WINGS Community Group
This is a place firstly and foremost for Support for all Women.. Whether it be every day life issues, family or emotional support, we care and we are here to listen and support, to share the good things in life as well, to smile with each other and to give gentle encouragement and pleasant thoughts along the way.. Please feel free to ask for support and post in the...
Medical researchers contend that no disease ever identified has been completely eradicated.
No one seems to know why people blush.
In 1972, a group of scientists reported that you could cure the common cold by freezing the big toe.
The number one cause of blindness in the United States is diabetes.
The adult human heart weighs about ten ounces.
People who laugh a lot are much healthier than those who don't. Dr. Lee Berk at the Loma Linda School of Public Health in California found that laughing lowers levels of stress hormones, and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds have it best - they laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
People who have a tough time handling the stress of money woes are twice as likely to develop severe gum disease, a new study finds.
Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
Of the 206 bones in the average human adult's body, 106 are in the hands and feet. (54 in the hands and 52 in the feet)
In 1815 French chemist Michael Eugene Chevreul realized the first link between diabetes and sugar metabolism when he discovered that the urine of a diabetic was identical to grape sugar.
Men have more blood than women. Men have 1.5 gallons for men versus 0.875 gallons for women.
The first Band-Aid Brand Adhesive Bandages were three inches wide and eighteen inches long. You made your own bandage by cutting off as much as you needed.
The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.
In 1977, a 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 18 million courses of antibiotics are prescribed for the common cold in the United States per year. Research shows that colds are caused by viruses. 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
Contrary to popular belief, hemophiliacs do NOT bleed to death from minor cuts. This rare disease, which affects only males (it is carried by females, but they don't exhibit symptoms), involves an impairment in blood clotting—not an absolute inability to clot. Hemophiliacs today may take clotting serums and often lead fairly normal lives.
During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.
The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.
You lose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight five-pound flour bags.
Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
The substance that human blood resembles most closely in terms of chemical composition is sea water
No one seems to know why people blush.
In 1972, a group of scientists reported that you could cure the common cold by freezing the big toe.
The number one cause of blindness in the United States is diabetes.
The adult human heart weighs about ten ounces.
People who laugh a lot are much healthier than those who don't. Dr. Lee Berk at the Loma Linda School of Public Health in California found that laughing lowers levels of stress hormones, and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds have it best - they laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
People who have a tough time handling the stress of money woes are twice as likely to develop severe gum disease, a new study finds.
Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
Of the 206 bones in the average human adult's body, 106 are in the hands and feet. (54 in the hands and 52 in the feet)
In 1815 French chemist Michael Eugene Chevreul realized the first link between diabetes and sugar metabolism when he discovered that the urine of a diabetic was identical to grape sugar.
Men have more blood than women. Men have 1.5 gallons for men versus 0.875 gallons for women.
The first Band-Aid Brand Adhesive Bandages were three inches wide and eighteen inches long. You made your own bandage by cutting off as much as you needed.
The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.
In 1977, a 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 18 million courses of antibiotics are prescribed for the common cold in the United States per year. Research shows that colds are caused by viruses. 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
Contrary to popular belief, hemophiliacs do NOT bleed to death from minor cuts. This rare disease, which affects only males (it is carried by females, but they don't exhibit symptoms), involves an impairment in blood clotting—not an absolute inability to clot. Hemophiliacs today may take clotting serums and often lead fairly normal lives.
During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.
The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.
You lose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight five-pound flour bags.
Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
The substance that human blood resembles most closely in terms of chemical composition is sea water
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The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid. My daughter's bladder must be large... when she was a baby she would more then fill up her diaper...hahahahaha!
My Thumb To My Nose " !
Very interesting. I like stuff like this.
xo Sun
I laugh a lot - so I must be healthy.
I am deformed because my nose is shorter than my thumb.
Yuck about dead skin cells filling eight five-pound flour bags - I don't think I ever want to see that much in the way of dead skin cells :)
I like stuff like this too.