Navtej Kohli compiles some amazing facts about human body.
Do you know?
50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells, all while you have been reading this sentence!
In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost 1 ton of weight 1 yard off the ground.
In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.
The structural plan of a whale’s, a dog’s, a bird’s and a man’s ‘arm’ are exactly the same.
There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
In a year, a person`s heart beats 40,000,000 times.
Most people blink about 25 times a minute.
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown. You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile.
Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.
The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in their lifetime.
The average human body contains enough Sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire a toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars of soap, Phosphorus to make 2,200 matchheads, and enough Water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
If you were freeze-dried, 10% of your body weight would be from the micro-organisms on your body.
Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life. :
When you eat meat and drink milk in the same meal, your body does not absorb any of the milk’s calcium. It is best to have 2 hours between the milk and meat intake.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world’s telephones put together.
We have a a whole pharmacy within us. We can create any drug inside us.
Our bodies are recreating themselves constantly - we ,make a skeleton every 3 months, new skin every month. We are capable of reversing the Aging Process!!