Amazing Facts about the Human Body

·         The human brain is 80% water

·         A healthy human heart beats over 100,000 times a day

·         The human eyeballs are three and a half percent salts

·         Your sneeze travels at over 100 M.P.H

·         The human body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second

·         Every time you breathe your ribs move about 5 million times a year

·         A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks

·         Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails

·         Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women

·         You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television

·         Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, and Dostoyevsky were all epileptics

·         Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks

·         Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete

·          Like finger prints, everyone’s tongue print is different

·         Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year

·         Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour. That’s about 1.5 pounds each year, so by age 70 a person will lose around 105 pounds of skin. So when you sweep out dust in your room, you should know that half of it is from your skin.