*A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 miles per hour
*A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months
*A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip
*A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day
*According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week
*After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear to be pink in color
*An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime
*By age 60, most people have lost half of their taste buds
*Fingernails grow faster than toenails
*The human body transmits nerve impulses at about 90 meters a second
*In the English hospitals of the seventeenth century, childern were entitled to two gallons of beer as part of their weekly diet
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