10 Horrible Facts About Body

(1)

Egyptian mummies that have been

dead for 3,000 years still have 

their fingerprints intact.

 (2)

More than 200 types of different

organisms live inside or on your

body at any time .

(3)

You go white when really
scared because blood drains
from your skin.This protected
primitive humans from
bleeding to death if bitten
by scary, wild animals.

(4)

The acid in your stomach is so
strong that it can dissolve steel
razor blades – it’s still not a good
idea to eat them, though.

(5)

Dentists in the Far East used
to pull teeth out with their
bare hands! In China, they
practised by pulling nails out
of wood with their fingers.

 

(6)

Adult feet
produce about a
quarter of a cup of
sweat a day from
250,000 pores – wait
four days and you
could make a cup of
foot-sweat tea! 

(7)

The larvae of the pork tapeworm, hatched from eggs eaten in infected pork, can travel around the body and live in the brain, eyes, heart or muscles.

 (8)

An Indian man known as Snake Manu can
put small snakes, including deadly cobras,
into his mouth and pass them out through
his nose.

 (9)

Surma girls of Ethiopia put clay disks
in their lower lip, stretching the
lip outwards.The size of the disk
indicates how many cattle a man
needs to provide to marry the
girl – they can be up to 15
centimetres (6 inches) across.

 (10)

In some parts of Africa and on
some Pacific islands, people
make patterns of raised scars
on their skin as a decoration
or to show their bravery.
The wounds are made with
sharp spikes or thorns from
plants and often rubbed with
special kinds of earth or leaves
to created coloured tattoos.

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