Hockey players can lose up to 7 pounds of sweat during each game. - Discover Magazine, 8/08
A New York man has lost his prosthetic leg while skydiving. He's posted a $12,000 reward for the leg. - Yahoo! News, 7/18/08
A miniature dachshund chewed off Missouri woman's big toe while the woman napped. Linda Floyd suffers from diabetes and has numbness in her extremities. - Sioux City Journal, 7/8/08
Global warming is now a cause of kidney stones. As temperatures go up, dehydration is more likely - and the water loss causes an increase in kidney stones in animals. - San Diego Union, 7/15/08
A Utah newspaper photographer was speared through the leg by a javelin while he was shooting a high school track championship. - MSNBC, 5/19/08
The life expectancy in southwestern Virginia is now five years lower than it was twenty five years ago. - New York Times, 4/27/08
If you are a pregnant woman, if you eat a bowl of cereal each week, it is 87% more likely that will give birth to a boy. - CBS News (Denver, CO) , 4/23/08
If you are a pregnant woman, the odds are 3 out of 4 (75%) that you strongly crave unusual foods. If you suffer from those cravings, the odds are 1 out of 6 that you crave chewing on coal. - The Week Magazine, 5/16/08
By age 60, most people have lost half their taste buds. - San Diego Union, 4/29/08
Zach Dunlap, a 21 year old Oklahoma City man, was declared brain dead. Doctors were preparing to remove his organs for transplant when he began to move his foot and hand. He slowly regained consciousness and was sent home to continue his recovery. - CNN.com, 3/24/08
The odds are 1 out of 3 (33%) that you have fallen asleep or have felt very sleepy at work in the last month. - EWeek Magazine, 3/17/08
The odds are 1 out of 214 (.4667%) that you will be admitted into the hospital with knee problems this year. - San Diego Union, 2/19/08
Every blue-eyed person on planet Earth has descended from a single common ancestor with a genetic mutation who lived 6,000 to 10,000 years ago, according to research at the University of Copenhagen. - San Diego Union, 2/14/08
While the general consensus is that being overweight is not a good thing, people who are 25 pounds overweight survive infections, disease and accidents better than their thin counterparts. - The Week Magazine, 12/28/07
People who take three 30-minute naps per week have an amazing 37% reduced risk of heart disease, according to a recent study of 23,000 people. - The Week Magazine, 12/28/07
An average adult is covered by 20 square feet of skin. - Discover Magazine, 2/08
The odds are 1 out of 600 (0.167%) that you will die from cancer this year, so says the American Cancer Society. - Discover Magazine, 2/08
The odds are 1 out of 210 (0.467%) that you will be diagnosed with some for of cancer this year, so says the American Cancer Society. - Discover Magazine, 2/08
A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories. - San Diego Union, 1/8/08
Fidgeting can account for a 40% increase over a resting metabolism. - North County Times, 12/23/07
A twenty-minute full-body CT scan exposes you to the same radiation as if you had stood 1.5 miles from ground zero of the atomic bomb blast in Hiroshima. - US News & World Report, 9/7/04
Girls break their arms 56% more often than they did 40 years ago. - North County Times, 12/23/07
Children who don't get enough sleep may be increasing their risk for obesity. Scientists say that for every hour sleep-length declined, children were 40% more likely to be overweight. - San Diego Union, 11/20/07
Breast cancer patients are significantly more likely to have a pet dog instead of a cat. 80% of all breast cancer patients have had "extensive contact" with dogs before their diagnosis. Researchers speculate that dogs (and possibly other pets) harbor viruses that can raise the risk of contracting cancer. - San Diego Union, 11/20/07
Good posture can burn up to 350 calories each day. - North County Times, 12/23/07
Your two nostrils register smell in different ways. The right nostril detects more pleasant odors, while the left nostril is more accurate. - San Diego Union, 11/6/07
One-third of all asthma cases in the United States is related to an allergy to cats. - The Week Magazine, 10/19/07
Nearly every astronaut experiences trouble locating their own arms and legs while in space. - Discover Magazine, 11/07
A premature infant is five times more likely to be left-handed. - San Diego Union, 10/16/07
A New Jersey man, Bryan Rocco, started choking on an onion ring while driving, blacked out and crashed into a tree. His life was saved by the air bag that dislodged the onion ring stuck in his windpipe. - 9News.com (Fort Collins, Colorado), 9/20/07
Although calcium is important to bone strength, 99% of the calcium in the human body is in the teeth. - San Diego Union, 9/18/07
There are more germs on your body than people in the United States. - Discover Magazine, 9/07
An Englishman was admitted for leg surgery but surgeons found green blood. The man was taking too much sumatriptan (a migraine drug); the drug caused sulfur to be combined with the hemoglobin in his red blood cells. When the dosage was reduced, the man's blood returned to its normal red color. - San Diego Union, 7/31/07
British researchers have announced they have turned human bone marrow cells into primitive sperm cells. This paves the way for women to have babies without the assistance of any man. - NewScientist.com, 4/13/07
The British Medical Journal has estimated that smoking one cigarette takes 11 minutes off the average person's life - San Diego Union, 7/24/07
Canadian researchers in the Arctic recently bared their arms, legs and torsos and reported as many as 9,000 bites from swarming, newly hatched mosquitoes. At this rate, a human could be drained of blood in two hours. - Discover Magazine, 8/07
Fat people are twice as likely to still be alive three years after a heart attack. Then again, they are far more likely to suffer a heart attack in the first place. - The Week Magazine, 6/29/07
The amount of heat generated by an average adult each day could boil eight gallons of water. - San Diego Union, 6/7/07
A British woman gave birth to her daughter less than two minutes after her water broke. - New York Post, 5/26/07
Only ten percent of the 100,000,000,000,000 cells inside each one of us are human. The rest are bacteria, fungi, and other microbes. - Discover Magazine, 6/07
Because of their poor diets and excess weight, people now in their 50s and 60s suffer from more health problems than their parents did at the same age. - The Week Magazine, 5/4/07
The human body creates 2,500,000 new red blood cells each and every second. - San Diego Union, 4/24/07
Doctors mistakenly removed Benjamin Houghton's healthy right testicle instead of the potentially cancerous left one. - Los Angeles Times, 4/4/07
An English study of male college students found that those who were hungry were attracted to heavier women than those who weren't hungry. - San Diego Union, 3/29/07
Just 10% of beer drinkers drink 43% of all beer sold. These beer drinkers average almost a gallon of beer each day. - The Week Magazine, 2/27/07
If you took all the human urine produced in the world in one day, it would take a full 20 minutes for it to flow over Niagara Falls. - San Diego Union, 2/6/07
A 35 year old Florida man who jumped off the balcony of a cruise ship survived for eight hours in the water because he was 300 pounds and could float. His body density was less than water, so he was able to float until rescuers got to him. - The Week Magazine, 3/30/07
An Australian study found that vegetarians were more intelligent than people who ate meat. - San Diego Union, 3/29/07
More than 2,000 people now have RFID chips embedded under their skin. These chips can provide medical information, log onto computers or unlock car doors. At a club in Barcelona, you can get an implanted RFID "debit card" and party until your funds are gone. - Discover Magazine, 2/07
There are approximately 250,000 pores on the soles of your feet, secreting a total of about 1/4 cup of sweat each day. - San Diego Union, 4/3/07
A 440 pound German man survived being run over by a car because his heavy padding of fat protected his internal organs. - The Week Magazine, 12/29/06
When left-handers walk into a room, they tend to turn left; when right-handed people walk into the same room, they will tend to turn right. - San Diego Union, 1/23/07
Several libraries around the world (including the Harvard Law School) have books clad in human skin. - Discover Magazine, 2/07
The rise in obesity may be partly due to the reduced amount of time we spend asleep. - Science Daily, 12/13/04
An "Extreme Gulp" at 7-11 holds 1 1/2 times the amount the average human stomach can. - San Diego Union, 1/18/07
Your skin sheds 50,000 cells every minute. - Discover Magazine, 2/07
It would take 1,120,000 mosquito bites to drain the average human of blood. - San Diego Union, 1/18/07
A couple of teaspoons of dark chocolate each day could be just as good as aspirin for maintaining cardiovascular health. - The Week Magazine, 1/12/07
An aspirin tablet is forty times more effective if taken with a cup of hot chocolate rather than a glass of water. - San Diego Union, 12/19/06
Marital discord makes wounds heal more slowly. - The Week Magazine, 1/12/07
Thinking for one hour burns about one-fifteenth of a gram of fat. - San Diego Union, 11/14/06
Left handed people are twelve times as likely to be dyslexic than right-handers. - San Diego Union, 11/21/06
Women with breast implants have a 73% higher suicide rate than the general population. - MSNBC, 8/17/06
More electrical impulses are generated in one day by a single human brain than in all the telephones in the world. - San Diego Union, 11/7/06
Each day, the average adult human brain uses the amount of energy in 250 M & Ms. - San Diego Union, 10/19/06
The average person walks 115,000 miles in a lifetime. This equals five times around the world. - San Diego Union, 10/10/06
500 people suffer from sickening or deadly food poisoning each day in China. - Los Angeles Times, 9/24/06
The human central nervous system filters out 99% of what your senses register so the brain doesn't have to bother processing unimportant matters. - San Diego Union, 11/28/06
The average woman spends two years of her life studying herself in mirrors. - The Week Magazine, 10/6/06
An adult human spine compresses roughly .59 inch from morning until night. - San Diego Union, 9/28/06
A study by British researchers found that men who only need to shave once or twice a week have a 70% increased risk of stroke. - The Week Magazine, 9/15/06
The daily heat output of the human body is enough to boil eight gallons of freezing water. - San Diego Union, 9/12/06
A person would gain an extra 15 pounds each year just by drinking an extra can of sugar-laden soda each day. - Time Magazine, 8/21/06
938,000,000 extra gallons of gasoline are burned each year because Americans are overweight. - San Diego Union, 2/6/07
Healthy cells have a built-in process which means they commit suicide if something is wrong, a process which fails in cancer cells. - BBC News, 8/27/06
No American has died of old age since 1951. That was the year that the government eliminated that classification from death certificates. - Discover Magazine, 9/06
Women's bodies reject a heart transplant more often than a man's body. - San Diego Union, 8/15/06
A person will burn 7% more calories walking on hard dirt than they will walking on pavement. - San Diego Union, 8/1/06
A Chinese woman has had a mole surgically added to her face so people can tell her apart from her twin sister. - Independent Online, 7/24/06
Each year, American dentists use 13 tons of gold for fillings. - San Diego Union, 6/29/06
A 2002 Oxford University study showed that counting sheep is not an effective cure for insomnia. It's so boring that other problems and concerns inevitably surface. - Discover Magazine, 7/06
Ginger kills ovarian cancer cells. - Discover Magazine, 7/06
36% of Americans between 18 and 29 years of age have at least one tattoo somewhere on their bodies. - North County Times, 6/11/06
In the United States, 1 out of 200 newborns die in their first month of life. This is the second highest infant mortality rate among industrialized nations, second only to Latvia. - CNN.com, 5/10/06
A Washington University study has identified a bacteria that influences fat storage in thin people. This may lead to a "milk shake" which contains the bacteria - harvested from the stomachs of slim people. - Popular Science, 6/06
More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products designed for right-handed people - San Diego Union, 5/23/06
Wake Forest University tests have shown an experimental drug, CX717, can keep rhesus monkeys awake and productive for 36 hours straight, with no lingering side effects. The monkeys on this drug performed better than monkeys did after a full night's sleep. - Popular Science, 6/06
A study at the University of California at San Diego shows that large tattoos on the lower back and buttocks can lead to problems for women during childbirth. Injecting an epidural anesthetic through tattooed skin carries the risk of transmitting allergens or poisonous pigments into deep tissues, leading to irritation. - Yahoo News, 5/8/06
In an average lifetime, a woman will consume six pounds of lipstick. - San Diego Union, 4/25/06
Playing the didgeridoo can treat snoring. - Discover Magazine, 5/06
Obesity has many causes; viruses may be one of the causes. Scientists say washing your hands could help you from catching obesity. - CBS.com, 2/15/06
After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year. - San Diego Union, 9/28/06
Red-Green color blind people can see many more shades of khaki than other folks. There is now a test of this, with 15 circles in different shades of khaki. People with regular vision struggled with the test; color-blind men had no trouble. - Discover Magazine, 3/06
Many people will eat more than 3,000 calories extra on Super Bowl Sunday — about equal to their Thanksgiving meal. - USA Today, 1/26/06
A Croatian lumberjack recently received a kidney transplant from a woman. He now has developed a sudden interest in knitting and housework. - Commonwealth Times, 1/19/06
Only 8% of American women have "hourglass" figures (where the waist measures 9 inches less than the bust), but most new clothes are still designed to fit that stereotype. - The Week Magazine, 1/27/06
The fastest a human being has run is 34.3 mph. - San Diego Union, 9/28/06
An unidentified elderly man attending a $250-a-plate Cardiologist Ball suffered a heart attack and collapsed from cardiac arrest. Fortunately for him, he was in a room full of heart doctors. Dr. Richard Westerman, a cardiologist who assisted in reviving the man stated, "If you have to go down, that was the place, I guess." The man reportedly had no pulse or blood pressure. Several physicians immediately worked to successfully revive him. - Short News.com, 1/26/06
People who ignore irrelevant information can remember important facts more easily. - Discover Magazine, 2/06
A teenager using a cell phone when behind the wheel has the reaction time of a 65 to 74 year old. - Discover Magazine, 1/06
A person will create enough saliva to fill two average size swimming pools during his lifetime. - San Diego Union, 12/6/05
Left-handed women are more than twice as likely as right-handers to suffer from breast cancer before reaching menopause, Dutch scientists have said. - MSNBC, 9/26/05
University of California at Irvine Neuroscientist Gary Lynch has created a compound called CX717 which makes people temporarily smarter. It has been tested on monkeys and humans, and a commercial drug is "only a matter of time." - Discover Magazine, 10/05
The World Health Organization says that the nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986 was not the catastrophe it was expected to be. At the time 600,000 people were exposed to radiation. Experts predicted that 4,000 would eventually die from the effects. As of 2005, less than 50 people have died from these causes, and most of those were plant workers who died in the first few months after the accident. The expected surge in birth defects also did not happen. - Science Daily, 9/5/05
Saliva makes a good mild detergent, perfect for removing the grime that accumulates on old oil paintings without damaging the paint. Museum conservators stick cotton swabs in their mouths and then rub the artwork. - Discover Magazine, 10/05
Laughing 10 to 15 minutes each day burns off approximately four pounds each year. Both men and women burn 20% more calories when they're laughing, no matter what they're doing. - Men's Fitness, 9/05
There are 100,000,000,000 brain cells in the average adult brain. The average human loses 85,000 brain cells each day, while only 50 are regenerated each day. According to UCLA neuroscientists, only one brain cell is needed to spot a familiar face. - Popular Science, 9/05
The average human secretes 2.5 quarts of sweat daily. - San Diego Union, 9/28/06
A 28 year old South Korean man had a 50-hour-long video game session (Starcraft), and promptly died of a heart attack stemming from exhaustion. - BBC News, 8/10/05
There may soon be a vaccine for obesity. Mice given this experimental vaccine remained 15% lighter, even though they were on an all-you-can-eat high-fat diet. Side effects are unknown at this point. - Discovery Magazine, 9/05
The body of a Louisiana man strapped to a gurney fell from the back of a pickup truck onto a Dallas, Texas highway, into the path of oncoming traffic. Drivers swerved to avoid hitting the body. - Houston Chronicle, 7/13/05
A German scientist is being studied by colleagues after claiming to have eaten nothing for four years. Cancer researcher Dr. Michael Werner claims to get all his energy from sunlight. - Daily Times, 5/16/05
In the entire world, there are 61 people who are documented to be age 110 or older. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2/28/05
The average sperm cell swims at 8 inches per hour. - San Diego Union, 9/28/06
Skiers get sunburned almost twice as fast on powder than on slushy snow. - KGO-TV, 3/23/05
In many burglaries, thieves help themselves to snacks. Research has revealed that leaving a pizza out is a great way to foil burglars, because the molten cheese has remarkable properties when it comes to capturing a person’s DNA, or genetic fingerprints. US forensic scientists have found that traces of saliva left on the cheese hold enough DNA to reveal a person’s identity. - South Africa Sunday Times, 3/13/05
Librarians in San Luis Obispo County in California can now eject readers who have an offensive odor. - Contra Costa Times, 3/5/05
An average human sheds 1.5 pounds of skin each year. - San Diego Union, 9/28/06
