More Freaky Facts

Here ya go folks, what yo've been asking for. More odd facts aobut our bodies.


You can accurately determine a person's height by measuring from the middle of the neck to the tip of the middle finger, with the arm out straight. Multiply this by 2, and then subtract 2. This is how the medical community measures the height of those who are contracted into fetal positions or are double amputees.(very important for prescribing the correct doses of medications)


In one day, a human sheds about 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately 4 pounds in a year. Unfortunately, we replace every one.

Humans shed and regrown outer skin cells about every 27 days - almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime. At least we don't molt, but then again, "Buffalo Bill" could have just looked for one, rather than skinning all those poor girls


An average women has 17 square feet of skin. When a women is in her ninth month of pregnancy she has 18.5 square feet of skin. Speaking of Buffalo Bill...

The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily. More, if you have a hangover

Speaking of hangovers, most are the direct result of dehydration. 

By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in an year.

The ashes of the average cremated person weighs 9 pounds. Providing it is ONLY them in that urn


It is impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath. How many of you just tried this?

Your heart beats some 37,000,000 times in a year. During your life its will beat some two-and-a-half billion times. Its got a good beat, but can you dance to it?

Sex is bio chemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate. And both are equally messy, if you're doing it right.

85% of your brain is water. Politicians, maybe more

The average person speaks about 31,500 words per day. Now, shhhhh

The average orgasm lasts for 5-20 seconds.  A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. If I had a 30 minute orgasm it would kill me, and the mortician would have to break my jaw to get the grin off my face.

We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening.  So,  short folks, hit those theme parks early in the day so you can make it on those "you must be this tall...rides

No one's legs are the exact same length. Like they say, nobody's perfect.  

It takes about 48 hours for your body to completely digest the food from one meal. White Castles, about a week( just kidding, but it feels like it)

Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.
So, neither of them had balls.