Trivias
Sartorius muscle
The longest muscle in the body, which ropes around the top of your thigh, is also activated when you sit cross-legged, like tailors used to do when they pinned hems or cuffs. In Latin, the word sartor means tailor.
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The longest muscle in the body, which ropes around the top of your thigh, is also activated when you sit cross-legged, like tailors used to do when they pinned hems or cuffs. In Latin, the word sartor means tailor.
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Hamstrings
When butchers smoked hams (thigh meat from pigs), they hung the meat on hooks in the smokehouse by their ropelike tendons, which led to the name hamstrings. These muscles run down the back of your thighs and are responsible for helping you bend your knee and extend your leg.
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When butchers smoked hams (thigh meat from pigs), they hung the meat on hooks in the smokehouse by their ropelike tendons, which led to the name hamstrings. These muscles run down the back of your thighs and are responsible for helping you bend your knee and extend your leg.
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Thyroid
This butterfly-shaped gland, located in the neck, is named for the Greek word “qyreoeidh,” which means “large, oblong shield.” You have your thyroid to thank—or curse—for your metabolism: it produces hormones that affect how your body uses energy (calories).
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This butterfly-shaped gland, located in the neck, is named for the Greek word “qyreoeidh,” which means “large, oblong shield.” You have your thyroid to thank—or curse—for your metabolism: it produces hormones that affect how your body uses energy (calories).
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Lunula
Your manicurist should know what this means: it’s the word that describes the white, crescent-shaped area of at the tip of your nails. “Lun” is the Latin root for moon. This area is white because there are no blood vessels beneath it, as there are under the rest of the nail bed.
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Your manicurist should know what this means: it’s the word that describes the white, crescent-shaped area of at the tip of your nails. “Lun” is the Latin root for moon. This area is white because there are no blood vessels beneath it, as there are under the rest of the nail bed.
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Glabella
That flat area above your nose and between your eyebrows? Its name comes from the Latin word glabellus, which means hairless. Only if you’re handy with the tweezers, anyway.
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That flat area above your nose and between your eyebrows? Its name comes from the Latin word glabellus, which means hairless. Only if you’re handy with the tweezers, anyway.
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Coccyx
The proper name for your tailbone, coccyx was derived from the Greek word for cuckoo—“kokkux”—because the curved shape of the bone resembles the bird’s beak. Scientists consider your tailbone a vestigial structure, which humans no longer needed once we began walking upright; tails help other mammals balance.
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The proper name for your tailbone, coccyx was derived from the Greek word for cuckoo—“kokkux”—because the curved shape of the bone resembles the bird’s beak. Scientists consider your tailbone a vestigial structure, which humans no longer needed once we began walking upright; tails help other mammals balance.
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Artery
The name for these important blood vessels hails from the Latin and Greek word “arteria,” which means “air holder.” Ancient anatomists thought arteries were actually air ducts, since they didn’t hold any blood after death. Along with veins and capillaries, your body is home to an incredible 100,000 miles' worth of blood vessels.
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The name for these important blood vessels hails from the Latin and Greek word “arteria,” which means “air holder.” Ancient anatomists thought arteries were actually air ducts, since they didn’t hold any blood after death. Along with veins and capillaries, your body is home to an incredible 100,000 miles' worth of blood vessels.
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Eyes
Babies are always born with blue eyes. The color of your eyes depends on the genes you get from your parents, but at birth most babies appear to have blue eyes. The reason behind this is the pigment melanin. The melanin in a newborn’s eyes often needs time after birth to be fully deposited or to be darkened by exposure to ultraviolet light, later revealing the baby’s true eye color.
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Babies are always born with blue eyes. The color of your eyes depends on the genes you get from your parents, but at birth most babies appear to have blue eyes. The reason behind this is the pigment melanin. The melanin in a newborn’s eyes often needs time after birth to be fully deposited or to be darkened by exposure to ultraviolet light, later revealing the baby’s true eye color.
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Saliva
During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools. Saliva plays an important part in beginning the digestive process and keeping the mouth lubricated, and your mouth produces quite a bit of it on a daily basis.
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During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools. Saliva plays an important part in beginning the digestive process and keeping the mouth lubricated, and your mouth produces quite a bit of it on a daily basis.
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Sex and Reproduction
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. All life has to begin somewhere, and even the largest humans spent a short part of their lives as a single celled organism when sperm and egg cells first combine. Shortly afterward, the cells begin rapidly dividing and begin forming the components of a tiny embryo.
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Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. All life has to begin somewhere, and even the largest humans spent a short part of their lives as a single celled organism when sperm and egg cells first combine. Shortly afterward, the cells begin rapidly dividing and begin forming the components of a tiny embryo.
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Sneeze
Sneezes regularly exceed 100 mph. There’s a good reason why you can’t keep your eyes open when you sneeze–that sneeze is rocketing out of your body at close to 100 mph. This is, of course, a good reason to cover your mouth when you sneeze.
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Sneezes regularly exceed 100 mph. There’s a good reason why you can’t keep your eyes open when you sneeze–that sneeze is rocketing out of your body at close to 100 mph. This is, of course, a good reason to cover your mouth when you sneeze.
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Blood Vessels
The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels. To put that in perspective, the distance around the earth is about 25,000 miles, making the distance your blood vessels could travel if laid end to end more than two times around the earth.
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The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels. To put that in perspective, the distance around the earth is about 25,000 miles, making the distance your blood vessels could travel if laid end to end more than two times around the earth.
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Heart
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet. No wonder you can feel your heartbeat so easily. Pumping blood through your body quickly and efficiently takes quite a bit of pressure resulting in the strong contractions of the heart and the thick walls of the ventricles which push blood to the body.
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The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet. No wonder you can feel your heartbeat so easily. Pumping blood through your body quickly and efficiently takes quite a bit of pressure resulting in the strong contractions of the heart and the thick walls of the ventricles which push blood to the body.
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The Brain
Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour. Ever wonder how you can react so fast to things around you or why that stubbed toe hurts right away? It’s due to the super-speedy movement of nerve impulses from your brain to the rest of your body and vice versa, bringing reactions at the speed of a high powered luxury sports car.
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Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour. Ever wonder how you can react so fast to things around you or why that stubbed toe hurts right away? It’s due to the super-speedy movement of nerve impulses from your brain to the rest of your body and vice versa, bringing reactions at the speed of a high powered luxury sports car.
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Hair and Nails
You must lose over 50% of your scalp hair before it is apparent to anyone. You lose hundreds of hair a day but you’ll have to lose a lot more before you or anyone else will notice. Half of the hair on your pretty little head will have to disappear before your impending baldness will become obvious to all those around you.
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Muscles and Bones
You use 200 muscles to take one step. Depending on how you divide up muscle groups, just to take a single step you use somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 muscles. That’s a lot of work for the muscles considering most of us take about 10,000 steps a day.
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Bacteria Cell -- Microscopic Level
About 32 million bacteria call every inch of your skin home. Germaphobes don’t need to worry however, as a majority of these are entirely harmless and some are even helpful in maintaining a healthy body.
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Cell -- Microscopic Level
Three hundred million cells die in the human body every minute. While that sounds like a lot, it’s really just a small fraction of the cells that are in the human body. Estimates have placed the total number of cells in the body at 10-50 trillion so you can afford to lose a few hundred million without a hitch.
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Three hundred million cells die in the human body every minute. While that sounds like a lot, it’s really just a small fraction of the cells that are in the human body. Estimates have placed the total number of cells in the body at 10-50 trillion so you can afford to lose a few hundred million without a hitch.
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Facial Muscle
It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.
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It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.
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Brain
Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day.
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Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day.
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Tongue
Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds.
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Marfans Syndrome
Abraham Lincoln probably had a medical condition called Marfans syndrome. Some of its symptoms are extremely long bones, curved spine, an arm span that is longer than the persons height, eye problems, heart problems and very little fat. It is a rare, inherited condition.
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DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)
If all your DNA is stretched out, it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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Eye
The colored part of the eye is called the iris. Behind the iris is the soft, rubbery lens which focuses the light on to a layer, called the retina, in the back of the eye. The retina contains about 125 million rods and 7 million cones. The rods pick up shades of gray and help us see in dim light. The cones work best in bright light to pick up colors.
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The colored part of the eye is called the iris. Behind the iris is the soft, rubbery lens which focuses the light on to a layer, called the retina, in the back of the eye. The retina contains about 125 million rods and 7 million cones. The rods pick up shades of gray and help us see in dim light. The cones work best in bright light to pick up colors.
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Lung
The lightest organ in the human body is the lung
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Nose
Your nose is not as sensitive as a dog's, but it can remember 50,000 different scents.
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Your nose is not as sensitive as a dog's, but it can remember 50,000 different scents.
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