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Facts about Human Body
Posted Date: 18 Apr 2008 Resource Type: Entertainment Category: Funny News
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Posted By: Raghav Member Level: Gold
Rating:  Points: 6
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There are lot of amazing facts about Human Body. These Facts are listed below.
1. The thickness of your skin varies from 1/2 to 6 millimeters, depending on the area of your body.
2. The four taste zones on your tongue are bitter (back), sour (back sides), salty (front sides), and sweet (front).
3. The five senses are sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste.
4. Your body contains eight pints of blood.
5. You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
6. The strongest muscle of the body is the masseter muscle, which is located in the jaw.
7. Muscles normally account for 40 percent of one's body weight.
8. About 400 gallons of blood flow through your kidneys in one day. Your heart beats about 100,000 times a day.
9. Placed end to end, all your body's blood vessels would measure about 62,000 miles.
10. Humans breathe 20 times per minute, more than 10 million times per year and about 700 million times in a lifetime.
11. When you sneeze, air rushes through your nose at a rate of 100 mph.
12. There are 10 million nerve cells in your brain.
13. The slowest growing finger nail is on the thumb nail and the fastest growing is the finger nail on the middle finger.
14. your body is made up of trillions of cells? Different parts of your body are made of different kinds of cells.
15. if you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds?
16. an adult human heart weighs about 10 ounces and beats over 100,000 times a day?
17. your muscles make up about one-half of your body weight?
18. Girls have more taste buds than boys.
19. From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
20. In a lifetime, an average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva.
21. If all the blood vessels in the adult human body were laid end to end they would stretch 160,000 kilometres, that’s four times around the Earth.
22. The number of beneficial bacteria in the human intestine is equal to the number of cells in the human body.
23. It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
24. The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
26. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
27. On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
28. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... Even your heart.
29. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
30. The scent of apples and/or bananas can help you lose weight.
31. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
32. The average human's heart will beat 3000 million times in their lifetime.
33. The average human body contains enough: Sulphur 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 match heads, and enough Water to fill a ten gallon tank
34. Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life.
35. One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world’s telephones put together.
36. 50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells, all while you have been reading this sentence!
37. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
38. The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in their lifetime.
39. The average human's heart will beat 3000 million times in their lifetime.
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Responses
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| Author: shoba 16 May 2008 | Member Level: Gold Points : 2 | Very nice.From where you are getting these informations?
| | Author: Raghav 16 May 2008 | Member Level: Gold Points : 2 | Hello Shoba,
is this information helpful to you. Thank you very much for responding to my article about human body. I will give you some more information on unbelievable facts later on.
raghav
| | Author: shoba 16 May 2008 | Member Level: Gold Points : 2 | Thanks
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