Your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body.

This fact is up for debate, so let me save you the hustle. See, a number of muscles in the human body could lay claim to this title, depending on how you measure strength.

If you were looking for the muscle that can exert the most force, the soleus (calf muscle) would emerge victorious, according to Gray’s Anatomy (the book, not the TV show). Without the soleus, we wouldn’t be able to stand, walk or show some dance moves. We would always be falling over ourselves if this muscle was not continuously pulling.

What about the muscle that can exert the most pressure? Maybe it befits the title, maybe not. The masseter, aka jaw muscle, has no rival in delivering the greatest amount of pressure, according to the Clinical Oral Science book. This is the muscle that enables you to chew and clench, and boy, can some people bite hard.  Richard Hofmann of Florida made his way into the Guinness Book of Records in 1986 by registering a bite strength of 975 pounds, or 442 kilograms!

There are those who say the myometrium (uterine muscle) – used in childbirth – are the most powerful. However, this is discounted since the muscles are not used often or depend on some biochemical and hormonal factors.

So, where does this leave the tongue? The tongue can be said to be the strongest muscle in terms of versatility. This amazing body part combines its elasticity and force to enable us to speak, eat, lick or kiss – attributes you’ll probably need on your first date. In that regard, the tongue can be said to have no rival in terms of its deftness.

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Canada has more lakes that the rest of the world put together.

Most of the lakes in the world are fresh water, with the majority of them located in the Northern Hemisphere. Canada is the second largest country in the globe, but this is not all it has to brag about.

Of all the natural lakes in the world, Canada is home to a staggering 60 percent of them. Thought Finland with almost 190,000 lakes was amazing? Well, it doesn’t even come close to Canada whose total number of lakes stands at about 3 million, with no official estimate of the number of smaller lakes. In other words, the country has more lakes than the rest of the countries combined.

561 of the lakes have a surface area larger than 100 sq. km, and four of the Great Lakes fall here. 9 percent of the total land surface in Canada is covered by freshwater.

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After sex, some men experience sadness and regret, which is known as Post-coital tristesse.

You probably have experienced it, but didn’t know what it was. Well, it’s actually normal, and the word for it is PCT (post-coital tristesse), ‘tristesse’ being another word for sadness. Not everyone experiences it and many sufferers may suffer great feelings of anxiety for five minutes or even 2 hours after intercourse.

So, what leads to the depression? Post-coital tristesse is said to be as a result of the loss of semen and the exhaustion of the body following a round of sex. Rather than feel the usual relief that ensues (after dopamine is released), the body feels weak and exhausted. There’s even a Latin adage that goes, ‘omne animal post coital triste’ loosely translated to mean ‘all animals are sad after sex’.

Post-coital tristesse can be found in from the works of famous philosophers like Aristotle. After an orgasm, a hormone used in production of breast milk (prolactin – also found in men) rises high. In fact, it escalates as high as 400 percent during sex than during masturbation. The feeling can also be experienced of you have intercourse with someone you don’t care about.
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Teenagers who spend much of their time listening to music are more likely to be depressed!

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine carried out a study in 2011 that gauged the depression statistics of teenagers based on the amount of time they spend consuming different forms of media. There was a total of 106 participants aged between 7-17 who were closely monitored for 2 months; 46 of whom had been diagnosed with depression previously.

They found out that teens who spend most of their time listening to music were 8.3 times more likely to be depressed as compared to those who did not spend most of their time listening. On the contrary, and this may not be the first time every teenager hears this, students who read books the most were found to be a mere 1/10 times likely to suffer from depression.

Music contributed to the most depression risks of all the media reported (TV, movies, Internet, video games and printed media). However, this is not to say that music leads to depression for everyone: for some, it might prove beneficial.

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