Category: Interesting Facts
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The Pancreas
The pancreas has a tremendous reserve capacity for the production of some enzymes.
More than 95 percent of the function of the pancreas must be lost before the pancreas fails and symptoms of bloating and poor digestion occur. That’s amazing!!
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Sneezing is a reflex that is triggered when nerve endings inside the mucous membrane of the nose are stimulated.
Pepper, be it black, white, or green, contains an alkaloid of pyridine called piperine.
Piperine acts as an irritant if it gets into the nose. Pepper stimulates, or irritates, the nerve endings inside the mucous membrane.
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About 1 in 6 people, or roughly 48 million, get sick in the United States each year from contaminated food!!
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The soleus muscle is the muscle that can pull with the greatest force.
The soleus muscle is found below the calf muscle, which is called the gastrocnemius muscle.
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A teen dies in a car crash every 3 hours.
In 2009, about 3,000 teens in the United States ages 15 to 19 were killed, and in 2008 more than 350,000 were treated in emergency departments for injuries suffered in motor vehicle crashes.
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The stomach can hold about 3 pints of food at one time. That’s 6 cups!! Doesn’t seem possible, does it?!?
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1. The liver is one of the largest organs on the “inside” of your body. Your skin is the largest organ on the “outide” of your body.
2. The liver is the size of a football and weighs about 3 pounds in the average size person.
3. More heat is produced by the liver than by any other organ in the body.
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The heart pumps out 2 ounces (71 grams) of blood at every heartbeat.
Hardest Working Muscle
The heart is the “hardest working” muscle in your body.
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Independence Day Should Have Been July 2.
The Continental Congress actually voted for independence on July 2, 1776.
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You have about two to four million sweat glands all over your body!!
Sweat glands, or sudoriferous glands, are located in the epidermis and produce moisture – sweat – that is secreted through tiny ducts onto the surface of the skin – stratum corneum. When sweat evaporates, skin temperature is lowered.
There are two typed of sweat glands: