Ex. 44. Let’s laugh a little. Translate at sight.

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True, most of this information is completely useless, but interesting.

1. Human thigh (бедро) bones are stronger than concrete.
2. The average human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail, sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
3. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
4. More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food.
5. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
6. In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt
7. You’re born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
8. It is impossible to sneeze (чихать) with your eyes open.
9. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
10. Beards (борода) are the fastest growing hairs on the human body.
11. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
12. One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
13. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different!
14. The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptist, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man.
15. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
16. Most dust (пыль) particles in your house are made from dead skin!
17. The present population of 6 the world is 6 billion and it become 15 billion by 2080.
18. Women blink (мигать) nearly twice as much as men.
19. The average person laughs 10 times a day!
20. The only time the human population declined was in the years following 1347, the start of the epidemic of the plague (чума) ‘Black Death’ in Europe.
21. The human brain is 78% water.
22. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation (голодание). Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
23. An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
24. An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit (круг) of the body.
25. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

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