Why do some folks have an "outie" belly button and some folks have an "innie"?
I didn‘t have the answer to this question until I delivered my first baby. I always believed that you had an "innie" if the doctor tied a good knot, and if he didn‘t, you were cursed with that funny-looking "outie." Well, there is no knot tying at all.
We just put on a clip, cut, and wait for the umbilical cord to dry up and fall off. It is all random.
Sometimes someone can develop an "outie" because they have a hernia at this site. This also has nothing to do with the doctor‘s Boy Scout skills. I have recently heard of plastic surgeons removing an "outie" for belly beauty. How sad.
One question that cannot be answered, however, is why some belly buttons collect so much lint. - P55
Why do men have nipples?
Since our editor thought this question made the best title for this book, we racked our brains to come up with a hilarious, witty, and informative answer to this question. Our attemptsproved futile, so, in order to finish this book so another brilliant title wouldn‘t go to waste, we went for the boring,
straight scientific response. Sorry. - P58
What are those little half moons inyour nails?
The pale half-moon shape at the base of each nail is called the lunule. It shows where the hardening process is not yet complete. The American Academy of Dermatology providedthese nail facts:
• Nails grow about 0.1 mm (or about .004 inch) per day.
• Fingernails tend to grow a little faster than toenails.
• Toenails are approximately twice as thick as fingernails.
• In general, nails tend to grow faster in summer than they do in winter.
• Men‘s nails usually grow faster than women‘s nails.
• Nails on your dominant hand tend to grow faster. - P79
Big hands, big_?
When I was in Spain, I learned that the Spaniards believed that the distance measured from either side of your nose across the tip to the other side hinted at your penis size. As the owner of a rather large schnoz, I, Billy, was happy about this. But, bythis same measurement, Geppetto must have had quite a task making pants to hold Pinocchio, and Cyrano de Bergeracwouldn‘t have had to waste so much time writing love letters for others. Unfortunately, none of this is true.
There also seems to be no evidence that hand size is related to the size of your package. When it comes to foot size, two urologists, in a study in the British Journal of Urology,
measured the stretched penile length of 104 men and related this to their shoe size. They found that there was no relationship.
As for other size issues, a small penis expands more than a big one during erection. And since a woman‘s sexually sensitive parts are in and around the outer third of the vagina, a big penis is not necessarily needed to satisfy her. Size doesn‘t reallymatter, ladies. - P92
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