Facts about the Human Body

• Posted by Laddu March 2, 2014 - Filed in Health - #Facts about the Human Body  - 1,777 views

  Facts about the Human Body

  
  Tongue
  Everyone has a unique tongue print as finger print

  
  Bone
  A baby/boy has 350 bones and an adult has 206 bones

  
  Nose
  It can smell 50,000 different scents

  
  Intestines
  Length of intestines - 18 to 23 feet

  
  Bacteria
  Every square inch of skin has about 32 million bacteria on it and most of them are harmless.

  
  Source of body odor
  A pair of feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat a day.

  
  Sneeze speed
  speeds of air from a human sneeze is 100 miles per hour

  
  Blood
  There are about 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body and the heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood through those vessels every day.

  
  Saliva
  In a lifetime, about 25,000 quarts of saliva produces from the average person. It is enough to fill two swimming pools!

  
  Snoring
  Snore loudness can reach more than 80 decibels and noise levels over 85 decibels are considered hazardous to the human ear.

  
  Hair
  The average human head has 1,00,000 hair follicles, each of which is capable of producing 20 individual hairs during a person's lifetime.

  
  Nail
  On average, nails grow about one-tenth of an inch each month.

  
  Head
  The human head is one-quarter of our total length at birth, but only one-eighth of our total length by the time we reach adulthood.

  
  Sleep
  You can go without eating for weeks, but you can go maximum 11 days without sleep. After 11 days, you'll be asleep -- forever!