Fun Facts About Food
- Did you know that carrots used to be purple before the 16th century?
- The carrots also came in white and yellow.
- You can actually turn your skin orange by massively over-eating orange carrots
- Today, Coca Cola is sold in every country in the world except North Korea
- There are more than 300,000 fast food restaraunts in the U.S.
- When McDonalds opened at Kuwait after the Gulf War the line of cars was 7 miles long.
- Did you know that in Japan they make square watermelons? They put a square box around the
watermelon when it is growing so the watemelon grows into a cubular shape.
- The popularization of the drive-thru led car manufacturers in the 1990s to install cup holders in
the dashboards. As fast food drinks became larger, so did the cup holders
- Buffalo wings have nothing to do with bison. They are actually just spicy chicken wings that originated in Buffalo, New York.
- All together, Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza each day, or 350 slices per second.
- There are about 61,269 pizzerias in the United States.
- There are over 500 different types of bananas. That means if you ate a different kind of banana everyday, it would take almost a year and
a half to eat every one!
- The carrots also came in white and yellow.
- You can actually turn your skin orange by massively over-eating orange carrots
- Today, Coca Cola is sold in every country in the world except North Korea
- There are more than 300,000 fast food restaraunts in the U.S.
- When McDonalds opened at Kuwait after the Gulf War the line of cars was 7 miles long.
- Did you know that in Japan they make square watermelons? They put a square box around the
watermelon when it is growing so the watemelon grows into a cubular shape.
- The popularization of the drive-thru led car manufacturers in the 1990s to install cup holders in
the dashboards. As fast food drinks became larger, so did the cup holders
- Buffalo wings have nothing to do with bison. They are actually just spicy chicken wings that originated in Buffalo, New York.
- All together, Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza each day, or 350 slices per second.
- There are about 61,269 pizzerias in the United States.
- There are over 500 different types of bananas. That means if you ate a different kind of banana everyday, it would take almost a year and
a half to eat every one!
FUn FActs ABout the circulatory system
- French physician Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope when he felt it was inappropriate to
place his ear on his large-buxomed female patients' chests.
- If all the blood vessels in your body were set from end to end it would extend for more than
60,000 miles.
- In one day, the heart beats 100,000 times, pushing about 2000 gallons of blood.
- In an averageperson's life their heart beats about 3 billion times.
- Every second about 8 million blood cells die and the same amount are made again.
- Blood circulates the entire body in 20 seconds.
- The heart continues to beat even if taken out of your body
- If you grab a tennis ball and squeeze it as hard as you can, that's about how hard your heart works when its pumping blood through your
body.
- The average size of a human heart is the size of an adult's fist, and weighs about 135 to 145 grams, and pumps about 2000 gallons of
blood through 60,000 miles of blood vessels everyday.
- The “thump-thump” of a heartbeat is the sound made by the four valves of the heart closing.
- Every day, the heart creates enough energy to drive a truck 20 miles. In a lifetime, that is equivalent to driving to the moon and back.
- Five percent of blood supplies the heart, 15-20% goes to the brain and central nervous system, and 22% goes to the kidneys.
- Blood is actually a tissue. When the body is at rest, it takes only six seconds for the blood to go from the heart to the lungs and back,
only eight seconds for it to go the brain and back, and only 16 seconds for it to reach the toes and travel all the way back to the heart.
- Because the heart has its own electrical impulse, it can continue to beat even when it is separated from the body, as long as it has an
adequate supply of oxygen.
place his ear on his large-buxomed female patients' chests.
- If all the blood vessels in your body were set from end to end it would extend for more than
60,000 miles.
- In one day, the heart beats 100,000 times, pushing about 2000 gallons of blood.
- In an averageperson's life their heart beats about 3 billion times.
- Every second about 8 million blood cells die and the same amount are made again.
- Blood circulates the entire body in 20 seconds.
- The heart continues to beat even if taken out of your body
- If you grab a tennis ball and squeeze it as hard as you can, that's about how hard your heart works when its pumping blood through your
body.
- The average size of a human heart is the size of an adult's fist, and weighs about 135 to 145 grams, and pumps about 2000 gallons of
blood through 60,000 miles of blood vessels everyday.
- The “thump-thump” of a heartbeat is the sound made by the four valves of the heart closing.
- Every day, the heart creates enough energy to drive a truck 20 miles. In a lifetime, that is equivalent to driving to the moon and back.
- Five percent of blood supplies the heart, 15-20% goes to the brain and central nervous system, and 22% goes to the kidneys.
- Blood is actually a tissue. When the body is at rest, it takes only six seconds for the blood to go from the heart to the lungs and back,
only eight seconds for it to go the brain and back, and only 16 seconds for it to reach the toes and travel all the way back to the heart.
- Because the heart has its own electrical impulse, it can continue to beat even when it is separated from the body, as long as it has an
adequate supply of oxygen.