Big Wide World

wanted to keep the post free of seriousness today, so here are some interesting facts that i found. also, (this is for you jay) scroll to the end of the post and there are links to either watchs the Celebrity Jeopardy SNL skits online, or to dowload them. have fun.

Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.

On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.

On average, right-handed people live 9 years longer than their left-handed counterparts.

Smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.

(damn, between smoking and being left-handed i'm dying like 15 years before non-smoking right-handers)

The average human body contains enough:
iron to make a 3 inch nail,
sulfur 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 person produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools

The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
(and the gaps for the rest of us lazy mofo's are filled in by ppl like m-j and rad, thanks for keeping up the status quo).

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

links:
to download SNL Celebrity Jeopardy (all 13 skits)
to watch SNL Celebrity Jeopardy

My favs are all the ones with Sean Connery (especially #13: japan us relations"