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WoW Facts About The Human Body!

Published by Daniel Sultana in Science
September 6, 2009

Interesting facts about the Human body that will open your mind!

your body sheds tens of thosands of Skin flakes every minute. Over a lifetime, a body loses 20 kg (44lb) of skin flakes.

You loose 100,000 brain cells everyday.

Your brain weighs about 2 per cent of your total body weight, but uses 20 per cent of your Blood Suply.

the brain of an Adult is Three times Heavier than that of a newborn baby. from the age of 20, the brain loses 1g (0.03 oz) a year as brain cells die and are not replaced.

Everyone has a unique tongue print.

About a third of adults snore.

Eyes stay the same size from age 8 on, but noses and ears never stop growing.

Nose hairs act like a net to trap and remove the nasty particals in the air. 

food spends up to six hours in your stomach being digested.

there are More than 600 muscles in the human body. Muscles are 40 per cent of the body’s total weight.

The liver handles more than 500 diffrent jobs, including the disposal of dead blood cells, making proteins and storing surgars.

there are 100 trillion cells in your body. A billion of them die every 20 seconds

The largest human cell is the female ovum

the smallest is the male sperm

We make 1 litre (2 pints) of Saliva in our mouths every day.

Tiny bacteria make up 3 per cent of your body weight.

blood travels 19,000km (12,000 miles) everyday. that’s half way around the world.

After the age of 60 you lose about half you taste buds.

the Stomach continualy produces new layers of mucus to protect the lining and stop the stomach from digesting itself.

when you sleep, you lose up to 42g (1.4oz) in weight every hour.

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