INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE HUMAN

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE HUMAN
BY :FARID GHAZIAN

1-Humans spend a third of their lives sleeping.

2-Approx.16 canadians have their appendixes removed when not required every day.

3-Your brain is 80% water.

4-A pack-a-day smoker will loose approx. 2 teeth every 10 years.

5-People do not get sick from cold weather;it's from being indoors a lot more.

6-When you sneeze,all bodily functions stop-even your heart.

7-Ahumans mucules membrane used to smell;is the size of a postage stamp.

8-Your skin is the heaviest organ.

9-Those stars and colourrs you see when close and rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

10-The human brain stops growing at age of 18.

11-Sneeze can travel over 100 mph.

12-85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.

13-Only 7% of the population are lefties.

14-Our eyes never grow, our nose and ears never stop growing.

15-Babies are born with out knee caps,they don’t appear until they are 2-6 years old.

16-Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or more .

17-A human has 60,000 miles of blood vessels in their body.

18-The average person will drink 8,000 gallons of water during their life time.

19-There are 450 hair in an average eyebrow.

20-Smart people have more zinc in their hair.

21-The lining of your digestive system is shed every 3 days.

22-Your foot is the same length as the distance between your wrist and elbow.

23-The human tooth has about 55 miles canals in it.

24-Your skin weights twice as much as your brain.

25-The average human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.

26-If you went out into space , you would explode before you suffocated because there is no air pressure.

27-The storage capacity of the human brain exceeds 4 terabytes.

28-Your thumb is the same length as your nose.

29-the average person falls asleep in seven minutes .