FACTS

Interesting Factsyou never knew!

  • Sitting for more than three hours a day can cut two years off a person's life expectancy.
  • Sleeping less than 7 hours each night reduces your life expectancy.
  • You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening.
  • The adult human heart weighs about ten ounces.
  • It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
  • Of the 206 bones in the average human adult's body, 106 are in the hands and feet (54 in the hands and 52 in the feet).
  • The human brain has about 100 billion neurons. From the age of 35 years about 7,000 neurons are lost daily.
  • The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9,000 'lead' pencils.
  • The brain itself is incapable of feeling pain. Once the skull is opened it is possible to operate on the brain with the patient awake.
  • Nerve impulses travel at over 400 Km/hr speed.
  • We give birth to over 200 billion red cells every day.
  • In one square inch of our hand, we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
  • The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
  • 1 Can of Soda a day increases your chances of getting type 2 diabetes by 22%
  • Exercise, like walking, can reduce breast cancer risk by 25%.
  • 8.5% of adults worldwide currently have diabetes. That's almost twice as much as it was in 1980.
  • Your body produces enough heat in only thirty minutes to boil a half-gallon of water.
  • Human bone is as strong as granite, relative to supporting resistance.
  • By the age of eighteen your brain stops growing.
  • Humans share about 50% of DNAs with banana

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