Design Facts and Faults

The human body, in my opinion, is flawed. The processes it goes through are so disgusting that it must be attributed to design faults. On the other hand though, some things are so cool they must have been designed to balance the icky stuff out!

For example:

1. What idiot in the design team though that to get out toxins etc it would be just a fabby idea to poo, pee and vomit? Added to that, if you eat asparagus it turns bright yellow and smelly, and tell me why exactly if you eat sugar puffs your pee stinks of them?!

2. Whilst filtering dirt with tiny hairs and trapping it with mucus, our nose decides to turn this into snot. Yummy! (Not!) - but obviously handy for peckish children!

3. To expel gases from your body it comes out as burps (not so bad) or stinky farts! And the speed of a fart being expelled has been clocks at ten feet per second!

4. Beards - I just don't understand them! They grow approximately 140mm per year, just so a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble!

5. After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp. Why would this happen?

6. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue - perhaps not so much a design fault as a little bonus!

7. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h. Coughs clock in at about 60 mph.

8. You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown. You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile. Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.

9. The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb.

10. The human brain feels no pain. Phew that's good then. So, I can get shot in the head and not feel it! Oh, hang on, the pain receptors in my brain will tell me I have a sore head anyway. So, no win situation really. My brain can't feel pain, but it feels like it can. Bugger!

11. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools. Mmm, that's nice!

12. The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm. No wonder procreation is difficult for some people! There's a disadvantage before they even start!

13. Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep...and they waste them!!!!

14. You use 200 muscles to take one step. And still I don't lose weight!!

15. It is not possible to tickle yourself. Oh, thank god for that! So who's been making me giggle in my sleep? Must be ghosties!

16. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. Cool!

17. Women burn fat more slowly than men, by a rate of about 50 calories a day. Ah bollocks!

18. The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body. If you try this, let me know if it's right!

19. Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren’t. Eeugh!

20. Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil. So when I say I'm feelin' hot tonight, I mean it!

Hope you found these facts interesting.

This is weird but true - now make clockwise circles with your right foot. While doing this draw the number 6 in the air with your right hand.Your foot will change direction!