Health

The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.

The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.

The lot numbers for the cyanide-tainted Tylenol capsules scare back in 1982 were MC2880 and 1910MD.

The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone.

The antifungal, nystatin, which is sometime used for treating thrush, is named after New York State Institute for Health (Acronym)

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.

Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

Only humans and horses have hymens.

The longest muscle name is the "levator labii superioris alaeque nasi" and Elvis popularized it with his lip motions.

After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came -- head to toe.

A Laforte fracture is a fracture of all facial bones. It would allow one to pull on another face and remove it like a mask if not held on by skin.

The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum.

The only way to stop the pain of the flathead fish's sting is by rubbing the same fish's slime on the wound it gave you.

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

Skin is thickest is at the back -- 1/6 of an inch.

The most sensitive finger is the forefinger.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The arteries and veins surrounding the brain stem called the "circle of Willis" looks like a stick person with a large head.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

The Earl of Condom was a knighted personal physician to England's King Charles II in the mid-1600's. The Earl was requested to produce a method to protect the King from syphillis.(Charles the II's pleasure-loving nature was notorious.) The result should be obvious.

The only bone not broken so far during any ski accident is one located in the inner ear.

There are ten human body parts that are only three letters long: Eye, Ear, Leg, Arm, Jaw, Gum, Toe, Lip, Hip and Rib.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

Almost half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs.

The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosey..."), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of posies..."), People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!")