Interesting Facts about the Human Body / Amazing Medical Facts of the Body (2024)
Total No. of Medical Facts - 341
1.The average red blood cell lives for 120 days.
2.There are 2.5 trillion (give or take) of red blood cells in your body at any moment. To maintain this number, about two and a half million new ones need to be produced every second by your bone marrow.That's like a new population of the city of Toronto every second.
3.Considering all the tissues and cells in your body, 25 million new cells are being produced each second. That's a little less than the population of Canada - every second !
4.A red blood cell can circumnavigate your body in under 20 seconds.
5.Nerve Impulses travel at over 400 km/hr (249 mi/hr).
6.A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr (100 mi/hr), and a cough moves out at 100 km/hr (60 mi/hr).
7.Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day or about 30 million times in a year.
8.Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey per day.
9.Our eyes can distinguish up to ten million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
10.Our lungs inhale over two million litres of air every day, without even thinking. Their surface area is large enough to cover one side of a tennis court.
11.We give birth to over 200 billion red cells every day.
12.When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph
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.
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.
The retina would be a perfect snapshot of your neural system that is unique and makes you. The distinctive vocal tract of each person is partly hereditary and partly learnt, the size of someone's neck and pharynx plays a role, features like lip curving and word pronunciation.
Your basic function as an organism is to consume (ingest) energy and molecules in the foods you eat, convert some of it into fuel for movement, sustain your body functions, and build and maintain your body structures. There are two types of reactions that accomplish this: anabolism and catabolism.
The human body is a miracle: The heart pumps 8,000 liters of blood around the body every day. Human eyes can differentiate between more than seven million colors. The human heart pumps 8,000 liters of blood around the body every day.
DNA is what makes your body tick and, because we are not clones, every human's genome is unique in its own special way. It starts with your genes: the four-letter code that provides the blueprint of your body is unlike anyone else's and it's made up of nucleotides A-G-C-T.
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