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Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
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Just one drop of blood contains about 10,000 while blood cells and 250,000 platelets.
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10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria.
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The average red blood cell lives for 120 days.
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A red blood cell can circumnavigate your body in under 20 seconds.
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Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour.
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Considering all the tissues and cells in your body, 25 million new cells are being produced each second. That's a little less than the population of Canada - every second!
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10% of men and 8% of women are left-handed.
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80 head hairs are likely to fall every day.
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Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day or about 30 million times a year.
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An adult human being is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms.
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Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey per day.
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About 10,000 human cells can fit on the head of a pin.
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A human baby has over 60 more bones than an adult.
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80% of the brain is water.
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Eating Breakfast helps to burn 5 to 20% of calories throughout the day.
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There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in an adult human body.
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Body fat is not particularly hazardous to health until the level of total body fat reaches 35% for men and 40% for women.
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Your salivary glands produce two to six cups of (0.5-1.5 liters) of saliva a day. Six cups of saliva would come close to filling a big, two-liter (67.6) ounce soda bottle!
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A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr (100 mi/hr), and a cough moves out at 100 km/hr (60 mi/hr).
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Sweat doesn’t smell bad. A stinky “body odor” is caused when the skin bacteria feed on sweat. Their waste products are what smell bad!
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An average person produces about 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
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Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day or about 30 million times a year.
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The Brain is a very wrinkly organ! If you spread it out, your brain would be about the size of a pillowcase. By the time you are six years old, your brain is already 90 percent of the size it will be when you are an adult.
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The strongest muscle in the human body is the masseter (jaw muscle).
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Our eyes can distinguish up to ten million color surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
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The heart pumps blood to almost all of the body’s 75 trillion cells.
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Like dead skin cells, your hair and nails are made of keratin. Keratin forms tough body parts in other animals, too. It’s found in wool, fur, feathers, claws, beaks, hooves, horns, porcupine quills, and turtle shells.
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Ears and Nose never stop growing.
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Your body has enough iron in it to make a metal nail 3 inches long.
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A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
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We all have tiny mites living in our eyelashes.
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When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph.
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Similar to fingerprints, everyone also has a Unique Tongue Print.
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When awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb.
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The human eye can distinguish about 10 million different colors.
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A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.
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We exercise at least 36 muscles when we smile.
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A hair grows by 0.3 to 0.5 mm per day, 1 to 1.5 cm per month and 12 to 15 cm per year.
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We spend about 10% of our waking hours with our eyes closed, blinking.
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If the human eye was a digital camera it would have 576 megapixels.
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The human body produces about a liter (0.26 gal) of mucus per day.
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Your brain uses 20% of the total oxygen and blood in your body.
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Your bones are composed of 31% water.
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A human body contains about 200,000 temperature detectors.
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A human body has 500,000 touch detectors.
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We are about 70 percent water.
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There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world
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A newborn baby has more than 26 billion cells.
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Every day, your heart creates enough energy to drive a truck for 20 miles (32 km).
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Without your pinky finger, you would lose about 50% of your hand strength.
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Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.
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We have Copper,Lead,Aluminum, Zinc, Cobalt, Calcium, Manganese, Phosphates,Tin,Barium, Nickel and Silicon in our bodies.
There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind.
(Craig Venter)
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