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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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Its really superb peace of Information.Very interesting.Thanx for sharing such wonderful information...I hereby add two more interesting facts though unique but not uncommon;-)
The Strongest muscle in Human body is Tongue.Hmmm but i found it very powerful in women...!Since women r more talkative than man.
Like finger prints tongue print of every person is unique.In most of latest technology firms mostly use Retina Scanning, which is also unique in individuals.
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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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@Miss N@QVI
Its really superb peace of Information.Very interesting.Thanx for sharing such wonderful information...I hereby add two more interesting facts though unique but not uncommon
Thanks for apprecuiating my it.

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The Strongest muscle in Human body is Tongue
Hmmm but i found it very powerful in women...!Since women r more talkative than man.
Yes you r right although saying it as a fun but speaking power of women is more than men and its a scientifically proved fact.

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Like finger prints tongue print of every person is unique.
In most of latest technology firms mostly use Retina Scanning, which is also unique in individuals.
Yes again right caz I have added the same fact in my post, u can check it out. Retina scanning is available only in USA and some other developed countries.....

Thanks @ I M Possible and Yasir...
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well it was all veryuseful things but dont u feel some absurd things should be removed thoough they are a new piece of information.
sorry if i sound conservative
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well it was all veryuseful things but dont u feel some absurd things should be removed thoough they are a new piece of information.
sorry if i sound conservative
Its not conservate Rather I appreciate your concern.... actually it was by sheer mistake but in second post I have removed all such things that we dont need for our educational concerns. I hope you understand my point.... I dont have access to remove those facts if any mod is kind enough to do that favour it would be an honour for me.

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Some more facts about Human Body....

In 24 Hours Average Human


1) HEART beats 1,03,689 times.

2) LUNGS respire 23,045 times.

3) BLOOD flows 16,80,000 miles.

4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches

5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches

6) Take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids)

7) Take of 3.25 pounds FOOD.

8) Breathe 438 cubic feet AIR.

9) Lose 85.60, BODY TEMPERATURE.

10) Produce 1.43 pints SWEAT.

11) Speak 4,800 WORDS.

12) During SLEEP move 25.4 times
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* "Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used.

* A bathometer is an instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel.

* A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

* A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.

* A typical lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long.

* A wind with a speed of 74 miles or more is designated a hurricane.

* Any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it.

* At 4,145 miles, the Nile River is the longest in the world.

* Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5!

* Easter is the first Sunday after the first Full Moon after March 21.

* England and the American colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar on September 14th, 1752. 11 days disappeared.

* Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

* If the sun stopped shining suddenly, it would take eight minutes for people on earth to be aware of the fact.

* If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.

* In 1947, heavy snow blanketed the Northeast, burying New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours; the severe weather was blamed for some 80 deaths.

* Light travels at the rate of 186,200 miles a second.

* More than 99.9% of all the animal species that have ever lived on earth were extinct before the coming of man.

* Nearly 50% of all bank robberies take place on Friday.

* Ten inches of snow equals one inch of rain in water content.

* The anemometer is an instrument which measures the force, velocity, or pressure of the wind.

* The base of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is large enough to cover 10 football fields.

* The greatest snowfall ever in a single storm was 189 inches at the Mount Shasta Ski Bowl in February, 1959.

* The Gregorian calendar was introduced by Pope Gregory in 1582 AD, and was adopted by Great Britain and the English colonies in 1752.

* The highest point of the earth, with an elevation of 29,141 feet, is the top of Mt. Everest in Tibet.

* The highest temperature ever recorded in the continental US was 134 degrees on July 10, 1913 in Death Valley, California.

* The highest temperature ever recorded in the world was 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit at El Azizia, Lybia, on September 13, 1922.

* The highest waterfall in the world, Angel Falls in Venezuela, has a total drop of 3,121 feet.

* The linen bandages that were used to wrap Egyptian mummies averaged 1,000 yards in length.

* The lowest temperature ever recorded in the world was 129 degrees below 0 at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.

* The metal instrument used in shoe stores to measure feet is called the Brannock device.

* The monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers and compline.

* The most snow accumulation in a one-day period was 75.8 inches at Silver Lake, Colorado, in April 1921.

* The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced in 1978 that it would alternate men's and women's names in the naming of hurricanes. It was seen as an attempt at fair play. Hurricanes had been named for women for years, until NOAA succumbed to pressure from women's groups who were demanding that Atlantic storms be given unisex names.

* The world's first speed limit regulation was in England in 1903. It was 20 mph.

* The wristwatch was invented in 1904 by Louis Cartier.

* There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.

* Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tectonic destruction from an earthquake (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.)

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dear sis
thx alot for such informative post

and the most interesting is

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

lols i think this is the reason why women are said to be more in number in hell than men,,lols
coz 7000-2000=5000 ("these are the words spoken aboutt the matters of others by women
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