Archive for the ‘belly button’ Tag

02/28/2025 “DISGUSTINGLY HUMAN”   Leave a comment

This will be a fun post but not if you’re a germophobe. I can deal with just about anything, but these items still have the ability to make my skin crawl just a little. If I had to sit around and obsess about bacteria and mites infesting my body like my better-half does, I would lose my mind. Hang onto whatever you like to hang onto, this ride might get a little bumpy.

  • Itchiness in humans is contagious. Watching someone else itch makes your brain think it’s experiencing an itch, even when it’s not.
  • The average bed is home to 10,000,000 dust mites.
  • It goes without saying that every day you inhale thousands of you own skin flakes since you lose approximately 40,000 flakes per minute.
  • Your skin contains billions of individual bacteria.
  • The most common bacteria found in your belly button is of the same species that make your feet smell.

  • There are mites that live in your hair follicles, eyelashes, and eyebrows. They walk around on your skin at night before returning to their hair follicles during the day.
  • Tapeworms inside humans have been measured as long as 20 feet.
  • Fungi thrive on the protein keratin found in hair, nails, and skin.
  • Men and women fart approximately the same amount each day, a half-liter of gas a day.
  • Did you know that defecaloesiophobia is the fear of painful bowel movements.

(Did you know?)

FART IS ONE OF THE OLDEST WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

03/26/2024 “BEING HUMAN”   Leave a comment

The human body never ceases to amaze. Just when you think you’ve heard everything you could possibly hear about human bodies and their uses and peculiarities, you find out you had no idea just how strange they can be. So, let me start your education with more facts about your human body.

  • Fingernails grow four times faster than toenails.
  • Bright light and sunshine can make you sneeze.
  • Right-handed people live on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
  • Redheads are more likely than other people to be left-handed.
  • Humans sweat up to a pint of fluid each night.

  • Humans can survive longer without food than they can without sleep.
  • Sleeping with an electric blanket can interrupt your sleep patterns and make it difficult to get a good night’s sleep.
  • Earwax is not wax.
  • Your belly button is home to more than 60 strains of bacteria.
  • The average adult toenail is home to 43 species of fungi.

And here’s an historical fun fact that is one of my favorites:

Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay about farts and flatulence called “Fart Proudly”.

HUMAN ANIMALS – WOW!