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16 Odd Facts About The Human Body:

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.

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