Human Facts!!!

hiruma · by hiruma on Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:22 pm

Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
Human blood travels 60,000 miles per day on its journey through the arteries, arterioles and capillaries and back through the venules and veins.
Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life.
If you were freeze-dried, 10% of your body weight would be from the microorganisms on your body.
A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.
A person weighs less at high tide. There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
The average human blinks his eyes 6,205,000 times each year.
The arteries and veins surrounding the brain stem called the "circle of Willis" looks like a stick person with a large head.
The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.
You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown.
You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile.
Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
Between the time of death and the onset of rigor mortis in a human body, the contraction of the muscles can cause the body to turn over on its side. (That would be VERY freaky to watch!)
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
Every person has a unique tongue print. The average human's heart will beat 3,000,000,000 times in their lifetime.