Sunday, April 10, 2011

      Some AMAZING FACTS about Human Body ! ...  ( Part - 2 )


     1.  Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

     2.  The tooth is the only part of the body that cannot repair itself.

     3.  The human liver performs over 500 functions.

     4.  The pectin that is found in apples aids in lowering cholesterol levels.

     5.   By donating just one pint of blood, four lives can be saved.

     6.  One in 12 men is colour blind.

     7.  There are 230 joints in the body.

     8.  While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth.

     9.  A  human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair in a day.

    10.  The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

   

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

     Some AMAZING FACTS about Human Body !... ( Part - 1 )


     1.  Coffee beans can be mixed into B type blood, changing it into O type blood.

     2.  The liquid inside coconuts can be used as blood plasma substitutes.

     3.   Surface area of the lungs is approximately the same size as a tennis court.

     4.  If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

     5.  Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to boil.

     6.  Next to bone marrow, hair is the fastest growning tissue in the human body.

     7.  The average human scalp has 10,000 hairs.

     8.  Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 bones in our bodies.

     9.  Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system ; it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.

   10.  The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.