Here are some nice to know facts about your general
health and Body that you may not have known.
Toothpaste
was 'invented' over 4000 years ago, albeit not in the form we know it -
Egyptians used crushed pumice stone and vinegar as a form of paste.
Dentists
have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet
to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
You
spend 1/3 of your life in bed.
You
burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Each
day we lose anywhere from 10,000 to 100,000 brain cells.
The
temporal lobe is the area of the brain that allows humans to hear and
understand people speaking.
The
average human body has 14 to 18 square feet of skin.
The
skin of the armpits can harbor up to 516,000 bacteria per square inch, while
drier areas,
such as the forearm, have only about 13,000 bacteria per square
inch.
A
bird's eye takes up about 50 percent of its head; our eyes take up about 5
percent of our head.
To be comparable to a bird's eyes, the eyes of a human
being would have to be the size of baseballs.
A
boy’s voice breaks during puberty because his vocal cords are lengthening. Up
until that point,
girl’s and boy’s vocal cords are the same length.
The
strongest bone in the body, the thigh bone, is hollow. Ounce for ounce, it has
a greater pressure tolerance and bearing strength than a rod of equivalent size
in cast steel.
Most
people lose half of their taste buds by sixty years of age.
The
average human body holds enough: sulfur to kill all the fleas on an average
dog, potassium
to fire a toy cannon, carbon to make 900 pencils, fat to make 7
bars of soap, 10 gallons of water, and phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads.
The
average human has about 10,000 taste buds — however, they're not all on the
tongue.
Some are under the tongue; some are on the inside of the cheeks; some
are on the roof of the mouth. Some can even be found on the lips — these are
especially sensitive to salt.
Our
nails grow at a rate of around 0.1 mm per day. So it would take roughly 3
months to replace an entire fingernail
The
thumbnail grows the slowest; the middle nail grows the fastest.
The
average human scalp contains between 120,000 and 150,000 hairs.
A
beard grows an average of 140mm a year.
The
average human eyelash lives about 150 days.
It
takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
Relative
to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Like
a finger print, every person has a unique tongue print.
Human
adults breathe about 23,000 times a day.
The
air released from a sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
The
velocity of your cough can be up to 60mph.
On
average a person will blink over 10,000 times a day.
Women
blink nearly twice as much as men.
The
human brain is about 75% water.
The
average adult will stand around 0.5 inches taller in the morning than in the
evening due
the slight cartilage compression that happens over the course of a
day.
When
you wake up in the morning and find crusty stuff in your eyes, that is
essentially the same
as the stuff in your nose.
Each
day your heart beats around 100,000 times.
One
out of every three people can’t snap their fingers.
In
a public bathroom, the stall which is closest to the door is usually the
cleanest,
because it's the least used.
An
average person will spend two weeks of their life kissing.
The
longest word is English language is pneumonoultramiscroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
-
an inflammatory lung disease caused by the inhalation of fine silica dust.
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