Occupy Wallstreet - YOU'RE THE VOICE ~ JOHN FARNHAM

In the wake of a peaceful global revolution evolving in the last weeks from the Occupy Wallstreet movement, the song from John Farnham could get more exposure as it talks exactly about the core topic of the movement. Don't let yourself down because you're not that rich like the 1% who owns the money, your voice (vote) is equal to theirs, We the 99 % are the majority in each country. Together we can unite and lead step by step to the change we want to see in our world!

You're the voice, try and understand it
Make a noise and make it clear,
We're not gonna sit in silence
We're not gonna live with fear,
This time, we know we all can stand together
With the power to be powerful
Believing we can make it better
We're all someone's daughter
We're all someone's son
How long can we look at each other
Down the barrel of a gun?

Emmanuel Kelly - A dream may get true: Inspirational story of an Iraq war victim!

Take your tissues out while watching and listening the story (and John Lennon's song "Imagine" - peace song!) of Emmanuel Kelly a chemical warfare victim who become an orphan together with his brother in Iraq. He presented this song in the Australian Television show "The X-Factor".


Their mother (Moira Kelly) is a gifted person who is actively participating in humanitarian help all over the world since the age of 13. With 20 (in 1984) she worked together with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India.
Here you can read more about her life and her Children First Foundation

His brother is a gold medal winner in the paralympics swimming competition and world record holder.

Unluckily he got voted off after his second audition :(

7 Rules for Life

By florine

1. Never hate
2. Don’t worry
3. Live simply
4. Expect a little
5. Give a lot
6. Always smile
7. Live with love

5 RULES TO REMEMBER IN LIFE

1. Money can't buy happiness but it’s more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes than on a bicycle. 
2. Forgive your enemy but remember the bastard’s name.
3. Help someone when they are in trouble and they will remember you when they're in trouble again.
4. Many people are alive only because it’s illegal to shoot them. 
5. Alcohol does not solve any problems, but then again, neither does milk.

TOP FIVE posts of July 2011

Image via WikipediaThe Top Posts are

1. Twitter: How to unfollow a list
2. Recycle Envelopes with Origami Art
3. How to earn more money with Adgitize
4. How to get rid of Ants in the house and kitchen
5. Cruel dog abuse in Malaysia - video by Doreen Loo

Have a great time (re)-reading these posts!

Maybe the most inspirational video ever...

If you ever wanted to achieve your goals in your life, for a better future, better relationship, better health and so on, take simply 3 minutes of your time and watch this inspirational video at least once a day.

You might see something amazing happening within a few weeks or even a few days in your life and in the life of your loved ones.

Aids-like Disease spreading in China with hundreds of persons infected!

Image via WikipediaAt the moment there is not much knowledge of this "new" virus outside of China as their government is keeping the ball low on this topic.

The highly contagious disease is spreading mainly in China since the Year 2000 but got more and more attention and investigative reports in the last two or three years throughout China.

The most important symptoms of this illness (on the left side is a picture with the symptoms of an acute HIV infection as comparison):

1. Starts with flu-like symptoms like coughing and fever
2. Swollen lymph nodes on the neck
3. sore knees with clicking sounds
4. pain all over the body
5. vomit after every meal which leads to a fast weight loss

Additional symptoms (which don't appear in the normal HIV patients):

1. white tongue "fur"
2. lack of elasticity in the skin
3. excessive joint pains
4. muscle spasms
5. sensation of skin-crawling

The Group of people who suffer from this sickness calls it "Negative HIV" because all of them tested several times "Negative" on HIV but still have the same/similar symptoms.

The infection seems to be transmitted more easily than AIDS / HIV. It is said that every human fluid can transmit the unknown virus like kissing, spiting or even touching sweat. That's why usually whole families and their relatives suffer from the disease.

More information about this topic can be found here:

NaturalNews.com and the Chinese Virus

Epoch Times - Report about the highly contagious virus in China from 2011 and talking in 2010 about a HIV phobia in China.

Original chinese news report from March 2011

Pretty Girl makes you an unbelievable offer - Blopper of the Day

Would you like to hire this pretty girl to hold up a sign for you... for just 5 $?

Check it out and tell me if you would do it :)

GoDaddy video: Are you supporting the elephant slaughter of GoDaddys CEO Bob Parsons?

GoDaddy is well know for its controversial advertisement videos to promote their web hosting service to the world. Now the CEO of GoDaddy, Mr. Dr. Bob Parsons, made a new move to cause controversy on his personal twitter account on 14th March 2011.
Bob Parsons published a video of his holiday trip to Zimbabwe in which he showed how he killed an elephant bull with his riffle (at night), all in the name of helping starving villagers.



Not sure if he knew that PETA is one of GoDaddy's customers but it's not only them who have already turned their back and moved to other registrars or hosting companies.

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Strongest earthquake, tsunami hits Japan

Image via WikipediaIn the early afternoon of 11th March 2011 the biggest ever recorded earthquake (in the 140 years recording history of Japan and the fifth strongest earthquake worldwide) hit 130 km off the coast of Japan. A sunny spring day turned into one or maybe the worst day for Japan. The magnitude of the earthquake reached 8.9 on the Richter scale and it was even recognizable in Tokyo (400 km away from the epicenter of the earthquake).

The problem hasn't only been the earthquake in the ocean off Japan as a result of this earthquake a tsunami has been built up by the earth movement under water and pushed monster waves with 10 meters height up to 10 kilometer into the coastal area of the city Sendai in Japan. Boats, cars, houses, even two trains have been simply washed away by the massive waves and it's now expected that there might be at least more than 10.000 persons dead.

Until Monday morning more than 530.000 persons lost their homes (more than 80.000 had to leave their homes because of the nuclear emergency and the 20 km area around the nuclear power plant Fukushima). Additionally more than 100.000 persons have to leave their homes since Monday, 14th March 2011 because the security area around Fukushima has been expanded from 10 to 20 km.

Updates are following 2 - 3 times daily - more news reports can be found at the end of the post!

NUCLEAR Power Plants radiation leaking + possible meltdown in more than 2 plants expected, a third plant in Onega has a malfunctioning cooling system! Read a Live Ticker update about the Nuclear Danger after the videos!

Two live streaming channels added (Japanese language but pictures speak more than words!)

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More footage of the tsunami which hit Japan in the following video (including burning oil refinery & buildings)

Another big risk that occurred is that around the Pacific coast are many of the nuclear power plants which had to be shut down after the earthquake because the electricity got cut or for security reasons. Some of the emergency electricity supplies didn't work anymore after the earthquake struck Japan.

So there is a high possibility that we might get another Chernobyl disaster in Japan with massive consequences for the environment not only in Japan!

On 12th March 2011 at 7 am (Japanese time) the radioactivity in the control room # 1 in the nuclear plant of Fukushima-Daiichi (250 kilometers away from Tokyo) was already more than 1000 times higher than the normal value after they had to release pressure and radioactive vapour from the nuclear plant (reported by news agency Kyodo).

At 8 am the Japanese Premier Minister Naoto Kan extended the security zone around the nuclear plant Fukushima to a 10 kilometer zone instead (prior 3 kilometer).

At 9 am the second nuclear plant Fukushima 2 which is 12 kilometers away from the first nuclear plant is reporting about problems with its cooling system, too as they are no more functioning!

At 2:47 pm news about radioactivity leaking from the nuke plant emerged. The radiation levels are already 20 times higher than humans are exposed to for each year.

Around 5 pm news about an explosion in the nuke plant Fukushima 1 running on the tickers of the news agencies.

5:15 pm Video of a Japanese news agency is showing damages at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima

5:45 pm News Agency Jiji announced that the roof of the nuclear power plant has collapsed!

13th March 2011

7:00 pm: Japan is asking Russia for delivery of gas as they expect soon a power shortage. Population is asked to use electricity only if necessary. Russia's prime minister accepted the bid and will deliver gas to Japan.

11:00 pm: Nuclear emergency announced for Nuclear plant Onagawa because of higher than usual radiation.

Volcano Shinmoedake releases Ash and stones. The Ash reach nearly 4.000 meters up into the sky. The Volcano Shinmoedake is located 1.000 kilometer far away from the earthquake region.

14th March 2011:

1:15 am: Cooling system in Nuclear Power Plant Tokai stopped working, it is south from Fukushima.

4 am: More than

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EQNZ - Christchurch earthquake - latest media updates now available!

Image by Getty Images via @daylifeOn 3rd of September 2010 i wrote about the earthquake which happened in Christchurch, New Zealand with a magnitude of 7.0 with ZERO dead and just a few injured persons.

Today (on 22nd February 2011) a new major earthquake -or should we say aftershock (as the earth didn't really stop to shake in Christchurch in the last 5 1/2 months) - took place in Christchurch with a magnitude of 6.3. It killed more than 75 persons, 125 persons could be rescued after one day but there seem to be still 100s of person missing and probably stuck under the collapsed buildings in the rubble.

UPDATE 27.02.2010: Death toll will likely top 200 persons!

The updated blog post can be found here: Pictures and videos of the Christchurch New Zealand earthquake.

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Pictures of the Protests in Egypt - Women in the Focus

I guess everyone heard, read or watched already a lot about the recent protests which happened in January in Tunisia and now in Egypt. But not many of the international press and media (and completely to forget about the Egyptian press) are focusing on the women behind the protests. The number of the women are now growing as they see a big chance for themselves to claim more rights and achieving a much better life in freedom.

No matter in which Egyptian city you look (Cairo, Alexandria and many more), wherever there is and has been a protest women are taking part and not only in the background. More and more of them are brave enough to show up in the first row or even in confrontation with the military like the following pictures will show you!

Blessed be the people in Egypt, so that they may receive the freedom for which they are fighting!

URGENT:

Please ReTweet this message, so that the Egyptians can still access Twitter via mobile phone as the government has now blocked all major DSL connections!

Tweet by simply leaving a voicemail at ( +16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) #egypt #Jan25 #cairo PLS RETWEET!

The pictures are taken from Leil-Zahra Mortada's Facebook photo album called "Women of Egypt".

More links to other pictures and recent news of the Egyptian protests are following after a part of Leil-Zahra Mortada's "Women of Egypt" screenshot.

More picture galleries of the protests in Egypt added daily!

Tagesschau - German national news television Gallery of protests in Egypt

TotallyCoolPix (great images collection of many recent events, not only the protests in Egypt!)

Daylife's photo grid of the protests in Cairo and Alexandria

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Cruel Dog abuse in Malaysia - video by Doreen Loo

These days a video about a cruel and horrific way to teach their puppy dog to stand appeared in the Asian television & newspapers and is spreading like wildfire in Facebook and Twitter.

There's even a hunt going on for the persons who are involved in these cruel poodle puppy abuse. It seems to be a couple from Malaysia as the video was found on a pendrive in KLCC shopping complex (Kuala Lumpur in the Petronas Twin Towers) Their names seems to be Doreen Loo (the girl friend who took the video), (dog abuser) Champ Alan or Allan Tan.

More information about this couple, still pictures of the video and the involved persons + a 5 minute video of the horrific poodle dog abuse can be found on the Ye5-Blog.

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Twitter: How to get ReTweets to thousands of followers FOR FREE!

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What was your first feeling when you become member of Twitter and had 0 followers? I bet you wanted to know how you could increase your followers at least to 10 or 50 within a special time frame. The reason for this is everybody would like to have its tweets read or being mentioned by others in a small talk or even retweeted one of your tweets and with 0 followers no one usually will read your tweets. To increase your personal accounts visibility it's necessary that you interact with other members.

1. Follow members in your niche and with your interests
2. Mention these members on several occasions (send a tweet as soon as they follow you, on #followfriday #ff or by exchanging your thoughts on their tweets)
3. List members who are interesting (you can create 20 different lists/topics) or who you appreciate to be listed (as you list them, many will list you too and you get to be seen by hundreds of other members, too)
4. Join the secrect club of automatic Retweeters so that your tweet will reach thousands of followers each day for FREE!

The list of the secret club of automatic Retweeters and how you get a Retweet from them!

• Simply follow them and wait between a few hours and three days until they follow you back
• after they followed you send them a Direct message with your tweet
• Take care - these account will mention your nickname automatically, so you can only send them a DM with less than 120 characters (instead of 140), otherwise they cut off important informations at the end of your tweet (like your link)
• Still play by Twitter's rules - no spamming, no promoting of Twitter following programs or other tweets which get your account suspended!

To name a few of them - some of the accounts which i use regularly-

You can follow these accounts easily with my Twitter-Tools-List (which will be updated as soon as new Retweet-Accounts join the Secret Club)

@TweetAnnounce (27.000+ Followers)

@mytwett (17.000+ Followers)

@RetweetTrain (13.600+ Followers)

@RetweetWizard (12.400+ Followers)

@RetweetHub (8.800+ Followers)

@weretweet (7.700+ Followers)

@WildRetweeter (4.200+ Followers)

@TweetEchos (3.400+ Followers)

@ARAGUACOMERCIAL (3.000+ Followers)

@RTFORYOU (1.800+ Followers)

@Retweet_Mart (1.600+ Followers)

@Retweets4You (1.100+ Followers)*

@Retweet123 (1.000+ Followers)

@followretweet (700+ Followers)

@ashraf_firee (550+ Followers)

@we_retweet (300+ Followers)

VIDEO: San Bruno Gas Explosion in California caught on tape

On 9th September 2010 an unbelievable natural gas pipeline explosion happened at the rural area of San Bruno in California.

Today the video footage of an surveillance security camera from a nearby Gas station which caught the fire blast of this San Bruno, California Natural Gas pipeline explosion has been published by Associated Press - This is the first footage after the 30-inch diameter PG&E Corp. Gas pipeline explosion happened.

The Gas explosion did cost 8 persons their lives (as of 30th September - more updates at the end of the post). Over 50 houses are inhabitable or destroyed, around 300 houses have little or no damage.
PG&E Corp. did setup a relief fund with $100 million to support residents and city facilities (not included claims for injuries or wrongful death).

First live videos reports of the Gas pipe explosion (9th September 20 - 30 minutes after the explosion happened) taken from a Chopper concluded that it was most likely a plane crash that caused the fires in an entire neighborhood of San Bruno (CBS NEWS).

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Pictures and Video of Earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand

Image by Getty Images via @daylifeUPDATE: Another earthquake with a magnitude of 6+ stroke Christchurch during lunchtime on 22nd February 2011 devastating a large area of the city and killing more than 75 persons. More than 125 persons could still be rescued from collapsed buildings since the quake happened but still more persons are expected under the rubble of these buildings! (Update 27.02.2011: Death toll will top most likely 200 persons during this weekend!

In case you want to know if your relatives are safe get your information from the Red Cross missing person line now active. In NZ: 0800 REDCROSS (0800 733 276). From outside: +64 7 850 2199

From 23rd February 2001 at 11 am there should be drinking water available from various primary schools, please bring your own drinking containers to fill! via @ChristchurchCC

Christchurch City Council has now its own Twitter account - get informations from their account here: @ChristchurchCC

Contribute your pictures to the Flickr Christchurch Earthquake Group Pool (over 100 members, more than 700 pictures including the earthquake from September 2010)

★ How to donate to the chch NZ earthquake fund➛ http://www.redcross.org.nz/donate

Did a Valentine’s Day tweet predict Christchurch quake? http://tinyurl.com/49aqcy6

Video Coverage of the Earthquake in Christchurch New Zealand with some explicit pictures of victims!

Links to more pictures collections, videos & news can be found in the middle and at the end of the article.

Around 4:35 am on 4th September 2010 a very massive 7.2 magnitude earthquake woke up many residents of the city Christchurch in New Zealand.

After the earth "stopped" shaking widespread damages and several power cuts have been reported by the civil defense minister of New Zealand (state of emergency declared).

Christchurch is the second-largest city of New Zealand with a population of 372.000. CNN reported that there have been 2 injured persons in the hospital after the massive earthquake and several strong aftershocks had happened. Scientists predict that a big aftershock will be likely after this destructive Canterbury quake.

Why the aftershocks and when will they stop? - Expert explains

This Blog Post will be updated two - three times daily with fresh news and links, simply bookmark, share and tweet it to spread the news!

The following pictures have been made and published by @Polarbearfarm in their yfrog-stream and can be shared with their credits.

At first have a look at the video of the impressions of the Earthquake victims and the devastated city of Christchurch recorded some hours after the Earthquake happened!

More resources and updates of the Canterbury Earthquake (news & photos & videos) can be found below the images and at the end of the post.

Live footage of a Security camera at the moment when the Christchurch New Zealand earthquake happened (from Associated Press), don't be irritated from the screenshot:

Links to other pictures, photos, images and videos of the Christchurch, New Zealand Earthquake

More photos of the New Zealand Earthquake which struck Christchurch can be found in the yfrog-stream of @PolarBearFarm.

Another collection of pictures from the Christchurch South New Zealand earthquake can be found on Crashbang and on Flickr the excellent photostream of Redbox Photography.

An amazing 1:18 minute footage from a flyover of the 'fault trace' from the NZ earthquake (GNS Scientists make an initial aerial assessment of the fault trace southwest of Christchurch)

TIME - Slide Show with photos from the New Zealand earthquake in Christchurch (#chch)

NEW: Flickr Christchurch Earthquake Group Pool with 700+ images from 61 members (and increasing each day) + Special Post on official Flickr Blog!

Links to other news article, facts or general informations about the Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand earthquake (updated at least twice daily)

Most often used Hashtags in Twitter to find news about the New Zealand earthquake: #eqnz #eqchch #chch

UPDATE:

Until 6. November 2010 (more than 60 days after the first strong earthquake stroke Christchurch) there have been more than 2.500 Aftershocks. Just on 5th November have been again 11 earthquakes, one reached again a magnitude of more than 4.

For everyone who has damages on their buildings, offices, cars and so on from the Christchurch earthquake, you should check out the post from the New Zealand Herald on How to make an Insurance claim through the New Zealand Earthquake Commission

Water restrictions were lifted for Christchurch and Banks Peninsula residents in the night of 8th September, boiling water no more necessary.

The New Zealand Red Cross offers some basic guides for coping with emergencies (useful during earthquakes, its aftershocks, other disasters or general emergencies)

- Recovering from an emergency for young people

- Recovering from an emergency - Key Information

Another blog post especially for supporting children during an Earthquake and aftershocks was written by Dr. Sarb Johal

An interesting blog post by Kalena which asks about your #firstthreetweets after or during the Christchurch earthquake on 4th September. Simply tweet with this hashtag and she might add your #firstthreetweets to her growing list!

Another blog post which should grab your attention is called The Lessons of an Earthquake.

Two major aftershock earthquakes (low depth of less than 10 km) hit Christchurch again in the morning of 8th September with magnitudes of 4.4 and 5.1 ! A Power Out appeared for several minutes, persons get evacuated from hotels and inner city businesses, new cracks appearing in buildings!

In Kaiapoi CBD out of 71 buildings only 18 are safe. 31 have restricted access and 22 are unsafe.

In 1931, Napier had 7.8 earthquake & 525 aftershocks in first 2 weeks. On 30th September there have been up to 800+ aftershocks in the first 4 weeks & still counting. Source: Geonet & NZ Herald

Two earthquakes hit the North Island at Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa between 10 and 11 am of 7th September with 5.2 and 3.6 magnitude, no damage reported but widely felt throughout the area.

A website has been set up for Canterbury residents.

Spammy Scam emails are hitting email-accounts claiming they are sites to donate money for Christchurch New Zealand earthquake fund. Beware. Only trust reliable sources like Red Cross.

The earthquake happened at a new fault line and comes as a big "surprise" to the scientists!

Now more than 500 houses condemned and over 20 houses inhabitable!

Latest news from 6th September write about two thirds of the buildings in Christchurch have been damaged by the earthquake and dozen of aftershocks!
Gale force winds in the last hours let more of the loose bricks crash down to the streets and interrupt restoration of Christchurch

Other news report of a record number of births in Christchurch on the day of the earthquake, Saturday 4th September (21, highest for Saturday)!

An interesting blog post about the experience during the Earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand: 13 things I learned from an earthquake

Coveritlive.com - Live Stream of incoming Tweets about the Christchurch New Zealand Earthquake!

My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone in Christchurch and New Zealand as it will take time to build up everything and the rainy/stormy weather won't do any good in this situation!

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Real Alien appears during live interview in South American TV?

We all know the stories about flying saucers or UFOs after the World War II and the well known mystery which is surrounding the case of Roswell (1947) in which the US military may have recovered an alien spacecraft (with dead or living aliens).

In this video it seems like a real alien is walking down the hill towards the car of the Television team. But it maybe just a Nordic walker or someone who walks with a dog ;)

In the end everyone is for yourself the judge if you could believe that this is an Extraterrestrial being or just a human or if it's kind of a manipulated video.

The Live Interview was made on 8 of August 2010 on Channel 2 in Santa Cruz, Argentina, South America.

Enjoy the video and leave a comment what you believe!

Why did i tell you in advance that the possible alien could be a Nordic Walker or a person who walks with a dog?

Our mind is kind of fixed to believe about what we read already and this belief gets usually stronger after we saw pictures or videos of the "Alien". Now your eyes might look much closer to this Extraterrestrial being to judge if it's a real alien or just a human being with a dog or with two walking sticks.

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NDM-1: The Superbug or what is it really?

Image via WikipediaThe name "NDM-1" is spreading trough the news since today and it is called the new Superbug who could cause the next epidemic or even pandemic situation in our world (what a great time to start writing again about a possible endemic disease as soon as the WHO has declared the end of the swine flu pandemic today).

NDM-1 which means New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1 positive bacteria is a bacterial gene who gives at the moment the E. coli bacterias a drug resistance against common antibiotics. The most common diseases which result now from the contaminated NDM-1 gene are pneumonia and urinary tract infections.

Facts about NDM-1

1. NDM-1 seems to be spreading from India and Pakistan to Europe, most of the time because of persons who made "cheaper" (cosmetic) surgeries or cancer treatments in these countries. It's another fact that in India antibiotic treatment is used for too many sicknesses even when it wouldn't be necessary (which would strongly influence bacterias to modify in such antibiotic-resistant ways)
   
   
2. There are a few cases in other European countries (Sweden, Netherlands), the USA, Canada and Australia
   
   
3. The superbug NDM-1 is already known for more than ONE YEAR. Last year in August 2009 there have been 22 known cases in the UK, now the newspapers report write there are 50 cases
   
   
4. In comparison to the Swine flu scare from April 2008 - the H1N1-virus spread within weeks to almost all countries due to international travel and infected hundred thousands of persons but killed just a few thousand - it seems at the moment like "someone" wants to make panic because hundreds of newspaper write now about it.
   
   
5. There are at the moment two known antibiotics which can fight against NDM-1 infected bacteria. The question is how long will these two antibiotics be successful as bacterias can modify their code quickly. In comparison developing new antibiotics takes up to 10 years.

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Amazing facts about your body which you might not know yet! Part Two

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Humans are the only animals capable of drawing a straight line.

On average, an individual grows over 450 miles of hair in a lifetime.

When a person smiles, 17 muscles are engaged.

Men shorter than 4.2 feet and women shorter than 3.9 feet are considered dwarfs.

White blood cells live in the human body for 2 to 4 days, while red blood cells live up to 3 to 4 months.

Human heart is equal in size to a human fist. Average weight of an adult’s heart is approximately 0.5lbs.

Human brain generates more electric impulses in a day than all telephones of the world combined.

Total weight of bacteria living in the human body is 4.4lbs.

Human brain produces 100,000 chemical reactions per second.

Babies are born without kneecaps, which form only at the age of 2 to 6.

The area of human lungs’ surface is equal to that of a tennis court.

The human small intestines are 8.5 feet long during life. After death, when the muscles of the bowel walls relax, it may reach over 19 feet.

An average human has approximately 2 million of perspiratory glands. An average adult person loses 540 calories with a liter of sweat. Men perspire 40% more than women.

The right lung holds more air than the left one.

In a lifetime, the female body produces 7 million egg cells but uses less than 600 of these egg cells.

The human eye is capable of differentiating 10,000,000 hues.

There are approximately 40,000 bacteria in the human mouth.

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Women blink twice as often as men.

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