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Fact Book by successtar. Kindly visit http://getfact.blogspot.com for more.Loaded FactsBy Osanyinpeju Hammed on August 2nd, 2013

Random facts for your enjoyment,kindly take your time toread through the loaded facts in the post and also share withyour love ones.

1. Coca-cola was originally green.

2. An Owl has three eye lids.

3. Blueberry juice boosts memory.

4. An Oyster can change its gender.

5. Blue whale weighs as much as 1900 men.

6. An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

7. Virus can be found in all forms of life.

8. An Olive tree can live up to 1500 years.

9. Bamboo can grow up to 3ft in 24 hours.

10. Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space.

11. You can not find any fish in the Dead Sea.

12. Tomato is the world most popular fruit.

13. An Albertross can sleep while it flies.

14. cat urine can glow under the black light.

15. Rat can last longer than camel without water.

16. Violin contains about 70 seperate pieces of wood.

17. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes opened.

18. Only one out of a thousand turtles survive after hacting.

19. The animal responsible for most human death is themosquito.

20. Polar bears are left-handed.

21. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in theirhair.

22. Eskimos never gamble.

23. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived inChina in 1910.

24. The youngest pope was 11 years old.

25. Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.

26. Proportional to their weight, men are stronger thanhorses.

27. Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.

28. Your nose and ears never stop growing.

29. Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solarsystem combined.

30. Hot water is heavier than cold.

31. The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515.

32. They have square watermelons in Japan. They stackbetter.

33. Cream does not weigh as much as milk.

34. Starfish have eight eyes-one at the end of each leg.

35. Iceland consumes more Coca-cola per capita than anyother nation.

36. First novel ever written on a typewriter was "TomSawyer."

37. There are more collect calls on Father's Day than anyother day of the year.

38. Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles peryear.

39. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

40. Men get hiccups more often than women.

41. Armadillos can be housebroken.

42. In a normal life,a person's heart beats 2,000,000,000times.

43. The maximum efficiency the motor car as achieve so faris 33%.

44. Some fishes can swim backwards and can live up to fiftyyears.

45. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible isthe Cat.

46. The only place you can find success before work is in thedictionary.

47. The energy generated from lightening can power a bulbfor three months.

48. The sense of smell is about 10,000 times more than thesense of taste.

49. The Greatest problem nanotechnologists are facing is thesize of our fingers.

50. Dog's can't sweat! They don't have sweat gland,so theypant when they feel hot.

51. Only two words in the English language end with theletters "gry".Which are angry and hungry.

52. The human heart creates enough pressure whilepumping and squirt blood as far as 30 feet away.

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53. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase thebacteria in your ear by 7000 times.

54. "One thousand" contains the letter "A" but none of thewords from "1" to "999" have an "A"!

55. A Cheetah can run up to 76 kilometer per hour while thefastest human run at 37 kilometer per hour.

56. In 1981,snow fell in in kalahari desert,Africa for the firsttime,dropping the temperature to -50c.

57. SURE and SUGAR are the only two words in EnglishLanguage which is spelt 'su' but pronounce 'sh'

58. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than forthe US Treasury.

59. Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2)poodle; 3)goldenretriever.

60. Dumbest dog: Afghan

61. Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

62. Men can read smaller print than women; women canhear better.

63. Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of wherethey grew up: 1 in 2

64. Amount American Airlines saved in '87 by taking out 1olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000

65. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong

66. State with the highest percentage of people who walk towork: Alaska

67. Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4

68. Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12

69. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%

70. Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

71. Estimated % of American adults who go on diet eachyear: 44%

72. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33

73. Average number of days a West German goes withoutwashing his underwear: 7

74. Percentage of Americans who say that God has spokento them: 36%

75. Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religiousservices: 43%

76. City with highest per capita viewership of TV evangelists:Washington DC

77. "LITTLE BOY" was the name given to the atomic bombthat destroyed Hiroshima during the 2nd world war.

78. The longest war was the so called 100 year war betweenBritain and france which lasted for 116 years.

79. An electronic circuit without a resistor is like thecirculatory system without veins and arteries.

80. The "sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's is sick" is thetoughest tongue twister in the English Language.

81. A Gibbon baby has a cap of fur on top of its head likehuman baby with the rest of the body completely bare.

82. Elephants can hold up to 1 gallon of (four liters) of waterin their trunks,and can even pick a tiny pea with them.

83. When you consume chocolate,it releases a chemical intoyour body very similar to what you feel when you are inlove.

84. The word queue is the only word in English language thatis pronounced the same way when the last four letters isremoved.

85. Palindrome is a word or sentence that reads the sameforwards or backwards? e.g dad,mum,madam.nursesrun,was it a cat i saw.

86. Percentage of American men who say they would marrythe same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%

87. % of American women who say they would marry thesame man: 50%

88. % of men who say they are happier after their divorce orseparation: 58%

89. % of women who say they are happier after their divorceor separation: 85%

90. Number of different family relationships for whichHallmark makes cards: 105

91. Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven:$6,400

92. Average number of people airborne over the US anygiven hour: 61,000.

93. Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland orDisney World: 70%

94. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

95. Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3

96. Portion of potatoes sold that are French fried: 1/3

97. Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonald's eachday: 7

98. Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90%

99. Percentage of mammal species that are: 3%

100. Number of US states that claim test scores in theirelementary schools are above national average: 50%

101. Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors:4/5

102. Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7.

103. Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3

104. Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanon

105. Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: EleanorRoosevelt

106. Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for"Profiles in Courage"

107. Only President awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln, for asystem of buoying vessels over shoals





108. Only food that does not spoil: honey

109. Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (subject is boxing)

110. Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird

111. Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica

112. Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig

113. Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.

114. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

115. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

116. In 1 square inch of skin,there lie 4 yards of nervefibres,1300 nerve cells,100 sweat glands,3 million cellsand 3 yards of blood vessels.

117. Orb web spiders eat the old web before they spin newones.A web may take an hour to spin but it is as strongas steel of the same thickness.

118. The left side of your body is controlled by the right sideof your brain,while the right side is controlled by the leftside of your brain.

119. The blue whale weighs more than 150,000 kilograms andis more than 30 metres(100ft) long which is as tall as fivestorey building.Also this whale 's weight is equals to theweight of 25 to 30 elephant.

The last and not the least is : It's not too late to be anythingthe choice is yours and don't forget to share this post.

10 Reasons why you need toSmile !By Osanyinpeju Hammed on August 2nd, 2013

Here are the 10 reasons why you need tosmile,

1. smile because it's ambiguous.

2. smile because it's contagious.

3. smile because it's easier to do.

4. smile because it's friendly.

5. smile because it's loving.

6. smile because it's provocating.

7. smile because it's refreshing.

8. smile because it's voluntary.

9. smile because it's welcoming

10. smile because it makes you healthy.

FUN TIMEBy Osanyinpeju Hammed on July 28th, 2013

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED

• Why doesn't glue stick to its bottle ?

• If Blue represents Love, why is valentine coated Red ?

• What is pine in an apple that they call it pineapple ?

• Why doesn't birds fall off trees when they sleep ?

• Why is it called building,when it is already built ?

• Why call it a Boxing Ring,when it is square ?

• If a book about Failure sells,is it a Success ?

• Why does round pizza come in a square box ?

• "I love you" isn't a question,then why does it need ananswer ?

• If money doesn't grow on trees,then why do banks havebranches ?

• If Horrific mean Horrible,does Terrific mean Terrible ?

• Do infants enjoy Infancy as much as Adults enjoyadultery ?

• Why the man who invests all your money is called aBroker ?

• Though it supports Combustion yet it is calledInflammable,Why ?

• If people from Poland are called Poles,why aren't peoplefrom Holland called Holes ?

• Why are they called Apartments,when they are all stucktogether ?

• If CON is the opposite of PRO,is CONGRESS theopposite of PROGRESS ?

• Why call it a Jerry can,when it isn't made of metal ?

• If Olive Oil is gotten from Olive,where is Baby Oil gottenfrom ?

• If you are not supposed to drink and drive,then why dobars have parking lots ?

• Why is it called invaluables when it has more value to beworth and priced ?

• Many say it's a man's world but how fair is the world ?



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• Where the majority of labourers are men yet the labourroom is strictly for women ?

• What is the use of a restroom where you cannot rest overthe night or take a snap of 5 minutes ?

• Why does birth and death comes once in life,butexamination keeps on coming again and again ?

• If Abraham Lincoln would love sleeping in a LincolnNavigator and Gerald Ford would love to pass his nightin a Ford Sedan.Where would George Bush love to passhis night ?

As for me am wondering why all this is happening and ihope you are also feeling the same.Thanks for reading this anddon't forget to share.

FUNNY RIDDLESBy Osanyinpeju Hammed on July 27th, 2013

Who can guess right,here we go;

• I live for laughter,I live for the crowd,Without it i amnothing.What am i ? a clown

• No sooner spoken than broken.What is it ? a silence

• What eight letter word contains only oneletter ? an envelope

• What is the difference between a new 20 dollar bill andan old one ? 19 dollars

• Long and slinky,like a trout,never sings till it's gutscomes out.What is it ? a gun

• Tom tan got a tan he bought some tokens.How many t'sare in that ? 2 t's are in that

• If you put blue-coloured wood in green-colouredwater,What will happen ? it will get wet

• i am seen at night but not at daylight.I have a long tail.Mylife is short but brighter as a flashlight in the dark,Whatam i ? shooting star

• How do you throw a ball so that it goes a shortdistance,stops then goes the other way ? It can't hitanything and it is not a boomerang ball ? you throw it up

• I give you a group of three.One is sitting down and willnever get up.The second eats as much as is given to him yet is always hungry.The third goes away and never

returns.What are the three ? stove,fire and smoke

• When you are in your room and you are leaning againstsomething that can be hard but mostly soft.You go tosleep and you are lying on this.When you get up you arestill lying on this.What am i ? bed

• It can get a clock but cannot tell time.It can get a bed bitcannot sleep.It can get shoes but doesn't have legs.It canget a book but cannot read.It has a face but cannot talk.Ithas a number but cannot count.What is it ? Money

• You're stuck on a forked road on your way toCalifornia.You see two brothers.One of the brothers isa liar and the other only tells the truth.You can onlyask both of them one question each.To get to yourdestination,which question would that be ? you would ask each of them:if youwere your brother,which road would you take ?

• A man was boasting one day at how long he could holdhis breath under water.His record was 6 min,a kid thatwas listening said,I can stay under water for 10 minutesusing no types of equipment.The man told the kid if hecould do that he would give him 10,000.The kid did itand won the money.Can you figured out how ? the kid filled a glassof water a held it over his head for 10 minutes.

So therefore in live don't always act as if you knoweverything because sometime things don't work in the rightperspective as we would have thought.Hope you find thisinteresting and thanks for stopping by.

HEALTH BENEFITS OFBANANABy Osanyinpeju Hammed on July 16th, 2013

Banana are high energy and nutritional rich fruits thatcomes in special arrangement in safety package.It is one ofthe most common fruit in the world as it is always availableall round the year, due to it;'s large cultivation in the tropicaland subtropical zones.Banana is also one of the cheapest fruitsavailable yet highly rich in fructose,sucrose,glucose and fiber



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which makes makes an instant,sustained and substantial boostof energy. What are the most beneficial and crucial importanceof banana to mankind?here we go and i hope after readingthis you would now realize while it is important for you to eatbanana. The fruit contains a good amount of soluble dietary fiber (7%of DRA per 100g) that helps normal bowel movements,therebyreducing constipation problems. High carbohydrate foods that are favourite with athleteare pasta,bread rolls,steamed rice,mashed potato and fruit.Sowhat is the favourite fruit of athletes? It has to be thebanana.They are so easy to eat,rich in carbohydrate . and helpthe athlete who always ate a banana before an event becausethe first time he did this he did a personal best time.Sometimesa banana's power goes beyond its nutritional benefits. Banana fruit is one of the high calorie tropical fruits.100gfruit provides 90 calories.Besides,it contains good amounts ofhealth benefiting anti-oxidants,minerals and vitamins. The fruit pulp is composed of soft,easily digestible fleshwith simple sugars like fructose and sucrose that when eatenreplenishes energy and revitalizes the body instantly;thus,forthese qualities,bananas are being used by athletes to getinstant energy and as supplement food in the treatment planfor underweight children. It is also a very good source of vitamin-B6 (pyridoxine),provides about 28% of daily-recommendedallowance.Pyridoxine is an important B-complex vitaminthat has a beneficial role for the treatment of neurites andanemia.Further more, it helps decrease homocystine (one ofthe causative factors in coronary artery disease (CHD) andstroke episodes) levels with in the body. The fruit is an also moderate source of vitamin-C(about 8.7 mg per 100g).Consumption of foods rich in vitamin-C helps the body develop resistance against infectious agentsand scavenge harmful oxygen-radicals. Fresh banana is a highly rich source of potassium,100gfruit provides 358mg potassium.Potassium is an importantcomponent of cell and body fluids that helps control heart rateand blood pressure,countering bad effects of sodium. Also fresh bananas provide adequate levels of minerals likecopper,magnesium and manganese .Magnesium is essentialfor bone strengthening and has a cardiac-protective role aswell.Manganese is used by the body as a co-factor for theantioxidant enzyme,superoxide dismutase.Copper is requiredin the production of red blood cells. So what are the interesting and beneficial fact aboutbanana ? It has been proving scientifically that two bananaprovide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minutes workoutdue to high content of fibers,no wonder is the number fruitsrecommended for athlete fruit.Apart from energy source arealso useful in the following fields;

DEPRESSION : According to a recent survey undertakenby MIND among people suffering from depression,many feltmuch well after eating a banana.This is because bananascontain tryptophan,a type of protein that the body convertsinto serotonin,known to make you relax, improve your moodand generally make you feel happier. BLOOD PRESSURE : This unique tropical fruit isextremely high in potassium yet low in salt,making it perfectto beat blood pressure so much so,the US Food and DrugAdministration has just allowed the banana industry to makeofficial claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of bloodpressure and stroke. Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) : Don't bother about thepills you only need to eat a banana.The vitamin B6 it containsregulates blood glucose levels,which can affect your mood. ANEMIA : High rich in iron,bananas can stimulatethe production of heamoglobin in the blood and also helps incease of anemia. IQ BOOSTER : 200 students at a Twickenham school(England) were helped through their exams this year by eatingbananas at breakfast,break and lunch in a bid to boost theirbrain power.Research has shown that the potassium-packedfruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert. HANGOVERS ; One of the fastest way to relievea hangover is to make a banana milk shake,sweetened withhoney.The banana calms the stomach and with the aid of thehoney,builds up depleted blood sugar levels,while the milksoothers and rehydrates your system. CONSTIPATION : High rich in fiber,includingbananas in the diet can helping to overcome the problemwithout resorting to laxatives. HEARTBURN : Bananas have a natural antacid effectin the body,so if you suffer from heartburn,try taking bananafor soothing relief. MORNING SICKNESS : Snacking on bananas betweenmeals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morningsickness. MOSQUITO BITES : This would sound strangebut before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbingthe affected area with the inside of a banana skin.Mostpeople found it amazingly successful at reducing swelling andirritation. I hope by now would have realize that there are morebenefit in taking banana than we can imagine,therefore go foryour banana to get the best of nutritional value.

THE HUMAN BLOODBy Osanyinpeju Hammed on July 11th, 2013



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How much do you know about your blood? Here is whereyou will get all the information you need about the humanblood,let's go and see.

• Two million red blood cells die every second.

• There are approximately 100,000 miles of blood vesselsin the human body.

• Seven percent of a humans body weight is made up ofblood.

• In the early nineteenth century some advertisementsclaimed that riding the carousel was good for thecirculation of blood.

• Each day 400 gallons of recycled blood are pumpedthrough the kidneys.

• By donating just one pint of blood, four lives can besaved.

• Blood is such a good stain that Native Americans usedit for paint.

• The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day.

• The average life span of a single red blood cell is 120 days.

• Blood accounts for about 8% of a human's body weight.

• A woman has approximately 4.5 liters of blood in herbody, while men have 5.6 liters.

• Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. Ifyou could stretch out all of a human's blood vessels,theywould be about 60,000 miles long. That's enough to goaround the world twice.

• Half your body’s red blood cells are replaced every sevendays.

• If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end,they would reach about 60,000 miles.

Now i think you would have learn something new aboutyour blood,so value your blood because it is too preciousto take for granted.

TIPS ON HOW TO GET RID OFYOUR PIMPLESBy Osanyinpeju Hammed on July 16th, 2013

Acne is a popularly known skin disease caused byan excessive amount of oil in the body.Oil acts as a naturallubricant for your skin pores which causes acne.There arequite a few reasons that might causes excessive amount of

oil such as small clothing,tension and hormonal changes. Itis simply one form of acne.Most of the time they are prettysmall,but they can get big and that is definitely not good andyou need to use the whole pimples erasing secrets system to getrid of them and keep them away.A lot of people find tips hereand there but if you don't have a system that gets rid of yourpimples and changes the cellular structure and environmentof your skin, your pimples is going to keep coming back andyou don't want that to happen. Lots of people suffer from outbreaks of acne.If you areone of these people,you might be asking yourself,What can ido to get rid of pimples? The answer to getting rid of pimplessometimes lies in what causes them.Most people believe eatinggreasy foods will lead to acne.This is true in the sense that thegrease can form on the surface of the skin and clog pores.Whenlooking for tips to get rid of pimples,one of the most usefultips is to thoroughly cleanse the face everyday.Not only cangrease from foods build up on the surface of the skin,but so canpollution and smoke.Below are some beneficial ways to get ridof acne,mostly pimples. Diets : If you are asking yourself how can i get rid of myacne when it is not caused by hormonal changes,the answercould be to change your diet.Eliminating greasy, fatty foodsand eating more fresh foods and vegetables could help yourcomplexion.Drinking plenty of water will also help flush toxinsout of your body. Meditation : Those people who eat a healthy diet and stillend up with outbreaks of acne,the cause could be due to stressand anxiety.If you are wondering how you can get rid of youracne when you already eat healthy food and wash your skinproperly,the answer could be in learning some techniques toreduce stress and anxiety.Meditation works well for reducingthese conditions . Techniques used to help relax the mind andbody includes taking a hot bath with scented oils. Cinnamon : The ultra-best plant to get rid of acne isginger.Cinnamon has become the most useful herb or spicethat have run into.It includes huge amount of anti-inflamedcomponents which make it so effective in treating acne.Theiranti-inflamed components also reduce inflammation andswelling caused by acne.Apart from that,cinnamon can alsobe regarded as among the most useful natural medicines.Itis capable of destroying acne producing bacteria within yourbody.You can also have an improved hormone and immunesystem. Honey : Apply mixture of honey and cinnamon pasteon your face before you sleep in the night and wash it away inthe next morning.Do this daily for at least two weeks and yourpimples will be removed totally from the root. Aloe Vera : Aloe vera can also be an extremely efficient wayto enhance your acne situation. Apply aloe vera on your facedaily and keep if for at least fifteen minutes.It will provide yourskin necessary vitamins.Use aloe vera once each morning andonce before going to sleep,if possible.The great thing aboutaloe vera is that it increases the therapeutic procedure of theskin and fixes scars caused by acne.



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Remember that it is not advisable to squeeze or pinch apimples to get rid of it because you are only promoting moreof the acne.By squeezing the infected pore,you could cause alarger infection.The emptied pore could also heal in a mannerwhich leaves a pock mark..So make use of the tips and get awaythose pimples on your face,because it does not add any valueto you.

THE WORLDBy Osanyinpeju Hammed on July 7th, 2013

In stock are lots of exciting rare and fascinating world factthat are part of our been but we don't notice them yet they areactually happening but we are too busy in life to notice them.Ifnot for facts who can tell that as big the world is,the 4th mostwanted material item is music it's rare but that is the fact foryou.Enjoy lots more amazing and interesting facts of the worldas you read on.

• The National Anthem of Greece has 158 verses, No onein Greece has memorised all the 158 verses.

• Annually you will shake hands with 6 men who haverecently masturbated and did not wash their hands.

• If a cockroach touches a human,it runs to safety andcleans itself.

• 99% of people backspace password when they justmiss up one letter.

• There are 84 people in the U.S.A named "Lol".

• Tomato is the world most popular fruit.

• Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the World.

• The United States consumes 25% of all the World'senergy.

• Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2,but the letters "12 + 1"can be rearrange to give you "11 + 1"

• Facebook played part in 20% of divorces filled in2011.

• A Brazilian inventor has invented a car that runs onurine! It uses 2 litres of urine per kilometre.

• The tallest ever tree was an Australia eucalyptus with435ft measured in 1872.

• Flying from London to New York by Concord,dueto the time zone crossed,you can arrive 2 hours earlierbefore you live.

• There is enough fuel in a full jumbo jet to drive anaverage car four times around the World.

• If you could drive to the sun at 55mph,it would takeabout 193 years to complete the journey.

• It takes 70% less energy to produce a ton of paperfrom recycled than from trees.

• Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.

• The tallest man made structure in the World is BurjKhalifa in Dubai.

• Google comes from the word 'googol' whichdenotes the number 'one followed by a hundred zeros!The creator made a spelling mistake which turned out tobe the Worlds biggest mistake!.

• A 'teraflop' sounds like a useless horror film.It'sactually a term that means a trillion calculations asecond-used to measure computer power!!!.

• On the day that Alexander Graham Bell wasburied the entire US telephone was shut down for 1 minin tribute.

• The largest employer in the world is the Indian railwaysystem in India, employing over 1.7 million people.

• Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world locatedon two continents.

• There are six million parts in the Boeing 747-400.

• Japanese research has concluded that moderatedrinking can boost IQ levels.

• The reason why hair turns gray as we age is becausethe pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die, whichis responsible for producing "melanin" which gives thehair colour.Giraffes and humans have the same numberof neck bones.

• Marilyn Monroe had an IQ of 168, higher than AlbertEinstein,

• Intelligent people have more zincand copper in theirhair.

• Earth has 8.7 million species, and only 14% have beenidentified.

• Music = 4th most wanted material item by people.

• People confess true emotions while having late nighttext conversations.

• Drinking orange juice reduces your risk of havingcancer.

• Do you now realize that their are more exciting thingsin this same world that we live in.That is fact for you.

• The longest war was the so called100 year war betweenBritain and France.It lasted for 116 years and ended in1453.



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• The word queue is the only word in English Languagethat is pronounced the same way when the last fourletters are removed.

• The "Sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick" is thetoughest tongue twister in the English language.

• A palindrome is a word or sentence that readsthe same forwards or backwards e.g dad,mum,nursesrun,wasitacatisaw.

• The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bibleis the cat.

• SURE and SUGAR are the only two words in Englishwhich are spelt 'su' but pronounced 'sh'

• Only two words in English language end with theletters 'gry',which are angry and hungry.

In conclusion the only place you find success before workis in the dictionary.

THE HUMAN BRAINBy Osanyinpeju Hammed on July 11th, 2013

The human brain has an estimated storage capacity of256 exabytes (or 256 billion gigs), the equivalent of 1.2 billionaverage PC hard drives, enough CDs to make a stack whichwould reach beyond the moon and 15 libraries for every personon the planet.

The brain is the center of the nervous system in all vertebrateand most invertebrate animals—only a few invertebrates suchas sponges, jellyfish, adult sea squirts and starfish do not haveone, even if diffuse neural tissue is present. It is located inthe head, usually close to the primary sensory organs for such senses as vision, hearing, balance, taste, and smell.

The brain of a vertebrate is the most complex organ ofits body. In a typical human the cerebral cortex (the largestpart) is estimated to contain 15–33 billion neurons,[1] eachconnected by synapses to several thousand other neurons.These neurons communicate with one another by means oflong protoplasmic fibers called axons, which carry trains ofsignal pulses called action potentials to distant parts of thebrain or body targeting specific recipient cells.Physiologically,the function of the brain is to exert centralized control over theother organs of the body. The brain acts on the rest of the body bothby generating patterns of muscle activity and by drivingsecretion of chemicals called hormones. This centralizedcontrol allows rapid and coordinated responses to changesin the environment. Some basic types of responsiveness suchas reflexes can be mediated by the spinal cord or peripheral

ganglia, but sophisticated purposeful control of behaviorbased on complex sensory inputrequires the information-integrating capabilities of a centralized brain. From a philosophical point of view, what makes thebrain special in comparison to other organs is that it forms thephysical structure that generates the mind. As Hippocrates putit: "Men ought to know that from nothing else but the braincome joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs,despondency, and lamentations."[2] Through much of history,the mind was thought to be separate from the brain. Evenfor present-day neuroscience, the mechanisms by which brainactivity gives rise to consciousness and thought remain verychallenging to understand: despite rapid scientific progress,much about how the brain works remains a mystery. Theoperations of individual brain cells are now understood inconsiderable detail, but the way they cooperate in ensemblesof millions has been very difficult to decipher. The mostpromisingapproaches treat the brain as a biological computer,very different in mechanism from electronic computers, butsimilar in the sense that it acquires information from thesurrounding world, stores it, and processes it in a variety ofways.

This article compares the properties of brains across theentire range of animal species, with the greatest attention tovertebrates. It deals with the human brain in so far as it sharesthe properties of other brains. The ways in which the human brain differs from other brainsare covered in the human brain article. Several topics thatmight be covered here are instead covered there because muchmore can be said about them in a human context. The mostimportant is brain disease and the effects of brain damage,covered in the human brain article because the most commondiseases of the human brain either do not show up in otherspecies, or else manifest themselves in different ways.

Among the changes that occur in the body when childrenhit puberty, there is a slightly reduced communication timebetween neurons. "If you don't get rid of the noise or less usefulinformation, it is a problem," said Tsien. While each neuronaverages 3,000 synapses, their continuous exposure to largequantities of information and experiences demands that thebrain erase some of the old information to make room for new.This is probably why we lose the ability to speak a foreignlanguage perfectly after the onset of sexual maturity.

The body is made up of billions of cells. In the nervous systemthese cells are called neurons. They are specialized to carrymess ages to the brain, and they connect to ot her neuronsthrough branch - like structures called dendrites.Every timeyou learn something new-a new word, how to ride a bike orplay the flute-your neurons develop new connections to otherneurons. In fact, your brain eventually will form trillions ofconnections-that's more connections than there are stars inthe entire universe!



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AWESOME TIPS FORBEAUTIFUL LIFEBy Osanyinpeju Hammed on July 6th, 2013

Life is too short to be anything,live your life to the fullestbecause their is no second chance for life.Here are awesometips for your beautiful life.

1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. & while you walk,SMILE.It is the ultimate antidepressant.

2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.

3. When you wake up in the morning, Pray to ask God’sguidance for your purpose, today.

4. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat lessfood that is manufactured in plants.

5. Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries,broccoli, and almonds.

6. Try to make at least three people smile each day.

7. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip, energyvampires, issues of the past,negative thoughts or things youcannot control.Instead invest your energy in the positivepresent moment.

8. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner likea college kid with a maxed out charge card.

9. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.

10. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Forgive themfor everything !

11. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

12. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

13. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.

14. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea whattheir journey is all about.

15. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

16. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: ‘In fiveyears,will this matter?’

17. Help the needy, Be generous ! Be a ‘Giver’ not a ‘Taker’

18. What other people think of you is none of your business.

19. Time heals everything.

20. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

21. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Yourfriends will. Stay in touch.

22. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

23. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.

HUMAN ULCERBy Osanyinpeju Hammed on July 6th, 2013

Causes, Symptoms, DiagnosisAnd Treatment ! Ulcerative colitis is a disease that causes inflammationand sores (ulcers) in the lining of the large intestine (colon ).It usually affects the lower section (sigmoid colon) and therectum. But it can affect the entire colon. In general, the moreof the colon that is affected, the worse the symptoms will be.The disease can affect people of any age. But most people whohave it are diagnosed before the age of 30.

What are the causes of ulcerative Colitis? Experts aren’t sure what causes it. They think it might becaused by the immune system overreacting to normal bacteriain the digestive tract. Or other kinds of bacteria and virusesmay cause it.

You are more likely to get ulcerative colitis if other people inyour family have it.

Symptoms are:

1. Belly pain or cramps.

2. Diarrhea.

3. Bleeding from the rectum.

4. Some people also may have a fever, may not feel hungry andmay lose weight. In severe cases, people may have diarrhea 10to 20 times a day.

5. The disease can also cause other problems, such as jointpain, eye problems, or liver disease.

In most people, the symptoms come and go. Some people gofor months or years without symptoms (remission). Then theywill have a flare-up. About 5 to 10 out of 100 people withulcerative colitis have symptoms all the time.

How Is Ulcerative Colitis Diagnosed?

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problems that can cause similar symptoms, such as Crohn’sdisease, irritable bowel syndrome, and diverticulitis.

How Is It Treated?

Ulcerative colitis affects everyone differently. Your doctor willhelp you find treatments that reduce your symptoms and helpyou avoid new flare-ups.

If your symptoms are mild, you may only need to use over-the-counter medicines for diarrhea (such as Imodium). Talkto your doctor before you take these medicines.

Many people need prescription medicines, such asaminosalicylates, steroid medicines, or other medicines thatreduce the body’s immune response. These medicines can stopor reduce symptoms and prevent flare-ups.

MONKEY ORCHIDBy Osanyinpeju Hammed on June 29th, 2013

Who can guess what the image above is?If you areseeing this for the first time their is 99. 9% assurance thatyou would be wrong.Come to think of it by mere looking at itan average human will think of it as been a monkey or a babymonkey that's not very hard to guess how the Monkey Orchidgot its name, but ever since photos of it started circulating onthe internet about a year ago, people have had a hard timebelieving such a flower actually exists. As photoshoped as it may look, the Monkey Orchidactually exists, and yes, it really does match the grinningface of a very small monkey. The scientific name of this veryrare flower is Dracula simia, with the first part hinting atthe resemblance between its two long spurs to the fangs ofBram Stoker’s famous vampire count, and the second meaning“monkey” in Latin. It only grows in the mountainous regions of

Ecuador, Colombia andPeru, at an elevation of between 1,000and 2,000 meters above sea level, but there are a few luckycollectors who have managed to grow it in “captivity”. TheMonkey orchid is not season specific, and in its natural habitatit can flower at any time. As if its striking resemblance to amonkey’s face wasn’t astounding enough, this flower actuallysmells a lot like a ripe orange, as well. Which is kind of ironic,because with a face like that you’d expect it to smell likebananas, right? Organisms are so diverse that some plant would haveresemblance of an animal and vice versa,sometimes havingboth animal and plant features such as euglena that has bothanimal and plant properties. With this article i hope any time you come across this specieagain you would not mistaken it for a monkey.

HUMAN BODY FACTSBy Osanyinpeju Hammed on June 29th, 2013

There are lots of amazing and strange fact about humanbody some of which are listed below;

• Everyone's tongue print is different.

• Only humans sleep on their backs.

• The human brain is 80% water.

• Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

• The two highest IQ scores ever recorded belongedto women.

• BRAIN is the only organ of the body that has nosensation when cut.

• Their are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in humanbody.

• More germs are transferred shaking hands thankissing.

• For a very short period of time,you were the youngest person in the World.

• A corded telephone uses less electricity than thereis inside human body.

• The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans itinfects.

• An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds tocomplete a circuit of the body.

• Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly andwithout spread of gangrene or other infection.

• Men have nipples because,as an embryo,everyone isa female until the Y chromosome kicks in.



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• The longest living cell in the body are brain cellswhich can live an entire life.

• The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed5 lb.1.1 oz (2.3 kg).

• The muscles of a locust are about 1000 times powerfulthan an equal weight of human muscle.

• By raising your legs slowly and laying on yourback,you can't sink in quicksand.

• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

• Our eyes are always the same size from birth,but ournose and ears never stop growing.

• In your life time you'll shed over 40 pounds of skin.

• Every minutes,30-40,000 dead skin cells fall fromyour body.

• 15 million blood cells are produced and destroyedin the human body every second.

• The brain uses more than 25% of the Oxygen usedby the human body.

• If your mouth was completely dry,you would not beable to distinguish the taste of anything.

• The human body has enough fat to produce 7 barsof soap.

• Muscles in the human body (640 in total) make upabout half of the body weight.

• The best way to tell if you have a bad breath is to lickyour wrist,let your saliva dry and smell it.

• Muscles are made up of bundles from about 5 in theeyelid to about 200 in the buttock muscle.

• Most people blink about 17,000 times a day.

• There are more living organisms on the skin of asingle human being than there are human being on thesurface of the Earth.

• The human head is a quarter of our total length atbirth,but only an eight of our length by the time we reachadulthood.

• As an adult,you have more than 20 square feet ofskin on your body--about the same square footage as ablanket for a queen-sized bed.

• The first synthetic human chromosome wasconstructed by US scientists in 1997.

• The molecular structure of DNA was first determinedby Watson and Click in 1953,but first discover by SwissFriedrich Mieschler in 1869.

• The smallest bone in the human body is the stirrupbone located in the middle ear,It is approximately 0.11inches (0.28 cm) long.

• The longest cells in the human body are the motorneurons.They can be up to 4.5 ft (1.37m) long and runfrom the lower spinal cord to the big toe.

• It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirelydigest.

• Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200pounds (90.8kg) on the molars.

• 40 to 50 percent of the body heat can be lost throughthe head (no hat) as a result of its extensive circulatorysystem.

• There are 206 bones in the adult human body andthere are 300 in children (as they grow some of the fusetogether).

MORE FACTS ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY Can you feel the pulse in your wrist? For humans the normalpulse is 70 heartbeats per minute. Elephants have a slowerpulse of 27 and for a canary it is 1000!

• If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end toend, they would reach about 60,000miles.

• Abraham Lincoln probably had a medical conditioncalled Marfans syndrome. Some of its symptoms areextremely long bones, curved spine, an arm span thatis longer than the persons height, eye problems, heartproblems and very little fat. It is a rare, inheritedcondition.

• In one day your heart beats 100,000 times.

• Half your body’s red blood cells are replaced everyseven days.

• By the time you are 70 you will have easily drunk over12,000 gallons of water.

• Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipefaster than the speed of sound – over a thousand feet persecond!

• Germs only cause disease, right? But a commonbacterium, E. Coli, found in the intestine helps us digestgreen vegetables and beans (also making gases – pew!).

• These same bacteria also make vitamin K, which causes

• blood to clot. If we didn’t have these germs we wouldbleed to death whenever we got a small cut!

• It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.

• That dust on rugs and your furniture is not only dirt. It’smostly made of dead skin cells. Everybody loses millionsof skin cells every day which fall on the floor and getkicked up to land on all the surfaces in a room. You couldsay, “That’s me all over.”

• It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to thestomach via the esophagus.

• A human’s small intestine is 6 meters long.

• The human body is 75% water.

• Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. Ifyou could stretch out all of a human’s blood vessels,theywould be about 60,000 miles long. That’s enough to goaround the world twice.





• The strongest bone in your body is the femur(thighbone), and it’s hollow!l

• The width of your armspan stretched out is the lengthof your whole body.

• The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.

• The average American over fifty will have spent 5 yearswaiting in lines.

• The farthest you can see with thenaked eye is 2.4 million light years away!(140,000,000,000,000,000,000miles.) That’s thedistance to the giant Andromeda Galaxy. You can seeit easily as a dim, large gray “cloud” almost directlyoverhead in a clear night sky.

• The average person has at least seven dreams a night.

• Your brain is move active and thinks more at night thanduring the day.

• Your brain is 80% water.

• 85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.

• Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds.

• Your forearm (from inside of elbow to inside of wrist)is the same length as your foot.

• A sneeze travels at over 100 miles per hour.Gesundheit!

• Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.

• Your fingernails grow almost four times as fast as yourtoenails.

• You blink your eyes over 10,000,000 a year.

• There were about 300 bones in your body when youwere born, but by the time you reach adulthood you onlyhave 206.

• The smallest bones in the human body are in your ear!Your mouth uses 75 muscles when you speak!

• When you wake up in the morning you are at tallerthan when you go to sleep, because you have let yourspine straighten back out after all the bending, sitting,and moving you have done!

• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

• The average growth of hair is half an inch per month.

• If hair remains uncut, it can grow up to 5 feet long.

• Your tongue, eye, and jaw muscles are among thestrongest muscles in your body.

Inner structure Are you aware of your inner structure ? There are billions ofactions going on in your inner body as you are reading this.Allthe actions doing fine in a right proportion,which is the reasonfor your still been alive and active till this moment.Follow meas i take you round about your inner structure.

Squirting high: The human heart is pumping with enormouspressure, capable of squirting blood up to 9 meters high. Nowonder you can feel your heartbeats. It never stops and sends

blood against gravity up to the head, and at the same timedown to the rest of your body parts. 100,000km: The length of your blood vessels is about100,000km. To understand this distance – the circumferenceof earth is about 40,000km. The distance between the earththe moon is about 300,000km. So if we take the blood vesselsof 3 people, and connect them edge to edge – we could easilystep where Neil Armstrong did. Women’s heart beat faster than men’s: The main reason forthis is that women’s hearts tends to be a bit small than men’s,but needs to pump the same amount of blood to the body parts,in the same amount of time. The left lung is smaller than the right: This is to make roomfor the heart. most people has a heart that tends to lean to theleft, which pushes the left lung. You can live without a significant amount of inner organs:The human body may seem fragile, but it can definitely livewithout the stomach, the spline, 75% of the liver, 80% of theintestines, one kidney, one lung and any productive organ. Itwouldn’t feel so great, and you’ll have to be under medication– but it won’t kill you. Saliva at 160kph: During a sneeze the spit particles can reachup to 160kph. the sneeze is very dangerous while driving –there is no way of sneezing with your eyes open, which causeda few road accidents already. Who snores more?: 60% of men and 40% of women upto the age of 60 snore. In most cases a snore can reach 60decibels. but some people can even reach 80 decibels – sameas a concrete drill. 5 Senses Below are the actions perform by the five senses of thebody,some sound rare but that's just the simple fact for you.

Who will blink first?: Women blink twice as much as men.The average person blinks around 13 times a minute. Blinking is very important to the eye’s health: It helps coverthe eye with liquid that has enzymes and Lubricating fluid, that protects it. The strongest: The outer muscles that moves the eye ballare the strongest muscles in the body, relative to the amountof strength they require: They are stronger 100 times thanneeded. Blue, but temporary: Many babies are born with blue eyes,but they wont stay that way for long. The reason for that isthe pigment called “Melanin” that sometimes sinks in the eyescornea after birth. This process require exposure to ultravioletlight, which in the end reveals the child’s real eye color. Remember 50,000 scents: Our nose can remember 50,000different smells, many of them are burnt into our memory formany years. but that’s nothing compared to men’s best friend– the dog’s nose is sensitive 1,000,000 times more than ours. The last to go: The last sense that disconnects while dyingis the sense of hearing. The first one being eye vision, followedby taste, smell and touch. See for a distance: The longest distance that you can gaze intowithout any help is about 2.4 million light years – 225 trillionkilometers. This is the distance to the Andromeda galaxy,which you can see in bright sky.





Noise sensitive: The smallest noise can make our pupilsdilate - this is one of the reasons why surgeons are botheredby noise - dilation of the pupil might cause to be blinded withlight , that can cause a disaster. From birth to old age: Our eyes stay the same size fromthe moment we are born until we are old age, but the ears andnose does not stop growing. That is why if someone did a nosesurgery when he was young – you can see his nose changingover the years. The strongest organ in our body is the tongue: You maynot able to lift weights with it, but relative to it’s size, this isthe strongest muscle in body that works almost nonstop bytalking, eating and swallowing.

INTERESTING SCIENCE FACTSBy Osanyinpeju Hammed on June 29th, 2013

What are the facts you know about science that you foundinteresting? Here are loaded interesting science facts for you.

• The energy generated from lightening can power abulb for three months.

• The maximum efficiency the motor car has achievedso far is 33%.

• Do you know that;"LITTLE BOY" was the name givento atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima during the 2ndworld war?

• Violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

• The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.

• In 5 billion years the sun will run out of fuel andturn into a Red Giant.

• If you could drive your car straight up you wouldarrive in space in just an hour.

• It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel fromthe sun's surface to the Earth.

• 10% of all human beings ever born are alive at thisvery moment.

• The speed of light is approximately 299,792,458 m/s.

• The only letter not appearing on the periodic tableis letter "j".

• The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels throughspace at an incredible 6,700 mph.

• Every year,over one million earthquake shake theEarth.

• When krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so greatit could be heard 4,800 kilometres away in Australia.

• Every second around 100 lighting bolts strike theEarth.

• Every year lightning kills 1000 people.

• The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit is 18 m/h.

• In October 1999 an iceberg the size of London brokefree from the Antarctic ice shelf.

• It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink6.7 miles down the deepest part of the ocean.

• Every hour the Universe expands by a billion milesin all directions.

• Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set isthe background radiation from the big bang.

• A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100million ton.

• The deepest part of any ocean in the world is theMariana trench in the pacific with a depth of 35,797ft.

• Around a million,billion neutrinos from the sun willpass through your body has you read this sentence.

• Even travelling at the speed of light itwould take 2 million years to reach the nearest largegalaxy,Andromeda.

• 'Wireless' communications took a giantleap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telsar,the firstsatellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TVsignals.

• Astronauts cannot belch,there is no gravity toseparate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

• One million,million,million,million,millionth of asecond after the big bang the Universe was a size of pea.

• Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel prize forphysics for discovering the x-rays in 1895.

• The fastest computer in the World is the GRAY Y-MP C90 supercomputer,It has two gigabytes of centralmemory and 16 parallel central processor unit.

• The highest temperature produced in a laboratorywas 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 c) at the Tokamakfusion Test Reaction in Princeton,NJ,USA.

• The most powerful laser in the world,the Nova laserat Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,CA,USAgenerates a pulse equal to 100 trillion watts of power for0.000000001 second to a target the size of a grain sand.

• The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus,withan estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 c).

THE HUMAN EYEBy Osanyinpeju Hammed on June 29th, 2013

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the eye we are able to view everything around us but their arealso essential parts of the eye that makes it possible for the eyeto perform it's role which are: The Ciliary Muscles : It support the lens and attach it tothe wall of the eye .Due to their concentration and expansion it alter the focal length of the lens changing it's shape.We areable to see both near and far object with ease with the aid ofthe ciliary muscles. The Cornea : it is the thick transparent bulge in the front ofthe eye.It serves as a protective covering in front of the lens andallows light into the eye.It also partly focuses the light enteringthe eye. The Aqeous humour : It is the transparent liquid betweenthe cornea and the lens and the vitreous humour is a jelly-likeliquid between the lens and the rest of the eyeball.These liquidsserve mainly to keep the eye in it's spherical shape. Iris : It is the part which gives the colour of the eye.Ithas a tiny opening at its centre called the pupil which regulatesthe quantity of light entering the eye .The pupil looks blackbecause the inner layer of the eye,the choroid, is black. The Crystalline lens : It focuses the light from the objecton to the light sensitive retina. The Retina : The Image is formed on the retinawhich consist of the light sensitive nerve endings which areconnected to the optic nerve.The optic nerve conveys thesensation of sight to the brain. The Yellow spot : It is the most sensitive spot of the retinaand also where the light entering the eye are usually broughtto focus with the clearest image formed. The Blind spot : It is the exit of the optic nerve from theretina which is insensitive to light. Major optical system of the eye consists of the thecornea,the lens,the aqueous and the vitreous humour .Theretinal transmits the impression created on it by this image tothe brain through the optic nerve.The brain then interpretesthe impressions. THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE HUMAN EYE

• Each eye weighs ¼ ounce, measures less than 1 inch indiameter, and is shaped like a slightly flattened ball.

• We should never put anything in or near our eyes, unlesswe have a reason to use eye drops. We would only do thatif our doctor or parent told us to use them.

• Blinking helps to wash tears over our eyeballs. That keepsthem clean and moist. Also, if something is about to hitour eye, we will blink automatically.

• Our body has some natural protection for our eyes.

• Our eyelashes help to keep dirt out of our eyes.

• Our eyebrows are made to keep sweat from running intoour eyes.

• Our eyes are very important to us, and we must protectthem. We don't want dirt, sand, splinters or even fingersto get in our eyes. We don't want our eyes to get scratchedor poked. That could damage our sight!

• The study of the iris of the eye is called iridology.

• The shark cornea has been used in eye surgery, since itscornea is similar to a human cornea.

• The number one cause of blindness in adults in theUnited States is diabetes.

• The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.

• The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of thegray.

• The cornea is the only living tissue in the human bodythat does not contain any blood vessels.

• The conjunctiva is a membrane that covers the humaneye.

• Sailors once thought that wearing a gold earring wouldimprove their eyesight.

• Research has indicated that a tie that is on too tight camincrease the risk of glaucoma in men.

• People generally read 25% slower from a computerscreen compared to paper.

• Men are able to read fine print better than women can.In the United States, approximately 25,000 eye injuriesoccur that result in the person becoming totally blind.

• All babies are colour blind when they are born.

• A human eyeball weighs an ounce.

• If the lens in our eye doesn't work quite right, we can getglasses to help us see. Glasses have lenses in them thatwork with our eye's own lens to help us see better.

• Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby isapproximately six to eight weeks old.

• Choose polycarbonate lenses for eye wear and sun wear.They are strong, durable, and impact resistant.

• The reason why your nose gets runny when you arecrying is because the tears from the eyes drain into thenose.

• The most effective sunglasses provide at least 98 percentprotection from both UVA and UVB rays.

• The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to theeye by a mascara wand.

• Some people start to sneeze if they are exposed tosunlight or have a light shined into their eye.

• Your body protects your eyes. Bony sockets guardagainst impact; eyebrows provide shade; eyelids andeyelashes keep things out of eyes;and tear ducts moisteneyes.

• The highest recorded speed of a sneeze is 165 km perhour.

• When using a computer, adjust the lighting and sit atleast 20 inches away from the screen in order to reduceglare.

• Smoking increases the risk of some eye diseases such asage-related macular degeneration and cataracts.





• People sometimes have red eyes in photographs,especially those taken with a flash, due to the light thatreflects off the blood vessels of the retina.

• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

• The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella.

• Inside our eye, at the back, is a part called the "retina."On the retina are cells called "rods" and "cones." Theserods and cones help us to see colors and light.

• Just behind the pupil is a lens. It is round and flat. It isthicker toward the middle.

• Over the front of our eye is a clear covering called the"conjunctiva."

• One in every 12 males is color blind. Color blind doesnot mean you see in black and white, but that you havetrouble telling the difference between certain colors.

• The white part of our eye is called the "sclera." At thefront, the sclera becomes clear and is called the"cornea."

• When you blink, you shut your eyes for 0.3 seconds.That’s a total of 30 minutes each day!

• Certain patterns confuse your eyes and brain, causingyou to misjudge the size of a circle or the length of a line.

• The retina is about the size of a postage stamp. It has 130million light sensitive cells.

• Around the pupil is a colored muscle called the "iris." Oureyes may be BLUE, BROWN, GREEN, GRAY OR BLACK,because that is the color of the iris.

• Our eyes have many parts. The black part on the front ofour eye is called the "pupil." It is really a little hole thatopens into the back part of our eyes.

• Your eyes blinks over 10,000,000 times a year!

• Your eye is always making tiny, jittery movements. Eachtime your eye moves, it receives new information. Thiscontinuous supply of new information helps you seeimages.

• Around the world, an adult goes blind every five secondsand a child goes blind every minute.

• Light-sensitive cells in the retina include rods and cones.Rods let us see shape and movement. Cones combinethe three main colors—red, blue, and green—to let us seethousands of colors.

Now you see how important the human eye is verycrucial for mankind,so take care of your and don't joke withit.It's too fragile to handle helplessly.

THE HUMAN HEARTBy Osanyinpeju Hammed on July 11th, 2013

Heart is one of the most important organ in the bodyof higher animals including human being which play the role

of pumping machine in the body. So how much do you knowabout this organ?what are it's primary assignment? You don'thave to go anywhere the answers are here.

• Early Egyptians believed that the heart and other majororgans had wills of their own and would move aroundinside the body.

• An anonymous contributor to the HippocraticCollection (or Canon) believed vessel valves keptimpurities out of the heart, since the intelligence of manwas believed to lie in the left cavity.

• Plato theorized that reasoning originated with thebrain, but that passions originated in the “fiery” heart.

• The term “heartfelt” originated from Aristotle’sphilosophy that the heart collected sensory input fromthe peripheral organs through the blood vessels. It wasfrom those perceptions that thought and emotions arose.

• Prolonged lack of sleep can cause irregular jumpingheartbeats called premature ventricular contractions(PVCs).

• Some heavy snorers may have a condition calledobtrusive sleep apnea (OSA), which can negatively affectthe heart.

• Cocaine affects the heart’s electrical activity and causesspasm of the arteries, which can lead to a heart attack orstroke, even in healthy people.

• Galen of Pergamum, a prominent surgeon toRoman gladiators, demonstrated that blood, not air,filled arteries, as Hippocrates had concluded. However,he also believed that the heart acted as a low-temperatureoven to keep the blood warm and that blood trickled fromone side of the heart to the other through tiny holes inthe heart.

• Galen agreed with Aristotle that the heart was thebody’s source of heat, a type of “lamp” fueled by bloodfrom the liver and fanned into spirituous flame by airfrom the lungs. The brain merely served to cool the blood.

• In 1929, German surgeon Werner Forssmann(1904-1979) examined the inside of his own heart bythreading a catheter into his arm vein and pushingit 20 inches and into his heart, inventing cardiaccatheterization, a now common procedure.

• On December 3, 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard(1922-2001) of South Africa transplanted a human heartinto the body of Louis Washansky. Although the recipientlived only 18 days, it is considered the first successfulheart transplant.

• “Atrium” is Latin for “entrance hall,” and “ventricle” isLatin for “little belly.”

• A woman’s heart typically beats faster than a man’s. Theheart of an average man beats approximately 70 times aminute, whereas the average woman has a heart rate of78 beats per minute.

• Blood is actually a tissue. When the body is at rest, ittakes only six seconds for the blood to go from the heart



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to the lungs and back, only eight seconds for it to go thebrain and back, and only 16 seconds for it to reach thetoes and travel all the way back to the heart.

• French physician Rene Laennec (1781-1826) inventedthe stethoscope when he felt it was inappropriate to placehis ear on his large-buxomed female patients' chests.f

• Physician Erasistratus of Chios (304-250 B.C.) wasthe first to discover that the heart functioned as a naturalpump.

• In his text De Humani Corporis Fabrica LibriSeptem, the father of modern anatomy, Andreas Vesalius(1514-1564), argued that the blood seeped from oneventricle to another through mysterious pores.

• Galen argued that the heart constantly produced blood.However, William Harvey’s (1578-1657) discovery of thecirculation system in 1616 revealed that there was a finiteamount of blood in the body and that it circulated in onedirection.

• The right atrium holds about 3.5 tablespoons of blood.The right ventricle holds slightly more than a quarter cupof blood. The left atrium holds the same amount of bloodas the right, but its walls are three times thicker.

• Grab a tennis ball and squeeze it tightly: that’s howhard the beating heart works to pump blood.

• In 1903, physiologist Willem Einthoven (1860-1927)invented the electrocardiograph, which measureselectric current in the heart.

• The average adult heart beats 72 times a minute;100,000 times a day; 3,600,000 times a year; and 2.5billion times during a lifetime.

• Though weighing only 11 ounces on average, a healthyheart pumps 2,000 gallons of blood through 60,000miles of blood vessels each day.

• A kitchen faucet would need to be turned on all the wayfor at least 45 years to equal the amount of blood pumpedby the heart in an average lifetime.

• The volume of blood pumped by the heart can vary overa wide range, from five to 30 liters per minute.

• Every day, the heart creates enough energy to drive atruck 20 miles. In a lifetime, that is equivalent to drivingto the moon and back.

• Because the heart has its own electrical impulse, it cancontinue to beat even when separated from the body, aslong as it has an adequate supply of oxygen.

• The fetal heart rate is approximately twice as fast as anadult’s, at about 150 beats per minute. By the time a fetusis 12 weeks old, its heart pumps an amazing 60 pints ofblood a day.

• The heart pumps blood to almost all of the body’s 75trillion cells. Only the corneas receive no blood supply.

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• During an average lifetime, the heart will pump nearly1.5 million barrels of blood—enough to fill 200 train tankcars.

• Five percent of blood supplies the heart, 15-20% goesto the brain and central nervous system, and 22% goesto the kidneys.

• The “thump-thump” of a heartbeat is the sound madeby the four valves of the heart closing.

• The heart does the most physical work of any muscleduring a lifetime. The power output of the heart rangesfrom 1-5 watts. While the quadriceps can produce 100watts for a few minutes, an output of one watt for 80years is equal to 2.5 gigajoules.

• The heart begins beating at four weeks after conceptionand does not stop until death.

• A newborn baby has about one cup of blood incirculation. An adult human has about four to five quartswhich the heart pumps to all the tissues and to and fromthe lungs in about one minute while beating 75 times.

• The heart pumps oxygenated blood through the aorta(the largest artery) at about 1 mile (1.6 km) per hour.By the time blood reaches the capillaries, it is moving ataround 43 inches (109 cm) per hour.

THE EARTH AND OCEANS OFTHE WORLDBy Osanyinpeju Hammed on July 11th, 2013

The planet is home to millions ofspecies of life, including humans. Both the mineral resourcesof the planet and the products of thebiosphere contributeresources that are used to support a global human population.These inhabitants are grouped into about 200 independentsovereign states, which interact through diplomacy, travel,trade, and military action. Human cultures have developedmany views of the planet, including its personification as aplanetary deity, its shape as flat, its position as the center of theuniverse, and in the modern Gaia Principle, as a single, self-regulating organism in its own right. Earth formed approximately 4.54 billion years ago, andlife appeared on its surface within its first billion years. Earth's



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biosphere then significantly altered the atmospheric and otherbasic physical conditions, which enabled the proliferation oforganisms as well as the formation of the ozone layer, whichtogether with Earth's magnetic field blocked harmful solarradiation, and permitted formerly ocean-confined life to movesafely to land. The physical properties of the Earth, as well asits geological history and orbit, have allowed life to persist.Estimates on how much longer the planet will be able tocontinue to support life range from 500 million years (myr),to as long as 2.3 billion years (byr).

Earth's lithosphere is divided into several rigidsegments, or tectonic plates, that migrate across the surfaceover periods of many millions of years. About 71% of thesurface is covered by salt water oceans, with the remainderconsisting of continents and islands which together havemany lakes and other sources of water that contribute to thehydrosphere. Earth's poles are mostly covered with ice that isthe solid ice of the Antarctic ice sheet and the sea ice that isthe polar ice packs. The planet's interior remains active, witha solid iron inner core, a liquid outer core that generates themagnetic field, and a thick layer of relatively solid mantle.

Earth gravitationally interacts with other objects in space,especially the Sun and the Moon. During one orbit aroundthe Sun, the Earth rotates about its own axis 366.26 times,creating 365.26 solar days, or one sidereal year.The Earth'saxis of rotation is tilted 23.4° away from the perpendicularof its orbital plane, producing seasonal variations on theplanet's surface with a period of one tropical year (365.24solar days). The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It beganorbiting the Earth about 4.53 billion years ago (bya). TheMoon's gravitational interaction with Earth stimulates oceantides, stabilizes the axial tilt, and gradually slows the planet'srotation. Earth formed approximately 4.54 billion years ago, andlife appeared on its surface within its first billion years. Earth'sbiosphere then significantly altered the atmospheric and otherbasic physical conditions, which enabled the proliferation oforganisms as well as the formation of the ozone layer, whichtogether with Earth's magnetic field blocked harmful solarradiation, and permitted formerly ocean-confined life to movesafely to land. The physical properties of the Earth, as well asits geological history and orbit, have allowed life to persist.Estimates on how much longer the planet will be able tocontinue to support life range from 500 million years (myr),to as long as 2.3 billion years (byr).

WORLD OCEANS The mass of the oceans is approximately 1.35×1018metric tons, or about 1/4400 of the total mass of the Earth. Theoceans cover an area of 3.618×108 km2 with a mean depth of3,682 m, resulting in an estimated volume of 1.332×109 km3.If all the land on Earth were spread evenly, water would riseto an altitude of more than 2.7 km. About 97.5% of the wateris saline, while the remaining 2.5% is fresh water. Most freshwater, about 68.7%, is currently ice.

The average salinity of the Earth's oceans is about 35grams of salt per kilogram of sea water (35 ‰ salt). Most of

this salt was released from volcanic activity or extracted fromcool, igneous rocks. The oceans are also a reservoir of dissolvedatmospheric gases, which are essential for the survival of manyaquatic life forms. Sea water has an important influence onthe world's climate, with the oceans acting as a large heatreservoir Shifts in the oceanic temperature distribution cancause significant weather shifts, such as the El Niño-SouthernOscillation.

The abundance of water on Earth's surface is a uniquefeature that distinguishes the "Blue Planet" from others in theSolar System. The Earth's hydrosphere consists chiefly of theoceans, but technically includes all water surfaces in the world,including inland seas, lakes, rivers, and underground watersdown to a depth of 2,000 m. The deepest underwater locationis Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Oceanwith a depth of −10,911.4 m.

THE EARTH Estimated weight(mass) : 5,940000000000000metric tonnes , Estimated Age : 4.6 billion years, Current population : 6,446,131,714, Surface Area : 510,066,000sqkm, Land Area : 148,647,000sq km, Ocean Area : 335,258,000sq km. Total Water Area : 361,419,000sq km(97%salt 3% fresh). Radius at the Equator : 6,376 km. Radius at the Poles : 6,355 km. The Earth orbits the sun at : 107,320 km per hour(66,700 mph). circumference at the poles : 39,992 km. Circumference at the equator : 40,066 km. Earth orbit the sun every : 365 days,5 hours,48minutes,46 seconds. OCEANS Pacific : 155,557,000sq km.

Atlantic : 76,762,000sqkm.

Indian : 68,556,000sqkm .

Southern : 20,327,000sqkm .

Arctic : 14,056,000sqkm.

