Thursday, August 13, 2009

Facts: Human Body



- Approximately 75% of human poop is made of water.
- Your eyes are always the same size from birth but your nose and ears never stop growing.

- It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
- The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds.
- Your brain is more active during the night than the day.
- One human hair can support 3kg.
- Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
- The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.
- An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.
- It is impossible to lick your elbow.
- Your body requires 1000-1500 calories per day just to simply survive (breathing, sleeping, eating).
- Every day an adult body produces 300 billion new cells.
- Scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream.
- You use 200 muscles to take one step.
- Muscle cells live as long as you do while skin cells live less than 24 hours.

- A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.
- Your brain operates on the same amount of power that would light a 10-watt light bulb.

- There are 5 million hair follicles on an average adult.
- The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades.
- The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Brittanica.

- The white part of your fingernail is called the Lunula.
- There is enough iron in a human being to make one small nail.
- A shank is the part of the sole between the heel and the ball of the foot.
- The talus is the second largest bone in the foot.
- The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.
- A 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his foot in 1977.
- Your thumb is the same length of your nose.
- A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
- Dogs and Humans are the only animals with prostates.
- It only takes 7lbs of of pressure to rip off your ears.


Tomzzon.

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