A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
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.
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.)
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Every person has a unique tongue print. Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
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.
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QUOTE(oOMeatBallOo @ Jul 11 2007, 05:16 PM) 
It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
I've always said that frowning is better exercise when others ask me to smile.
nice and apearently it is......
QUOTE(FrankBlunt @ Jul 11 2007, 03:21 PM)
I've always said that frowning is better exercise when others ask me to smile.
QUOTE(oOMeatBallOo @ Jul 11 2007, 08:16 PM)
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.
Heres one to add, you produce 70 kg of ATP per day
QUOTE(camlax @ Jul 12 2007, 01:17 PM)
Heres one to add, you produce 70 kg of ATP per day
ATP?
QUOTE(EnelyaCalaelen @ Jul 11 2007, 10:58 PM)
ATP?
Adenosine triphosphate - In brief, it's a molecule that stores energy, permitting us to do nearly everything the body does.
hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/biology/atp.html
QUOTE(oOMeatBallOo @ Jul 11 2007, 05:16 PM)
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
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.
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.)
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Every person has a unique tongue print. Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
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.
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
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.
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.)
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Every person has a unique tongue print. Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
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.
What happens to the 94 bones between infancy and adulthood? Do they desolve or do the become a part of other bone structures?
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.
Now that would be cool.
Now that would be cool.
QUOTE(oOMeatBallOo @ Jul 12 2007, 01:16 AM)
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Oh yes! I knew this one at least. New diet for supermodels, I think.
QUOTE(swtp @ Jul 12 2007, 01:07 PM)
What happens to the 94 bones between infancy and adulthood? Do they desolve or do the become a part of other bone structures?
Most of them fuse together with other bones.
QUOTE(oOMeatBallOo @ Jul 11 2007, 08:16 PM)
A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
Mine actually grow faster. I have fingernails like claws. It takes about a month for my nails to grow out to where I cut them (typically around 1.5cm).
Interesting facts!!! 
I also heard that there is enough iron in the human body to make one 6" nail lol.
I also heard that there is enough iron in the human body to make one 6" nail lol.
QUOTE(RedFFWolf @ Jul 12 2007, 02:40 PM)
Oh yes! I knew this one at least. New diet for supermodels, I think.
XD Nice. But I don't think it would be healthy for them.
QUOTE(Lotus Flower @ Jul 13 2007, 06:37 AM)
Interesting facts!!!
I also heard that there is enough iron in the human body to make one 6" nail lol.
I also heard that there is enough iron in the human body to make one 6" nail lol.
hmm. thanks for the info now i can start selling iron nails.
lol nice i didnt know these things 
Wow- didn't realize we shed so much hair! No wonder why when I clean the bathroom hairs are all over the place. Does this include our pubes as well? Lol
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