SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT YOU

50 FACTS ABOUT YOUR BODY

1.We are about 70 percent water.

HUMAN BODY

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

3.Nerve Impulses travel at over 400 km/hr (249 mi/hr)

4.A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr (100 mi/hr), and a cough moves out at 100 km/hr (60 mi/hr).

5.Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day or about 30 million times in a year.

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

7.We make around 1 to 1.6 liters of saliva a day.

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

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

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

 11.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.

12.The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime - that's enough to fill 2 oil super tankers!

13.Babies start dreaming even before they're born

14.There are more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of the United States and Canada combined.

15. The tiniest muscle, the stapedius of the middle ear, is just one-fifth of an inch long.

16.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.

17.Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

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

19.Children grow faster in the springtime.

20.When we go to sleep and enter REM (Rapid Eye Movement), our bodies become completely paralyzed as areas of the brain that control movement is de-activated. It is this that stops us falling out of bed.

21.Our Brain has over 100 billion nerve cells.

22.The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average.

23.Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

24.Women blink twice as many times as men do.

25.A man has approximately 6.8 liters of blood in the body while women have approximately 5 liters.

26.Babies are born with blue eyes more than any other color. The melanin in their eyes needs time to be fully deposited or to be darkened by ultraviolet light to reveal the baby's true eye color.

27.A newborn baby's brain grows almost 3 times during the first year of life.

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

29.Noise causes the pupils of your eyes to dilate. Even very small noises can do this.

30.The human heart beats 30 million times a year.

31.The hands and feet contain almost half of the total bones in the human body.

32.A normal human being can survive 20 days without eating but can survive only 2 days without drinking.

33.Human kidneys have about 1 million nephrons that filter out liquids and wastes.

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

35. Your skeleton keeps renewing itself every ten years which means that every ten years you get a new skeleton.

36.Your stomach acid is even strong enough to dissolve razor blades

37.Your brain uses up about 20% of all your body's oxygen and calories

38.Aside from being flammable, human hair is exceedingly difficult to destroy even with strong acids

39.The human body may appear fragile but it’s possible to survive even with the removal of the stomach, the spleen, 75 percent of the liver, 80 percent of the intestines, one kidney, one lung, and virtually every organ from the pelvic and groin area.

40.A full bladder is roughly the size of a softball

41.The liver is the only organ of the body, which regenerates itself completely even after being removed completely.

42.The human brain is capable of creating more ideas equivalent to that of the atoms of the universe.

43.Human brain stops growing at the age of 18.

44. Sneezing too hard can cause a rib fracture while suppressing a sneeze can cause damage to the blood vessels of the head or neck.

45.The lining of a person's stomach is replaced every 4 to 5 days to prevent it from digesting itself.

46.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.

47.The fastest muscles in a human body are the ones that make the eyes blink. They can contract in less than one-hundredth of a second. In just one day, a person may blink their eyes over 11,500 times.

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

49.The space between the eyebrows is called the "glabella," which is derived from the Latin word glabellus, meaning smooth.

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