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Amazing Body Facts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

The average red blood cell lives for 120 days.

 

2

There are 2.5 trillion (give or take) of red blood cells in your body at any

moment. To maintain this number, about two and a half million new ones need to

be produced every second by your bone marrow.That's like a new population of the

city of Toronto every second.

 

3

Considering all the tissues and cells in your body, 25 million new cells are

being produced each second. That's a little less than the population of Canada -

every second !

 

4

A red blood cell can circumnavigate your body in under 20 seconds.

 

5

Nerve Impulses travel at over 400 km/hr (25 mi/hr).

 

6

A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr (100 mi/hr), and acough moves out at 100

km/hr (60 mi/hr).

 

7

Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day.

 

8

Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.

 

9

Our eyes can distinguish up to one million colour surfaces and take in more

information than the largest telescope known to man.

 

10

Our lungs inhale over two million litres of air every day, without even

thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.

 

 

 

 

11

We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.

 

12

When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph

 

13

We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.

 

14

We are about 70 percent water.

 

15

We make one litre of saliva a day.

 

16

Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot

air and filters impurities.

 

17

In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain

sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.

 

18

We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and

silicon in our bodies.

 

19

It is believed that the main purpose of eyebrows is to keep sweat out of the

eyes.

 

20

A person can expect to breathe in about 40 pounds of dust over his/her

lifetime.

 

 

 

 

21

There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there

are human beings on the surface of the earth.

 

22

From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.

 

23

Your body contains enough iron to make a spike strong enough to hold your

weight.

 

24

The surface area of a human lung is equal to that of a tennis court.

 

25

Most people have lost fifty per cent of their taste buds by the time they reach

the age of sixty.

 

26

The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9,000 'lead'

pencils.

 

27

One square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands.

 

28

When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens.

 

29

The human body has less muscles in it than a caterpillar.

 

30

If you could save all the times your eyes blink in one life time and use them

all at once you would see blackness for 1.2 years!

 

 

 

 

31

The life span of a taste bud is ten days.

 

32

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

 

33

Give a tennis ball a good, hard squee ze. You're using about the same amount of

force your heart uses to pump blood out to the body.

 

34

The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden

hose.

 

35

Capillaries, on the other hand, are so small that it takes ten of them to equal

the thickness of a human hair.

 

36

Your body has about 5.6 liters (6 quarts) of blood. This 5.6 liters of blood

circulates through the body three times every minute.

 

37

The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average

lifetime--that's enough to fill more than 3 super tankers.

 

38

Babies start dreaming even before they're born.

 

39

The human body can function without a brain.

 

40

Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their

hands.

 

 

 

 

41

10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria.

 

42

There is more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of the United

States and Canada combined .

 

43

Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on

it.

 

44

A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months

 

45

You sit on the biggest muscle in your body, the gluteus maximus a.k.a. the

butt. Each of the two cheeky muscles tips the scales at about two pounds (not

including the overlying fat layer).

 

46

The tiniest muscle, the stapedius of the middle ear , is just one-fifth of an

inch long.

 

47

The average human head weighs about 10 pounds.

 

48

The average human brain weighs three pounds.

 

49

The DNA helix measures 80 billionths of an inch wide.

 

50

Your eyeballs are three and a half percent salt.

 

 

 

 

51

Head lice actually prefer to live on clean heads, not on dirty ones.

 

52

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand

seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's

neck.

 

53

It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

 

54

An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.

 

55

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man

never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

 

56

Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a

year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.

 

57

It only takes 7lbs of pressure to rip your ear off.

 

58

When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop - even your heart.

 

59

Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

 

60

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching T.V.

 

 

 

 

61

Our eyes never grow, and our nose and ears never stop growing.

 

62

The thumbnail grows the slowest; the middle nail grows the fastest

 

63

Children grow faster in the springtime.

 

64

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

 

65

You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.

 

66

People are the only animals in the world who cry tears.

 

67

Every month you grow a brand new outer layer of skin... " a new you! " .

 

68

In your very own lifetime, you'll produce enough spit to fill two swimming

pools.

 

69

You breathe in about 7 quarts of air every minute. Good ! Air is cost free..

 

70

Your dad sweats enough each day to fill up a 6 pack of soda cans...and then

some.

 

 

 

 

71

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

 

72

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough

sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

 

73

If you toot consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to

create the energy of an atomic bomb.

 

74

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps blood, that it could

squirt blood 30 feet.

 

75

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

 

76

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

 

77

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

 

78

Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by

a poisonous spider?

 

79

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

do.

 

80

If you blink one eye you move over 200 muscles.

 

 

 

 

81

The length of your foot is the same as that of your forearm between your wrist

and the inside of your elbow.

 

82

In 24 hours, the blood in the body travels a total of 12,000 miles - that's

four times the width of North America.

 

83

The human gut contains about 1kg (2.2 lbs) of bacteria. In fact, there are more

bacteria growing in and on the body than there are human cells.

 

84

Humans have more facial muscles than any other animal on earth - 22 on each

side of the face.

 

85

Before their first birthday, average babies will have dribbled 255 pints of

saliva. By the time they're two years old, they will have crawled 93 miles.

 

86

The human hand contains three main nerves, two major arteries and 27 different

bones - more of the body is devoted to controlling the hands than any other part

of the body.

 

87

In the average lifetime, we spend five years eating and we consume around 7,000

times our own weight in food.

 

88

When we go to sleep and enter REM (Rapid Eye Movement),our bodies become

completely paralysed as areas of the brain that control movement are

de-activated. It is this that stops us falling out of bed.

 

89

By the time a woman has reached her 60s, she will have released around 450 baby

making eggs

 

90

When full, the human bladder can hold two pints of urine.

 

 

 

 

81

The length of your foot is the same as that of your forearm between your wrist

and the inside of your elbow.

 

82

In 24 hours, the blood in the body travels a total of 12,000 miles - that's

four times the width of North America.

 

83

The human gut contains about 1kg (2.2 lbs) of bacteria. In fact, there are more

bacteria growing in and on the body than there are human cells.

 

84

Humans have more facial muscles than any other animal on earth - 22 on each

side of the face.

 

85

Before their first birthday, average babies will have dribbled 255 pints of

saliva. By the time they're two years old, they will have crawled 93 miles.

 

86

The human hand contains three main nerves, two major arteries and 27 different

bones - more of the body is devoted to controlling the hands than any other part

of the body.

 

87

In the average lifetime, we spend five years eating and we consume around 7,000

times our own weight in food.

 

88

When we go to sleep and enter REM (Rapid Eye Movement),our bodies become

completely paralysed as areas of the brain that control movement are

de-activated. It is this that stops us falling out of bed.

 

89

By the time a woman has reached her 60s, she will have released around 450 baby

making eggs

 

90

When full, the human bladder can hold two pints of urine.

 

 

 

 

81

The length of your foot is the same as that of your forearm between your wrist

and the inside of your elbow.

 

82

In 24 hours, the blood in the body travels a total of 12,000 miles - that's

four times the width of North America.

 

83

The human gut contains about 1kg (2.2 lbs) of bacteria. In fact, there are more

bacteria growing in and on the body than there are human cells.

 

84

Humans have more facial muscles than any other animal on earth - 22 on each

side of the face.

 

85

Before their first birthday, average babies will have dribbled 255 pints of

saliva. By the time they're two years old, they will have crawled 93 miles.

 

86

The human hand contains three main nerves, two major arteries and 27 different

bones - more of the body is devoted to controlling the hands than any other part

of the body.

 

87

In the average lifetime, we spend five years eating and we consume around 7,000

times our own weight in food.

 

88

When we go to sleep and enter REM (Rapid Eye Movement),our bodies become

completely paralysed as areas of the brain that control movement are

de-activated. It is this that stops us falling out of bed.

 

89

By the time a woman has reached her 60s, she will have released around 450 baby

making eggs

 

90

When full, the human bladder can hold two pints of urine.

 

 

 

 

91

In a lifetime, a human being will grow six feet of nose hair and shed 42 lbs of

dead skin.

 

92

A human being can look forward to having sex an average of 2,580 times with

five different partners.

 

93

Skin can now be artificially grown.One amazing result of this is that the skin

from one hand could be grown into enough to cover six football pitches..

 

94

There are 137 million light sensitive cells in the eye's retina and the fluid

that fills the eye is changed 15 times a day.

 

95

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

 

96

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

 

97

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight

of about 6 elephants!

 

98

In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears

can't flow!

 

99

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!

 

100

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

 

 

 

 

101

A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat

evaporates before a person realises it's there.

 

103

At birth we have over 300 bones. As we grow up, some of the bones begin to fuse

together as a result an adult has only 206 bones.

 

104

The human hand has 27 bones.

 

107

The femur/thigh bone is the longest bone in our body, it is about a quarter of

ones height.

 

108

The human body has 230 movable and semi- movable joints

 

109

Our Brain has over 100 billion nerve cells.

 

110

The human skull is made up of 29 different bones.

 

111

A newborn babys brain grows almost 3 times during the first year of life.

 

112

The left side of human brain controls the right side of the body and the right

side of the brain controls the left side of the body.

 

113

The length of human blood vessel is such that it circles the globe 2 ½ times.

 

 

 

116

The human heart beats 30 million times a year.

 

117

80 hairs are likely to fall every day.

 

118

The muscles of the eye move more than 100,000 times a day..

 

119

We breathe 13 pints of air every minute.

 

120

Human skin has a tendency to shed 40 pounds of skin in lifetime.

 

121

Human kidneys have about 1 million nephrons that filters out liquids and

wastes.

 

122

Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day.

 

123

Human blood is on a 60,000mile journey.

 

124

Fingernails contain keratin and they seem to be strongest component in the

human body.

 

125

The human skin contains 45 miles of nerves.

 

 

 

126

Most people blink about 25 times per minute.

 

127

For every 2 weeks, the human stomach produces new layer of mucous lining,

otherwise the stomach will digest itself.

 

128

An average of 17 muscles contracts for a smile.

 

129

Every person has a unique tongue print.

 

130

A sneeze moves out of our mouth at a speed of 100 meters per hour.

 

131

An average human eye blinks about 6,205, 000 times.

 

132

The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal and repair by its

own.

 

133

In one square inch of skin there are 4 yards of nerve fibers.

 

134

The human eye has the ability to distinguish about 1 million color surfaces.

 

135

A square inch of skin has 100 sweat glands.

 

 

 

138

The human ear can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different

sounds.

 

141

On an average the human scalp has about 100,000 hairs.

 

142

Nails of toes or fingers take about 6 months to grow from base to tip.

 

143

A square inch of skin consists of 1300 nerve cells.

 

144

On an average an individual produces human being consumes about 500 kg of food

per year.

 

145

The adult human brain is about 2 % of total body weight.

 

146

On an average 1.7 liters of saliva produces each day.

 

147

In one square inch of skin, there are 3 million cells.

 

148

The human body consists of over 600 muscles.

 

149

As we get older, the brain loses almost one gram per year..

 

 

 

138

The human ear can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different

sounds.

 

141

On an average the human scalp has about 100,000 hairs.

 

142

Nails of toes or fingers take about 6 months to grow from base to tip.

 

143

A square inch of skin consists of 1300 nerve cells.

 

144

On an average an individual produces human being consumes about 500 kg of food

per year.

 

145

The adult human brain is about 2 % of total body weight.

 

146

On an average 1.7 liters of saliva produces each day.

 

147

In one square inch of skin, there are 3 million cells.

 

148

The human body consists of over 600 muscles.

 

149

As we get older, the brain loses almost one gram per year..

 

 

 

150

Oesophagus/or food pipe, which is the passage for the food we eat to the

stomach, is approximately 25 cm long.

 

151

A square inch of skin consists of three yards of blood vessel.

 

152

There are about 13, 500,00 neurons in the human spinal cord.

 

153

The human tongue has 10,000 taste buds.

 

154

The cells of taste buds are constantly being renewed, roughly on every ten

hours.

 

155

An average human head weighs about 8 pounds.

 

156

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, unlike our nose and ears.

 

157

The human body is composed of 80 percent of water.

 

158

The human eyeball is 24.5 mm long.

 

159

The total weight of skin in an average human adult is 61 pounds.

 

 

 

160

Taste buds are present inside the mouth and also at the roof of the mouth.

 

161

The human spinal cord is 45 cm long in men and 43 cm long in women.

 

162

The weight of human cerebellum is 150g.

 

163

The strongest muscles of the human body are masseters, which are present on

either side of the mouth.

 

164

The human liver performs 500 different functions.

 

165

The heart muscles will stop working only when we die.

 

166

Children have more sensitive ears than adults.

 

167

Shivering is a way of trying to keep our body warm.

 

168

Humans have the ability to distinguish 4,000 to 10, 000 smells.

 

169

Every hour, the human eye can process 36,000 bits of information.

 

 

 

170

Nails and corneas are the only two tissues in the body that do not receive

oxygen from blood.

 

171

The length of the finger indicates how fast the nail grows. The nail of the

middle finger grows faster than others.

 

172

The human ears can hear in the frequency of 1,000 to 50, 000 hertz.

 

173

The total surface area of the human brain is about 25, 000 square cms.

 

174

When the sounds are above 130 decibels, it causes pain to the ears.

 

175

There are around 100 receptors in each of our fingertips.

 

176

The weight of skin in a human adult is 4 to 5 kg.

 

177

The middle part of the back is the least sensitive part of our body.

 

178

Children have better sense of smell than adults.

 

179

The eyelashes shed by a human in his entire life is of 30 m of length.

 

 

 

180

After death, the body starts to dry out creating an illusion that the nails and

hairs are growing even after death.

 

181

The surface of human skin is 6.5 square feet.

 

182

Every second, 15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body.

 

183

An average human being will breathe about 23,040 times per hour.

 

184

The base of the spinal cord has a cluster of nerves, which are most sensitive.

 

185

The surface area of the human lung is equal to that of a tennis court.

 

186

When we reach 60 years of life, we lose 50 % of our taste buds.

 

187

Blinking of one eye causes movement of 200 muscles.

 

188

Platelets, which are one of the constituents of the blood is produced at the

rate of 200 billion per day.

 

189

The sense of taste is the weakest of the five senses.

 

 

 

190

Humans have the ability to differentiate about 10, 000 odour.

 

191

It takes time for the newborn baby to learn to turn the pictures right side up,

as it sees the world upside down in the beginning.

 

192

If human sense of smell is affected, sense of taste is also affected as the

brain interprets signals from the nose and tongue.

 

193

There are around 1,200,000 optic fibers in the human eye.

 

194

The lens of the human eye is composed of 65 % of water and 3 % of protein.

 

195

We shut our eyes for 0.3 seconds, when we blink.

 

196

Color blind people find it hard to distinguish colors like green and red.

 

197

A blink of an eye lasts for 1/10th of a second.

 

198

Eyes are the only part of the human body that functions at 100 percent ability

at any movement.

 

199

The human skin contains 280,000 heat receptors.

 

 

 

 

 

A drop of blood contains 250 million cells.

 

 

 

 

 

201

The liver is the largest and heaviest internal organ of the body and weighs

about 1.6 kilos.

 

202

In the womb, the babys body is covered by a thin layer of hair but as soon as

the baby is born it disappears.

 

203

At birth every one is color blind.

 

204

Babies crawl to an average of 200 m a day.

 

205

The only joint less bone in the human body is the hyoid bone, which is present

in the throat area.

 

206

A baby gender is determined after the first 6-8 weeks of pregnancy.

 

207

Eating Break fast helps to burn 5 to 20 percent of calories throughout the day.

 

208

The surface of human tongue is covered with 100 of tiny structures called

papillae.

 

209

On an average, a persons left hand does 56 % of typing.

 

 

 

 

210

On an average the cough that comes out of our mouth is 60 m per hour.

 

211

A person can live without food for about a month, but only a week without

water.

 

212

Threshold pain of women is 9 times stronger than men.

 

213

The palms of the hands and soles of the feet contain more sweat glands than

other parts of the body.

 

214

10 % of men and 8 % of women are left-handed.

 

215

On an average the human body contains enough water to fill 1 gallon of a tank.

 

216

An average human body contains enough amount of fat to make seven bars of soap.

 

217

The human body releases growth hormones during sleep.

 

218

Red blood cells are about seven micrometer in diameter.

 

219

The thighbone is so strong that it withstands the axial load of about 1600-1800

kilos.

 

 

 

 

220

An average adult male brain weighs about 1375 grams.

 

221

On an average the weight of an adult female brain is about 1275 grams.

 

222

Only four percent of the brains cells work and the remaining cells are kept in

reserve.

 

223

On an average thousands of neurons dies every day.

 

224

The human eye has 110-130 million receptors to perceive light.

 

225

The human eye contains five to seven million receptors for color perception.

 

226

The human eye cannot perceive a motionless image.

 

227

The average life span of a sperm is about 36 hours.

 

228

The life span of an ovule is about 12 - 24 hours.

 

229

Only one person in two billion will live for more than 115 years of life.

 

 

 

 

230

On an average, we speak about 5,000 words per day.

 

231

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

 

232

Liver is the only organ of the body, which regenerates itself completely even

after being removed completely.

 

233

The human heart pumps 6,000 liters of blood daily through a man lifetime.

 

234

The human brain is capable of creating more ideas equivalent to that of the

atoms of the universe.

 

235

Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, the next being bone marrow..

 

236

On an average, in an adult scalp 35m of hair fiber is produced every day.

 

237

An average scalp has 100,000 hairs.

 

238

The maximum length of hair can be 70 to 90 cms.

 

239

The life span of hair is two to seven years.

 

 

 

 

240

Frequent washing of hair does not cause hair loss.

 

241

Brain uses 20 % of our body energy and makes up only 2 % of our body weight.

 

242

Any damage to brain cells cannot be repaired completely.

 

243

Human brain stops growing at the age of 18.

 

244

Male hairs are denser and grow faster than females.

 

245

Depending on the area of the human body, the thickness of the skin varies from

½ to 6 mm.

 

246

Tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.

 

247

A Pair of feet contains about 250,000 sweat glands.

 

248

The human skin sheds and re-grows after every 27 days.

 

249

A Blind person looses only about 1/5th of vision.

 

 

 

 

250

One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.

 

251

Pregnancy in women lasts on average of about 270 days from the time of

conception till birth.

 

252

Sneezing too hard can cause rib fracture and suppressing the sneeze can cause

damage to the blood vessels of head or neck.

 

253

On freeze drying, 10 % of body weight is contributed by the micro organisms of

our body.

 

254

About 80 % of ultra- violet rays from the sun can get through the cloud and can

cause sunburn or tan even on a cloudy day.

 

255

The human stomach contains about 35 million small digestive glands.

 

256

The ovaries of a female contain about 600, 000 immature eggs at birth.

 

257

The ovaries of a female contain about 600, 000 immature eggs at birth.

 

258

The human body has 4 million pain sensitive structures.

 

259

Each lung contains 300-350 million respiratory units called alveoli.

 

 

 

 

260

Human blood contains 22,000 million cells.

 

261

Human skin is re-newed itself every 5 weeks.

 

262

A New stomach lining is formed every five days.

 

263

A human ear contains about 24,000 fibers in it.

 

264

The largest cell in the woman is the egg or ovum present that is released from

the ovaries.

 

265

Women burn fat more slowly than men.

 

266

The leg bone is the fastest growing bone in the human body.

 

267

There are 22 bones in the human skull.

 

268

A muscle called the diaphragm controls the human breathing process.

 

269

The human brain is made up of more than 10 billion nerve cells and over 50

billion other cells and weighs about less than three pounds.

 

 

 

 

270

2/3 of the human body is made up of water.

 

271

Vitamin C and E fights against Dementia - a disease of forgetfulness in the

elderly person.

 

272

Half a liter of water per day is lost through breathing.

 

273

Drinking coffee prevents Parkinsons disease.

 

274

Cold weather improves human memory and concentration.

 

275

Most of the bones in the human body constitutes about 3/4 of water.

 

276

An adult human body contains five to six quarts of blood and an infant has

about one quart of blood.

 

277

Blind people understand spoken words quicker than sighted people.

 

278

A human lung contains about 700 million alveoli.

 

279

Vitamin E protects the brain cells from damage caused by alcohol consumption.

 

 

 

 

280

The human body contains more bacteria than the number of cells present in it.

 

281

The longest muscle in the human body is sartorius, which is present in the hip

region and it is commonly called as tailors muscle.

 

282

Melanin, a pigment present in the skin is responsible for the color of the skin

in a person.

 

283

Except the heart and lungs, all other parts of the body receive their blood

supply from the largest artery of the body, the aorta.

 

284

The Pulmonary vein is the only vein in the human body that carries oxygenated

blood while all the other veins of the body carry de-oxygenated blood.

 

285

The human blood is colorless. It is the hemoglobin; a pigment present in the

red blood cells is responsible for the red color of the blood.

 

286

The smallest muscle in the human body is the stapedius, which is present deep

inside the ear.

 

287

The human brain is very soft like that of butter.

 

288

A heartbeat is nothing but the sound produced by the closure of valves of the

heart when the blood is pushed through its chamber.

 

289

Hold out your hand and make a fist. If you are a kid, the size of your heart is

same as the size of your fist and if you are an adult it is about the same size

as twice as your fist.

 

 

 

 

290

About 500 million sperm mature every day in a normal male adult.

 

291

Sixty percent of the human body nerve ends in the forehead and the hands.

 

292

A human body contains about 200,000 temperature detectors..

 

293

A human body has 500,000 touch detectors.

 

294

If all the alveoli from both lungs were spread flat they would cover an area

nearly the size of a tennis court.

 

295

Each human eye contains 130 million light receptors.

 

296

The human scalp contains about 100,000 hair follicles, from which the hair

grows.

 

297

The human skeleton renews once in every three months.

 

298

The human skin cells multiply every second to replace the worn ones.

 

299

The cells of the heart and brain do not multiply through out their lifetime.

 

 

 

 

300

The whole leg constitutes of 31 bones.

 

 

 

300

The whole leg constitutes of 31 bones.

 

301

The human skull and upper jaw consist of 21 bones.

 

302

When we see an image, the human eye captures the inverted image of it. It is

the brains interpretation that makes us to see the upside down captured image in

to a normal erect image.

 

303

An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

 

304

A womens heart beats faster than a mens.

 

305

The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

 

306

The food will get in to the stomach even if one stands on their head.

 

307

The eyes have the fastest reacting muscle in the whole body. It contracts in

1/100th of a second.

 

308

Almost every seven years, the human body replaces the equivalent of an entirely

new skeleton.

 

309

Laughing and coughing creates more pressure on the spine than walking or

standing.

 

 

 

 

310

The human heart continues to beat even though it is taken out of the body or

cut in to pieces.

 

311

On an average, the human blood circulates the body for every 23 seconds.

 

312

In an average person, it takes 8 seconds for food to travel down the food

pipe,3-5 hours in small intestine and 3-4 days in large intestine.

 

313

The brain continues to send out electric wave signals until approximately 37

hours after death.

 

314

People under 30 years of age take in double the amount of oxygen as people over

80 years of age.

 

315

The human body takes 6 hours to digest a high fat meal and it takes 2 hours for

a carbohydrate meal.

 

316

On an average an adults heart pumps about 4,000 gallons of blood each day.

 

317

The muscles of our body constitute 40% of our body weight.

 

318

Iris is the part of the eye that determines the color of the eye.

 

319

Red Blood Cells comprise about 40 % of blood volume.

 

 

 

 

320

The human eye contains structures called Rods and cones. Rods register the

shapes of images and respond to low levels of light and Cones responds to bright

lights and registers the color of images.

 

321

We tend to get cold very easily in the winter season because we are indoors and

in close proximity to each other.

 

322

Our Muscles often work in pairs so that they can pull in different or opposite

directions.

 

323

The left side of the human heart is much thicker and stronger than the right

side

 

324

Human blood is a make up of Red Blood Cells carrying oxygen, White Blood Cells

that fight disease, Platelets that help the blood to clot and a liquid called

plasma.

 

325

Human hair is made up of a body protein called keratin and it grows out of an

opening of the skin called Follicle.

 

326

Every day 440 Gallons of blood flows through the kidney.

 

327

Red Blood Cells lasts only for about 4 months before they wear out.

 

328

Every minute 30,000 to 40, 000 dead skin cells fall from our body.

 

329

Straight hair lies flat because it is round and grows out of round follicles.

 

 

 

 

320

The human eye contains structures called Rods and cones. Rods register the

shapes of images and respond to low levels of light and Cones responds to bright

lights and registers the color of images.

 

321

We tend to get cold very easily in the winter season because we are indoors and

in close proximity to each other.

 

322

Our Muscles often work in pairs so that they can pull in different or opposite

directions.

 

323

The left side of the human heart is much thicker and stronger than the right

side

 

324

Human blood is a make up of Red Blood Cells carrying oxygen, White Blood Cells

that fight disease, Platelets that help the blood to clot and a liquid called

plasma.

 

325

Human hair is made up of a body protein called keratin and it grows out of an

opening of the skin called Follicle.

 

326

Every day 440 Gallons of blood flows through the kidney.

 

327

Red Blood Cells lasts only for about 4 months before they wear out.

 

328

Every minute 30,000 to 40, 000 dead skin cells fall from our body.

 

329

Straight hair lies flat because it is round and grows out of round follicles.

 

 

 

 

340

If the blood vessels were laid from end to end, they would reach around the

world four times.

 

341

On an average, the human growth hormone, which is responsible for a person

growth is produced at the rate of 500 microgram per day at the age of twenty,

200 microgram per day at the age of fourty and 25 microgram per day at the age

of eighty.

 

342

It is estimated that there are over 1, 000,000,000,000,000 connections in the

human brain.

 

343

Human brain constitutes 60 % of white matter and 40 % of grey matter.

 

344

The average length of the human brain is about 167 mm and its average height is

93mm.

 

345

A human heart pumps about 1,314,000 gallons of blood a year through its blood

vessels.

 

346

There are about 30 - 40 billion white blood cells present in our body to fight

against infective and foreign organisms.

 

347

The human bladder can stretch to hold about 400ml of urine.

 

348

All the blood in our body passes 400 times through each kidney per day.

 

349

The human Liver consists of 100,000 tiny clusters called lobules.

 

 

 

 

350

On an average, the human stomach holds about 2 liters of contents.

 

351

We produce 1 liter of saliva per day.

 

352

The human sense of smell has the ability to identify the chemical smell of an

object in one part per trillion of air.

 

353

An average capillary is only 1mm.

 

354

Humans have about 2 to 3 million sweat glands, which can produce up to 13

liters of sweat on a hot day.

 

355

On an average, 100, 000 to 1000, 000 chemical reactions takes place in our

brain.

 

356

1,000,000,000,000 nerve cells are present in each and every person head.

 

357

Liver cells take several years to replace themselves.

 

358

The white part of our fingernail is called as Lunula.

 

359

We are more likely to catch cold from a person by shaking his hand than from

his sneeze.

 

 

 

 

360

The shoulder blade is connected to the body by means of 15 different muscles

and it is not attached to a single bone.

 

361

The human brain uses 20 % of one blood and oxygen.

 

362

A healthy liver processes 720 liters of blood per day.

 

363

Plaque begins to form 6 hours after brushing our teeth.

 

364

59, 951 miles of blood vessels are present in our body.

 

365

Newborns will cry out without tears for the first three to six weeks.

 

366

The Nervous system transmits messages to the brain at the speed of 180 miles

per hour.

 

367

The human nose can remember 50,000 different smells.

 

368

There is enough iron in the human body to make a small nail.

 

369

Women have better sense of smell than men

 

 

 

 

370

It is evaluated that the human eye can detect over 10,000,000 different colors.

 

371

The wax present inside the ear is made up of oil and sweat.

 

372

The female body is capable of giving birth to 35 children in one lifetime.

 

373

The spinal cord, which controls over 10 billion nerve cells, is less than two

feet in length and its diameter is same as that of the index finger.

 

374

In the middle of the day, our eyesight will be sharper.

 

375

A newborn baby has more than 26 billion cells.

 

376

Sneezing clears dirt from the nose.

 

377

Inner ear is the main organ of balance.

 

378

Yawning brings more oxygen to the lungs.

 

379

Coughing clears mucous secretion from the throat.

 

 

 

 

380

Human speech is produced by the interaction of 72 muscles.

 

381

A New born baby loses about half of its nerve cells before it is born.

 

382

A neglected child brain can be substantially smaller than that of a healthy

child.

 

383

On an average, the number of connections in the brain increases from 50

trillion to 1 quadrillion in a newborn during his first month of life.

 

384

On an average it takes about 13 days for a grey hair to grow.

 

385

Healthy human hair emits sound.

 

386

The human brain stores memories of fear.

 

387

The nerve cells present in the nose, allows us to smell and regenerates through

out ones life.

 

388

Reading aloud to children helps to stimulate brain development.

 

389

A hair grows by 0.3 to 0.5 mm per day, 1 to 1.5 cm per month and 12 to 15 cm

per year.

 

 

 

 

390

Children lose an average of 90 hairs per day, which increases to 120 by old

age.

 

391

A childs ability to learn can increase or decrease by 25 % or more depending on

whether the child grows up in a stimulating environment.

 

392

On an average a persons head has 100, 000 to 150, 000 hair.

 

393

A single hair has the ability to support up to 100 grams of weight and the

whole hair has the ability to support up to 12 tones of weight.

 

394

The pigment of human hair is produced in the shaft of hair beneath the skin.

 

395

In lifetime, the human heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood, which is

enough to fill more than three tankers.

 

396

The width of an average human brain is 140 mm.

 

397

It takes 5- 30 seconds to chew food.

 

398

Swallowing of the food takes about 10 seconds.

 

399

The enzyme in the stomach that breaks down alcohol is produced less in men than

women.

 

 

 

 

400

In a year on an average person sleeps for 122 days out of 365 days.

 

401

There are around 9,000 taste buds present on the tongue.

 

402

Capillaries are so small that it would take ten of them to equal the thickness

of a human hair.

 

403

It is impossible to tickle our selves.

 

404

In a human body, the small intestine is 21 feet and the large intestine is 6

feet long.

 

405

For every 24 hours, in a healthy adult, more than a gallon of water containing

over an ounce of salt is absorbed from the intestine.

 

406

The right side of the human brain is responsible for self-recognition.

 

407

Men listen with the left side of the brain and women use both sides of the

brain.

 

408

In a lifetime, the human kidneys clean over 1 million gallons of blood.

 

409

Identical twins have identical DNA but not identical fingerprints.

 

 

 

 

410

 Babies recognize sounds while in mothers womb.

 

412

Human bone is as strong as steel but 50 times lighter

 

413

Bones make up only 14% of our weight

 

414

The brain is faster than a super computer processing billions of signals per

second. Vishwanath Ananad the Indian Chess grandmaster has many times beaten the

computer at chess.

 

416

Seven out of ten people cross their left arm over their right

 

417

Your foot contains 25% of all the bones within your body.

 

418

Human eye is the only multifocus lens in the world which can adjust in 2

milliseconds

 

421

Human brain is the most powerful computer which has the processing speed of

3000+ Ghz

 

422

The gastric acid in your stomach is so powerful that it is able to eat away an

iron table in about 5 minutes.

 

423

sperm containing the xy chromosomes to become a male can swim faster but not

for as long as the female xx chromosomes.

 

 

 

 

424

The ears never stop growing through lifetime.

 

425

The heart is accually more in the middle, just off to the left.

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