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  • You can be electricuted while talking on a cell phone during a thunderstorm. Using a cell phone while driving increases your chances of being in an accident to 34%


  • Passengers who dont' move around while in an airplane are much more susceptible to have deep-vein-thrombosis-blood clots. Lower levels of oxygen and low humidity inside the cabin make blood stickier and more likely to clot. Cardiovascular problems are the number one cause of death during a flight.


  • Only one person out of a billion will live to be 116 or older. Right handed people, on average, live nine years longer than left handed people. When you sneeze, your heart actually stops as long as it takes for you to sneeze. 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.


  • The best known sushi chefs know to check the raw salmon or red snapper for worms by holding thin cuts of fish up to the light. Anisakis is a disease caused by ingesting worms in raw fish. 80% of certain species caught off the Pacific Ocean maybe infected with fish parasites. IF you eat one, after a day or two, you'll have a burning sensation in your guts as the parasites bores through the stomach lining.


  • During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food; that's the weight of 6 elephants. Everytime you lick a stamp, you consume about 1/10 of a calory. Average human body contains enough fat to make about 7 bars of soap. The human brain only accounts for 2% of your body weight, but takes up to 20% of your blood flow. The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes. One quarter of your bones in your body are in your feet. The average person has over 1460 dreams in a year. You're born with 300 bones, but when you're an adult, you have 206 bones. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day. You blink about 84,000,000 times a year.


Source: megreetings.com


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