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The Human body is a truly marvelous machine |
...with complexity and integrated systems that are a testimony to our great Creator. Enjoy.
- A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
- In an average healthy adult, the volume of blood is one-eleventh of the body weight, or between 5 and 6 quarts. (The amount of oil used in the average V8 engine)
- In ten years, the average man shaves off a pound of whiskers.
- A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
- A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
- A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
- A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a 40 days.
- According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
- An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
- Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.
- 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.)
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
- Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
- Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
- Every person has a unique tongue print.
- Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
- Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- 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.
- Humans shed and re-grow outer skin cells about every 27 days - almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime.
- If it were removed from the body, the small intestine would stretch to a length of 22 feet.
- If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
- If you go blind in one eye, you'll only lose about one-fifth of your vision (but all your depth perception.)
- In a lifetime the average US resident eats more than 50 tons of food and drinks more than 13,000 gallons of liquid.
- It takes 17 muscles to smile --- 43 to frown.
- Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to bring the back teeth together for chewing.
- The "funny bone" is not a bone, it is the ulnar nerve.
- The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds..
- The average human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail, sulfur 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, phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
- The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
- The average person releases nearly a pint of intestinal gas by flatulence every day. Most is due to swallowed air. The rest is from fermentation of undigested food.
- The feet account for one quarter of all the human bodies bones -- That's 52 bones in the feet alone.
- The average person takes 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day. Those cover several miles, and they all add up to about 115,000 miles in a lifetime -- equal to circling the globe nearly five times.
- When a person weighing 150 pounds jogs three miles, the cumulative impact on each foot is greater than 150 tons.
- A pair of feet has 250,000 sweat glands and can produce as much as eight ounces of sweat in one day.
- The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.
- The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body's weight.
- The human brain is about 85% water.
- The largest cell in the human body is the female reproductive cell, the ovum. The smallest is the male sperm.
- The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet.
- The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart.
- The most common blood type in the world is Type O. The rarest, Type A-H, has been found in less than a dozen people since the type was discovered.
- The sound of a snore (up to 69 decibels) can be almost as loud as the noise of a pneumatic drill.
- The human body contains 100 trillion cells, 40 billion are not your own but are symbiotic bacteria on the skin and in the GI system.
- There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
- Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every minute.
- Women burn fat more slowly than men, by a rate of about 50 calories a day.
- Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
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