Golf Rocks 2008
Did You Know?

Taylor

  • Your fingernails grow four times as fast as your toenails? toe
  • People are the only animals in the world who cry tears when they are sad?
  • It's totally impossible to sneeze with your eyes open?
  • Every month you grow a brand new outer layer of skin..."a new you"?
  • brainYour brain weighs about three pounds, but over two pounds of that is water?
  • In your very own lifetime, you'll produce enough spit to fill two swimming pools?
  • If you were freeze dried, like coffee, 90% of your weight would be the real you, and 10% would be the little critters that call your body their home? critters
  • You breathe in about 7 liters of air every minute? Good thing it's free!
  • 314 Americans had their butts lifted surgically in 1994? (Scary thought!)
  • Your dad sweats enough each day to fill up a 6 pack of soda cans...and then some?
  • By the time your grandmother is 72 years old, her heart will have chalked up over two-and-a-half BILLION beats?
  • Your stomach makes a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks? Otherwise, it will digest itself!
  • Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie?
  • crocodileTo escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs? It will let go instantly! Hey, you never know...
  • If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee?
  • If you farted constantly for 6 years and 9 months, you would produce enough gas to create the energy of an atomic bomb?
  • The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps blood, that it could squirt blood 9 m?
  • On average people fear spiders more than they do death? spider
  • Relative to its size, the strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE?
  • pizza Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day?
  • You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
  • Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do?
  • In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes?
  • The length of your foot is the same as that of your forearm between your wrist and the inside of your elbow? You're probably thinking "no way", but give it a try...you'll be amazed!