Let’s Talk Trash! MAR- APR 2022
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on the human body 16 1. Your eyes blink around 20 times a minute. That ‛ s over ten million times a year! 2. Your ears never stop growing! 3. Earwax is actually a type of sweat! 4. The tongue is covered in about 8,000 taste-buds, each containing up to 100 cells helping you taste your food! 5. You produce about 40,000 litres of spit in your lifetime. Or to put it another way, enough spit to fill around five hundred bathtubs – yuck! 6. The average nose produces about a cupful of nasal mucus every day! 7. You are about 1cm taller in the morning when you first get up than when you go to bed. This is because during the day the soft cartilage between your bones gets squashed and compressed. 8. The only muscle that never tires is the heart. 9. If you walked for 12 hours a day, it would take the average person 690 days to walk around the world. 10. The entire surface of your skin is replaced every month, which put another way means you have about 1,000 different skins in your life. 11. The body has 2.5 million sweat pores. 12. Every minute you shed over 30,000 dead skin cells. 13. If you live to age 70, your heart will have beat around 2.5 billion times. 14. Spread across their lifetime, most people spend an average of one whole year sitting on the toilet. 15. On average you pass enough gas in one day to fill a party balloon. 16. We wee enough wee every month to fill a bath!
Your fingerprints stay the same for your whole life. Fingerprints develop before babies are born. People grow up and thier appearances change but one thing that does not change is their fingerprint pattern.
In the millions of fingerprints that have been collected and examined, no two identical sets of fingerprints have been found! Believe it or not, even identical twins have different fingerprints. Fingerprints are very small and hard to explore and investigate. In this fun little science experiment you will Giant Fingerprint Experiment Stretch your balloon several times so it is easy to blowup. Lay the balloon on the table and flatten an area big enough to fit a fingerprint making sure there are no creases in the balloon. Press your finger into the ink. Now press your inked finger onto the balloon. Gently roll your finger to capture your entire fingerprint. Blow up the balloon and tie it off. Enjoy inspecting your Giant Fingerprint. You will need a BALLOON and an INK PAD Instructions: use a balloon to expand your fingerprint to gigantic proportions so you can see the arches, whirls, loops, and more.
Source: https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/children/2017/16-weird-and-wacky-facts-on-the-human-body.html
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