Facts You Never Knew About Yourself

Babuyao · 2010-02-24T12:25:14+00:00

- Humans are the only animals capable of drawing a straight line. - On average, an individual grows over 450 miles of hair in a lifetime. - When a person smiles, 17 muscles are engaged. - Human DNA contains 80,000 genes. - Men shorter than 4.2 feet and women shorter than 3.9 feet are considered dwarfs. - Every human bends her finger 25 million times in a lifetime. - Human heart is equal in size to a human fist. Average weight of an adults heart is approximately 0.5lbs. - Human brain generates more electric impulses in a day than all telephones of the world combined. - Total weight of bacteria living in the human body is 4.4lbs. - Human brain produces 100,000 chemical reactions per second. - Babies are born without kneecaps, which form only at the age of 2 to 6. - At birth, a babys brain contains 14 billion cells, and this number does not increase till death. On the contrary, after the age of 25 it decreases by 100,000 cells per day. Reading a page of text in a minute kills approximately 70 cells. After the age of 40, the brain degradation is accelerated, and after 50, neurons shrink and brain volume reduces. - The human small intestines are 8.5 feet long during life. After death, when the muscles of the bowel walls relax, it may reach over 19 feet. - The right lung holds more air than the left one. - An adult person makes approximately 23,000 breaths a day. - In a lifetime, the female body produces 7 million egg cells. - The human eye is capable of differentiating 10,000,000 hues. - There are approximately 40,000 bacteria in the human mouth. - It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. - The human spine contains 33 to 34 spinal bones. - Women blink twice as often as men. - The smallest cells in the male body are sperm cells. - The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. - There are approximately 2,000 taste buds in the human body - Babies are born with approximately 300 bones, and adults have only 206 bones. - Human body contains enough fat to produce seven pieces of soap. - Nerve impulses in the human body travel with the speed of approximately 90 meters a second. 42. 36 800 000 a number of heartbeats a person experiences in a year. - Nearly half of all human bones are located in wrists and feet. - When in doubt, medieval doctors diagnosed patients with syphilis. - People with blue eyes are more sensitive to pain than others. - Fingernails grow 4 times faster than toenails. - A person changes her skin approximately 1,000 times in a lifetime. T- here are nearly 46 miles of nerves in an adults body. Source: Pravda. Ru

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Start date Feb 24, 2010

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