[Rhodes22-list] A hoard of facts about the human body

[michael meltzer]

A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves
at speeds up to 60 mph. 

A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 month to grow
from base to tip. 

A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of
hair a day. 

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than
from starvation. 
Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while
starvation takes a few weeks. 

A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph. 

According to German researchers, the risk of heart
attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the
week. 

According to Kinsey Institute, the biggest erect penis
on record measures 13 inches. 
The smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches. 

After spending hours working at a computer display,
look at a blanc piece of paper. It will probably
appear pink. 

An average human scalp has 100.000 hairs. 

An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day. 

Blondes have more hair than dark- haired people. 

By age sixty, most people have lost half of their
taste buds. 

By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat
some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an
average of 70 beats per minute) 

Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet
of blood vessels. 

Every human spend about half an hour as a single cell.


Every person has a unique tongue print. 

Every square inch of the human body has an average of
32 million bacteria on it. 

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of
a calorie. 

Fingernails grow faster than toenails. 

Humans shed about 600.000 particles of skin every hour
- about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an
average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin. 

Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells about every 27
days - almost 1.000 new skins a lifetime. 

If it were removed from the body, the small intestine
would stretch to a length of 22 feet. 

If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you
will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you
will die of oxygen deprivation. 

If you go blind on one eye, you'll loose only
one-fifth of your vision (but all your depth
perception.) 

In a lifetime the average US resident eats more than
50 tons of food and drinks more than 13,000 gallons of
liquid. 

In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies
were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt where wood
and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful. 

It takes 17 muscles to smile --- 43 to frown. 

Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to
bring the back teeth together for chewing. 

Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half
during sleep. 

The "funny bone" is not a bone, it is a nerve. 

The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine
pounds. 

The average duration of sexual intercourse for humans
is 2 minutes. 

The average human body contains enough: iron to make a
3 inch nail, sulfur to kill all flees on an average
dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to fire a
toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to
make 2,200 match heads, and water to fill a ten-
gallon tank. 

The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a
lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools. 

The average person releases nearly a pint of
intestinal gas by flatulence every day. Most is due to
swallowed air. The rest is from fermentation of
undigested food. 

The feet account for one quarter of all the human
bodies bones. 

The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body's
weight. 

The human brain is about 85% water. 

The largest cell in the human body is the female
reproductive cell, the ovum. The smallest is the male
sperm. 

The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface
area of about 25 square feet. 

The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make
room for the heart. 

The most common blood type in the world is Type O. The
rarest, Type A-H, has been found in less than a dozen
people since the type was discovered. 

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is. 

The sound of a snore (up to 69 decibels) can be almost
as loud as the noise of a pneumatic drill. 

The tips of fingers and the soles of feet are covered
by a thick, tough layer layer of skin called the
stratum corneum. 

There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human
being. 

Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body
every minute. 

Women burn fat more slowly than men, by a rate of
about 50 calories a day. 

Women's hearts beat faster than men's. 




		
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