Monday, October 22, 2007

Interesting Body Facts

Random and useless, just the way I like it 

 

Interesting Body Facts

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

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

-One human hair can support 3kg.


- Human thighbones are stronger than concrete. 
 

 -The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.

 

-Your thumb is the same length of your nose.

 

- A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.

- If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died. 
 

 

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

 

-There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

 

- Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.

 

- Women blink twice as much as men.

 

-The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.

 

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

 

- It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.

 

-You're ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.

 

-Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.

 

- If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

 

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

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