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Amazing Medical Facts of the Body

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    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).
    7. Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day.
    8. Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.
    11. We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.
    12. When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph
    13. We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.
    14. We are about 70 percent water.
    15. We make one litre of saliva a day.
    19. It is believed that the main purpose of eyebrows is to keep sweat out of the eyes.
    20. A person can expect to breathe in about 40 pounds of dust over his/her lifetime.
    28. When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens.
    29. The human body has less muscles in it than a caterpillar.
    32. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
    38. Babies start dreaming even before they're born.
    39. The human body can function without a brain.
    41. 10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria.
    44. A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months
    47. The average human head weighs about 10 pounds.
    48. The average human brain weighs three pounds.
    50. Your eyeballs are three and a half percent salt.
    59. Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
    61. Our eyes never grow, and our nose and ears never stop growing.
    62. The thumbnail grows the slowest; the middle nail grows the fastest
    63. Children grow faster in the springtime.
    64. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
    65. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
    66. People are the only animals in the world who cry tears.
    67. Every month you grow a brand new outer layer of skin..."a new you!".
    68. In your very own lifetime, you'll produce enough spit to fill two swimming pools.
    69. You breathe in about 7 quarts of air every minute. Good ! Air is cost free.
    70. Your dad sweats enough each day to fill up a 6 pack of soda cans...and then some.
    73. If you toot consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
    74. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps blood, that it could squirt blood 30 feet.
    75. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
    76. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
    77. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
    80. If you blink one eye you move over 200 muscles.
    81. The length of your foot is the same as that of your forearm between your wrist and the inside of your elbow.
    82. In 24 hours, the blood in the body travels a total of 12,000 miles - that's four times the width of North America.
    83. The human gut contains about 1kg (2.2 lbs) of bacteria. In fact, there are more bacteria growing in and on the body than there are human cells.
    84. Humans have more facial muscles than any other animal on earth - 22 on each side of the face.
    85. Before their first birthday, average babies will have dribbled 255 pints of saliva. By the time they're two years old, they will have crawled 93 miles.
    86. The human hand contains three main nerves, two major arteries and 27 different bones - more of the body is devoted to controlling the hands than any other part of the body.
    88. When we go to sleep and enter REM (Rapid Eye Movement),our bodies become completely paralysed as areas of the brain that control movement are de-activated. It is this that stops us falling out of bed.
    89. By the time a woman has reached her 60s, she will have released around 450 baby making eggs
    90. When full, the human bladder can hold two pints of urine.
    91. In a lifetime, a human being will grow six feet of nose hair and shed 42 lbs of dead skin.
    92. A human being can look forward to having sex an average of 2,580 times with five different partners.
    93. Skin can now be artificially grown.One amazing result of this is that the skin from one hand could be grown into enough to cover six football pitches.
    94. There are 137 million light sensitive cells in the eye's retina and the fluid that fills the eye is changed 15 times a day.
    95. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
    96. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
    98. In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow!
    99. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
    100. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

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  2. elahe

    elahe Well-Known Member

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    I saw a dog crying!!

  3. einfopedia

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    is this all are found in the animals.....its really a amazing information...

  4. Mrs.LuXi

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