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41 * On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.

42 * The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.

43 * The average human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail, sulfur 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, phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.

44 * The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.

45 * The average person releases nearly a pint of intestinal gas by flatulence every day. Most is due to swallowed air. The rest is from fermentation of undigested food.

46 * The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet

47 * The feet account for one quarter of all the human bodies bones.

48 * The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.

49 * he human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body's weight.

50 * The human brain is about 85% water.

51 * The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.

52 * The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet.

53 * The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart.

54 * The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.

55 * The longest muscle in the human body is the sartorius. This narrow muscle of the thigh passes obliquely across the front of the thigh and helps rotate the leg to the position assumed in sitting cross-legged. Its name is a derivation of the adjective "sartorial," a reference to what was the traditional cross-legged position of tailors (or "sartors") at work.

56 * The most common blood type in the world is Type O. The rarest, Type A-H, has been found in less than a dozen people since the type was discovered.

57 * The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the mandible and the voice box. Its function is to support the tongue and its muscles.

58 * The only time the human population declined was in the years following 1347, the start of the epidemic of the plague 'Black Death' in Europe.

59 * The permanent teeth that erupt to replace their primary predecessors (baby teeth) are called succedaneous teeth.

60 * The sound of a snore (up to 69 decibels) can be almost as loud as the noise of a pneumatic drill.

61 * The tips of fingers and the soles of feet are covered by a thick, tough layer of skin called the stratum corneum.

62 * There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.

63 * There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

65 * There are four main Blood types: A, B, AB and O and each Blood type is either Rh positive or negative. Blood types in the US - Type O positive 38.4%, O negative 7.7%, A positive 32.3%, A negative 6.5%, B positive 9.4%, B negative 1.7%, AB positive 3.2%, AB negative 0.7%

66 * Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every minute.

67 * Women burn fat more slowly than men, by a rate of about 50 calories a day.

68 * Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

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