The document provides interesting facts about the major organs and systems of the human body. It discusses that the heart beats over 100,000 times per day and the blood vessel system would extend over 60,000 miles if stretched out. It also notes that the brain has over 100 billion neurons and can generate enough power to light a bulb. The skin is the largest organ, averaging 22 square feet in surface area. The document concludes by highlighting facts about bones, including that children have more bones than adults and the hyoid is the only bone not connected to another.

1. Amazing FactsAbout Our Body
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4.  Your heart will beat about 115,000 times each day.
 If you were to stretch out your blood vessel system, it would
extend over 60,000 miles.
 Heart cells stop dividing, which means heart cancer is extremely
rare.
 Your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood every day.
 The heart can continue beating even when it’s disconnected
from the body.
 The average heart is the size of a fist in an adult.
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5.  An electrical system controls the rhythm of your heart. It’s
called the cardiac conduction system.
 Cardiac Muscle – Hardest working muscle in our body.
 Every day, the heart creates enough energy to drive a truck
20 miles. In a lifetime, that is equivalent to driving to the
moon and back.
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6.  In 1903, physiologist Willem Einthoven (1860-1927)
invented the electrocardiograph.
 In 1929, German surgeon Werner Forssmann inventing
cardiac catheterization.
 On 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard of South Africa
transplanted a human heart into the body, it is considered
the first successful heart transplant.
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8.  Your brain’s storage capacity considered virtually
unlimited – 100 billion neurons.
 The fattiest organ in the human body – 60% fat
 Brain information travels up to an impressive 268 miles
per hour – electrical impulse
 The human brain weighs 3 pounds.
 The human brain can generate about 23 watts of power -
enough to power a light bulb.
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9.  There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the brain. The
distance covering around 24,900 miles.
 Every second, there are 100,000 chemical reactions
happening in the human brain.
 Virtually unlimited storage capacity.
 Transmits impulses cell to cell.
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11.  Liver has dual identity. (1.5 kg)
 An organ that can have the capacity of regeneration.
 Liver also controls the function of brain.
 Liver is a protein creator and a clotting agent.
 Liver acts as a medicine converter.
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12.  Liver perform over 500 different functions.
 A healthy liver filters about 1.7 litres of blood per minute.
 The first successful human liver transplant occurred in
1967.
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14.  The average kidney is as big as a cellphone and weighs 4-6
ounces.
 The nephrons in the 2 kidneys are about 1.12 million
which covers a distance of 10 miles.
 Kidneys are capable of generating Vitamin D in the body.
 Kidneys also pump around 400 gallons of blood every day.
 Excretes between one and two liters of urine every day.
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15.  Kidneys love their blood flow. They reabsorb and
redistribute 99% of the blood volume throughout the body,
leaving the 1% of the filtered blood to become urine.
 The first successful kidney transplant was done by Joseph
E. Smith and his team in Boston in 1954.
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17.  A person usually breathes an average of 13 pints of air
every minute.
 Lungs aren’t the same size.
 Lungs float on water.
 Lungs and tennis courts can be the same size.
 Humans exhale up to 17.5 mililiters of water per hour.
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18.  Michael Phelps, an Olympic swimming champion, has a
lung capacity that is double the size of an average man!
 Some people can hold their breath for more than 20
minutes.
 Sneeze particles may not travel as fast as people think.
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20.  It has some serious storage capacity 32 ounces.
 The small intestine is about 22-23 feet long while the large
intestine is only about 5 feet long.
 Stomach is one of your immune system's first line of
defense.
 Food doesn't need gravity to get to your stomach
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22.  Did you know that your skin is your largest organ?
 The average adult’s skin would cover 22 square feet ,
your skin accounts for 12-15 percent of your body
weight.
 The thickest skin is found on the bottom of your feet and
has a depth of 1.4mm. The thinnest skin is found on your
eyelids and has a depth of 0.02mm.
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23.  The amount of melanin in the skin determines our skin tone.
 Your skin has over one trillion individual bacteria living on it.
 Your skin renews itself every 28 days.
 We are losing dead skin cells all the time, at a rate of about
30,000 to 40,000 per minute.
 The average person has about 3 million sweat glands.
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24.  On average, about 14 species of fungi live between your
toes.
 Sources estimate that more than half of the dust in your
home is actually dead skin.
 Tattoos never fade off, thanks to cells called macrophages.
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26.  The average person has 100,000 – 150,000 strands of hair.
 On average, you shed around 50-150 strands of hair a day.
 Hair is the second fastest growing tissue in the body
after bone marrow.
 A healthy strand of hair can stretch an additional 30%
when it’s wet.
 A single hair has a lifespan of about five years
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27.  A strand of hair is
 than a copper wire with the same diameter.
 When we are cold or scared, goosebumps happen when
the muscle for each hair strand contracts.
 You can tell a lot about a person from her hair.
 It can be used as a natural sponge.
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28.  Hair is like a chemistry project
50 % Carbon 21 % Oxygen,
17 % Nitrogen 6 % Hydrogen,
5 % Sulphur
 When it become popular to color hair?
 The longest female hair was measured at 18 feet and 5.5
inches. (Xie Jiuping grew her hair for over 30 years).
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29.  On average, women spend about $800 on hair products a
year!
 On average, women spend about 2 hours a week styling
their hair.
 If a man never shaved with, his beard would grow to over
30 feet in his life time.
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31.  They grow at a rate of 0.1 millimeters a day ...
( 3 to 4 millimeters per month).
 Nails grow faster in the summer than in the winter.
 What is Nail Biting called?
Onychophagia.
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32.  Lee Redmond started growing her nails in 1979 and she
held the world record for "longest fingernails on a pair of
hands ever (female)" in 2008.
 Her right thumbnail was 2 feet 11 inches and the collective
length of all her nails was 28 feet, 4 inches.
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34.  Your eyes focus on 50 different objects every second.
 Your eyes can distinguish approximately 10 million
different colors.
 It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
 80 percent of all learning comes through the eyes.
 Your eyes can detect a candle flame 1.7 miles away.
 The average person blinks 12 times a minute.
 The eye is the fastest muscle in your body.
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35.  You actually see with your brain, not your eyes.
 If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576
megapixels.
 Although our nose and ears keep growing throughout our
lives, our eyes remain the same size from birth.
 All babies are colour blind at birth.
 Eyelashes have an average lifespan of five months.
 If you lined up all the eyelashes shed during one human
life, they would measure 98 feet long.
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36.  When working at a computer, you should follow the 20-20-
20 rule – after somtime working with computer look at
something twenty feet away from your computer every
twenty minutes for twenty seconds.
 Pirates believed that wearing gold earrings improved their
eyesight.
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38.  Ears have the smallest bones in the body.
 Your ears are self-cleaning.
 We hear music better on our left side.
 Humans can hear frequencies as low as 20 Hertz (Hz) and
up to 20,000Hz.
 While you’re sleeping, your ears continue to function. They
will pick up sounds, but your brain blocks them out.
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39.  Thunder is the sound accompanied by lightning, but often
there is a delay between when we see lightning and hear
the thunder.
 Ears help with balance.
 Earlobes are constantly growing.
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41.  The best air filter in this world is human nose.
 Nasal cilia move up to 20 hours after death.
 Your nose and sinuses produce almost one liter of mucus a
day.
 There are at least 14 different nose types found in
humans.
 In women, nose grows until the age of 15 to 17 and for
men, it is 17 to 19.
 Humans are capable of detecting 10,000+ scents.
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43.  More than one muscle.
 Our tongue is the home of our taste buds.
 Approximately, there are 10,000 taste buds in our tongue.
 Women have shorter tongues compared to males.
 An adult man's average tongue length is 8.5 cm, and an
adult woman's average tongue length is 7.9 cm.
 The world's longest tongue belongs to an american named
nick stoeberl, whose tongue measures 3.97 inches (10.1
cm) in guinness records.
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45.  Teeth are the hardest substance of your entire
body. Enamel is a rock-hard mineral.
 Teeth aren’t bones.
 Humans spend 38.5 days of their lives brushing their
teeth.
 Mosquitos have twice as many teeth as humans.
 The average woman smiles 62 times a day. The average
man smiles about 8 times a day.
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47.  Bones Are Alive.
 Children Have More Bones Than Adults.
 Femur is the Biggest Bone the Human Body.
 Stirrup is the Smallest Bone in the Human Body.
 Hands Have the Most Bones in the Body.
 Hyoid is the Only Bone Not Connected to Another Bone in
the Body.
 The Toe Bones are the Most Fragile in our Body.
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48. Thank You
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