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 FUN FACTS  

•Your nose can remeber 50, 000 scents. 

•Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour.

•An adult human being is made up of about 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms.

•A human baby has more than 60 bones than an adult.

•There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in your body.

•The average person produces 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime, enough to fill 2 swimming pools.

•Your body has enough iron in it to make a metal nail 3 inches long. 

•We all have tiny mites living in our eyelashes.

•The strongest muscle in the human body is the masseter (jaw muscle). 

•Ears and the nose NEVER stop growing. 

•Similar to finger prints, everyone also has a unique tongue print.

•When awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small lightbulb. 

•Human bones are ounce to ounce, stronger than steel.

•The human eye can distinguish 10 million different colors.

•We spend about 10% of our waking hours with our eyes closed, blinking.

•If the human eye was a digital camera it would have 576 megapixels. 

•All of the bacteria in our body collectively weighs about 4 pounds. 

•The human body produces about a liter of mucus everyday.

•Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to. 

•Your bones are composed of 31% water.

•There's more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.

•Everyday, your heart creates enough energy to drive a truck 20 miles. 

•If uncoiled, the DNA in all the cells in your body would stretch 10 billion miles, from here to pluto and back.

•Most of the dust under your bed is actually your own dead skin.

•Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you.

•Sleeping less than 7 hours each night, can reduce your life expectancy.

•In a lifetime, your brain's long-term memory can hold as many as 1 quadrillion (1 million billion) separate bits of information.

•The gastrointestinaltract is a 30-foot (9 m) tube running from your mouth to your anus.

•Your heart will pump nearly 1.5 million barrels of bloodduring your lifetime, enough to fill 200 train tank cars.

•Your heart can keep beating even if it is separated from the bodybecause it has its own electrical impulse.

•Your brain keeps devolping until your late 40s.

•Our lungs and nasal passages have exquisitely tiny hairscalled cilia that can "taste" bitter flavors.

•When you take one step, you are using up to 200 muscles.

•The chemical elements that make up your body are worth around US $160.

•Human fingers can feel objects as small as 13 nanometers. If your finger was the size of the Earth, you would feel the difference between houses and cars.

•The highest recorded body temperture in a human body was 115.7 F. 

•Your taste buds are replaced every 10 days.

•The average age of a human fat cell is 10 years.

•If your stomach acid got onto your skin it would burn a hole in it.

•1 in 10,000 people has their internal organs reversed or "mirrored" from their normal positions.

•Without your pinky finger, you would lose about 50%of your hand strength.

•Your lungs can hold up to 5 minutes worth of oxygen.

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