From blood and gore to interesting facts

Are you a fan of all these scientific crime shows, like “CSI” and its various incarnations? My favorite is “Bones,” and I have it set to record every time it comes on, which is sometimes four or five times a day.

I spend several minutes a day killing off the ones I’ve seen several times.

My friends and family members are mostly surprised at my love for such programs, because those shows are frequently filled with blood and gore. I don’t like movies with all that mayhem and violence — and yet, I allow the TV dramas into my den with regularity.

Well, I’m not that big of a fan. I close my eyes when the grossest parts come on, which are usually early in each show. I’m a sissy.

Dr. Oz has become pretty popular with viewers, especially since Channel 2 killed off Dr. Phil.

More than Dr. Phil ever did, Dr. Oz goes to gross-out land. There’s just nothing he won’t talk about, and that’s good, I guess, after you get over the initial shock.

Good because people are learning about things they need to know concerning their bodies and their health.

But the first time — back on the Oprah show — that he put on those purple gloves and uncovered a dead stomach or a human heart, it was a shocker.

So it shouldn’t have surprised me when I received an e-mail that also touched on some gross, but interesting, subjects.

So here goes with some new physical facts, courtesy of the Internet and unchecked by me.

• A full bladder is roughly the size of softball.

• Approximately 75 percent of human feces is made of water.

• It takes food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

• Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

• The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.

• A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s.

• If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.

• Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.

• There are about 1 trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

• Side by side, 2,000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.

• Women blink twice as much as men.

• The average person’s skin weighs twice as much as their brain.

• When you’re looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate; they do the same when you’re looking at someone you hate.

• It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.

• Your ears secrete more earwax when you’re afraid than when you aren’t.

• Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you’re standing still.

• If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

• The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.

It’s time to stop now and take care of the first item on the list.

Cathy Gillentine is a columnist for The Daily News. She may be reached at cgillentine1(at)sbcglobal.net.