Some fun facts about you that you didn’t even know!
- · Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour. That works out to about 1.5 pounds each year, so the average person will lose around 105 pounds of skin by age 70.
- · An adult has fewer bones than a baby. We start off life with 350 bones, but because bones fuse together during growth, we end up with only 206 as adults.
- · Every square inch of skin on the human body has about 32 million bacteria on it, but fortunately, the vast majority of them are harmless.
- · Laid end to end, there are about 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. And the hard-working heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood through those vessels every day.
- · Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.
- · Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress. That high stress job you have could be doing more than just wearing you down each day. It could also be increasing your chances of having a variety of serious medical conditions like depression, high blood pressure and heart disease.
- · You use 200 muscles to take one step.
- · Three hundred million cells die in the human body every minute.
- · Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil.
- · If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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