Gross Facts
Did you know?
- Your mouth is the most unsanitary part of your whole body. More than 100 million microcreatures live there at any one time.
- You swallow about one quart of snot every day.
- Most people fart 14 times a day.
- Seventy out of 100 people admit to picking their nose. Three out of those seventy admit to eating their boogers.
- Thomas Crapper was an Englishman who invented the shut-off for clean water entering the toilet tank in the 1800s. The word crap comes from Crapper.
- Fresh urine is more sterile than spit or the skin on your face because healthy pee is not home to bacteria.
- Ear wax naturally dries up and forms little balls that drop out when we yawn, chew or swallow. It coats the inside of the ear canal to trap any nasty stuff like dirt, dust and bugs that get into your ear. People who live in big cities make more ear wax.
- About 10 billion tiny scales of skin rub off your body everyday. In a lifetime, you could fill eight five-pound flour bags with dead skin.
- Feet sweat because there are about 250,000 pores on their soles that squirt a quarter cup of liquid each day.
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