Facts about Human Body

by **Nimmi** 11th July 2010, 6:30 pm

* Approximately 75% of human poop is made of water.

* Your eyes are always the same size from birth but your nose and ears never stop growing.

* It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

* The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds.

* Your brain is more active during the night than the day.

* One human hair can support 3kg.

* Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

* The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.

* An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.

* It is impossible to lick your elbow.

* Your body requires 1000* 1500 calories per day just to simply survive (breathing, sleeping, eating).

* Every day an adult body produces 300 billion new cells.

* The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest it the male sperm.

* You use 200 muscles to take one step.

* Muscle cells live as long as you do while skin cells live less than 24 hours.

* A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.

* Your brain operates on the same amount of power that would light a 10* watt light bulb.

* There are 5 million hair follicles on an average adult.

* The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades.

* The white part of your fingernail is called the Lunula.

* There is enough iron in a human being to make one small nail.

* A shank is the part of the sole between the heel and the ball of the foot.

* The talus is the second largest bone in the foot.

* The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.

* A 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his foot in 1977.

* Your thumb is the same length of your nose.

* A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.

* Dogs and Humans are the only animals with prostates.

* It only takes 7lbs of of pressure to rip off your ears.
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