Your body is the most amazing machine ever built. Highly adaptive and resistant. No man-built systems can be compared to human body in its complexity and perfection! Here are some amazing facts you may find interesting: * You lose everyday around 50 to 100 hairs from your head, which are replaced the same day. * An average human has 100000 hairs on the head * The air from a sneeze can reach the speed of 100 mph; from a cough - 60 mph * An average person drinks around 16000 gallons of water in his lifetime. * A nail takes around 6 months to grow from base to the most tip. * Around 45 miles of nerves run through our body. The electric impulses travel at a speed of almost 250 mph! * Babies have 94 bones more than an adult, in total 300. * An average human blinks 25 times a minute, that's over 6.205.000 times a year! * By the age of 70 your heart have beat 2,5 billion times and pumped around 48.000.000 gallons of blood. * In a tiny drop of water there are 5 million red blood cells, 10.000 white cells and 300.000 platelets * A square of human skin contains 20 feet of blood vessels, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands and 3 million cells. * The average human body contains enough: Sulphur 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, Phosphorus to make :2,200 matchheads, and enough Water to fill a ten-gallon tank. * The microorganisms in and on your body make up 10% of your bodyweight (dried, without water). * You produce a quart of saliva daily, 10.000 gallons in a lifetime * A square of human skin has 32 million bacterias on it! * Each second 10.000.000 of cells die and are replaced in your body. * You create a new skin every month and a new skeleton every 3 months! * Ears and nose don't stop keep growing during the whole life! * The liver is the body's chemical factory. It has over 500 functions! * You lose 600.000 particles of skin every hour that make up 1.5 pounds a year! * You spend one third of your lifetime sleeping. 20 Years in an average lifetime! |
