"Conventions and traditions, I suppose, work blindly but surely for the preservation of the normal type, for the extinction of proud, resolute and unusual individuals... Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and madness. Yes, society must go on, it must breed, like rabbits. That is what we are here for... But, at any rate, there is always Leonora to cheer you up, I don't want to sadden you. Her husband is quite an economical person of so normal figure that he can get quite a large proportion of his clothes ready-made. That is the great desideratum of life..."
Ford Maddox Ford 1915 The Good Soldier
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Some curiosities about the Human body
- The brain needs 10W of energy to work (the sum of the small pieces making a computer needs more than 300W and just the motherboard needs 20-30W);
- Each single neuron responsible for memory has a storage capacity that is equivalent to 5 British Encyclopaedias;
- 80% of the brain is made of water and it uses 20% of the total oxygen body consumption;
- After decapitation the consciousness is preserved for 15-20sec (morbid!!);
- During the whole life we produce enough saliva to fulfil 2 swimming pools;
- By the age of 60 we lost already more than half of the gustatory papillae;
- A sneeze can achieve 160km/h and travel 300m;
- The liver has more than 500 known functions;
- The human heart creates enough pressure to project the blood 10m away;
- Women’s heart beats faster than men’s;
- Monday is the day with higher risk to have a myocardial infarction;
- We have around 96,500km of blood vessels in our body, twice the Earth’s circumference;
- It is impossible for a person to tickle him/herself;
- Each hair follicle can support a weight of 110g;
- The hand’s middle finger nail grows faster than the others;
- Feet can produce up to 500mL of sweat per day;
- The smallest and the biggest human cells are the ones that originate life, the spermatozoa and the egg, respectively;
- Most of men have erections during sleep every hour or hour and a half;
- Each day there are around 100million sexual relationships on Earth which makes 4,17million per minute;
Adapted from Sábado
- Each single neuron responsible for memory has a storage capacity that is equivalent to 5 British Encyclopaedias;
- 80% of the brain is made of water and it uses 20% of the total oxygen body consumption;
- After decapitation the consciousness is preserved for 15-20sec (morbid!!);
- During the whole life we produce enough saliva to fulfil 2 swimming pools;
- By the age of 60 we lost already more than half of the gustatory papillae;
- A sneeze can achieve 160km/h and travel 300m;
- The liver has more than 500 known functions;
- The human heart creates enough pressure to project the blood 10m away;
- Women’s heart beats faster than men’s;
- Monday is the day with higher risk to have a myocardial infarction;
- We have around 96,500km of blood vessels in our body, twice the Earth’s circumference;
- It is impossible for a person to tickle him/herself;
- Each hair follicle can support a weight of 110g;
- The hand’s middle finger nail grows faster than the others;
- Feet can produce up to 500mL of sweat per day;
- The smallest and the biggest human cells are the ones that originate life, the spermatozoa and the egg, respectively;
- Most of men have erections during sleep every hour or hour and a half;
- Each day there are around 100million sexual relationships on Earth which makes 4,17million per minute;
Adapted from Sábado
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