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Upload to Facebook Human saliva contains a painkiller called Opiorphin that is six times more powerful than Morphine! -
Upload to Facebook Quarantena:
Persian scholar of medicine, Ibn Sina (980-1037), suspected that some diseases were spread by microorganisms; to prevent human-to-human contamination, he came up with the method of isolating people for 40 days. He called this method al-Arba'iniya (`the forty`).
Traders from Venice heard of his success and took this knowledge back to Italy. They called it 'quarantine', the forty in Italian.
This is where the word quarantine comes from! -
Upload to Facebook Cuddling (and other acts of love) help to heal physical wounds faster due to the release of oxytocin. -
Upload to Facebook The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air. -
Upload to Facebook CT body scans expose the patient to the same amount of radiation as that experienced within a mile and a half of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. -
Upload to Facebook Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death. -
Upload to Facebook The happier you are, the less sleep you require to function in everyday life. Sadness increases the urge to sleep more. -
Upload to Facebook Silent farts have the most concentrated doses of sulfur, the compound that makes farts smell. -
Upload to Facebook Our blood alcohol concentration typically peaks 30 to 60 minutes after our last drink. -
Upload to Facebook The brain takes the longest of any organ to develop and goes through more changes than any other organ in the human body.
