AMAZING HUMAN FACTS

The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.
The only jointless bone in our body is the hyoid bone in the throat.
It is impossible to sneeze with our eyes open.
The average life of taste buds is 10 days.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
When we sneeze all our body functions stop, even our heart[0.1 micro second].
Children grow faster in the spring time.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Our ears & nose continue to grow throughout our entire life.
A human being loses an average of 40-100 strands of hair a day.
A foetus acquires finger prints at the age of three months.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
After spending hours working with computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper, it would probably appear pink.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but adults have 206 bones.
It involves 17 muscles to smile & 43 muscles to frown.
Beards are the fastest growing hairs in the human body.
Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
Finger nails grow faster than toe nails.
Humans spend one-third of their life time in sleeping.
People do not get sick from cold weather; it is from being indoors a lot more.
The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.
The storage capacity of the human brain exceeds 4 tetrabytes.
Smart people have more zinc in their hair.
Our skin is the heaviest organ.
Our thumb equals with the length of our nose.
The teeth are the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself.
The average human body contain enough fat to make 7 bars of soap & enough phosphorus to make 2200 match heads.
The structural plan of a whale’s, a dog’s, a bird’s & a man’s arm are exactly the same.
In a square inch of the skin, lies 4 yards of nerve fibres, 1300 nerve cells,100 sweat glands, 3 million cells & 3 yards of blood vessels.
The average human blinks his eye 62,05,000 times a year.
15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.
The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of spine.
Our skull is made up of 29 different bones.
A man who smokes a pack a day will loose 2 teeth every 10 years approximately.
Our hairs and nails are still growing even after our death.

S. SELVALAKSHMI
I Msc APPLIED PLANT SCIENCE