CoolFacts--Health&Body
- 15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.
- 3,000 teens start smoking a day.
- 35% of all Americans are overweight.
- 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
- 50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells all while you have been reading this sentence.
- 75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower.
- 80% of all body heat escapes through the head.
- 85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.
- A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
- A new born baby breathes five times faster than an adult man.
- A person at rest generates as much heat as a 100-watt light bulb.
- A person breathes 7 quarts of air every minute.
- 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 travel as fast as 100 miles per hour.
- An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
- Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
- Blood is six times thicker than water.
- Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.
- Children grow faster in the springtime than they do the rest of the year.
- During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.
- During a lifetime, one person generates more than 1,000 pounds of red blood cells.
- Each square inch of human skin contains seventy-two feet of nerves.
- Every person has a unique tongue print.
- Fifty percent of the population has an IQ above 100.
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
- Forty percent of the American population has never visited a dentist.
- Human blood travels 60,000 miles per day on its journey through the arteries, arterioles and capillaries and back through the venules and veins.
- If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you die of oxygen deprivation.
- If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create an atomic bomb.
- If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
- If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon wil be about three statute miles away.
- If your mouth were completely dry, you wouldn't be able to taste anything.
- In Michagan, USA, a man legally owns his wife's hair.
- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- Laughter is a proven way to lose weight.
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
- Melting an ice cube in your mouth burns 3 calories.
- Most humans can guess someone's sex with 95 percent accuracy just by smelling their breath.
- Only 7% of the population are left handed.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- Only one-third of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
- Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
- Over 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
- Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second.
- Parasites count for 0.01% of your body weight.
- People who live or work work in cities, inhale enough toxins that it equals smoking a pack of cigarettes a day.
- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
- Scientists have said that they could fill a 1,000 volume encyclopedia with the DNA code from a single human cell if the instructions could be translated into English.
- Skin is the largest organ of the human body.
- The average body contains enough: Iron to make a 3 inch nail, 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, Water to fill a ten gallon tank.
- The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
- The average cough comes out the mouth at 60 mph.
- The average life of a tastebud is 10 days.
- The average person blinks 14,440 times per day.
- The average person flexes the joints in their fingers 24 million times during a lifetime.
- The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
- The longest bout of sneezing recorded was by Donna Griffith. It began in January 1981 and continued until September 198 It lasted for 978 days.
- The study of nose picking is called "rhinotillexomania."
- The surface area of the lungs in an adult human is 90 square yards.
- The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
- There are 10 trillion living cells in the human body.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching T.V.
