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Hi Friends.
Here are some facts of life that you may not know.

1. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
2. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
3. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
4. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
5. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you
Sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
6. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
7. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to
Suppress a sneeze; you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck
and die.
8. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

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Hi Friends.
Here are some facts of life that you may not know.

1. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Hmmmm. There is no one answer for this question since there are different ways to measure strength. There is absolute strength (maximum force), dynamic strength (repeated motions), elastic strength (exert force quickly), and strength endurance (withstand fatigue). Relative to size you could say the tongue, but masseters, gluteus maximus and rectus femoris are no slouches either.

2. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
Which women? What physiological immperative would cause this? More is believable, twice as much is unlikely. I'd like to see the study that showed this.

3. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
Correct.

4. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
I've known people with deformed limbs that could.

5. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you
Sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
The heart doesn't stop when you sneeze. This is one of several proposed explanations of why "bless you" is said. The actual customary usage is unknown. Most are to do with religious implications for what a sneeze represented in less enlightened times.

6. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
Bullshit. I've heard the same one about dogs, complete and utter nonsense.

7. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to
Suppress a sneeze; you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck
and die.
This is like saying if you lift too heavy you'll tear a muscle. Suppressing a sneeze wouldn't necessarily rupture anything, but it can. You can crack ribs sleeping on them poorly or coughing too much.

8. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

Thanks.
So is the retina, limb lengths, etc.

Sorry for being a bit rude, but I'm not a fan of these categorical "facts". Most of them are glossing over a complex area, are lies, or are just plain stating the obvious. Bit like the 206 bones in the human body: go and get yours counted and you are more likely to have ~195 but this can range by +10% in the general population. Take into account vestigial traits and stuff like ossicals and the numbers jump all over the place.
 
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tim the red headed troll?
 
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we better be careful skip, it seems tim has a short fuze see below

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tim dressed for the town
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^ well i guess skip wins. thanks tkd, jerk, meh one more

Tim(below) in much happier days, (before his internet trolling began), he is both red heads in this photo.


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Red headed are DD's favs from what I remember :hay:

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