Monday, July 28, 2008

Did you know..... Some interesting facts about the human body!

Some interesting facts listed below, possibly all true?
Your ears never stop growing
The human thigh bones are stronger than concrete
The human body is 75% water
The heart can squirt enough blood 30 feet
Your brain is 70% water
The strongest bone your femur is hollow
Blood isn’t red it is yellow and called plasma
People who have a high number of moles live longer
1 drop of blood is made of 5 million red blood cells 7,000 white blood cells and 300,000 platelets
You can lose 90%of your liver and still live
Your lungs contain 750 million tubes and capsules
Your heart beats 2.5 billion times in 66 years
Some people have over 206 bones
People who spend most of there time riding horses grow extra bones in there thighs
An average person farts 16 times a day
You lose 60 hairs a day
Pound for pound human body produces 5 times more energy than the sun
You can cut the brain directly in half and not fell anything
You shed 600,000 particles of skin every hour
It takes 15 months for the body to fully recover from even a moderately bad sunburn
If you unfold and flatten a set of human lungs they would cover a tennis court
All babies are born colour blind.
Urine is made up of 96% water. The rest is protein and salt.
Babies are born with 300 bones.
If you took out all of the water in your body then you would weigh 40% of your body weight.
Your thigh is stronger than concrete.
Each eye weighs 1 ¼ ounces.
In a child there are 600 miles of blood vessels.
A new born baby’s brain weighs 3 ounces.
In the 1850’s, a man from Paris had a brain injury and all he could ever say ever again was tan.
The brain weighs 1.3 kg.
The left side of the brain controls the right and vice versa.
Ancient Greeks thought that the heart did the thinking.
The world sneezing record is held by a girl that in the 1980’s sneezed 1,000,000 times per year for 2 ½ years from 1981 to 1983/
Stomach acid is strong enough to melt through copper.
Nails are made out of protein called keratin !!!
More than 2,500 gallons of air flows through the average of a adults nose in a day!!!
The human body has 6 ponds of skin!!!
Each hand has 27 bones: eight in the wrist five in the palm and 14 in the fingers!!!
A newborn baby has300 bones, some of which fuse together to make the further 200 in the adult!!!
Every day your fingernails get longer by 2 hairs a day and if you did not cut them they would get up to 28 meters of nail during a life time each piece of hair grows 1 centimetres per month!!!

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