FUN FACTS ABOUT OUR BODY
- During a lifetime, your kidneys clean over 1 million gallons of blood.
- The adult human body contains 5-6 quarts of blood, while an infant has about 1 quart of blood.
- Capillaries are so small that red blood cells can only travel through them in single file.
- The human heart beats about 40 million times a year.
- The aorta is the largest artery in the human body. Its diameter is about the same as a garden hose.
- you lose about 1/2 liter of water a day through breathing.
- The surface area of the lungs is about the same size as a tennis court.
- When you sneeze, you can produce wind speeds as great as a hurricane or tornado (over 100 m.p.h.)
- About 2/3 of the body is water.
- Digestion begins when you chew your food.
- The entire digestive process takes approximately 72 hours.
- Newborns can only see approximately as far as their nose.
- There are an estimated 1 billion neurons in the human body.
- on the human tongue, the four well-known taste receptors detect sweet, salt, sour, and bitter.
- over half the bones in your body are located in your hands and feet.
AMAZING FACTS ABOUT OUR BODY
- 50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells, all while you have been reading this sentence!
- In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost 1 ton of weight 1 yard off the ground.
- Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions.
- In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.
- The structural plan of a whale's, a dog's, a bird's and a man's 'arm' are exactly the same: The world's first test-tube twins were born in June, 1981.
- There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being. In a year, a person's heart beats 40,000,000 times.
- Most people blink about 25 times a minute.
- Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels: Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
- Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
- You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown. You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile.
- Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.
- The average human blinks his eyes 6,205,000 times a year.
- The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.
- Every person has a unique tongue print.
- The average human's heart will beat 3,000 million times in their lifetime : The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in their lifetime : You burn 26 calories in a one-minute kiss.
- The average human body contains enough Sulpur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire a toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars of soap, Phosphorus to make 2,200 matchheads, and enough Water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
- Among the first known "dentists" of the world were Etruscans: In 700 BC they carved false teeth from the teeth of various mammals and produced partial bridgework good enough to eat with.
- Ophthalmic surgery was one of the most advanced areas of medicine in the ancient world: Detailed descriptions of delicate cataract surgery with sophisticated needle syringes is contained in the medical writings of Celsus (A.D. 14-37).
- If you were freeze-dried, 10% of your body weight would be from the microorganisms on your body. According to the World Health Organization, there are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
- Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life.
- When you eat meat and drink milk in the same meal, your body does not absorb any of the milk's calcium. It is best to have 2 hours between the milk and meat intake.
- Only humans and horses have hymens.
- The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.
- Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
- One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world's telephones put together. THE TYANA TABLOID: 2 APRIL 2000
- We have a whole pharmacy within us. We can create any drug inside us.
- Our bodies are recreating themselves constantly - we, make a skeleton every 3 months, new skin ever month: We are capable of reversing the Aging Process!!
