Remember seeing television footage of raging hurricane winds that up-root trees, tear-off roof tops and send cars and trailers into flight?

For one of mother nature’s storms to be classified as a “hurricane”, wind speeds must reach a minimum of 119km/hr (so, when you tell someone to “go fly a kite”… this is the day you mean)

Here’s the astonishing part : the human sneeze has the potential of travelling up to around 150km/hr. That’s a license-suspending 50k’s over the highway 401 speed-limit.

When you think about the human body producing so much power – it makes ‘politely’ holding in a sneeze seem like sticking your finger in the barrel of a gun.

Think twice on both accounts.

Written by Nicholas Klassen

Sources: About.com

Tags: amazing health, amazing health trivia, fun health, holding in sneeze, human sneeze, interesting health, sneeze speed, sneezing

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