Echo- Vertical Horizon

i bet you didn't know!

here's some trivia from this extremely amusing book, Adam's Navel, by Michael Sim:

- if your earwax is sticky, you have higher chance of contracting breast cancer. why? because the gland that produces earwax is physically related to the gland that produces milk in your boobs.

- the rastafari culture is actually to worship God!

- the ear is considered erotic because it looks like the vagina. which is why the vulva (the vaginal opening) is sometimes referred to as the "ear between the legs".

now this is what fascinated me most:

The lacrimal gland... [produces] tears that trickle down through minute tubules onto the surface of the eye. In its periodic blinks, the eyelid spreads te fluid evenly across the surface, then quickly rinses and performs the job again a few seconds later... The tears washing the eye are gathered by two small ducts ... These are visible. Many people think that these ducts, which you can see if you get close enough to the mirror, create the tears. Instead, ... the ducts actually serve as rainsprouts to gather the accumulated moisture and channel it into the lacrimal sac in the side of the nose. From there it drains into the nasal cavity About a quarter of the moisture produced evaporates from the surface of the eye, but the rest finds its way into these ducts or spills out onto the face in the form of tears. The resulting nasal drainage is why, when a sad movie... causes tears, we sniffle as the water accumulates.

isn't our body amazing?
though i seriously "concur" (quote heikal.. hahaha) that i see no purpose in attaching two sexually-sensitive things at the side of our heads.

i can't wait till i share this with all the thai children we're visiting. :P
KIDDING!

I blogged @ 9:57 PM