- The biological symbol for the male sex ♂, is also the symbol for the planet Mars.
- Man is sometimes used to refer to humanity as a whole.
- Globally, there are approximately 107 baby boys born for every 100 baby girls.
- Male life expectancy is slightly lower than female life expectancy, although the difference has narrowed in recent years.
- The most common cause of death for men in the United States is heart diseases.
- The brains of men are about 10 percent larger in total size than the brains of women.
- Men are nearly three times more likely than women to abuse alcohol.
- The average adult male has about 50 percent more muscle mass and 50 percent less body fat than the average adult female.
- The first Father’s Day celebration in the U.S. was held on June 19, 1910, in Spokane, Washington.
- Some fun facts about men -
- Guys who have pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Men are brave enough to go to war, but they are not brave enough to get a bikini wax.
- Not one man in a beer commercial has a beer belly.
- Men forget everything. Women remember everything.
- Some famous quotes about man -
"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!"
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, scene 2, line 303.
"In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they’ve put starch—phosphorus—flour—bottles of water and alcohol—and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that."
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), French symbolist poet and critic. Letter dated 17th May 1867.
"Man is a make believe animal—he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
William Hazlitt (1778-1830). Notes of a Journey through France and Italy (1826).
"But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest."
Logan Pearsall Smith.‘Introduction’, p. 49, A Treasury of English Aphorisms (1943).
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."
John Donne (1572–1631) Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XII (1624).
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) The Old Man and the Sea (1952), p. 113
