Eye floaters, runny noses, roaches and bananas

Since I haven't blogged recently I thought I'd provide some interesting facts:
Like, what causes “eye floaters”. For those who’ve never experienced this phenomenon, eye floaters are little oddly shaped objects that appear in your vision, often when one looks at bright light such as a blue sky. These are not optical illusions, but rather something your eyes are actually perceiving. In most cases these eye floaters are caused by pieces of the gel-like vitreous breaking off from the back portion of your eye and then floating about in your eye ball. As you age then, pieces of the still gel-like collagen/hyaluronic acid network will break off and float around in this watery center. When light passes through this area, it creates a shadow on your retina. This shadow is actually what you are seeing when you see the eye floaters. Children and teens rarely experience these, 50% of us will by the time we're 80.
On another note and on an average day, a typical person’s nose will produce about one quart of mucus/fluid (just under one liter). Most all of this snot generally gets passed back into your throat and swallowed, often without you even really being too conscious of it. When you’re breathing cold air though, the rate of mucus production goes up significantly, causing some of that snot to come out the front of your nose, rather than back in your throat. TMI? (Think of the movie Titanic, the scene with Leonardo DiCaprio teaching Kate Winslet how to spit off the ship. Or, that uncouth idiot in the Von's parking lot making all that noise, etc etc.)
A cockroach can live without its head for up to a week. While many have commonly heard cockroaches are the species most likely to survive a nuclear war, which isn't entirely accurate by the way, and they are well known as being among the most adaptable creatures on the earth, it’s still somewhat of a surprise that any creature can live for so long without its head. So you gotta squish them.

Lastly, Americans eat more bananas than any other fruit with an average consumption of 26.2 lbs per year. (Monkey Boys like them.) In fact, Americans eat more bananas than both apples and oranges combined. I can't imagine an "orange or apple split". . . . duh. But, they're also radioactive due to the high amounts of potassium, a chemical found in radioactive compounds but not enough to harm us...

My top secret source for all this and for more indepth information of above and much more-than-you-wanna-know, see:

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/category/today-i-found-out/