Trivia 4:
Stuff About Humans



Stupid Human Tricks

In 1933, Harry McGreggor used his eyelids to pull a wagon carrying his wife.

When Fred Wilcutt of Falkville, AL, captured a queen bee and placed it under his chin, the hive arranged itself around his jaw and neck like a beard.

The Great Omi was covered in tattoos from head to toe - not one inch of his original skin color was left. It took 15,000,000 needle stabs to do the job.

In 1931, entertainer Alexandre Patty climbed up a flight of stairs on his head - without using his hands.

Alfred Hitchcock, the famous film director, did not have a belly button. He had it surgically removed.

In 1936, an Odditorium performer drew three different cartoons using both hands and one foot.

Amazing Human Talents

Mozart could write down, note for note, symphonies he had heard just once.

Murasaki Shikibu possessed such a remarkable memory that, at the age of two, she was able to repeat 1,000 lines of poetry after hearing them only once.

At the age of four, Kim Ung-Young of Seoul, Korea, could solve math problems based on Einstein's theory of relativity.

Elija The Gaon, chief rabbi of Lithuania, never forgot a book - he committed 2,500 volumes, including the Bible and Talmud, to memory, and could repeat any passage from them at will.

Savant Kim Peek, inspiration for the film Rain Man, has no separation between the left and right side of his brain, which is one-third larger than normal. Because his brain has no filtering mechanism, it saves every piece of information it receives. Perhaps this explains why Peek was able to memorize his first book when he was 16 months old, why he can tell you not only the day of the week for any date in history, but also every word of the more than 8,000 books he's read so far.

Human Facts

There are 9,000 taste buds on your tongue.

By the time you reach 70, you will have shed 40 lbs. of skin.

There are 625 sweat glands in each square inch of your skin.

Your body contains enough potassium to fire a small cannon and enough carbon to fill 900 pencils.

If all the blood vessels in your body were placed end to end, they would stretch 12,000 miles. That's halfway around the world.

The lenses in your eyes will continue to grow throughout your lifetime, as will your nose, ears, and obviously your hair and nails. Your hair and nails also continue to grow for a few days after you are dead.



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