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Anatomy Facts You
Really Need to Know!
A
cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves
at speeds up to 60 mph.
A
fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three
months.
A
fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow
from base to tip.
A
human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of
hair a day.
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.
A
sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
According to German researchers, the risk of heart
attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the
week.
After spending hours working at a computer display,
look at a blank piece of white paper. It will
probably appear pink.
An
average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water
in a lifetime.
An
average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
An
average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we
have only 206 in our bodies.
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.
Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.
By
age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste
buds.
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.)
Each
square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of
blood vessels.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single
cell.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Every square inch of the human body has an average
of 32 million bacteria on it.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10
of a calorie.
Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
Fingerprints serve a function - they provide
traction for the fingers to grasp things.
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.
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