The Senses

Here are some interesting facts that we found out about the senses:

• more than half of the knowledge in the mind has been learned from the eyes
• blue eyes are the most sensitive to light of all eye colours
• the lips are one of the most sensitive parts of the body
• cats don't have nine lives but they do have better balance than humans - they react 4 times faster
• the tongue is made of muscle
• an eyeball is almost a perfect circle shape
• taste buds are almost too small to see
• when you move your jaw, earwax loosens in your ear
• in the sensitive skin of your fingertips there are 50-100 micro-senses in an area the size of a freckle
• the iris can be blue, green, grey or brown. Blue eyes have the least melanin and are more sensitive to light
• every second your brain receives over a million signals to help you balance
• our taste buds look like tiny oranges
• the chameleon's tongue is longer than its body
• stroking pets helps to relax you
• the ear drum is about the size of a nail
• people with smaller eye balls have good sight
• pain may be painful but it is also useful because it warns the body of damage
• horrible smells warn us of rot indicating germs
• a young person has a total of about 10,000 taste buds