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Tuesday 13 November 2007

some facts abt the human body1

1. The average red blood cell lives for 120 days.

2. 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.

3. Considering all the tissues and cells in your body, 25 million new cells are being produced each second. That's a little less than the population of Canada - every second !

4. A red blood cell can circumnavigate your body in under 20 seconds.

5.Nerve Impulses travel at over 400 km/hr (25 mi/hr).

6. A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr (100 mi/hr), and a cough moves out at 100 km/hr (60 mi/hr).

7. Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day.

8. Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.

9. Our eyes can distinguish up to one million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.

10. Our lungs inhale over two million litres of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.

11. When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph

12.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.

13. A person can expect to breathe in about 40 pounds of dust over his/her lifetime.

14. From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.

15. The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9,000 'lead' pencils.

16. One square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands.

17. The human body has less muscles in it than a caterpillar.

18. When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens.

19. If you could save all the times your eyes blink in one life time and use them all at once you would see blackness for 1.2 years!

20.Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

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