This document lists 16 odd facts about the human body, including that it is impossible to lick your own elbow, everyone has unique tongue prints, and your heart beats over 100,000 times per day. Other facts note that food takes 12 hours to digest, a sneeze can travel over 100 mph, and most dust in homes is dead skin cells. The longest recorded bout of hiccups lasted nearly 69 years.
This document lists 16 odd facts about the human body, including that it is impossible to lick your own elbow, everyone has unique tongue prints, and your heart beats over 100,000 times per day. Other facts note that food takes 12 hours to digest, a sneeze can travel over 100 mph, and most dust in homes is dead skin cells. The longest recorded bout of hiccups lasted nearly 69 years.
This document lists 16 odd facts about the human body, including that it is impossible to lick your own elbow, everyone has unique tongue prints, and your heart beats over 100,000 times per day. Other facts note that food takes 12 hours to digest, a sneeze can travel over 100 mph, and most dust in homes is dead skin cells. The longest recorded bout of hiccups lasted nearly 69 years.
1. It is physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
+ Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow. 2. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. 3. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day. 4. It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest. 5. A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h. 6. Women blink nearly twice as often as men. 7. Most of the dust particles in your house are dead skin. 8. There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth. 9. The longest bout of hiccups lasted nearly 69 years. 10. Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear between the ages of 2 and 6. 11. Men can read smaller print than women. Women can hear better. 12. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. 13. If you sneeze too hard you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force they can pop out. 14. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. 15. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. 16. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.