The Human Body In one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year.
Every square inch of the human body has about 19,000,000 skin cells.
Approximately 25% of all scald burns to children are from hot tap water and is associated with more deaths than with any other liquid.
Forty-one percent of women apply body and hand moisturizer at least three times a day.
Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
The world record for the number of body piercing on one individual is 702, which is held by Canadian Brent Moffat.
The small intestine in the human body is about 2 inches around, and 22 feet long.
The human body makes anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every 24 hours.
The human body has approximately 37,000 miles of capillaries.
The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose.
The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily.
It is very common for babies in New Zealand to sleep on sheepskins. This is to help them gain weight faster, and retain their body heat.
An average women has 17 square feet of skin. When a women is in her ninth month of pregnancy she has 18.5 square feet of skin.
The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body.
41% of women apply body or hand moisturizer a minimum three times a day.
A human's small intestine is 6 meters long.
There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee. You don't see all of them because most are too fine and light to be noticed.
Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
Dead cells in the body ultimately go to the kidneys for excretion.
By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in an year.
The human body is 75% water.
Other Human Body Facts The smile is the most frequently used facial expression. A smile can use anywhere from a pair of 5 to 53 facial muscles.
The slowest growing finger nail is on the thumb nail and the fastest growing is the finger nail on the middle finger.
The sensitivity of a woman's middle finger is reduced during menstruation.
The same amount of calories are burned by doing 6 sessions that are 5 minutes each of an activity and doing 1 session of that activity for 30 minutes.
The pectin that is found in apples aids in lowering cholesterol levels.
The most frequent season for most suicides to occur is in the spring. The winter months have the lowest number of suicides.
The majority of American models are skinnier than 98% of American women.
The longest hiccups on record was by an American pig farmer whose hiccups persisted from 1922 to 1987.
The longer white infants from low-income families are breast-fed, the less likely they will be overweight as young children, researchers said on Monday.
The length of a human esophagus is 25 centimeters.
The human liver performs over 500 functions.
The feet have approximately 250,000 sweat glands.
The eight most popular foods to cause food allergies are: milk, eggs, wheat, peanuts, soy, tree nuts, fish, and shellfish.
The early occurrence of a fetus yawning is at eleven weeks after conception.
The average ear grows 0.01 inches in length every year.
The Gastric Flu can cause projectile vomiting.
The Dutch people are known to be the tallest people in Europe.
Studies have shown that the scent of Rosemary can help in better mental performance and make individuals feel more alert.
Some brands of toothpaste contain glycerin or glycerol, which is also an ingredient in antifreeze.
Soaking beans for twelve hours in water before they are cooked can reduce flatulence caused by beans.
Scientists say that babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.
Scientists have determined that having guilty feelings may actually damage your immune system
Research has indicated that approximately eleven minutes are cut off the life of an average male smoker from each cigarette smoked.
People have the tendency to chew the food on the side that they most often use their hand.
Over 600,000 people died as a result of the Spanish influenza epidemic.
Only one out of every three people wash their hands when leaving a public bathroom.
One ragweed plant can release as many as a million grains of pollen in one day.
One out of 20 people have an extra rib.
One average, men spend 60 hours a year shaving.
On average, falling asleep while driving results in 550 accidents per day in the United States.
On average, a person has two million sweat glands.
On average, Americans spend 33% of their life sleeping.
On average a person passes gas 14 times a day.
On average 1,668 gallons of water are used by each person in the United States daily.
Nerve impulses for muscle position travel at a speed of up to 390 feet per second.
Nerve cells can travel as fast as 120 meters per second.
Mummy powder was once thought to be a cure for all remedies. English men used to carry the powder with them in a tiny bag wherever they went.
Men in their early twenties shave an average of four times a week.
Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth.
Medical reports show that about 18% of the population are prone to sleepwalking.
Manicuring the nails has been done by people for more than 4,000 years.
Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.
Ironically, when doctors in Los Angeles, California went on strike in 1976, the daily number of deaths in the city dropped 18%.
In the United States, 8.5 million cosmetic surgical and non-surgical procedures were done in the year 2001.
People with darker skin will not wrinkle as fast as people with lighter skin.
People with allergies can lower allergy reactions by laughing.
People who meet their calcium need reduce their risk of developing kidney stones.
People that smoke have 10 times as many wrinkles as a person that does not smoke.
People still cut the cheese shortly after death.
People over the age of fifty will start to lose their dislike for foods that taste bitter.
People of Ancient China believed that swinging your arms could cure a headache.
The average weight of a newborn baby is 7 lbs. 6 oz. For a triplet baby it is 3 lbs. 12 oz.
The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.
The average person falls asleep in about 12 to 14 minutes.
There are approximately one hundred million people in the United States that have a chronic illness.
There are approximately 60 muscles in the face.
There are 50% more males that are left handed compared to females.
There are 400 species of bacteria in the human colon.
There are 10 million bacteria at the place where you rest your hands at a desk.
In a lifetime, an average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva.
In a lifetime, an average driver will release approximately 912 pints of wind inside a car.
In Canada, men are three times more likely than women to have seen a doctor in the last year.
In 1832, in Paisley, Scotland the first municipal water filtration works was opened.
Humans breathe in and out approximately one litre of air in ten seconds.
Girls have more tastebud than boys.
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
Flu shots only work about 70% of the time.
Gases that build up in your large intestine cause flatulence. It usually takes about 30 to 45 minutes for these gases to pass through your system.
Fat is important for the development of children and normal growth.
Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of snot.
Eighty percent of 10 year old girls in the USA go on a diet.
Air is passed through the nose at a speed of 100 miles per hour when a person sneezes.
About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
A yawn usually lasts for approximately six seconds.
Children who are breast fed tend to have an IQ seven points higher than children who are not.
Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.
Eating chocolate three times a month helps people live longer as opposed to people who overeat chocolate or do not eat chocolate at all.
Constipation is caused when too much water is absorbed in the large intestine and poops become dry.
A ear trumpet was used before the hearing aid was invented by people who had difficulty hearing.
The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.
The average person has at least seven dreams a night.
Bile produced by the liver is responsible for making your feces a brownish, green colour.
It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.
By the time you are 70 you will have easily drunk over 12,000 gallons of water.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
The average person laughs about 15 times a day.
The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.
About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.
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