Iavante English Training Programme

Bladder

harriet.briggs — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:17:32 +0000

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When full, the human bladder can hold two pints of urine.

Eating

harriet.briggs — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:15:00 +0000

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In the average lifetime, we spend five years eating and we consume around 7,000 times our own weight in food.

Sleeping Body

harriet.briggs — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:12:48 +0000

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When we go to sleep and enter REM (Rapid Eye Movement),our bodies become completely paralysed as areas of the brain that control movement are de-activated. It is this that stops us falling out of bed.

Eyes

harriet.briggs — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:08:09 +0000

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Your eyeballs are three and a half percent salt.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

harriet.briggs — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:51:21 +0000

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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Sneeze

harriet.briggs — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:00:18 +0000

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When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop - even your heart.

Idioms 33 Cloud-Cold

harriet.briggs — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:09:16 +0000

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Idioms 32 Climb-Cloud

harriet.briggs — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:51:45 +0000

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Idioms 31 Chip-Cliffhanger

harriet.briggs — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:23:00 +0000

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Bacteria

harriet.briggs — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:34:34 +0000

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10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria.