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Little Known Facts About The Human Body
- A human being
loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
- A cough releases
an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
- Every time you
lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
- A fetus acquires
fingerprints at the age of three months.
- A sneeze can
exceed the speed of 100 mph.
- Every person
has a unique tongue print.
- According to
German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than
any other day of the week.
- After spending
hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white
paper. It will probably appear pink.
- An average human
drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
- A fingernail
or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
- An average human
scalp has 100,000 hairs.
- It takes 17 muscles
to smile and 43 to frown.
- Babies are born
with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
- 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.
- By age sixty,
most people have lost half of their taste buds. By the time you turn
70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring
on an average of 70 beats per minute.)
- Each square inch
of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
- Every human spent
about half an hour as a single cell.
- Every person
has a unique tongue print. Every square inch of the human body has
an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
- Fingernails grow
faster than toenails.
- 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.
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