• Feet may come in pairs, but they are frequently unmatched, sometimes differing as much as a full shoe size. Unfortunately, shoes are sold in pairs, not mix-n-match.  Always buy shoes to fit the larger foot

• Sherlock Holmes was the master of discerning limps, gender, social standing and foot disorders from footprints.

• People take an average of 10,000 steps in a day, adding up to about 115,000 miles in a lifetime - enough to go around the planet more than four times.

Most amazing feet (in a movie):

Also the world’s tallest actor, 7ft 6 inch Matthew McGrory wore size 29 and a half US shoes. You may recall him in the movie Big Fish.

The best use of shoes and/or feet in a quote by a semi-famous person about a really famous person:

"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, and she did it backwards and in high heels."

(Faith Whittlesey, former US ambassador to Switzerland.)

Criminals are used to trying to avoid leaving fingerprints at a crime scene. But now British scientists have developed a computerised system that allows them to identify ear prints just as easily.

Criminals often wear gloves but are less likely to cover their ears and before would-be burglars touch a doorknob or try to pry open a window they might press their ear against the glass to hear if anyone is home.

Ear prints had been used to identify individuals and criminals long before fingerprints became popular in the early 20th century. They came back into use in the 1990s but unlike fingerprints they were never organised in a computerised system.

"Basically we have brought it up to speed and modernised things considerably. We've produced a computerised system for identifying ear prints along the lines of the fingerprint system," said Professor Guy Rutty, head of the forensic pathology unit at the University of Leeds in England.

Instead of manually sorting through ear prints and images, Rutty's system allows investigators to systematically search an ear print database.

"To our knowledge, this is the first computerised system that exists anywhere for ear prints and ear images," he explained.

Ear prints are taken from about 15 per cent of crime scenes in Britain and have already been used to capture culprits in the Netherlands and Switzerland.

A ear print can easily be lifted from the window and may help to identify the culprit even if no fingerprints were left behind. Ear prints also leave behind DNA.

A special plastic material rolled from the bottom of the ear to the top also produces an ear impression from a individual and is developed just like a fingerprint.

"Our system allows data sharing and rapid communication between (police) forces," said Rutty.

"We can now open up the examination of both ear images and ear prints on a computerised system that can be centrally stored and searched by anybody, anywhere in the world."

March 9, 2004

The colour of an egg depends on the colour of the hens ear lobe! Hens with white ear lobes lay white eggs. Hens with red ear lobes lay brown eggs. Rhode Island Reds, New Hampshires and Plymouth Rock chickens lay brown eggs. White Leghorns and Brown Leghorns lay white eggs.

The average ear of corn has 800 kernels, arranged in 16 rows.

Cats have amazing hearing ability. A cat's ear has 30 muscles that control the outer ear (by comparison, human ears only have six muscles). These muscles rotate 180 degrees, so the cat can hear in all directions without moving its head.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.

When a Hawaiian woman wears a flower over her left ear, it means that she is not available

The smallest muscle in the body is located in the middle ear, the stapedius is a miniscule 1.27 millimeters in length. It controls the tiniest bone in the body, the stapes or stirrup bone. The stapes and two other bones conduct sound vibrations through the middle ear. The stapedius is innervated by the facial nerve (VII).

Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.

Your ear bones are the smallest bones in your body.

The ear bones are named the hammer, anvil and stirrup. You can see that a trip to the blacksmith was probably a common occurrence for the person or people who originally named the bones!

Tinnitus is a condition where a person hears sounds that appear to come from inside the head. In many cases no cause can be identified, and the sounds can be so distracting they keep the sufferer awake at night.

Many animals have muscles which can move the outer ear, so ears can point in different directions. This ability is virtually non-existent in humans.

Sound can also be conducted to the inner ear through your skull and its contents. Usually you hear your own voice partly through your head like this and partly through the air, which is why your it may sound strange to you on a tape recording in which all the sound will have travelled through the air.

Hearing impaired people may be assisted by hearing dogs, which will usually have a brightly coloured collar and lead.

The ear also contains semi circular canals, structures which help us to balance.

Snakes lack a middle ear and so 'hear' by sensing vibrations along the ground.

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