Human Facts
Posted by Deepak Kumar
1. If stomachs did not have a lining of
mucus, your stomach would digest itself.
2. There are 60,000 miles of blood
vessels in the human body.
3. It takes about 60 seconds for a human
blood cell to make a complete circuit of the body.
4. The average person will shed 40 pounds
of skin in his/her lifetime.
5. 1/15th of a pint of blood is pumped
with every heartbeat.
6. Humans share 98.4% of our DNA with
chimps. In comparison, we share 70% of our DNA with a slug.
7. The lightest baby to survive weighed a
mere 283 grams.
8. On average, women say 7,000 words per
day while men manage just over 2,000 words.
9. The human brain uses 20% of the body’s
energy but is only 2% of the body’s weight.
10. On average, humans lose 40-100
strands of hair per day.
11. A sneeze can exceed the speed of
100mph.
12. A cough can reach the speed of 60mph.
13. The average person will drink about
16,000 gallons of water in his/her lifetime.
14. It takes 17 muscles to smile while
taking 43 muscles to frown.
15. The human brain is composed of 75%
water.
16. Human thigh bones are stronger than
concrete.
17. More germs are transferred while
shaking hands compared to kissing.
18. There are approximately 550 hairs in
a person’s eyebrow.
19. The strongest muscle in the human
body is the tongue.
20. A person produces 10,000 gallons of
saliva in an average lifetime.
21. The hardest bone in the human body is
the jawbone.
22. The number of eye blinks varies
greatly from about 29 blinks each minute if you are talking to someone to only
4 blinks each minute if you are reading.
23. The average human blinks 25 times per
minute.
24. A nail takes around 6 months to grow
from base to the tip.
25. Each second 10,000,000 cells die and
are replaced in your body.
26. Your liver performs over 500
functions in your body.
27. The average person spends 1/3 of
their lifetime sleeping.
28. More germs are transferred when
shaking hands than kissing.
29. The average person (from western
culture) consumes 10 liters of alcohol per year.
30. Roughly 75% of people who play the
radio in their car sing along to it.
31. Human thigh bones are stronger than
concrete.
32. Your right lung takes in more air
than your left one does.
33. The human brain is composed of 75%
water.
34. 70% of the composition of dust in
your home is made up of shed human skin and hair.
35. The tooth is the only part of the
human body that can’t repair itself.
36. One human hair can support 3kg.
37. Humans are the only animals that cry
tears and blush.
38. It takes the interaction of 72
different muscles to produce human speech.
39. If the normal one hundred thousand
hairs on a head were woven into a rope, it could support a weight of more than
twelve tons.
40. The fingernail grows about 1.5 inches
per year.
41. The total amount of skin covering an
adult human weighs 6 lbs.
42. The average person flexes the joints
in their fingers 24 million times during a lifetime.
43. Each person inhales about seven
quarts of air every minute.
44. On average, we breathe between 12 and
18 times a minute.
45. The average guy will grow about 27
feet of hair out of his face during his lifetime.
46. Approximately 1 out of 25 people
suffers from asthma.
47. The average man sweats 2 1/2 quarts
every day.
48. One out of every hundred American
citizens is color blind.
49. An average person laughs about 15
times a day.
50.
A human heart beats 100,000 times a day.