Amazing Facts of Human Body

-That the average red blood cell lives for 120 days!
-That there are 2.5 trillion (give or take) of red blood cells in your body at any moment!
-Considering all the tissues and cells in your body, 25 million new cells are being produced each second!
-A red blood cell can circumnavigate your body in under 20 seconds!
-Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day! and in n a year, a person`s heart beats 40,000,000 times.
-Nerve Impulses travel at over 400 km/hr (25 mi/min)!
-That our lungs inhale over two million litres of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court!
-50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells, all while you have been reading this sentence!
-Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions.
-In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.
-The structural plan of a whale’s, a dog’s, a bird’s and a man’s ‘arm’ are exactly the same.
-The world`s first test-tube twins were born in June 1981.
-There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
-Most people blink about 25 times a minute.
-Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
-Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.
-Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
-Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
-You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown.
-You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile.
-Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.
-The average human blinks his eyes 6,205,000 times each year.
-The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.
-Every person has a unique tongue print.
-The average human’s heart will beat 3000 million times in their lifetime.
-The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in their lifetime.
-You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.
-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 match heads, and enough Water to fill a ten gallon tank
-A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
-If you were freeze-dried, 10% of your body weight would be from the microorganisms on your body.
-According to the World Health Organization, there are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
-Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life.
-When you eat meat and drink milk in the same meal, your body does not absorb any of the milk’s calcium. It is best to have 2 hours between the milk and meat intake.
-Only humans and horses have hymens.
-The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself.
-Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
-One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world’s telephones put together.

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