Human Body

• The tongue is the only muscle in the human body not attached at both ends
• It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown
• 85% of the human brain is comprised of water
• A sneeze can exceed speeds of 160km per hour
• A baby in the womb acquires fingerprints at the age of three months
• The Smallest muscle in the human body is the stapedius, located in the middle ear
• The Strongest muscle in the human body is the masseter, at the back of the jaw
• The rarest blood group in the world is A-H
• The brain uses a quarter of all the body’s oxygen
• The hardest substance in the human body is enamel, the outer layer of a tooth

Animal Kingdom

• The Camel is the only mammal that posseses oval blood cells
• The armadillo always gives birth to twins
• The Skin of a polar bear is black
• The Giraffe is the only mammal to be born with two horns
• Rats are unable to vomit
• The Koala bear has fingerprints that are almost identical to those of humans
• The tongue of a chameleon is almost twice the length of its body
• A newborn kangaroo measures around 2.54cm (1ins) in length
• Dogs and Humans are the only animals with prostate glands
• Only female mosquitoes bite

How Many – Human Body?

• Humans have 206 bones
• 300 bones as babies
• 33 vertebrae
• An average pulse rate of 70 to 80 beats per minute
• 3000 taste buds on their tongue
• 230 joints
• 100,000 hairs on an average scalp
• 23 pairs of chromosomes
• 365 acupuncture points
• 32 teeth in a full adult set, 12 molars, 8 pre-molars, 8 incisors, 4 canines

How Many – Animal Kingdom?

• An ostrich has two toes on each foot
• An elephant has four teeth
• A cow has four stomachs
• Bees have five eyes
• Ants have five noses
• Shrimps and lobsters both have ten legs
• A male horse has 40 teeth, a female has 36
• A crayfish has 200 chromosomes
• A porcupine boasts over 30,000 quills
• A giraffe has just seven bones in its neck, the same as humans

Insect Info

• The Average lifespan of a dragonfly is 24 hours
• The Dragonfly is nicknamed the Devil’s darning needle
• The Praying mantis is the only creature on the planet born with one ear
• A caterpillar has over 2000 muscles in its body
• The Butterfly was origionally called a flutterby
• Mosquitoes are the worlds deadliest creatures. The World Health Organisation estimates that the diseases transmitted by their bites are responsible for over 2 million deaths each year
• You are more likely to be bitten by a mosquito if you have blonde hair, wear blue clothes and eat bananas
• The Ant has the largest brain in te animal kingdom in proportion to the size of its body
• The hum of a housefly is in the key of F
• Spiders have eight legs, eight eyes and it is estimated that humans eat eight spiders in their lifetime during sleep

Beetle mania

• The Heaviest insect in the animal kingdom is the Goliath beetle weighing over 110gms
• The beetle is the largest order of animals on Earth with over 300,000 different species
• A cockroach can survive for up to a week minus its head
• Breeds of Tropical cockroach can travel 50 times their body length in the space of a second, equivalent to an athlete running 100m in one second
• Beetles taste like apples