Amazing Medical Facts of the

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The average red blood cell lives for 120  
1
days.
There are 2.5 trillion (give or take) of  
red blood cells in your body at any
moment. To maintain this number,  
about two and a half million new ones
2
need to be produced every second by  
your bone marrow.That's like a new  
population of the city of Toronto every
second.
Considering all the tissues and cells in
your body, 25 million new cells are
3 being produced each second. That's a
little less than the population of Canada
- every second !
A red blood cell can circumnavigate
4
your body in under 20 seconds.
Nerve Impulses travel at over 400 km/hr
5
(25 mi/hr).
A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr
6 (100 mi/hr), and a cough moves out at
100 km/hr (60 mi/hr).
Our heart beats around 100,00 times
7
every day.
8 Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.
Our lungs inhale over two million litres
of air every day, without even thinking.
9
They are large enough to cover a tennis
court.
1 We give birth to 100 billion red cells
0 every day.
1
 
1
1 When we touch something, we send a
2 message to our brain at 124 mph
 Our eyes can distinguish up to one
1 million colour surfaces and take in more
3 information than the largest telescope
known to man.
1 We exercise at least 30 muscles when
4 we smile.
1
We are about 70 percent water.
5
1
We make one litre of saliva a day.
6
Our nose is our personal air-
1
conditioning system: it warms cold air,
7
cools hot air and filters impurities.
In one square inch of our hand we have
1 nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain
8 sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat
sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium,
1
manganese, phosphates, nickel and
9
silicon in our bodies.
It is believed that the main purpose of
2
eyebrows is to keep sweat out of the
0
eyes.
2 A person can expect to breathe in about
1 40 pounds of dust over his/her lifetime.
There are more living organisms on the
2 skin of a single human being than there
2 are human beings on the surface of the
earth.
2 From the age of thirty, humans
3 gradually begin to shrink in size.
Your body contains enough iron to make
2
a spike strong enough to hold your
4
weight.
2 The surface area of a human lung is
5 equal to that of a tennis court.
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Amazing Medical Facts of the

 Body
 
Most people have lost fifty per cent of  
26 their taste buds by the time they reach
the age of sixty.  
The amount of carbon in the human
27 body is enough to fill about 9,000 'lead'  
pencils.
 
One square inch of human skin contains  
28
625 sweat glands.
When you blush, your stomach lining
29
also reddens.
The human body has less muscles in it
30
than a caterpillar.
Give a tennis ball a good, hard squee
ze. You're using about the same amount
31
of force your heart uses to pump blood
out to the body.
If you could save all the times your
eyes blink in one life time and use
32
them all at once you would see
blackness for 1.2 years!
33 The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes
34
open.
The aorta, the largest artery in the
35 body, is almost the diameter of a
garden hose.
36
 
.
Your body has about 5.6 liters (6
quarts) of blood. This 5.6 liters of
37
blood circulates through the body three
times every minute.
38 The heart pumps about 1 million
barrels of blood during an average
lifetime--that's enough to fill more than
 3 super tankers.
Babies start dreaming even before
39
they're born.
The human body can function without a
40
brain.
Humans are the only primates that
41 don't have pigment in the palms of
their hands.
10% of human dry weight comes from
42
bacteria.
There is more bacteria in your mouth
43 than the human population of the
United States and Canada combined .
Every square inch of the human body
44 has an average of 32 million bacteria
on it.
A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age
45
of three months
You sit on the biggest muscle in your
body, the gluteus maximus a.k.a. the
46 butt. Each of the two cheeky muscles
tips the scales at about two pounds
(not including the overlying fat layer).
The tiniest muscle, the stapedius of the
47 middle ear , is just one-fifth of an inch
long.
The average human head weighs about
48
10 pounds.
The average human brain weighs three
49
pounds.
The DNA helix measures 80 billionths of
50
an inch wide.