Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Human Body Facts
The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.
The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.
Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Children grow faster in the springtime.
It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow milk.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).
Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.
The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).
You were born with 300 bones. When you get to be an adult, you have 206.
During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.
Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body
From: Tuticorin @ Tamilnadu

1 Comments:

Blogger Doctor Bruno said...

"Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue."

Hi six face.....

The strongest muscles are muscles of mastigation, the temporalis.

Thursday, November 24, 2005 6:53:00 AM  

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