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| current issue • games • book review • learn something • do something • meet jakes, dustin and the jumps • our story so far • back issues |
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Guess what? Thhere are NO MUSCLES in your FINGERS. The muscles that move your fingers are located in the palm and up in the mid forearm. They're connected to the finger bones by TENDONS which pull and move the fingers like the strings of a marionette! |
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The Hand has been used as a symbol of PROTECTION since ancient times. |
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 The Turks added their "all-seeing eye" to give the hand extra power. |
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Your fingernails grow about the same amount as the Continents move every year! |
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| It takes 6 months for your fingernails to grow all the way from the root to the tip. Your toenails take 2-3 times as long! |
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 The LONGEST Fingernails ever belonged to Shidhar Chillal. They were 20 feet, 2.25 inches! It took 48 years to grow them! |
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 The longest Human Chain2 MILLION PEOPLE HELD HANDS to form a human chain 370 miles long across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania on Aug. 23, 1989 12.6% of all MEN are LEFT-HANDED, while only 9.9% of all women are! CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL LEFT-HANDERS DAY ON AUGUST 13TH! Painter Michelangelo often painted with both hands. When one hand got tired, he'd switch to the other. |
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The DRUIDS in Ireland used to send secret messages to each other in public by touching different parts of their hands to indicate all the Letters of their alphabet. Try it! |
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