Humongous Bodies

Decided to share one of my emails here.


[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.