Cacao beans had a set value. A single bean could buy a tamale, a small meal. Ten beans could get you a rabbit. The Mayans even paid taxes with cacao beans. This system worked because cacao trees thrived in the region. The beans were always in supply but still valuable enough to funct...
A human’s small intestine is 6 meters long. —- The human body is 75% water. —- Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a human’s blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That’s enough to go around the world twice....
The nutrients that help you grow and become strong? These get taken from your food and into your body as they go through your intestines! Did you know that the small intestine is up to 6.5 metres long?! Embed from Getty Images Send us your favourite facts! Is there something we've miss...
The ostrich has a 46-foot long small intestine. A scallop has 35 blue eyes. A swan is the only bird with a penis The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one. The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow. ...
Not only that, our entire intestinal epithelium is completely renewedevery few days,and we lose (and gain) about a Billion (Carl Sagan emphasis added here) cells in our small intestineevery 20 minutes.Woah.OK, … so what happens to the cells that “leave” our intestines? They enter the ...
intestine things. And really, I’d grown sick of being sick. When I finally found a new PCP, RD and GI (that sounds like a rap crew) earlier this year, I finally felt like I was heading in the right direction. While chronic issues don’t just go away, I am looking forward to fe...
Facts About Frogs & Toads Frogs are amphibians that are known for their jumping abilities, croaking sounds, bulging eyes and slimy skin. They live all over the world and are among the most diverse animals in the world, with more than 6,000 species. Frogs substantially outnumber the two othe...
appeared like small, tabular and columnar crystals of frozen water. Clenched firmly between his incisors was a smoking piece whose grey fumes, forming a tenuous ellipse about his occiput, were suggestive of a decorative seasonal circlet of holly. His visage was wider than it was ...
Jaundice definition and facts • Jaundice is a yellowish discoloration of the skin, mucous membranes and of the white of the eyes caused by elevated levels of the chemical bilirubin in the blood (hyperbilirubinemia). The term jaundice is derived from the French word jaune, which means yellow....
In humans the pancreas weighs approximately 80 grams (about 3 ounces) and is shaped like a pear. It is located in the upper abdomen, with the head lying immediately adjacent to the duodenum (the upper portion of the small intestine) and the body and tail extending across the midline nearly...