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20 Facts About The Human Body by Adedeji2012(m): 1:48pm On Jul 06, 2016 |
1. There are 2.5 trillion (give or take) of red blood
cells in your body at any moment. To maintain
this number, about two and a half million new
ones need to be produced every second by your
bone marrow.That's like a new population of the
city of Toronto every second.
2. A red blood cell can circumnavigate your body
in under 20 seconds.
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. Our eyes can distinguish up to ten million
colour surfaces and take in more information
than the largest telescope known to man.
8. Our lungs inhale over two million litres of air
every day, without even thinking. Their surface
area is large enough to cover one side of a tennis
court.
9. We give birth to over 200 billion red cells every
day.
10. When we touch something, we send a
message to our brain at 124 mph.
11. We exercise at least 36 muscles when we
smile.
12. We are about 70 percent water.
13. We make around 1 to 1.6 litres of saliva a day.
14. Our nose is our personal air-conditioning
system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters
impurities.
15. In one square inch of our hand we have nine
feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000
nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure
sensors.
16. We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium,
manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon in our
bodies.
17. It is believed that the main purpose of
eyebrows is to keep sweat out of the eyes.
18. A person can expect to breathe in about 45
pounds of dust over his/her lifetime.
19. There are more living organisms on the skin
of a single human being than there are human
beings on the surface of the earth.
20. From the age of thirty, humans gradually
begin to shrink in size. |
Re: 20 Facts About The Human Body by ForeverYoung197(f): 1:52pm On Jul 06, 2016 |
Great infos. |
Re: 20 Facts About The Human Body by hisgrace090: 2:10pm On Jul 06, 2016 |
The omnipotent omniscience and omnipresent God, Dady you are great indeed. |
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