Stunning Facts of Human Body
You didn’t expect these facts about your body. In our
ongoing quest for wonderful facts about all manner of things. These are the
fifteen most wonderful things about our bodies that, hopefully, are news to
most of our readers! So, onwards:
1. In 30 minutes, the average body gives off enough heat
(combined) to bring a half gallon of water to boil.
2. A single human blood cell takes only 60 seconds to make a
complete circuit of the body.
3. A foreskin, the size of a postage stamp, from circumcised
babies take only 21 days to grow skin that can cover three (3) basketball
courts. Amazing isn’t it. Thanks to science. The laboratory-grown skin is used
in treating burn patients.
4. The eyes receive approximately 90 percent of all our
information, making us basically visual creatures.
5. The female ovaries contain nearly half-a-million egg
cells, yet only 400 or so will ever get the opportunity
to create a new life.
6. The largest organ in the body is the skin. In an adult
man it covers about 1.9m2 (20sq ft). The skin constantly flakes away – in a
lifetime each person sheds around 18kg (40 lb) of skin.
7. When you sleep, you grow by about 8mm (0.3in). The next
day you shrink back to your former height. The reason is that your cartilage
discs are squeezed like sponges by the force of gravity when you stand or sit.
8. The average person in the West eats 50 tonnes of food and
drinks 50,000 liters (11,000 gallons) of liquid during his life.
9. Each kidney contains 1 million individual filters. They
filter an average of around 1.3 liters (2.2 pints) of blood per minute, and
expel up to 1.4 liters (2.5 pints) a day of urine.
10. The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000
times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk
80km (50 miles) every day.
11. The stomach’s digestive acids are strong enough to dissolve
zinc. Fortunately for us, the cells in the stomach lining renew so quickly that
the acids don’t have time to dissolve it.
12. The lungs contain over 300,000 million capillaries (tiny
blood vessels). If they were laid end to end, they would stretch 2400km (1500
miles).
13. A mans testicles manufacture 10 million new sperm cells
each day – enough that he could repopulate the entire planet in only 6 months!
14. Human bone is as strong as granite in supporting weight.
A block of bone the size of a matchbox can support 9 tonnes – that is four
times as much as concrete can support.
15. Each finger and toenail takes six months to grow from
base to tip.
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