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81. |
The
length of your foot is the same as that of your forearm between your wrist and
the inside of your elbow. |
82. |
In 24
hours, the blood in the body travels a total of 12,000 miles - that's four times
the width of North America. |
83. |
The human
gut contains about 1kg (2.2 lbs) of bacteria. In fact, there are more bacteria
growing in and on the body than there are human cells. |
84. |
Humans
have more facial muscles than any other animal on earth - 22 on each side of the
face. |
85. |
Before
their first birthday, average babies will have dribbled 255 pints of saliva. By
the time they're two years old, they will have crawled 93 miles. |
86. |
The
human hand contains three main nerves, two major arteries and 27 different bones
- more of the body is devoted to controlling the hands than any other part of
the body. |
87. |
In the
average lifetime, we spend five years eating and we consume around 7,000 times
our own weight in food. |
88. |
When
we go to sleep and enter REM (Rapid Eye Movement),our bodies become completely
paralysed as areas of the brain that control movement are de-activated. It is
this that stops us falling out of bed. |
89. |
By the
time a woman has reached her 60s, she will have released around 450 baby making
eggs |
90. |
When
full, the human bladder can hold two pints of urine. |
91. |
In a
lifetime, a human being will grow six feet of nose hair and shed 42 lbs of dead
skin. |
92. |
A
human being can look forward to having sex an average of 2,580 times with five
different partners. |
93. |
Skin
can now be artificially grown.One amazing result of this is that the skin from
one hand could be grown into enough to cover six football pitches. |
94. |
There are 137
million light sensitive cells in the eye's retina and the fluid that fills the
eye is changed 15 times a day. |
95. |
Humans
and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. |
96. |
The
average person falls asleep in seven minutes. |
97. |
During
your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of
about 6 elephants! |
98. |
In
space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't
flow! |
99. |
Your
ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe! |
100. |
Most
dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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