HUMAN BODY FACTS

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food. That's the weight of about six elephants.

 A baby is born with 300 bones but by adulthood, only 206 are left in the body.

 A man named Charles Osborne had hiccups for approximately 69 years.

 Studies have shown that putting on slow background music can make a person eat food at a slower rate.

 The only part of the human body that has no blood supply is the cornea. It takes its oxygen directly from the air.

 When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The first sense lost is usually sight. Then foil taste, smell and touch.

 The average human body contains enough iron to make a 3-inch nail, sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils and potassium to fire toy cannon.

 Chocolate contains phenylethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the very same reaction in the body as falling in love does.

 The easiest sounds for the human ear to hear, and those which carry best when pronounced are, in order, “ah”, “aw”, “eh”, and “oo”.

 If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.

 It has been proved that apples are more effective than caffeine at keeping people awake at night. This fruit contains a chemical that's stronger than caffeine.

 Babies’ eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old. The tear glands are not formed till then.

 A foetus that is four months old will become startled and turn away if any kind of light is flashed on the mother's stomach.

 Sweat itself is odourless. Only when combined with bacteria, does it become smelly? Sweat is composed of water, sodium chloride, potassium salts, urea and lactic acid.

 One quarter of the bones in your body is in your feet.

 Watching an hour-long soap 0pera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

 Did you know that the average adult will stand around 0.5 inches taller in the morning than in the evening due to the slight cartilage compression that happens over the course of a day? So where do you stand?

 If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 60,000 miles.

 An average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.

 Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound - over a thousand feet per second.

 On an average, a person's weight drops by 300 gm each night.

 The average person has at least seven dreams a night.

Your hair grows about half inch per month and will grow faster in the summer than in the winter.

 The two most common surgeries are biopsies and caesarean sections.

 Dragonflies can travel at a speed of 60 mph.

 A diet high in fat is said to impede memory.

 About 2/3rd of your body is made of water.

It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

 Babies are born without kneecaps; they don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

 Every two thousand frowns create one wrinkle on your face.

 Just like your fingers, your tongue has its own unique print, different from all others in the world.

 The tongue is the strongest muscle in the body.

 Our stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

 Your nose can identify up to 10,000 different odours.

 It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the oesophagus.

 An average human blinks his eyes 6,205,000 times per year.

  An average woman has 17 square feet of skin. When a woman is in her ninth month of pregnancy, she has 18.5 square feet of skin.

 Each day, we lose anywhere between 10,000 to 100,000 brain cells.

 A beard grows an average of 140 mm a year.

 Did you know that the brain of an average adult male weighs 1,375 gm? And that the size of the human brain is not indicative of the intelligence quotient of man? The brain of Russian novelist Turgenev weighed 2021 gm that of Bismark weighed 1807 gm, while that of French statesman Gambetta was only 1294 gm. Einstein’s brain was of average size but he was the brightest of them all.

 Beards are the fastest growing hair on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly thirty feet long in his lifetime.

 An apple, potato and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.

 One has to eat 11 pounds of potatoes to put on one pound of weight – a potato has no more calories than an apple.

 Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

 On an average, a person will blink over 10,000 times a day.

 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.