Useless Information

August 2024

• In one hour, the heart produces enough energy to raise almost one ton of weight a yard off the ground.
• When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight, followed by taste, smell, and touch.
• Blood vessels recuperating from simple sunburn takes four to fifteen months.
• Human blood most directly resembles seawater in terms of chemical composition.
• On average, adults spend seventy-seven minutes eating per day.
• The hydrochloric acid in the human digestive process is so strong and corrosive that it easily eats its way through the iron in a car body.

Borrowed by Daheap from The World’s Greatest Book of Useless information; Noel Botham & The Useless Information Society