Amazing Facts

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BY DELANEY
WHITE

Skeletal
At birth the skeleton
is made up of about 300 bones
System
The longest bone in the human body is the thigh
bone called the femur.
The area of our body with the most bones is the
hand, fingers and wrist where there are 54 bones
The only joint-less bone in your body is the hyoid
bone in your throat

Muscular
There areSystem
650 skeletal muscles in the human
body

Muscles make up 40% of your total body weight

The smallest muscles are found in the middle

ear

It takes half as long to gain muscle than it does

to lose it

To take one step, you use 200 muscles

Cardiovascular
Thesystem
right lung is slightly larger than the left

Hairs in your nose help to clean the air we

breath

The surface area of the lungs is roughly the

same size as a tennis court

The capillaries in the lungs would extend 1600

kilometers if placed end to end

Digestive
System
Hydrochloric acid, the primary juice in our
stomachs, is capable of dissolving substances as
strong as metal

Muscles contract in waves to move food down

the esophagus. That means we can eat food
upside down

The small intestine absorptive surface area is

about 2700 square feet

The stomach produces a new layer of mucus

every 2 weeks to keep from digesting itself

Lymphatic
System
Lymph fluid drains back into the blood via
the bodys main vein

Bone marrow produces both red and white

blood cells including the lymphocytes

The right lymphatic duct measure only about

1.25 centimeters in length, while the thoracic
duct may measure as long as 45 centimeters

Nervous
system
There are about 13,500,000 neurons in the human
body

There are more nerve cells in the human brain than

there are stars in the Milky Way

The adult brain consists of 100 billion neurons

A newborn baby loses about half of their nerve cells

before they are born

Immune
system
99.9% of bacteria in your body is good for you

People who lack humor in their life tend to have a weaker immune
system

Getting under 5 hours of sleep a night has been shown to greatly

depress immune functions in your body