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10827. Fact
There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
10828. Fact
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so that the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its' forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
10829. Fact
The first penny candy to be wrapped in America was the Tootsie Roll in 1896
10830. Fact
Some people start to sneeze if they are exposed to sunlight or have a light shined into their eye
10831. Fact
The first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 was Janet Guthrie in 1977.
10832. Fact
The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
10833. Body Facts
Prickly heat rash is caused by sweat sticking to the layer of dead skin cells on top of your skin. As the cells can't fall off, the sweat can't escape and makes the live cells underneath swell up.
10834. Body Facts
Most people have mites – very tiny creatures related to spiders – living in their eyelashes, eyebrows, ears and noses.
10835. Body Facts
For a work entitled Self, created in 1991, English sculptor Marc Quinn made a copy of his head, moulded from his own deep-frozen blood. Quinn collected almost 4 litres (8 pints) of his blood over five months, poured it into a mould of his head and froze it.
10836. Body Facts
When a wound gets infected, it oozes yellow pus. Pus is a mixture of dead blood cells, bacteria and other dead cells from your body.
10837. Body Facts
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.
10838. Body Facts
Pilgrims to the Tirupati temple in India give some of their hair as a sacrifice.The temple employs 600 barbers who work day and night to shave pilgrims, taking 6.5 million gifts of hair a year.The hair is sold to wig-makers and for use as fertilizer.
10839. Body Facts
About 70 millilitres (around 2.5 fluid ounces) of blood are spurted out of your heart with each beat.
10840. Body Facts
The wucheria worm can live in the lymph system and grow up to 12 centimetres (5 inches) long.
10841. Body Facts
In some countries, the umbilical cord – the cord that attaches the unborn baby to its mother – is dried and kept after birth, to use in spells or medicines.
10842. Body Facts
About a third of your faeces is not old food, but bacteria that help you to digest food, and bits of the lining of the inside of your gut.
10843. Body Facts
People who lose an arm or leg in an accident or operation can often still feel it hurting, aching or itching but can do nothing to make it feel better.
10844. Body Facts
Dust mites are found in all houses. They eat the dead skin we shed all the time, and live in beds, carpets, rugs and anywhere else snug which collects flakes of skin.
10845. Body Facts
An amoeba common in warm water can travel up your nose while you are swimming and live in your brain, where it multiplies rapidly and kills you in three to seven days.
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A leech is a worm that feeds on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill itself with three to four times its own body weight in blood, and will not feed again for months. Leeches were once used by doctors to drain bad blood from sick patients.
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