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• Number of red blood cells created every second: 2.5 million • Distance a baby has crawled by the age of two: 93 miles • Number of minutes every human being spent as a single cell: 30 • Average weight of the ashes of a cremated human: 9 lbs • Strongest muscle in the body, based on weight: masseter in the jaw • Hardest bone in the body: jawbone • Finger with the fastest growing fingernail: middle • Fastest growing tissue in the body: hair • Second fastest growing tissue in the body: bone marrow • Body part with the most sweat glands: soles of the feet

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• Length of nerve fibers in a square inch of skin: 12 feet • Length of blood vessels in a square inch of skin: 9 feet • Seconds it takes for a red blood cell to circumnavigate the body: 60 • Number of times a blood cell will pass through the kidney per day: 400 • Percent of oxygen in the blood used by the brain: 20 • Number of times a baby blinks per minute: 2 • Number of times an adult blinks per minute: 10 • Number of words spoken by an average person in a typical day: 4,800 • Percent of the body composed of oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen: 96 • Percent of hand strength tied to the pinky finger: 50

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• Donald Sutherland got the part of Professor Dave Jennings, and was offered either a flat fee for his work, or a cut of the proceeds. He was convinced that the movie had no potential so he took the flat fee. Later, of course, the movie became not only a hit but also an icon. He would have made millions if he had taken the cut of proceeds. Universal Studios only greenlit the movie because Sutherland, who was a recognizable star, signed on. Belushi was paid only $40,000 for his work on the film, but he did receive a bonus after the movie became a hit.

• The movie was set to be filmed at the University of Missouri, until the President of the school read the script, and refused permission. Instead, it was filmed on the campus • More money was spent on advertising and promoof the University of Oregon in Eugene. The president of tion for the film than on the film itself. U. of O. had previously been approached about allow• The movie was set in 1962 because the writers coning a movie to be filmed on campus, and he had turned sidered that the last innocent year of America. The it down. That movie was “The Graduate” and he liked scene of the homecoming parade takes place on Noit so much that when he was offered another chance to vember 21, 1963, which was the day before Kennedy have a movie made on campus, he jumped at the chance. However, he insisted that the location not be mentioned was shot. The women on the float are all wearing what Jacqueline Kennedy was wearing at the time of in the credits. the assassination. • The movie was filmed inside a real fraternity house on campus. In spite of all the uproar portrayed in the film, • Two marching bands in the parade came from local the only damage to the building was a hole in the wall high schools and were each paid $100. when Belushi smashed it with a guitar. Instead of repair- • When Bluto is sneaking around the campus at night ing the hole, the fraternity framed it and commemorated and slips, rolls around, and casually stands back up, it with a plaque. that was an actual slip-up by John Belushi from the • John Belushi, in the role of Bluto, spent Monday through very wet grass on the location. John Landis thought Wednesday filming in Oregon, then flew back to New it was funny and used it. York City Thursday through Saturday to rehearse and • At the end of the film, each character’s fate is mentape “Saturday Night Live.” Belushi had been appear- tioned. Douglas Neidermeyer was “killed in Vietnam ing on Saturday Night Live for three years, but “Animal by his own troops.” Director John Landis later went House” was his film debut. on to direct “Twilight Zone: The Movie” in 1983. In • This was also the film debut of the Kevin Bacon (Chip that film, several soldiers are overheard expressing regret for having killed Lieutenant Neidermeyer. Diller) and Karen Allen (Katy).

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