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Bhakti Wellness Center June 2013 Newsletter – Tidbits<\/strong><\/p>\n By Guy Odishaw<\/strong><\/p>\n 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn’t like being seen wearing them in public.<\/p>\n 5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>The average human body has 14 to 18 square feet of skin.<\/p>\n 6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>The skin of the armpits can harbor up to 516,000 bacteria per square inch, while drier areas, such as the forearm, have only about 13,000 bacteria per square inch.<\/p>\n 7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>A bird’s eye takes up about 50 percent of its head; our eyes take up about 5 percent of our head. To be comparable to a bird’s eyes, the eyes of a human being would have to be the size of baseballs.<\/p>\n 8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>A boy\u2019s voice breaks during puberty because his vocal cords are lengthening. Up until that point, girl\u2019s and boy\u2019s vocal cords are the same length.<\/p>\n 9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>The strongest bone in the body, the thigh bone, is hollow. Ounce for ounce, it has a greater pressure tolerance and bearing strength than a rod of equivalent size in cast steel.<\/p>\n 10.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Most people lose half of their taste buds by sixty years of age.<\/p>\n 11.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>The average human body holds enough: sulfur to kill all the fleas on an average dog, potassium to fire a toy cannon, carbon to make 900 pencils, fat to make 7 bars of soap, 10 gallons of water, and phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads.<\/p>\n 12.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>The temporal lobe is the area of the brain that allows humans to hear and understand people speaking.<\/p>\n 13.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>The average human eyelash lives about 150 days.<\/p>\n 14.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>The average human has about 10,000 taste buds \u2014 however, they’re not all on the tongue. Some are under the tongue; some are on the inside of the cheeks; some are on the roof of the mouth. Some can even be found on the lips \u2014 these are especially sensitive to salt.<\/p>\n 15.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>The thumbnail grows the slowest; the middle nail grows the fastest.<\/p>\n 16.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>The average human scalp contains between 120,000 and 150,000 hairs.<\/p>\n 17.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.<\/p>\n 18.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Like a finger print, every person has a unique tongue print.<\/p>\n 19.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>The air released from a sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.<\/p>\n 20.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>The longest word is English language is pneumonoultramiscroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis – an inflammatory lung disease caused by the inhalation of fine silica dust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bhakti Wellness Center June 2013 Newsletter – Tidbits By Guy Odishaw 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Most dust particles in your house are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}