1. The average human body comprises enough fat to make seven bars of soap, enough iron to make a medium sized nail, enough potassium to explode a toy cannon, enough lime to whitewash a small chicken coop, enough sugar to fill a jam jar, and enough sulfur to rid a dog of fleas.
2. A complete skeleton is worth between $5,000 and $7,500 to a medical student; your skull alone would fetch only about $450.
3. Your mouth produces about one quart of saliva per day.
4. Demodex folliculorum has eight stumpy legs and a tail, is about a third of a millimeter long, and loves nothing more than to recline in the warm, oily pits of your hair follicles. Most adults have this mite, usually on the head, but especially in eyelashes. And often, they?re in nipples.
5. You have approximately 4,000 wax glands in each ear.
6. The average adult stool weighs about 4 ounces. And half of the bulk of your feces comprises the dead bodies of bacteria that live inside your intestines.
7. The average male foot exudes half a pint of sweat each day.
8. If it weren?t for the slimy mucous that clings to and lines the walls of your gut, your stomach would readily digest itself.
9. The average person will pass about 11,000 gallons of urine in a lifetime.
10. A man weighing 200 lbs. would provide enough meat to feed 100 cannibals in one sitting.

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Very interesting..... I gotta get a hold of some skeletons.; complete skeletons that is...

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[QUOTE=RiseandShine;527584]1. The average human body comprises enough fat to make seven bars of soap, enough iron to make a medium sized nail, enough potassium to explode a toy cannon, enough lime to whitewash a small chicken coop, enough sugar to fill a jam jar, and enough sulfur to rid a dog of fleas.[/QUOTE]

Did the person who came up with this live in Arkansas or something? Man that sounds rural...

"Come on John-boy, let's go whitewash a small chicken coop."

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if anyone needs human skeletons, im currently offering buy 2 get a free skull ($450 value!)

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[quote=toasty;527646]Did the person who came up with this live in Arkansas or something? Man that sounds rural...

"Come on John-boy, let's go whitewash a small chicken coop."[/quote]

Heh, I live in Arkansas, but I've never whitewashed a small chicken coop, as they say.

P.S. Arkansas is not that bad. I live in the northwest region of the state in a town called Fayetteville, where the University of Arkansas is located. The homes of wal-mart, tyson, jb hunt, etc are right up the road from us, and Fayetteville is continually touted as being one of the top places in the country to live. It's a nice laid back college town in the Ozarks. But, with that all having been said, I do yearn for a more metropolitan environment from time to time.

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Lol i'll tell my family before i die, to sell my skeleton:) Pretty worthy.

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[quote=RiseandShine;527584]6. The average adult stool weighs about 4 ounces. [/quote] i don't know about you guys, but my cosby's are about a pound (maybe more after eating those fiber muffins from trader joe's).8)

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[quote=RiseandShine;527584]4. Demodex folliculorum has eight stumpy legs and a tail, is about a third of a millimeter long, and loves nothing more than to recline in the warm, oily pits of your hair follicles. Most adults have this mite, usually on the head, but especially in eyelashes. And often, they?re in nipples.[/quote]

Well that creeped me out a little...I know we have microscopic creatures on our skin, etc...but just hearing about what they look like gave me the chills shudders

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[quote]The average human body comprises enough fat to make seven bars of soap[/quote][IMG]http://69.72.190.105/weekend_game/images/durden02.jpg[/IMG]

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I still have the right scapula, humerus, sternum, collar-bone, thoracic vertebra and teeth of some small Indian woman who donated her bones to science so I could study them for my course.

[SIZE=1]Had ja there for a sec !!![/SIZE]

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[QUOTE=KinKyJ;527747][IMG]http://69.72.190.105/weekend_game/images/durden02.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

Kinky is this your mentor?