Unusual, unique, and uncommon facts about Human Body
Unusual, unique, and uncommon facts about Human Body
01 *A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
02 *A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
03 *A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
04 *A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.
05 *A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
06 *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.
07 *A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
08 *According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
09 *According to the Kinsey Institute, the biggest erect penis on record measures 13 inches. The smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches.
10 *After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
11 *An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
12 *An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
13 *An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
14 *An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
15 *Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
16 *Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
17 *Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.
18 *Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide.
19 *By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
20 *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.)
21 *Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
22 *Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
23 *Every person has a unique tongue print.
24 *Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
25 *Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
26 *Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
27 *Fingerprints serve a function - they provide traction for the fingers to grasp things.
28 *Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
29 *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.
30 *Humans shed and re-grow outer skin cells about every 27 days - almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime.
31 *If it were removed from the body, the small intestine would stretch to a length of 22 feet.
32 *If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
33 *If you go blind in one eye, you'll only lose about one-fifth of your vision (but all your depth perception.)
34 *In a lifetime the average US resident eats more than 50 tons of food and drinks more than 13,000 gallons of liquid.
35 *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.
36 *Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep.
37 *Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to bring the back teeth together for chewing.
38 *Lab tests can detect traces of alcohol in urine six to 12 hours after a person has stopped drinking.
39 *Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
40 *It takes 17 muscles to smile --- 43 to frown.
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Last edited by Shooting Star; Monday, May 14, 2012 at 07:56 PM.
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