Nov 1, 2002 1 min read

PITTSBURGH – Gross trivia provided by the Carnegie Science Center is as follows: – Hydrochloric acid in your stomach is so strong that it can eat up stainless steel razor blades.

– Your large intestine is about 5 feet long.

– The lineup at men’s and women’s washrooms vary because of the length of time it takes us to pee. Men average 45 seconds; women spend about 79 seconds.

– Every day about one liter of saliva enters your mouth. If you were a hay-eating cow, it would be about 190 liters every day.

– You swallow about a quart of snot every day.

– Earwax dries up naturally and forms little balls that drop out when we yawn, chew or swallow.

– Your mouth is the most unsanitary part of your whole body. More than 100,000,000 micro-creatures live there at any one time.

– You shed skin every day to produce a whole new layer of skin every 28 days.

– About 10 billion tiny scales of skin rub off your body every day. In a lifetime, you could fill eight 5-pound bags with dead skin.