Your body is the most amazing machine ever built! The human body is highly adaptive, more so than any robot or computer will ever be. No man-made systems can be compared to human body in its inherent complexity and perfection!
Here are some amazing facts about the human body that you may find interesting:
- You lose around 50 to 100 hairs from your head everyday, but they are replaced that same day.
- An average human has 100, 000 hairs on their head.
- The air from a cough can reach the speed of 60 mph.
- The air from a sneeze can reach the speed of 100 mph.
- An average person drinks around 16,000 gallons of water in his lifetime.
- A nail takes around 6 months to grow from base to the tip.
- Around 45 miles of nerves run through our body. These electric impulses travel at a speed of almost 250 mph!
- Babies have 94 more bones than an adult, in total 300 bones.
- An average human blinks 25 times a minute, that's over 6,205,000 times a year!
- By the age of 70, your heart will have beat 2.5 billion times and pumped around 48,000,000 gallons of blood.
- In a tiny drop of water, there are 5 million red blood cells, 10.000 white cells and 300.000 platelets.
- A square of human skin contains 20 feet of blood vessels, 1,300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands and 3 million cells.
- The average human body contains enough: Sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire a toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars of soap, Phosphorus to make 2,200 match heads, and enough Water
to fill a ten gallon tank.
- The microorganisms that live in and on your body make up 10% of your body weight (dried, without water).
- You produce a quart of saliva daily – 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.
- A square of human skin has 32 million bacteria on it!
- Each second 10,000,000 cells die and are replaced in your body.
- You create new skin every month and a new skeleton every 3 months!
- Ears and nose don't stop growing during your entire lifetime!
- The liver is the body's chemical factory. It has over 500 functions!
- You lose 600,000 particles of skin every hour. This equals 1.5 pounds a year!
- You spend one third of your lifetime sleeping -- 20 Years in an average lifetime!
