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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Facts About Human Body - strangefacts

  • The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime- that's enough to fill more than 3 super tankers.
  • If you took all the human urine produced in the world in one day, it would take a full 20 minutes for it to flow over Niagara Falls.
  • If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
  • If you took all the approximately 60,000 miles of blood vessels out of a human body and laid them end-to-end, they would stretch around the world twice .
  • There are nealy 45 miles of nerves running through our bodies .
  • The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.
  • It would take a person typing 60 words per minute, eight hours a day, around 50 years to type the human genome.
  • The speed of message transmission to the brain can be as high as 180 miles per hour.
  • During his or her lifetime, the average human will grown 590 miles of hair.
  • The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.