Health and Medical Trivia

  • The average human body contains enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.
  • A person who suffers from Cataplexy, is often paralyzed by his own emotions.
  • A person who suffers from the "Pseudobulbar Affect" often experiences involuntary fits of laughter and crying or both at the same time.
  • If you were to compare the two by weight, bone is 5 times stronger than steel.
  • Studies suggest the psychological pain of a break up hurts just as much as physical injury.
  • There is an actual condition called the Tetris effect. This causes you to see Tetris shapes even when you are not playing the game.
  • People that smoke have 10 times as many wrinkles as people that do not smoke.
  • "Hypopituitarism" is a rare disease that doesn't allow a person to feel love.
  • Trimethylaminuria(Fish Odour Syndrome) is a rare metabolic disorder that causes people's breath, urine and sweat to smell like fish.
  • A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.
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