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Daily Dose Of Interesting Information

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# 4. Snail-speed-nail-growth.

It takes 6 months for a fingernail to grow.

Our fingernails are useful things. They keep our fingers safe and protected from harm, and (if you’re a lady) they can be made to look very attractive.

If you’ve ever torn or broken a nail, you’ll know that it takes quite a while for it to grow back.

But the actual figure is that it takes a fingernail six whole months to grow from base to tip.

Obviously we’d never usually need to grow a whole one at a time, but that’s still a fascinating start!
 
# 5. Water water in our brain.

Can you believe that 85% of your brain is water!

You’d be forgiven for thinking that your brain is made up solely of cells and gray mush. In fact, look at a brain in the open and that’s exactly what it’ll look like!

But much like the rest of our bodies, the human brain is made up in large part of water. This is necessary as the brain essentially ‘floats’ in our skull – so the more water there is to cushion it, the better!

Water is also an essential building block of life, and our brain is the core of our existence, so it all adds up.

That is what keeps us going whether we’re playing classical piano or browsing the web for an important info, and without it we’d be in more than a bit of trouble!

And don’t forget that storing all of those memories, experiences, tastes, and smells must be a thirty work!
 
# 6.

You become taller by about 8mm every night!
This one seems completely absurd, but it’s very much true. Every night, while you are asleep, you actually gain 0.8cm in height.

It’s not much, but it still makes a difference. Of course, as soon as you wake up again the height disappears!
But why?

Well, the reason for this height gain is that the vertebrae in your spine spread out a little when you are lying down.

When you stand up again in the morning, the spine compresses and you get ever so slightly shorter.

(Mystery explained at last! Every morning I used to feel taller - of course much more than 0.8 cm - and I became my usual height very soon!)

So there you have it: six fascinating bodily facts!

But it doesn’t end there, there are plenty of other weird and wonderful things that your body can do; but l shall leave discovering them up to you!
 
A Schweizer 300-C training helicopter of the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) landed on the rooftop of an apartment complex in BM Palya, east Bangalore Thursday evening, police said that no one was injured in the incident.
Of course, where it could happen? Only in my State.
Thank God it did not land on any building built by Government/Municipal Corporation, which would squat even in rain.

Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.
 
THAT which would SQUAT under rain

will SLEEP under a helicopter.

Brahmanyan said:
A Schweizer 300-C training helicopter of the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) landed on the rooftop of an apartment complex in BM Palya, east Bangalore Thursday evening, police said that no one was injured in the incident.
Of course, where it could happen? Only in my State.
Thank God it did not land on any building built by Government/Municipal Corporation, which would squat even in rain.

Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.
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Dear Srimathi VR Ji,

Squatting and sleeping - as recommended by my teacher in 8th grade in India, I made sure to take a book to - you know where - to avoid sleeping :)

Regards,
KRS
 
Visalakshi Ramani said:
THAT which would SQUAT under rain

will SLEEP under a helicopter.
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It is true. It is indeed a miracle the pilot of the copter did not land on a Building built by BBMP. Few years ago Multistoried Quarters built by the BBMP for Economically Weaker Section (EWS) at Koramangala and JP Nagar in Bangalore collapsed following heavy winds and rain. The unfortunate inmates were transferred to zinc shelters which were also damaged some time back. That is condition of Government constructions in the Garden city of IT majors.
Regards,
Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.
 
The company where my husband worked built colonies for its employees. In one colony the houses began to sink.

At first they were above the ground level. Then they came to the ground level. Later they descended below the ground level.

The other side of the colony was even lower in level. So the rain water would flood the houses and flow out through the back door carrying with it all possible items from the house.

The desperate people built small mound dams in front of their gates but it hindered their own entry into their houses.

By now they must have become underground shelters since 17 years have rolled by!
 
1. Believe it or not!

In one square inch of our skin,
there are four yards of nerve fibers,
1300 nerve cells,
100 sweat glands,
3 million cells and
3 yards of blood vessels.
 
2. Believe it or not!

Except for your brain cells, 50,000,000 other cells in your body

would have been replaced by the new cells - when you were

just reading this sentence.
 
3. Believe it or not!

The adult heart beats about 40,000,000 times a year.

In one hour the heart works hard enough to produce enough

energy to raise almost one ton of weight one yard from the

ground.

So calculate in your free time how many tons we can lift through

one yard OR through how many yards we can lift one ton during

one DAY/ WEEK / MONTH / YEAR AND OUR LIFE TIME!!!

To think that a fist sized muscular pump does that much work...:faint:
 
4. Believe it or not!

The central nervous system is connected to every part of the body by 43 pairs of nerves.
Twelve pairs go to and from the brain,
with 31 pairs going from the spinal cord.
There are nearly 45 miles of nerves
running through our bodies. :dizzy:
 
6. Believe it or not!

Our lungs inhale over two million liters of air every day, without even thinking. The surface area of the lungs is approximately the same size as a tennis court.
 
7. Believe it or not!


Food will get to your stomach even if you're standing on your head.

Skin is the largest body organ.

The average adult is made up of 100 trillion cells.
 
8. Believe it or not!

The liver is often called the body's chemical factory.

Scientists have counted over 500 liver functions.

If a person has two-thirds of their liver removed

from trauma or surgery, it will grow back to

its original size in four weeks' time.
 
I had once read in a Readers' Digest that a Sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
It is also learnt, perhaps scientifically, that women utter around 7000 words or so
per day while the men on an average just manages to say only 2000 words or so.

Balasubramanian
Ambattur
 
9. Believe it or not!

Capillaries are so small that red blood cells can only travel through them in single file.

The cornea, the outermost layer of the eye, is the only living tissue in the human body without blood vessels.

It receives nutrients from tears and from the aqueous humor.
 
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