10 Unique Facts About Your Body!

As we all know, especially for future doctors like ourselves, our body is full of mysteries. Well, we have put together a list of 10 amazing facts about the human body, thanks to a few sites from the internet that I will be mentioning later on. You might have heard it or read it somewhere else before as well. So anyways enjoy!

1.             An average human body sheds around 600,000 particles of skin every hour; that is about 1.5 pounds or 0.675 kg a year. And by age 70, the average human will have lost 105 pounds or 47,25 kg of skin. That’s a lot of skin!

2.           If the average human man never trimmed his beard it would be almost 30 feet or 9 meters long in his lifetime, seeing that the fastest growing hair on a human's body is males beard's hair. What would dragging that around feel like? Having long hair at the back of my head already feel sometimes uncomfortable, can’t imagine having 9 meters hair in your face!

3.             A person blinks an average of 25 times per minute when awake. Which means  approximately 1500 times per hour, 36000 per day,  and 13140000 times a year, if he/she never sleeps, of course.

4.             15 million cells in blood alone are destroyed in the human body every second. Which means by the time you finished reading this sentence, 50,000 of the cells in your body would have died and would have already been replaced with new cells. RIP 50,000 cells.

5.             The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that is not attached at both ends and it is said to be the strongest muscle compared to its size. Unfortunately you’re not gonna be able to carry your extra bags with them.

6.             It is said that we’re taller in the morning because throughout the day, the cartilage between the bones is compressed making us 1 cm shorter. So if you checked your height in day time, just add 1 cm to it, it does make a lot of difference :p

7.             The average human is originally born with more than 300 bones, but when they reach adulthood, some bones fuse together making an adult end up with only around 206 bones. More than 94 bones short from the original amount?!

8.             Your brain comes out to play at night. You’d think that your brain is more active during the day, when the rest of your body is. But it’s not. Well that explains those late night insomnia and why everything seems much more interesting at night when you’re about to sleep. Your brain is more active when you sleep.

9.             The brain, through the nose can identify and remember more than 50,000 different scents. It can differentiate one smell from the other. And it is said that women are better than man at identifying smells! So guys, you better smell good :p

10.          Your feet can produce a pint of sweat a day. There are 500,000 (250,000 for each) sweat glands in your feet, and that can mean a great deal of stinky sweat. That explains smelly feet!! I recommend changing your socks every day!

Read more at:
http://shareranks.com/416,Strange-Facts-About-the-Human-Body#b#ixzz1iEvOk3Bi
http://bsnprogram.com/2010/50-incredibly-weird-facts-about-the-human-body/  
http://www.faizani.com/news/news_2003/human_body_facts.html