worms and potted plants. Scientists have no idea why this is so, but attribute it to the growing imbalance of hormones in the body during pregnancy.

22. The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average. Every day the average person loses 60-100 strands of hair. But don't worry, you must lose over 50% of your scalp hairs before it is apparent to anyone.

23. The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as an encyclopedia.Your brain uses 20% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream, and is itself made up of 80% water. Though it interprets pain signals from the rest of the body, the brain itself cannot
feel pain.

24. The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.

25. Your eyes are always the same size from birth but your nose and ears never stop growing.

26. By 60 years of age, 60% of men and 40% of women will snore.

27. We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening, because during normal activities during the day, the cartilage in our knees and other areas slowly compress.

28. The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb, even while you are sleeping. In fact, the brain is much more active at night than during the day.

29. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour. Neurons continue to grow throughout human life. Information travels at different speeds within different types of neurons.

30. It is a fact that people who dream more often and more vividly, on an average have a higher Intelligence Quotient.

31. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.

32. Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body. This is true for men as well as women.

33. There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee.

34. A human foetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.

35. By the age of 60, most people will have lost about half their taste buds.

36. About 32 million bacteria call every inch of your skin home. But don't worry, a majority of these are harmless or even helpful bacteria.

37. The colder the room you sleep in, the higher the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.

38. Human lips have a reddish color because of the great concentration of tiny capillaries just below the skin.

39. Three hundred million cells die in the human body every minute.

40. Like fingerprints, every individual has an unique tongue print that can be used for identification.

41. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.

42. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.

43. Humans can make do longer without food than sleep. Provided there is water, the average human could survive a month to two months without food depending on their body fat and other factors. Sleep deprived people, however, start experiencing radical personality and psychological changes after only a few sleepless days. The longest recorded time anyone has ever gone without sleep is 11 days, at the end of which the experimenter was awake, but stumbled over words, hallucinated and frequently forgot what he was doing.

44. The most common blood type in the world is Type O.The rarest blood type, A-H or Bombay blood, due to the location of its discovery, has been found in less than hundred people since it was discovered

45. Every human spent about half an hour after being conceived, as a single cell. Shortly afterward, the cells begin rapidly dividing and begin forming the components of a tiny embryo.

46. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. This is largely due to the fact that a majority of the machines and tools we use on a daily basis are designed for those who are right handed, making them somewhat dangerous for lefties to use and resulting in thousands of accidents and deaths each year.

47. Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.

48. Koalas and primates are the only animals with unique fingerprints.

49. Humans are the only animals to produce emotional tears.

50. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet in the air.

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Now, You may have seen people that are just in all ways the same as another person, but No matter what, no one will ever be the same! 

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Now, You may have seen people that are just in all ways the same as another person, but No matter what, no one will ever be the same! 

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Fingerprints for every human is different, no matter what.

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The adams apple is something that only men have.  It is said in legend  that the first man (Adam) got a piece of fruit stuck in his throat and all men have had it ever since.  But it is just a part of our body.

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Though it makes up only 2 percent of our total body weight, the brain demands 20 percent of the body’s oxygen and calories.

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The first thing that everyone can see when they open their eyes is not the eyelashes. It's actually our nose

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Everyone has a unique tongue print, so be careful for sticking out your tongue at somebody.

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A lot of people think that addiction (drugs) is caused by using the drug. For example, cocaine. After a few weeks, the body gets addicted to the drug, and it's difficult to break this habit. The real solution to drug addiction however, is to be happy. To surround yourself with people, healthy diet, and exercise.

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Every person has a unique tongue print

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It weighs about 1.5 kilograms. The brain makes up about 2 percent of human body's weight. The cerebrum makes about 85 percent of the brain's weight. It contains about 86 billion nerve cells.

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the penis  is not nessary and people can live without a penis and we can also be fine with one lung and will be able to live.

"immigration delay disease," is a rare and unique disease where you dont have fingerprints on your fingers/toes as some airports in some countries that need fingerprints to  fly or depart from that airport. The scientific name, however, is adermatoglyphia

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Did  you know that you're not alone? There are little mites that live in your body, especially your eyelashes.

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the thin seam on the underside of our testicles is where our clitoris used to be!

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Find a cool piece of information about the body and post it on our padlet. You need to write a 'clickbait' summary to catch other students attention!