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HUMAN BODY FACTS
By : M.R.Sethi
Your Hair
* On average, a hair strand's life span is five and a half years.
* A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
* In a lifetime, an average man will shave 20,000 times
* An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
* Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.
*. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the
average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet
long in his lifetime.
* Next to bone marrow, hair is the fastest growing tissue in the
human body
* Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.
* Humans have about the same number of hair follicles as a
chimpanzee has.
Your Heart
* The human heart weighs less than a pound
* By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some
two-and-a-half billion times
* The human heart beast roughly 35 million times a year.
* Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
* In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood.
* According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is
higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
* The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is
because of the space and placement of the heart.
Your Bones
* The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone which is
located in the ear.
*. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206
in our bodies. This occurs because many of them join together to
make a single bone
* The only bone fully grown at birth is located in the ear.
* The feet account for one quarter of all the human bodies bones.
* The human face is made up of 14 bones.
* The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the
hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the
mandible and the voice box.
* There are 54 bones in your hands including the wrists
* Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
* Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
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