Friday, October 24, 2008

Some interesting facts of our body

* You lose everyday around 50 to 100 hairs from your head, which are replaced
the same day.

* An average human has 100000 hairs on the head.

* The air from a sneeze can reach the speed of 100 mph; from a cough - 60 mph.

* An average person drinks around 16000 gallons of water in his lifetime.

* A nail takes around 6 months to grow from base to the most tip.

* Around 45 miles of nerves run through our body. The electric impulses
travel at a speed of almost 250 mph!

* Babies have 94 bones more than an adult, in total 300.

* An average human blinks 25 times a minute, that’s over 6.205.000 times a year!

* By the age of 70 your heart have beat 2,5 billion times and pumped
around 48.000.000 gallons of blood.

* In a tiny drop of water there are 5 million red blood cells, 10.000 white
cells and 300.000 platelets.

* A square of human skin has 32 million bacterias on it!

* Each second 10.000.000 of cells die and are replaced in your body.

* You create a new skin every month and a new skeleton every 3 months!

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Some interesting facts about our daily life

1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side.
If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

2. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

3. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink.
If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

4. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at
something
pleasing.

5. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

6. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

7. The 'v' in the name of a court case does not stand for 'versus', but for 'and'
(in civil proceedings] or 'against' (in criminal proceedings].

8. Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the
buttons on the left.


9. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink.
All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

10. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.

11. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

12. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

13. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film
about it.


14. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

15. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.