Trivia : Item Teasers

Trivia are facts that can be amusing although they are mostly knowledge that we can do without. Here, we have compiled some of them.

Trivia retrieved for Anatomy (16 found)

Branch: BiologyRetrievalClick for trivia items under Biology. Subject: AnatomyRetrievalClick for trivia items under Anatomy. Topic: EmbryologyRetrievalClick for trivia items under Embryology.

Fingerprint development on foetuses (fetuses) starts around the third month of gestation.

Branch: BiologyRetrievalClick for trivia items under Biology. Subject: AnatomyRetrievalClick for trivia items under Anatomy. Topic: OtologyRetrievalClick for trivia items under Otology.

The little lump of flesh in front of the ear canal and right next to the temple is called tragus.

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There are up to fifteen feet or four and a half metres of blood vessels in every square inch of human skin.

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Every person possesses a unique tongue print.

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An eyelash lives around 150 days before it falls out and a new one begins to grow.

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Around 150 litres of blood flow through your kidneys in one day.

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One blinks their eyes approximately 20,000 times a day.

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The human heart beats approximately 100,000 times a day.

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Placed end to end, all blood vessels in the human body would measure around 60,000 miles or 99,000 kilometers.

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Alligators lack sex-determined chromosomes so temperature determines their gender (between 30-33oC or 86-91.4oF). They give birth to females in slightly colder temperatures and to males in slightly warmer temperatures.

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The right hemisphere of the brain controls the left side of the body. The left hemisphere controls the right side of the body.

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Your thumb and nose are similar in length. For some people they are remarkably the same.

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Most individuals have harmless microscopic mites living in their eyebrows.

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The lizard tuatara possesses a third eye for ultraviolet light known as parietal eye, which is only visible in hatchlings and disappears after a few months.

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Fingernails grow about three to four times faster than toenails.

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The smallest organ in the body is the pineal gland, a pea-shaped gland in the brain.

Published on: 13 Feb 2019 2124.
Last updated: 13 Feb 2019 2124.