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261/ On average women cry
5.3 times a month. Men only 1.4.
262/ On average humans blink
750 million times during their lives.
263/ 8% of boys are colour
blind, nut only 1% of girls.
264/ The longest recorded
span for uninterrupted hiccuping is 68 years!
265/ Our skin is the heaviest
organ of the body.
266/ Spread human skin would
cover 2 square metres.
267/ 75% of our body is water.
268/ Typically the human head
is covered with 100,000 hairs.
269/ Pound for pound the femur
- your thighbone, is stronger than reinforced concrete.
270/ The human body contains
208 separate bones.
271/ The world's heaviest
person weighed 629 kilos.
272/ The world's heaviest
baby weighed 10.2 kilos.
273/ There are 800,000 species
of nematodes.
274/ The sperm is the smallest
cell in the body. The female ovum is the largest.
275/ Twins are born one in
80 births in the UK and one in 300 births in China.
276/ The human brain contains
100 billion brain cells.
277/ Each day we lose 10-100,000
brain cells.
278/ Women's brains shrink
during pregnancy.
279/ Ernest Fawbush and Robert
Miller of the American Airforce were the first to forecast
tornadoes in 1948.
280/ The shore of the Dead
Sea is the lowest point on the Earth's surface.
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