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Thursday, April 30, 2009

It Does A Body Good!

We recently received a new book in the Reference Department called The Handy Anatomy Answer Book. I can't seem to put it down! Here are just a few of the nuggets that I've managed to glean in the past few minutes.

  • People with the plague smell like apples. People with eczema or impetigo smell like mold. People with dandruff are not mentioned.
  • Forty-seven percent of an average person's water comes from actually drinking it. The other 39% comes from solid food.
  • Eye muscles move "up to 100,000 times in a 24-hour period." For the legs to achieve a comparable workout, a person would have to walk fifty miles. Do you suppose there is any relation between my extreme laziness and poor eyesight? I guess not...
  • "The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps blood out of the body to squirt blood about thirty feet." As I watched Kill Bill Volume 1 for the first time last night, I have a remarkable visual running through my head.
  • The clavicle is the bone that is most likely to be fractured in the human body.
  • Leonardo de Vinci was the first person to propose contact lenses. Bless you, Leo!
  • An average person swallows about 2,400 times in a 24-hour period.
  • The fastest growing hair is the beard. Hair grows fastest in warmer weather. From this I can deduce the reason it seems to be taking my hair such a long time to grow for Locks of Love!

I suppose the moral of all of this nuggetty goodness is that the body really is an amazing creation. I hope you were all as enlightened as I was, and don't forget to drink your milk. You know it does a body good!

Balaban, Naomi and Bobick, James. The Handy Anatomy Answer Book. Visible Ink Press, 2008.

3 comments:

  1. Speaking of collar bones, Lance Armstrong broke his in March, and completed a race today, with the 12 screws still in his shoulder from surgery! You're tha man, Lance.

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  2. Does Locks of Love accept facial hair?

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  3. Locks of Love accepts hair that is at least 10 inches long in a braid or ponytail after it has been cut. If you know someone who meets those requirements, please take a picture. I would love to see that beard. (Ooo, or maybe it's a moustache... even better!) For more answers regarding Locks of Love's donation policies, go to http://www.locksoflove.org/donate.html.

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