10 Interesting But Strange Health Related Facts!

• People who suffer from Capgras's syndrome believe that their friends and or family have been replaced by identical looking people.
  
  
• The human eye is about 88 mega pixels.
  
  
• The speed of sound in soft tissue is 1,540 m/s.
  
  
• There's about 7 times more Vitamin C in pine needles than in lemons.
  
  
• In the Sept 2005 issue of the Journal Neuroimage, psychiatric researchers reported that male and female voices activate distinct regions in the male brain. They found that in men, women's voices stimulate an area of the brain used for processing complex sounds, like music. Male voices, on the other hand, activate a region of the brain used for processing imagery. This may suggest that, at least for men, the female voice is more complex and more difficult to hear and understand.
  
  
• Benzodiazepines like Xanax keep Cl- channels on certain neurons open longer. More Cl- makes your cells internal charge more negative. Cells have to reach a neutral charge (or close to it) to fire. The more negative a cell is, the less likely it is to fire, less firing neurons = calmer feeling.
  
  
• Human semen on an open wound will disinfect it better than anything on the market.
  
  
• Alien hand syndrome is when someone who has had there cerebellum partially severed can not control there left hand. Rather it acts randomly sometimes even attacking people.
  
  
• When you're a fetus, your gonads are located in your stomach, near your bellybutton. As it goes, they end up dropping down to either form ovaries or testicles. This is why, when you get kicked in your nuts it hurts in your stomach. Or when you clean your bellybutton you feel it in your nuts. Nerves.
  
  
• The apples you buy in a grocery store are 6 months to one year old. Unless they are a seasonal apple. They are stored in a warehouse to be shipped out year round. One years harvest provides for the remaining part of that year and next.
  
  

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