Thursday, October 28, 2004
oh well... im bored... so went online and found some stuff... haha...
- Hydrochloric acid inyour stomach is so strong that it could eat up stainless steel razor blades.
- Fresh urine is cleaner than spit or the skin on your face because healthy pee is not home to bacteria.
- About ten billion tiny scales of skin rub off your body every day. In a lifetime, you could fill eighteen sugar bags with dead skin.
- Your mouth is one of the liveliest parts of your whole body. More than 100,000,000 micro-creatures live there at any one time.
- Feet sweat because there are about 250,000 pores on their soles that squirt a quarter cup of liquid each day.
- Your nose can sense smell best when you are about 10 years old. That's probably why kids notice gross smells faster than adults.
The following are facts about cockroaches!
- Cockroaches are so hardy that they can even live nine days without their heads before they starve to death.
- For those who think nothing good ever comes from cockroaches, during the Vietnam War, the U.S. used cockroaches to detect farmers who were doubling as Communist guerrillas.
First, suspected Vietcong guerrilla meeting places were sprinkled with synthetic female cockroach pheromones.
Then, questionable Vietnamese farmers were made to walk slowly past cages containing male cockroaches. If a farmer had visited the meeting place earlier, the female scent on him would make the male cockroaches react. - In Brazil, there's a species of cockroach that eats eyelashes, usually those of young children while they are asleep. The hungry little insect is attracted to the minerals and moisture from the tear ducts—but that's not the only moisture they like to devour.
An entomologist was awakened one morning by a tickling sensation, only to find that a "cockroach's extended mouth parts were imbibing moist nutriment from my nostrils." - Cockroaches are among the biggest contributors to global warming, since they break wind every fifteen minutes. Furthermore, they continue to release methane gas for eighteen hours after they die.



