We don’t need to tell you that all people do certain things every day.
You wake up, most of you go places, thankfully most of you eat, and hopefully most of you
spend at least a few hours sleeping.
On top of that you think, you talk, you look around, you breathe, you sit, stand, feel,
grit your teeth and likely most of you smile at least once in a day.
But as the body doesn’t get a few hours off you are constantly doing things that you
might not even realize you are doing.
Good gracious, you might even use curse words a lot more often than you think you do.
So, today we are going to find out just what most of us get up to!
Let’s start with something we do all the time and most of that time we are not aware
we are doing it.
Can you guess what that is?...No, it’s not picking your nose, it’s blinking.
Science tells us something that is quite mind blowing, and that is the fact that most of
us spend about 10 percent of the time we are awake with our eyes closed.
That’s partly because we blink so often.
It’s said that we blink around 15 to 20 times a minute, but we just don’t know we’re
doing it.
Add that up, and it comes to 1,200 blinks an hour, which is a staggering 28,000 blinks
a day.
But why do we do this?
Well, part of it is to keep our eyes lubricated, but scientists in Japan in a 2012 study said
it’s also to give our brain a break.
They said these tiny blinks are like going offline for a very short time.
We go into what’s called a “default mode network”, which is our brain’s idle mode.
It’s a bit like when your phone goes idle after not using it.
So, next time someone asks what you do and you don’t know what to say, tell them you’re
a blinker, a full-time blinker.
What else are you?
Well, you are a smiler, too, but we’re not as prolific at smiling as we are at blinking
by a long way.
It’s said happy people will smile about 50 times a day, and when these smiles are
natural they are good for us.
As one scientist wrote, “Smiling stimulates our brain’s reward mechanisms in a way that
even chocolate, a well-regarded pleasure-inducer, cannot match.”
Average folks might just smile 20 times a day.
One journal wrote that young children are much butter at smiling than adults.
They might smile around 380 times a day.
Young children might also laugh around 300 times a day, while us grumpy big people might
just manage 17 laughs a day.
Psychology Today seems to think these numbers are a bit high, but adds that we really should
always be trying to laugh more.
But now something more important than mere happiness.
How many times do we experience flatulence in a day?
You don’t know what that is?
We mean how often do you let one rip, break wind, pass gas, cut the cheese, or as some
people say, have a back-end blowout?
Flatologists, the people who study the science – some might say art – of the sphincter
siren, tell us what we already know from experience.
That is that not all air biscuits are the same.
Some smell and some don’t, some make a loud noise and others can be quiet…but deadly.
As for how much farting we do, well, that depends on your system and what you’ve eaten
that day.
But on average a person will let around 20 go per day.
Healthline tells us any more than that is excessive and you might want to cut down on
the beans and broccoli.
Another source tells us that the average Joe or Joanna will fire a stink tornado 13 to
21 times a day.
Don’t let anyone call you lazy again!
And you can add to farting, yawning, because we do a fair bit of that too.
In fact, we yawn about as much as we fart and laugh, which is an average of about 20
times a day according to one study.
We yawn when we are tired of course, but we also let a yawn go at other times such as
when we are bored, nervous, see someone else yawn or are just trying to get a bit more
oxygen.
While you are busy blinking, smiling, farting, yawning, you are also often trying to get
places.
How many steps do we take each day?
Your phone probably tells you that, but studies have been done, at least in the USA.
One such study which consisted of over 100,000 participants all at working age, found that
the daily steps on average for each person was 6,886.
Another study looked at a few more countries, and the that study showed us that the average
Swiss person walked 9,650 steps a day.
Japanese people walked 7,168 steps a day, Australians 7,400 steps, Brits 6,322 steps,
French 6,330 steps and Germans 6,337 steps.
According to some experts on health, getting in 5,000 steps isn’t too bad, but if you
don’t do any other form of exercise one expert said you might add perhaps 3,000 more
steps in the day.
Now on to the serious matter – for some of our viewers anyway – of cursing.
For non-Americans that means swearing, using what we might call bad language, aka, profanity.
First of all what is bad language?
Oh heck!
Is that bad?
What about D-A-M-N?
Bad for some, harmless to many, somewhere in the middle for others.
And then we have the manifold F-word, which is universally accepted as a bad word yet
also part of many people’s daily locutions.
As for the C-word, well, this can sink battleships in some people’s worlds.
But most of us do it, use bad language, and we do it a lot more than we think we do.
One study tells us that we are curse-masters, on average at least, with most of us using
bad language about 80 times a day.
Good grief, aint that a lot of swearing.
We looked at other sources as we just didn’t bloody believe people are that profane.
But a study at a U.S. university in 2011 told us that about 0.5 percent of all the language
we use will be bad language.
Sacré bleu!
That’s a lot of swearing for you average people.
Sometimes you absolutely know when you are cussing, but many other times these words
just slip into sentences and you don’t even know you’ve used them.
What about just words, any words?
Ok, so some of us are quiet and spend a lot of time alone, and some of us are talkative
and are always around others.
But science has come up with averages.
Past research told us that women talk more than men, on average uttering 20,000 words
a day.
For men it was only 7,000 – that’s 6,920 words that won’t get you in trouble.
Some people refute this.
Another study found that men on average speak 15,699 words a day and women 16,215.
Other research shows we speak at least 7,000 words a day.
We’ve talked about peeing and pooing in another show, so we won’t talk much about
this delicate subject.
On average you’ll leave the kids at the pool once a day, while you’ll take a leak
on average 4 to 7 times a day.
Also kinda related to this is burping, because food and drink makes us do it.
While we might not be aware of it, health sites tell us after every meal the average
person will burp about three to six times.
If you tend to burp more, watch out for the dreaded gastroesophageal reflux disease, aka
GERD.
Meanwhile your salivary glands are always working, producing spit that you usually just
swallow.
Believe it or not, in one day the average person makes around 2 to 4 pints (1 to 2 liters)
of saliva.
You’re a spit factory.
It’s just a pity you can’t bottle it and sell this organic brew.
And what are many of you doing right now?
Looking at your phone.
How many times do you do that in one day?
No one study agrees on the number.
Some say 150 times, but that’s the younger generation, which is many of you.
But if we include all Americans, the average was 80 times a day, which is once every 12
minutes, according to another study.
That again is quite the work rate.
As for how many hours a day we spend online, on any device, in the USA according to one
study it was 6.5 hours on average.
The Thais spent the most time online at 9 hours 38 minutes a day.
Next, and still over 9 hours, were the Philippines, Brazil and Indonesia.
If you’ve been lucky enough to visit these countries you’ll know just by looking around
that people seem to be staring at their phones a lot.
Then again, there are plenty of statistics on this and they all bear different results.
But as this show is mainly about things we are not always aware we are doing, let’s
just say most of us will be checking our phone several times an hour.
And let’s not forget the one thing you have to do yet rarely ever think about doing?
That’s breathing of course.
It all depends on what you are doing, moving, relaxing, running, sleeping, but on average
you will breathe about 12 to 20 times a minute if you are at rest.
That adds up to 17,000-30,000 breaths per day.
This is for adults and young adults.
Toddlers and babies breathe a lot more.
We are also told that if you are an active person who exercises and just walks about
a lot, you will probably take in the region of 50,000 breaths a day.
Just hearing that is tiring eh.
No doubt you are exhausted after finding out all these things you are doing every day of
your life.
How do you even get the time to do other things, such as work, study, do chores.
Maybe it’s time you took a day off and focused more on your farting, blinking, saliva making,
etc.
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