Amazing Medical Facts of the Body-part 20

Amazing Medical Facts of the Body-part 20

381.	A childs ability to learn can increase or decrease by 25 % or more depending on whether the child grows up in a stimulating environment.
382.	On an average a persons head has 100, 000 to 150, 000 hair.
383.	A single hair has the ability to support up to 100 grams of weight and the whole hair has the ability to support up to 12 tones of weight.
384.	The pigment of human hair is produced in the shaft of hair beneath the skin.
385.	In lifetime, the human heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood, which is enough to fill more than three tankers.
386.	The width of an average human brain is 140 mm.
387.	It takes 5- 30 seconds to chew food.
388.	Swallowing of the food takes about 10 seconds.
389.	The enzyme in the stomach that breaks down alcohol is produced less in men than women.
390.	In a year on an average person sleeps for 122 days out of 365 days.
391.	There are around 9,000 taste buds present on the tongue.
392.	Capillaries are so small that it would take ten of them to equal the thickness of a human hair.
393.	It is impossible to tickle our selves.
394.	In a human body, the small intestine is 21 feet and the large intestine is 6 feet long.
395.	For every 24 hours, in a healthy adult, more than a gallon of water containing over an ounce of salt is absorbed from the intestine.
396.	The right side of the human brain is responsible for self-recognition.
397.	Men listen with the left side of the brain and women use both sides of the brain.
398.	In a lifetime, the human kidneys clean over 1 million gallons of blood.
399.	Identical twins have identical DNA but not identical fingerprints.
400.	Babies recognize sounds while in mothers womb.

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