crazy health facts

• If a man with normal vision and a color-blind woman have children, the daughters will have normal vision and the sons will be color-blind.(amazing fact)
• According to the Worldwide Penis Size Map, men in Congo have the largest penis size. US men are 95th, just after the Russians.
• Cigarettes can contain more than 4,000 ingredients, which, when burned, can also produce over 200 ‘compound’ chemicals. Many of these ‘compounds’ which lead  to lung damage.
• Chickens can suffer from depression.
• Having orgasms prevent men from prostate cancer. Two large studies, reported in 2003 and 2004, found that middle-aged men who had (or at least remember having) at least four orgasms a week throughout their 20s, 30s and 40s had a reduced risk of prostate cancer by as much as one-third. Some researchers speculate that ejaculations may clear the prostate of carcinogens.
• In 1962, an epidemic of laughing broke out in Tanganyika (now Tanzania). Starting among a group of schoolgirls, the laughter spread rapidly, eventually infecting neighbouring villages and forcing schools to close. It lasted for at least six months.
• Anton-Babinski syndrome is a rare condition in which a blind person doesn’t realise that they are blind. They usually insist they can see perfectly well, and make up excuses for why they make errors – such as blaming the quality of light in the room, or saying they’re a bit tired.
• The best way to tell if you have bad breath is to lick your wrist, let you saliva dry, and then smell it.
• If you are locked in a sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before your brain starves from oxygen deprivation.
• Monday is the day of the week when the risk of heart attack is greatest.
• A man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted.
• In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
• Madeline Mitchell overcame a 12-day coma, 21 days on a respirator, two months in a wheelchair and a femur broken in 12 places to become Miss Alabama USA and compete in Miss USA 2011 two years later.