HUMONGOUS HUMANS

HUMONGOUS HUMANS




[A] HUMAN BODY


[1] A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands
of hair a day.

[2] A cough releases an explosive charge of air that
moves at speeds up to 60mph.

[3] Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a
calorie.

[4] A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three
months.

[5] A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.

[6] Every person has a unique tongue print.

[7] According to German researchers, the risk of heart
attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the
week.

[8] After spending hours working at a computer display,
look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably
appear pink.

[9] An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of
water in a lifetime.

[10] A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow
from base to tip.

[11] An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

[12] It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.

[13] Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood,
we only have 206 in our bodies.

[14] 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.

[15] By age sixty, most people have lost half of their
taste buds.

[16] 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).

[17] Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty
feet of blood vessels.

[18] Every human spent half an hour as a single cell.

[19] Every square inch of the human body has an average
of 32 million bacteria on it.

[20] Fingernails grow faster than toenails.

[21] 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.


[B] HUMAN LUNGS

[22] At rest, a person breathes about 14 to 16 times per
minute. After exercise it could increase to over 60
times per minute.

[23] New babies at rest breathe between 40 and 50 times
per minute. By age five it decreases to around 25
times per minute.

[24] The total surface area of the alveoli (tiny air sacs in
the lungs) is the size of a tennis court.

[25] The lungs are the only organ in the body that can
float on water.

[26] The lungs produce a detergent-like substance which
reduces the surface tension of the fluid lining,
allowing air in.

[C] HUMAN HEARTS

[27] Your heart is about the same size as your fist.

[28] An average adult body contains about five quarts of
blood.

[29] All the blood vessels in the body joined end to end
would stretch 62,000 miles or two and a half times
around the earth.

[30] The heart circulates the body's blood supply about
1,000 times each day