Really Cross Facts

Did you know that women fart three times more often than men? Probably not. And it’s quite likely you would prefer not to know! But for those with a penchant for all things grotesque, it’s a disgustingly fascinating fact. And it’s just one revolting morsel taken from new book Really Gross Facts which is out now.

Here we have selected some of the most nauseating:

# Your sponge contains more bacteria than your toilet.

# 50 per cent of women and more than 90 per cent of men don’t wash their hands after they’ve been to the loo – unless someone else is watching them.

# The biggest tapeworm ever found inside the human body was 35 metres long.

# Over your lifetime you will produce enough spit to fill a swimming pool.

# When Eskimo babies have colds, their mothers suck the snot out of their noses.

# Every year, 14 bugs find their way into your mouth while you sleep. And yes, you do swallow most of them.

# Parks in London are watered by more than one million gallons of dog urine every single year.

# If your head is chopped off, your brain will keep functioning for about 15 seconds!

# The Romans used crushed mouse brains as toothpaste.

# If you consume takeaways on a regular basis you will swallow about 12 pubic hairs a year.

# You don’t sweat evenly under each arm. Right-handed people sweat more under their left arm and it’s the right arm that gets sweatier for left-handed people.