Human

Interesting Facts In Human Body

Human Organs 

                                                                   

• There are approximately 45 billion fat cells in an average adult.
• Nerve impulses for muscle position travel at a speed of up to 390 feet per second.
• The average life span of a single red blood cell is 120 days
• The human body makes anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every 24 hours.
• In a lifetime, an average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva.
• The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily.
• On average redheads have 90,000 hairs. People with black hair have about 110,000 hairs.
• The fastest growing tissue in the human body is hair
• The human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at a distance of thirty feet.
• On average, a person has two million sweat glands.
• Women hearts beat faster than men
• The only bone fully grown at birth is located in the ear
• Every square inch of the human body has about 19,000,000 skin cells
• Hair and fingernails are made from the same substance, keratin
• The body of the average baby is 75% water
• The vagina and the eye are self-cleaning organs
• Your foot is the same length as your forearm
• The human heart beats over 100,000 times a day
• One quarter of the bones in the human body is in the feet
• The total weight of skin for an average adult human is 6 pounds.
•  Human eye detects 10 million colors
• Your thumb is the same length as your nose
• The average person can live 11 days without water.
• There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.
• Dead skin is the root cause of most of the dust in your house.
• Most people shed between 50 to 100 hairs every day. 
• When you sleep, you grow by about 8mm (0.3in). The next day you shrink back to your former height. The reason is that your cartilage discs are squeezed like sponges by the force of gravity when you stand or sit.
• The average person in the West eats 50 tonnes of food and drinks 50,000 liters (11,000 gallons) of liquid during his life.
• Each kidney contains 1 million individual filters. They filter an average of around 1.3 liters (2.2 pints) of blood per minute, and expel up to 1.4 liters (2.5 pints) a day of urine.
• The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day.
• In 30 minutes, the average body gives off enough heat (combined) to bring a half gallon of water to boil.
• A single human blood cell takes only 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
• The eyes receive approximately 90 percent of all our information
• The female ovaries contain nearly half-a-million egg cells
• The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb.
• The brain is much more active at night than during the day.
• The brain itself cannot feel pain. 
• Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body.
• The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades.
• The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels. 
• Feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat a day
• Earwax production is necessary for good ear health.
• Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born.
• Babies are always born with blue eyes. 
• Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
• Your eyes are always the same size from birth but your nose and ears never stop growing. 
• We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. 
• The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone. 
• You use 200 muscles to take one step.
• The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself.
• Bone is stronger than some steel. 
• About 32 million bacteria call every inch of your skin home.
• Three hundred million cells die in the human body every minute.
• Every day an adult body produces 300 billion new cells. 
• Every tongue print is unique.
• The most common blood type in the world is Type O. 
• Tears and mucus contain an enzyme (lysozyme) that breaks down the cell wall of many bacteria.