Cool Facts about the human body

[HappyAndFriendlyAlways]

Scientists say the higher your I.Q., the more you dream.

The largest cell in the human body is the female egg.

The smallest is the male sperm.

You use 200 muscles to take one step.

The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.

Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three.

A pair of human feet contain 250,000 sweat glands.

A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.

The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades.

The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.

It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds.

Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.

At the moment of conception, you spent about half an hour as a single cell.

There is about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

( I wonder how long it took to count all of them?)

Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil.

The enamel in your teeth is the hardest substance in your body.

Your teeth start developing (in your gums) 6 months before you are born.

When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.

Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.

Your thumb is the same length as your nose.

At this very moment I know full well you are putting this last fact to the test .... You did it -- I KNOW you did !!!!!

[Feña14]

Originally Posted by HappyAndFriendlyAlways

..When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate...

Talk about sending mixed messages

[DrumWizOHBD]

20 Little Known Facts About The Human Body

1- A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
2- A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
3- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
4- A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
5- A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
6- Every person has a unique tongue print.
7- According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
8- After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
9- An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
10- A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
11- An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
12- It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown, and 1 for Chuck Norris to do anything else.
13- Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
14- Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
15- By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds. By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)
16- Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
17- Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
18- Every person has a unique tongue print. Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
19- Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
20- Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin and feed it to Chuck Norris.

[ogruskie]

My Physiology teacher told us (during Sex Ed) that a male can ejaculate at 27 mph.

[wyutani]

haha, nice response mate'.

[SoBad]

Originally Posted by Feña14

Talk about sending mixed messages

I think it's true though that love/hate sort of strong emotion can not only affect pupils, but actually cause one eye to be larger than the other, as of the time that the subject is undergoing the emotion.

[0range]

Originally Posted by HappyAndFriendlyAlways

The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.

Dang! That means if I was born with xy chromosomes I could be 6 feet tall by now.

[waxnator]

Originally Posted by ogruskie

My Physiology teacher told us (during Sex Ed) that a male can ejaculate at 27 mph.

I wonder how that was tested....

[wyutani]

Originally Posted by waxnator

I wonder how that was tested....

the same device they used for roddick's serve...understand my joke? RODDICK!!!?????

[SoBad]

^^ yeah the scientific methods should be questioned here. It is much easier to measure distance rather than velocity in this sort of contest. Does anyone have credible evidence or at least unsupported claim in excess of 2 meters?