* People with higher number of moles tend to live longer than people with lesser number of moles.
* When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes just before the camera rolls - it cools their mouths so their breath doesn't condense in the cold air.
* Humans were first infected with the HIV virus in the 1930s.
* Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.
* If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.
* Grapefruit scent will make middle aged women appear six years younger to men. The perception is not reciprocal and the grapefruit scent on men has no effect on women's perception.
* Women blink twice as many times as men do.
* Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
* We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.
* There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
*The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
* The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
* The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
* The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
* Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
* Kidney stones come in any color--from yellow to brown.
* Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
* Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
* The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
* If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
* The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
* A baby is born every seven seconds.
* You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000000000000071 ounce of its spray.
* You breathe about 10 million times a year.
* The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
* The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
* The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
* The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
* The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.
* After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
* A person swallows approx. 295 times while eating dinner.
* Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagus.
* There are more people alive today than have ever died.
* The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
* A man's beard contains between 7000 and 15,000 hairs. A beard grows an average of 140mm a year A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair
* During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble
* 4.5 million people have their health 'adversely affected' by air pollutants each year.
* 4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and Dung 4 million people die annually from diarrhea infections, caused by poor sanitary conditions
* The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
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