What is the percentage of water in bones?

The human body is more than 60 percent water. Blood is 92 percent water, the brain and muscles are 75 percent water, and bones are about 22 percent water.A human can survive for a month or more without eating food, but only a week or so without drinking water.

What is the sweetener in Diet Coke?

Diet Coke was first introduced in United States on August 9.Diet Coke was introduced as a sugar-free soft drink produced and distributed by The Coca-Cola Company.Diet Coke has a entirely different formula than the Coca-Cola recipe.

Coca-Cola Company used aspartame, an artificial sweetener to sweeten the Diet Coke.To save money,the company  blended it with saccharin.

In 2005, The Coca-Cola Company changed the sweetener from aspartame to Splenda. Sucralose  and acesulfame potassium replaced aspartame in this version.

What does it mean to have an opposable thumb?

Fingers and toes are called digits. The thumb is the shortest, thickest digit on the human hand and moves in a different direction than the other digits. Human thumbs are called opposable thumbs. They are called opposable because the thumb can be moved around to touch the other fingers, which gives people the ability to grasp things.



How Important Is Your Thumb?

Activities to Try Without Your Thumb

1. Write your name with a pencil
2. Put on a sock and shoe
3. Open a door using a knob
4. Brush or comb your hair
5. Button a button
6. Tie a shoelace
7. Blow up a balloon and tie it
8. Seal a plastic bag 
9. Pull up a zipper
10. Pick a coin up off a flat surface 
11. Brush your teeth
12. Open a jar

Can you think of another activity that would be impossible (or really hard) to do without your thumbs?

How much was a gallon of gas in 1971?

Gasoline dropped below 30 cents a gallon for regular gas on Dec. 28, 1971, as an on-again, off-again price war flared in Columbus. In today's money, that bargain-basement price of 29.9 cents a gallon would be equal to $1.70 a gallon, much less than the current price at the pump.

How long is the football in play during a game of NFL?

An average professional (american)football game lasts 3 hours and 12 minutes, but if you tally up the time when the ball is actually in play, the action amounts to a mere 11 minutes.


The 11 minutes of action was famously calculated by the Wall Street Journal.

What US president was never married?

James Buchanan

James Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States (1857–1861), serving immediately prior to the American Civil War. He is, to date, the only president from Pennsylvania and the only president to remain a lifelong bachelor.




However Buchanan engaged Anne Caroline Coleman. She was the daughter of the wealthy iron manufacturing pioneer Robert Coleman.They could spend a little time together;Buchanan was extremely busy with his political projects during the Panic of 1819.Caroline broke off the engagement.Ironically she died suddenly soon afterward ,on December 9,1819. According to records of Dr.Chapman who looked after her in her final hours,commented just after her death that it was"the first instance he ever knew of hysteria producing death".


In a letter to her father, Buchanan asked to attend the funeral and wrote that "I feel happiness has fled from me forever".Coleman's father refused permission.
After Coleman's death, Buchanan never seemed to show any emotional or physical interest in another woman.

What would happen if a sheep impregnate Goat?

Sheep and Goats seem similar but they belong to a different genera.Although Sheep and Goats can be mated.A hybrid of a Sheep and a Goat is sometimes called "geep".Sheep belong to the genus Ovis and have 54 chromosomes,while Goats belong to the genus Capra and have 60 chromosomes.In 2000,at Botswana ministry of agriculture , a male Sheep impregnated a female Goat resulting in a hybrid.This hybrid had 57 chromosomes ,intermediate between Sheep and Goats.It had a coarse outer coat,a woolly inner coat,long goat-like legs and a heavy sheep-like body.Till now 6 hybrids have been reported in different locations and all of them were healthy, only the one was infertile.An infertile hybrid can not mate.