Stunning Medical Facts That Will Stun You

Posted by Mark on Feb 22, 2008 | 8 Comments

Is your anti-stun helmet in place? What’s that? No anti-stun helmet? Well then, get thee to a comfy chair as quickly as possible! Why? Because there’s some stunning coming up and I don’t want you to get hurt, that’s why.

Prepare to be stunned with these stunning medical facts that will stun you!

• The human ear is over 40% fruit.
• You can tell someone’s age by seeing how long it is before they react to eye-poking.
• After the menopause a woman’s knees start to drift downwards.
• 1 in 5 Americans suffer from a superfluous third arm.
• Pressing the right combination of freckles will flip open a person’s head.
• Lips are a relatively modern evolutionary adaptation to the face, replacing velcro.
• The clitoris extends for three metres inside the female.
• In addition to sweat, armpits also secrete WD-40 to prevent squeaking.
• Eskimos are born with an extra internal organ that breaks down whale blubber into mint juleps.
• The human body can withstand pressures up to seven but I’m forbidden from telling you what scale I’m using.
• The strongest material in nature is an old lady’s cankles.
• A tribe of natives in South America spend their entire adult lives inside-out.
• In an emergency the colon can double as bungee cord.
• Tastebuds are extremely sensitive and should not be allowed to see Steven Spielberg movies.
• Women feel no pain during childbirth but have a natural instinct to try to make men feel guilty.

But wait! There’s more stunning!

• The gag reflex is nature’s defence against sword-swallowing.
• The adrenal gland is also responsible for humming in humans.
• Rapid eye movement is an autonomic response to lice fidgeting under your eyelids.
• There is as much vitamin C in male ejaculate as in a common or garden house brick.
• "Friendly bacteria" will not return your lawnmower if they borrow it.
• Bald men are compensated by wide-ranging and thick forests of pubic hair.
• A person will remain conscious for 15 seconds following decapitation but instantly loses the ability to sigh.
• A woman reaches her sexual peak ten minutes after her man has fallen asleep.
• People with eyes of different colour are actually twins who coalesced in the womb.
• With concentration and practice the anus can work as a gill underwater.
• 25% of the brain’s functions are dedicated to avoiding choking while eating biscuits.
• Nostrils are purely for decoration.
• Laughter is not the best medicine for people with split sides.
• Leprosy is not contagious if you only touch elbows.
• Lifting the toenails reveals some handy storage space.
• The unattractive appearance of the scrotum is a genetic device designed to frighten away intruders from the rear.