August Cub Scout Roundtable Issue

Volume 6, Issue 12

Toughen Up (Webelos Naturalist & Geologist)

FUN FACTS

In a year, a person's heart beats 40,000,000 times

A great reason to smile
You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown. You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile. And then every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.

Fit people can burn more fat for longer periods of time than unfit people.

We call the hot, muggy days of summer "Dog days." This expression may have originated with the Romans who associated such weather with the influence of Sirius, the Dog Star, which is high in the sky during summer.

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