Head Facts

Artists have long used a simple rule: your head is approximately one-eighth of your total height. This classical proportion has been used since ancient Greece to draw the ideal human figure.

People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left (65 percent of people go to the right!)

Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.

The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!

Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.

Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

A shrimp's heart is located in its cephalothorax, the fused head-thorax region covered by its shell.

The head of a jellyfish is called the "Bell."