Tuesday 19 July 2011

Fifteen things you didn't know about yourself.

-You can remember 50,000 different scents

-The smallest bone in in your body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. it is approximately 0.11 inches in size.

-Just like finger prints your tongue has a unique tongue print.

-By the time you die you well shed 40 pounds of skin.

-Your fingernail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.

-Your thigh bone a.k.a the Femur is stronger than concrete.

-You have as many hairs per square inch as chimpanzees

-You are using the same amount of energy to power your brain as a 25 watt light bulb

-Your heart produces enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.

-You get a new stomach lining every three to four days. if you didn't, the strong acids in your stomach that are used to digest food would also digest your stomach and internal organs and you would be dead.

-There are over 650 muscles in your body right now.

-Your small intestines are about 23 feet long.

-If your bladder is full it is roughly the size of a soft ball.

-Each square inch of your skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels

-Your feet have a combined 500,000 sweat glands.

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