Amazing Medical Facts of the Body

1. The amount of carbon in the human body is

enough to fill about 9,000 'lead' pencils.

2. Our lungs inhale over two million liters of air every

day, without even thinking. They are large enough
to cover a tennis court.

3. Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system:

it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters
impurities.

4. We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.

5. Our heart beats around 10,000 times every day.

6. A person can expect to breathe in about 40

pounds of dust over his/her lifetime.

7. One square inch of human skin contains 625

sweat glands.

8. The life span of a taste bud is ten days.

9. Your body has about 5.6 liters (6 quarts) of blood.

This 5.6 liters of blood circulates through the body
three times every minute.

10 The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood

during an average lifetime--that's enough to fill
more than 3 super tankers.

11. There is more bacteria in your mouth than the

human population of the United States and Canada
combined.

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12. The average human head weighs about 10 pounds.

13. The average human brain weighs three pounds.

14. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to

circle the whole body.

15. An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of

water in a lifetime.

16. Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

17. You burn more calories sleeping than you do

watching T.V.

18. The thumbnail grows the slowest; the middle nail

grows the fastest

19. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming

1/10 of a calorie.

20. The human heart creates enough pressure when it

pumps blood, that it could squirt blood 30 feet.

21. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years

longer than left-handed people do.

22. The length of your foot is the same as that of your

forearm between your wrist and the inside of your
elbow.

23. In 24 hours, the blood in the body travels a total of

12,000 miles - that's four times the width of North
America.

24. Humans have more facial muscles than any other

animal on earth - 22 on each side of the face.

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25. In the average lifetime, we spend five years eating
and we consume around 7,000 times our own
weight in food.

26. When we go to sleep and enter REM (Rapid Eye

Movement), our bodies become completely
paralyzed as areas of the brain that control
movements are de-activated. It is this that stops us
falling out of bed.

27. Humans and dolphins are the only species that

have sex for pleasure.

28. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every

time you breathe!

29. At birth we have over 300 bones. As we grow up,

some of the bones begin to fuse together as a result
an adult has only 206 bones.

30. The human body has 230 movable and semi-

movable joints

31. A newborn babys brain grows almost 3 times during

the first year of life.

32. The muscles of the eye move more than 100,000

times a day.

33. The human skin contains 45 miles of nerves.

34. The human eye has the ability to distinguish about

1 million color shades.

35. The human ear can distinguish between hundreds

of thousands of different sounds.

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36. As we get older, the brain loses almost one gram
per year

37. The human tongue has 10,000 taste buds.

38. Our eyes are always the same size from birth,
unlike our nose and ears.

39. Most people blink about 25 times per minute.

40. The human body is composed of 80 percent of

water.

41. The strongest muscles of the human body are

masseters, which are present on either side of the
mouth.

42. Nails and corneas are the only two tissues in the
body that do not receive oxygen from blood.

43. The middle part of the back is the least sensitive

part of our body.

44. The human liver performs 500 different functions.

45. The liver is the largest and heaviest internal organ

of the body and weighs about 1.6 kilos.

46. At birth every one is color blind.

47. A person can live without food for about a month,

but only a week without water.

48. Threshold pain of women is 9 times stronger than

men.

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49. 10 % of men and 8 % of women are left-handed.

50. An average human body contains enough amount

of fat to make seven bars of soap.

51. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their

hair.

52. Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, the

next being bone marrow.

53. The maximum length of hair can be 70 to 90 cms.

52. The life span of hair is two to seven years.

53. Brain uses 20 % of our body energy and makes up

only 2 % of our body weight.

54. A New stomach lining is formed every five days.

55. Blind people understand spoken words quicker than

sighted people.

56. The human blood is colorless. It is the hemoglobin;

a pigment present in the red blood cells which is
responsible for the red color of the blood.

57. The smallest muscle in the human body is the

Stapedius, which is present deep inside the ear.

58. The eyes have the fastest reacting muscle in the

whole body. It contracts in 1/100th of a second.

59. The human body takes 6 hours to digest a high fat

meal and it takes 2 hours for a carbohydrate meal.

60. The muscles of our body constitute 40% of our

body weight.

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60. Red Blood Cells are the only cells in the body that
do not have a nucleus.

61. The human bladder can stretch to hold about 400ml

of urine.

62. All the blood in our body passes 400 times through
each kidney per day.

63. We produce 1 liter of saliva per day.

64. The human sense of smell has the ability to

identify the chemical smell of an object in one part
per trillion of air.

65. A healthy liver processes 720 liters of blood per

day.