25 Interesting Facts about Girls
1. The vagina is only as deep as your middle finger.
2. The vagina keeps itself clean and healthy by constantly producing mucus which turns white when it’s exposed to the air.Discharge also prevents the vagina from drying out. Discharge will begin to appear some time before your first period begins.
3. Females can ovulate before they have their period.
4. Cramps and painful periods may be caused by low calcium and magnesium levels.
5. The usual amount of blood lost during a period is between one and six tablespoons(120 ml blood and tissue).
6. Menstrual fluid is mostly made up of water.
7. A lot of girls’ hymen are broken through using a tampon or during active sports such as horse back riding or cycling. Masturbation, too, can break the hymen. There is an opening in the hymen that lets menstrual fluid flow out.
8. The fallopian tubes are about 10 cm long. The egg travels from the ovary to the uterus along these tubes.
9. Girls are born with about 300,000 eggs.
10. Ovary is about the size of a walnut/olive. The uterus is about the size of a pear/clenched fist.
11. The average woman has about 500 periods in her lifetime.
12. If a tampon has absorbed as much as it can and has to be changed within 4 hours, try a tampon with a higher absorbency. If a tampon still has lots of white patches showing when you take it out after about four hours, try a tampon with lower absorbency. Change your tampon every 4-8 hours.
13. PMS symptoms: breast tenderness, feeling swollen or bloated, change in appetite, headaches, acne or skin rash, constipation or diarrhea, abdominal cramps, feeling sad/tired/irritable or clumsy.
14. You get cramps when your uterus contracts (squeezes) slightly to help get rid of most of its lining.
15. If you are taking the birth control pill these five drugs may interfere with its effectiveness: antihistamines, alcohol, analgesics, antacids, antibiotics.
16. A pregnancy test only works 2 weeks after a suspected conception.
17.Girls’ primary school completion rates are below 50 per cent in most poor countries.
18.One in seven girls in developing countries is married before age 15, and 38 per cent are married before age 18.
19. In sub-Saharan Africa, more women than men are living with HIV, and young women aged 15–24 years are as much as eight times more likely than men to be HIV positive.
20. Both Barbie and Bratz dolls are so thin, they lack the internal proportions to have bodily organs like kidneys or large intestines; both would lack the 17-22% of body fat necessary for females to menstruate.
21. If Barbie were a real woman, she would be 7'2", weigh 101 pounds, and have a 19” waist and 39FF chest. A real woman with these proportions would be unable to support her upper body and stand up straight.
22. Female characters in children’s cartoon shows are five times more likely to be shown in revealing, skimpy clothing (even when they are animals) and three times more likely to be shown with physically-impossible tiny waists.
23. Eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia used to start in the “tweens” – doctors are now treating them in girls as young as five or six.
24. Three-quarters of female characters in TV situation comedies are underweight; only 1 in 20 is average size. Moreover, female characters that are heavier tend to get made fun of more often, and 80% of the time these negative comments are rewarded with audience laughter.
25. By the time they graduate high school, children will have spent more time watching TV than in the classroom or talking with their parents.
