May is Better Hearing Month! Get your ear on!

Did you know...
1) Approximately 36 million Americans suffer from hearing loss.
2) More than half of the people with hearing loss are younger than age 65.
3) Hearing loss is the third most common health problem in the United States.
4) the stapes is the smallest bone in the human body. It is only 0.25 to 0.33 cm long [0.10 to 0.13 inches] and weighs only 1.9 to 4.3 milligrams
5) Exposure to noise level of 85 dB SPL or greater can put you at risk of noise induced hearing loss? Consider the following sounds then:
- 90 dB—Hair Dryers, blenders, and lawnmowers
- 100 dB—MP3 players at full volume
- 110 dB—Concerts (any music genre), car racing, and sporting events
- 120 dB—Jet planes at take off
- 130 dB—Ambulances
- 140 dB—Gun shots, fireworks, and custom car stereos at full volume
6) Fish do not have ears, but they can hear. They hear pressure changes through ridges on their bodies.
7) Crickets have their hearing organs in their knees.
8) 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.
9) The word tragus originates from the Greek word tragos meaning male-goat because of the similarity to the tuft of hair that forms the goat's beard.
10) The color of an egg depends on the color 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.