Interesting Facts About Your Body

By Sarah, published Feb 19, 2007
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The human body never fails to amaze me. I think it is one of the most interesting things that you can learn about and find more things out about daily. After feeding my curiosity on finding all the weird facts about the human body, I felt the need to share with you.

The average human brain contains about 100 billion nerve cells.

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

It takes about 72 muscles to produce human speech.

The average life span of a taste bud is only ten days.

The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles per hour.

We are born without knee caps; they don't appear until 2-6 years of age.

Children grow faster in the springtime.

It takes an hour for your stomach to break down cow milk.

Our eyes stay the same size throughout life, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The average surface length of your intestines is 665 feet.

The average human will shed over forty pounds of skin in their lifetime,

We are born with 300 bones, but only end up with 206 when we are adults.

Each square inch of human skin consists of 20 feet of blood vessels.

During a 24 hour period the average human with breathe 23,040 times.

Human thigh bones are stronger then concrete.

Our skulls are made up of 26 different bones.

Hair is made of the same substances as fingernails.

Women blink twice as many times in men.

Right handed people on average, live nine years longer then left handed people.

The total length of eyelash shed in a lifetime is over 98 feet.

Our heads weigh and average of eight pounds.

The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.

When we sneeze, our entire bodily functions stop, even our heart beat.

Blondes have more hair per inch then dark color haired people.

In a lifetime, a human will walk the length of five times around the equator.

Our heart creates enough pressure to shoot blood thirty feet straight up in the air.

An average human swallows 295 times while eating dinner.

The typical person goes to the bathroom six times a day.

The hardest bone in the body is the jawbone.

There are over 500 hairs in an eyebrow.

Over a lifetime your heart will rest for twenty years.

It takes food seven seconds to get to your mouth to your stomach.

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Thanks for the awesome facts for my science fair project i'm going to come back here every time i have a question. THANK YOU

Posted on 04/30/2008 at 4:04:34 PM

 
oh thank you for the fact im going to get an A on my science project :) Thank you!

Posted on 02/26/2008 at 6:02:58 PM

 
thanks for the facts. You helped me and my friends with our science project!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted on 12/19/2007 at 1:12:59 PM

 
i got a lot of stuff for my report thank you

Posted on 12/13/2007 at 9:12:53 AM

 
your so dumb i need things for your skin

Posted on 12/03/2007 at 9:12:00 AM

 
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THIS SITE IS ACTUALLY DUMD IT DOESNT TELL YOU FACTS ON BONES IDIOTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Posted on 11/06/2007 at 2:11:00 AM

 
yous are soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo dumb because you dont know what im writing I AM WRITING SIX INTERESTING FACTS ON BONES AND ALL YOU DO IS GIVE ME FACTS ON ANIMALS NOT ON BONES FAROUT YOUS ARE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DUMB AND STUPID FOR WHOEVER MADE THIS SITE FAROUT MAN

Posted on 11/06/2007 at 2:11:00 AM

 
Man i have learned a lot thank u for puting this website and i hope this website gose on for ever!

Posted on 09/15/2007 at 9:09:00 PM

 
Cool Facts

Posted on 08/23/2007 at 6:08:00 PM

 
But, you missed the most critical question of all: why does a man's back get hairier as he gets older? And why do I now have hair in my ears? Great article and good food for thought!

Posted on 02/21/2007 at 10:02:00 AM

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