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You swallow a litre of snot every day.
Your body produces snot (nasal mucus) for at least three reasons: 1) To trap particles of dust and other debris in the air you inhale. 2) To humidify the air entering your lungs. 3) To warm the air entering your lungs. Snot reproduces continuously throughout the day, and is swept to the back your mouth (the nasopharynx) by millions of microscopic (about 0.006 millimetres in length) hair-like structures called cilia.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
In order to give some lipsticks (as well as nail polish, some paints and some ceramics) a nice "shimmery" effect an ingredient called pearl essence (also known as "pearlesence") is added to them. Pearl essence is the silvery stuff found in fish scales and is harvested primarily as a by-product of Herring fisheries.
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- Lightning strikes 100 times every second.
- Hydrofluoric acid dissolves glass.
- You grow 121 feet of hair every day.
- Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9 m.
- You get taller in space.
- You weigh less on the way down.
- Japan gets 1500 earthquakes a year.
- BC gets 1000 earthquakes a year.
- A beaver can cut down 200 trees a year.
- You can walk on water.
- You fart a balloon's worth of gas a day. You fart 14 times a day.
- Your brain is mostly water.
- Vanilla is the most erotic scent to older men.
- It takes 12 bees their entire lifetime to make a single tablespoon of honey.
- A cockroach can live for nine days without its head.
- The wingspan of the Indonesian fruitbat equals the height of film star Sylvester Stallone.
- Tigers will use a litter box.
- Your body contains enough carbon to fill 9000 pencils.
- Sharks can live to be 100.
- Humans are allergic to mosquito spit.
- Termites prefer vibrating wood.
- You see better when you are scared.
- Daredevils are born loving fear.
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