How much of the body is made up of bones?
Strong and light, the skeleton of the average person accounts for less than 20 percent of body weight.
The oldest moon material brought back to earth by the Apollo program crews has been soil-dated to 4.72 billion years.
Fingerprints provide traction for your fingers, helping you to grasp things.
Sigmund Freud’s original term for the unconscious mind was not id but es, the indefinite pronoun it in German. Freud borrowed that term from a physician, Georg Groddick, who in turn had borrowed it from his teacher Ernst Schweninger. As Freud’s ideas became popular in English-speaking countries, translators felt that simply calling the unconscious it…
The 34.5-foot, 10,000-pound surface-to-surface Pershing missile has a range of approximately 400 miles.
Kurt Russell, with songs dubbed by Ronnie McDowell, played Elvis Presley in the TV movie “Elvis” (1979). The film was directed by John Carpenter.
The sensation, called neurapraxia, usually occurs when a nerve is compressed between a bone and another hard object. Blood continues to circulate through the affected area.