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Astonishing Facts Of Human Body
Hi friends and family! How are you all? I am good and expect the same from you.
So today, after a break, I came up with few more interesting facts. This time it's about our human body. So you ready to learn? Let's get started…
- Everyone has a unique tongue print.
- The stomach continually produces new layers of mucus to protect the lining and stop the stomach from digesting itself.
- There are more than 600 muscles in the human body. Muscles are 40% of body's total weight.
- Food spends up to 6 hours in your stomach being digested.
- At rest, you breathe about once every four seconds. This rises to once every second during exercise.
- The average human blinks 23 times a minute. That's 12 million times a year.
- When you sleep, you lose up to 42g in weight every hour.
- In an average lifetime, you will walk the equivalent of five times around the equator.
- The largest artery, the Aorta, is about 2cm in diameter. That's as wide as a hose pipe.
- One in 2,000 babies is born with a tooth.
- A fingernail would grow 28m (90ft ) long if never cut. The middle nail grows fastest, the thumb slowest.
- A body releases 2 litre of gas per day as burps Or farts.
- A single sneeze might contain up to 100,000 virus.
- Babies start dreaming before they are born.
- The left lung is smaller than right lung to make room for the heart.
- Children grow faster in spring.
- The first successful heart transplant took place in 1967.
- Standing up right burns up to 140 calories of energy in an hour.
- An adult man normally needs to eat about 2,500 calories a day. Arctic explorers need about three times that much to keep them going in cold.
- There are 100 trillion cells in your body. A billion of them die every 20 seconds.
- The largest human cell is female ovum. The smallest is the male sperm.
- The liver handles more than 500 jobs, including the disposal of dead blood cells, making proteins and storing sugars.
- Your brain weighs about 2% of your body weight but uses 20% of your blood supply.
- Your eyes stop growing when you reach puberty and stay the same size for the rest of your life.
- The smallest muscle in the human body is the stapedius. It is inside the ear and is less than 2mm (0.8 in) long.
- In your life time you will drink about 70,000 litre (16, 000 gallons) of water.
- Life expectancy at birth in Japan is 84 years- the highest in the world.
So this is it for today guys. Hope you all find this useful and informative. Do like and comment. Follow my page for more interesting facts and contents. Thank you…