TRIVIA BITS

 

• The average age of a female Olympic competitor is 20.
• The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
• The average height of a man in the Middle Ages was five feet six inches.
• The average human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail, sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
• The average human brain weighs 1.3 kg
• The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
• The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
• The average person laughs about 15 times a day.
• The average person releases nearly a pint of intestinal gas by flatulence every day. Most is due to swallowed air. The rest is from fermentation of undigested food.