Health and Body


* It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

* If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.

* The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.

* The average life of a tastebud is 10 days.

* You were born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult you only have 206.

* The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

* If you lock your knee while standing long enough, you will pass out.

* The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas burning.

* Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.

* It only takes 7lbs of pressure to rip your ear off.

* Length of beard an average man would grow if he never shaved 27.5 feet.

* When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.

* The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36kg.

* Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

* You blink about 84,000,000 times per year.

* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue (relative to size).

* Human thighbones are as strong as concrete.

* One human hair can support 3 kgs.

* The average human being will walk 160 billion millimeters in a lifetime.

* One quarter of your bones in your body are in your feet.

* Your brain is 80% water.

* We (humans) only use 10% of our brains.

* You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching T.V.

* Sex burns 360 calories per hour.

* Our eyes never grow our nose and ears never stop growing.

* Blondes have more hair than dark haired people do.

* The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

* The average person flexes the joints in their finger 24 million times during a lifetime.

* Amount of time an average man spends shaving 3350 hours.

* Children spend more time learning about life through media than any other manner.

* The thumbnail grows the slowest; the middle nail grows the fastest

* The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.

* The average person laughs 15 times a day.

* Children grow faster in the springtime.

* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.