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Your lungs are large
Speaking of inhaling and exhaling, your lungs have a tough job—and maybe that’s why they’re so large. Depending on the source, experts estimate that the surface area of your lungs can cover a badminton court or half a tennis court (some even say an entire tennis court).
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Here’s why you to hydrate
You exhale more than hot air: Exhaling is one way water leaves your body. And the amount that comes out quadruples when you exercise. When you’re getting sweaty, you exhale about 60 to 70 milliliters per hour, research points out. Time to take an H20 break.
You’re a saliva machine
You probably don’t think much about your dribble, but you produce on average 640 milliliters of saliva a day—that’s a little more than 20 ounces. That’s a good thing since saliva plays an important role in washing away the nasties in your mouth. People with low saliva levels are more vulnerable to cavities and oral infections.
You’re pretty brainy
Give it up for your noggin. There are at least 100 trillion neural connections in the human brain. Keep them all firing by following these brain-boosting habits. Whether you tutor others or learn to play an instrument, you can protect against cognitive decline and stay sharp for the long haul.
Toenails lag behind fingernails
Ever wonder why you need to clip your toenails less often than your fingers? It’s because they grow at a snail’s pace. While fingernails grow 3.47 millimeters per month, toenails only grow 1.62 millimeters a month, according to the Journal of The European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology.
You’re pore-fection
Magnifying mirrors are the worst for revealing every imperfection on your face, but even they can’t see just how many pores dot your features. Adults have about 20,000 pores on their face, per a Harris Poll.
There’s a hidden network in your body
Blood vessels are tiny, but line them all up and you’ve got something really big—really big. Your body boasts a network of 60,000 miles of blood vessels, notes the National Institutes of Health. One way to keep them healthy is by eating right.
Certain body parts have standard sizes
For men wanting to know if they measure up, the average penis is just above five inches when erect, according to research in the Journal of Urology and the British Journal of Urology International. They also note that the average circumference is four and a half inches. Size isn’t something to worry about, but these sex problems should be taken seriously.
You’re built to be a foodie
Salty, sweet, bitter, sour, and savory: Your tongue boasts 2,000 to 8,000 taste buds, and each has 50 to 100 taste receptor cells. (The number and location of these taste buds vary widely in each person.) That’s a huge opportunity to love every bite of food you eat.
Ovaries house a lot of eggs
Women are born with two million eggs in their ovaries. But you won’t continue making them throughout your life: A woman’s supply decreases throughout her years until menopause. As many as 500 mature throughout the reproductive years, with the rest being simply destroyed by the body.
Your noggin’s kind of hefty
As big as your brain is, it’s a mystery why you’re losing your keys all the time. The average human brain weighs in at about three pounds for men and a bit over two and a half pounds for women. #
Everybody poops
No seriously. The average human does 1. 1/24 poops every 24 hours, per research in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology. (A rather fun but unofficial calculator can estimate how many times you’ve pooped in your life.) If you’re worried whether bowel movements are normal,
All of Alaska is divided into boroughs, not counties
Alaska and Louisiana are the only two states that don’t divide themselves into counties, they separate their territory into boroughs and parishes, respectively. But at least 323,400 square miles of Alaskan land falls under the Unorganized Borough category. In other words, it belongs to no county, parish, or borough. This bigger-than-Texas nonentity has no central government which means they don’t have to pay for local or property taxes. Despite this big perk, there are a few pitfalls to living in the rural Alaskan lands of the Unorganized Borough such as poverty, crime, and addiction. Periodically, there have been movements to turn the nonentity into actual boroughs, but residents may not be ready for that step just yet.
No one in Arizona observes Daylight Saving Time
Arizona has not observed Daylight Saving Time since 1967, but there is one portion of Arizona that continues to observe it—Navajo Nation. The Native American territory, which also traverses the state lines of Utah and New Mexico, elected to adopt Daylight Saving Time because they didn’t want to put the communities on two different clocks. The smaller Hopi reservation of the Navajo Nation is the only segment of the territory that chose not to observe Daylight Saving Time because it lies within Arizona.
The largest earthquake in American history occurred in California
Even though California is extremely susceptible to earthquakes because it lies on top of the San Andreas Fault system, Alaska wins the record for largest recorded earthquake in the United States, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information. On March 28, 1964, a 9.2 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunamis struck Alaska’s Prince William Sound and caused about $2.3 billion of damage in today’s money.
Colorado was the first state to legalize recreational marijuana
Actually, Washington and Colorado both defied federal law and passed the legalization of recreational marijuana use on November 6, 2012. Today Alaska, California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington D.C., Vermont, Maine and Massachusetts (which goes into effect in July 2018) have given the “OK” for recreational marijuana use.
Connecticut is called the “Constitution State” because the constitution was signed there
The U.S. Constitution was written and signed on September 17, 1787, in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia. But in the early 19th century, John Fiske, a popular historian from Connecticut, claimed the Fundamental Orders of 1638/1639 were the first written constitution in history. And a former Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court backed up Fiske’s claim by citing a book authored by a journalist, who wrote that a group of men had never met up to prescribe a set of rules and modes of government until a few men in Connecticut came together to write up the Fundamental Orders. But the dispute amongst historians about the real “first written constitution” still continues.
The Florida Everglades is the largest swamp in the United States
People may think the Florida Everglades is a swamp filled with alligators and crocodiles lurking beneath the dark water’s surface, but the everglades are actually a wetland. The largest swamp wilderness in America is the 1.4 million-acre Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana, which is at least two and a half times more productive than the Florida Everglades
The “Peach State” of Georgia is the country’s leading producer of peaches
Peaches may be a valuable part of Georgia’s agriculture and economy, but California ranked first in 2016 as the country’s leading peach producer. Besides, Georgia blueberries are the state’s real moneymaker. Blueberries generated an estimated $94 million for Georgia growers while peaches only made $30 million in 2012. In fact, blueberries—not peaches—ranked as one of Georgia’s top ten agricultural commodities in 2016.
Pineapples are the native fruits of Hawaii
The sweet, juicy fruit may be a Hawaiian symbol, but the tropical plant is native to Paraguay and southern Brazil. It is suspected that the Spaniards may have taken the pineapples to Hawaii and Guam in the early 16th century after introducing the fruit to the Philippines.
Chicago, Illinois is called the “Windy City” because of its wild breezes
Chicago’s moniker doesn’t describe the city’s daily forecast like most people think, it actually became a more accurate description for public officials. The city can thank nineteenth-century journalists for criticizing Chicago’s elites for being “full of hot air” and thus giving the city its nickname. An 1858 article from the Chicago Daily Tribune read, “[a] hundred militia officers, from corporal to commander…air their vanity… in this windy city.” Numerous newspapers used the “Windy City” reference for the egotistical politicians of Chicago who gave long-winded speeches (known as “windbags”), but only wanted to con people to turn a profit.
Bourbon whiskey was named after Bourbon County in Kentucky
The jury is still out on this one! Michael Veach, a bourbon historian, believes the name came from New Orleans. The Tarascon brothers, two transplants from Cognac, France came to Louisville, Kentucky and started shipping local whiskey aged in charred barrels down to Louisiana. Veach says that the brothers marketed their whiskey as resembling cognac or French brandy, a beloved favorite for French residents in New Orleans. By the 19th century, the New Orleans entertainment district became known as Bourbon Street. “People start asking for ‘that whiskey they sell on Bourbon Street,’ which eventually became that ‘bourbon whiskey,’” Veach told Smithsonian Magazine. Still, historians are stumped as to who gets the credit for the bourbon name.
The easternmost part of the United States is Maine
You’ll be surprised (and totally confused) to find that the Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska is the easternmost part of the United States and North America, not Maine. If you use the Prime Meridian and 180th meridian to define the boundaries between the eastern and western hemispheres, Semisopochnoi Island stretches across the 180-degree line of longitude into the Eastern Hemisphere, making it the easternmost part of the United States.
Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy was the youngest U.S. President to ever serve
You may think the dashing JFK was the youngest U.S. president ever, but it was actually former New York governor Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt was 42 years old when he stepped in as president in 1901 after William McKinley’s assassination. John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he was elected.
Minnesota, the “Land of 10,000 Lakes,” has the most lakes in the entire nation
Don’t let the moniker deceive you! Minnesota’s lake total tallies in at close to 12,000! But the state with the most lakes goes to Alaska with three million lakes greater than 5 acres. In fact, Alaska holds more than 40 percent of the nation’s surface water resources, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
The Mississippi River is the longest river in the United States
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Missouri River trumps the Mississippi River for longest river at 2,540 miles, an entire 200 miles longer.
Nevada has the country’s hottest temperature ever recorded
Actually, that record goes to California with Death Valley reaching a scorching 134 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer of 1913, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Not only is it the hottest temperature in the United States—it’s the highest in the world!
New York City served as the nation’s first capital
Yes, New York City was the first capital of the United States under the ratification of the Constitution. But did you know that there were seven other capitals before that? In 1774, representatives from the 13 colonies first convened as the First Continental Congress at Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia.
The deadliest day in American military history took place during the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania
The Battle of Gettysburg is the site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it gets the record for deadliest day in American military history. In fact, that title goes to a different Civil War battle—the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland, which killed more than an estimated 3,500 Union and Confederate soldiers in just one day.