Weird Medical Facts !!!

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A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realises it's there.

At birth we have over 300 bones. As we grow up, some of the bones begin to fuse together as a result an adult has only 206 bones.

The human hand has 27 bones.

The femur/thigh bone is the longest bone in our body, it is about a quarter of ones height.

The human body has 230 movable and semi- movable joints

Our Brain has over 100 billion nerve cells.

The human skull is made up of 29 different bones.

A newborn babys brain grows almost 3 times during the first year of life.

The left side of human brain controls the right side of the body and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body.

The length of human blood vessel is such that it circles the globe 2 ½ times.

The human heart beats 30 million times a year.

80 hairs are likely to fall every day.

The muscles of the eye move more than 100,000 times a day.

We breathe 13 pints of air every minute.

Human skin has a tendency to shed 40 pounds of skin in lifetime.

Human kidneys have about 1 million nephrons that filters out liquids and wastes.

Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day.

Human blood is on a 60,000mile journey.

Fingernails contain keratin and they seem to be strongest component in the human body.

The human skin contains 45 miles of nerves.

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Most people blink about 25 times per minute.

For every 2 weeks, the human stomach produces new layer of mucous lining, otherwise the stomach will digest itself.

An average of 17 muscles contracts for a smile.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

A sneeze moves out of our mouth at a speed of 100 meters per hour.

An average human eye blinks about 6,205, 000 times.

The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal and repair by its own.

In one square inch of skin there are 4 yards of nerve fibers.

The human eye has the ability to distinguish about 1 million color surfaces.

A square inch of skin has 100 sweat glands.

The human ear can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different sounds.

On an average the human scalp has about 100,000 hairs.

Nails of toes or fingers take about 6 months to grow from base to tip.

On an average an individual produces human being consumes about 500 kg of food per year.

The adult human brain is about 2 % of total body weight.

On an average 1.7 liters of saliva produces each day.

The human body consists of over 600 muscles.

As we get older, the brain loses almost one gram per year.

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Oesophagus/or food pipe, which is the passage for the food we eat to the stomach, is approximately 25 cm long.

A square inch of skin consists of three yards of blood vessel.

There are about 13, 500,00 neurons in the human spinal cord.

The human tongue has 10,000 taste buds.

The cells of taste buds are constantly being renewed, roughly on every ten hours.

An average human head weighs about 8 pounds.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, unlike our nose and ears.

The human body is composed of 80 percent of water.

The human eyeball is 24.5 mm long.

The total weight of skin in an average human adult is 61 pounds

Taste buds are present inside the mouth and also at the roof of the mouth.

The human spinal cord is 45 cm long in men and 43 cm long in women.

The weight of human cerebellum is 150g.

The strongest muscles of the human body are masseters, which are present on either side of the mouth.

The human liver performs 500 different functions.

The heart muscles will stop working only when we die.

Children have more sensitive ears than adults.

Shivering is a way of trying to keep our body warm.

Humans have the ability to distinguish 4,000 to 10, 000 smells.

Every hour, the human eye can process 36,000 bits of information.

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[Tawa]

Originally Posted by abousoun

The average human head weighs about 10 pounds.

Originally Posted by abousoun

An average human head weighs about 8 pounds.

Fi tanaqood bel ma3loomeit ya Dr. abousoun

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Originally Posted by Tawa

Fi tanaqood bel ma3loomeit ya Dr. abousoun

ma tez3al ya Tawa el average bein 8 - 10 pounds ... w el range fi ykoun bein 5 - 20 pounds ...
and don't forget the word "about" before 8 and 10 pounds ...
nothing is 100% accurate, you can make a study and analyze different people and came with another average but it won't be far from this ...

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Nails and corneas are the only two tissues in the body that do not receive oxygen from blood.

The length of the finger indicates how fast the nail grows. The nail of the middle finger grows faster than others.

The human ears best hear in the frequency of 1,000 to 5,000 hertz.

When the sounds are above 130 decibels, it causes pain to the ears.

There are around 100 receptors in each of our fingertips.

The middle part of the back is the least sensitive part of our body.

Children have better sense of smell than adults.

After death, the body starts to dry out creating an illusion that the nails and hairs are growing even after death.

The base of the spinal cord has a cluster of nerves, which are most sensitive.

When we reach 60 years of life, we lose 50 % of our taste buds.

Platelets, which are one of the constituents of the blood is produced at the rate of 200 billion per day.

The sense of taste is the weakest of the five senses.

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[Tawa]

Originally Posted by abousoun

The human ears best hear in the frequency of 1,000 to 5,000 hertz.

Man, I Read In My Physics Book That The Human Ears Can Hear In The Frequency of 20 Hz to 20 000 Hz ...

Battalet 2a3rif Min Baddeh Saddi2 Ya Zalameh...

Thanks For The Other Informations Man, Really Really Interesting...

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Originally Posted by Tawa

Man, I Read In My Physics Book That The Human Ears Can Hear In The Frequency of 20 Hz to 20 000 Hz ...

Battalet 2a3rif Min Baddeh Saddi2 Ya Zalameh...

Thanks For The Other Informations Man, Really Really Interesting...

No Tawa you are absolutely right ... the human ears hear in the frequency of 20 to 20 000 Hz ... and best at 3000 Hz as i remember ...

i think they meant human ears hear best between that range ... so i'll correct it ...

Thanks for the notice ... and it's nice to see someone is interested ...

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Humans have the ability to differentiate about 10, 000 odour.

It takes time for the newborn baby to learn to turn the pictures right side up, as it sees the world upside down in the beginning.

If human sense of smell is affected, sense of taste is also affected as the brain interprets signals from the nose and tongue.

There are around 1,200,000 optic fibers in the human eye.

Color blind people find it hard to distinguish colors like green and red.

The liver is the largest and heaviest internal organ of the body and weighs about 1.6 kilos.

In the womb, the babys body is covered by a thin layer of hair but as soon as the baby is born it disappears.

At birth every one is color blind.

Babies crawl to an average of 200 m a day.

On an average, a persons left hand does 56 % of typing.

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The palms of the hands and soles of the feet contain more sweat glands than other parts of the body.

10 % of men and 8 % of women are left-handed.

An average human body contains enough amount of fat to make seven bars of soap.

The human body releases growth hormones during sleep.

The thighbone is so strong that it withstands the axial load of about 1600-1800 kilos.

The average life span of a sperm is about 36 hours.

The life span of an ovule is about 12 - 24 hours.

Only one person in two billion will live for more than 115 years of life.

On an average, we speak about 5,000 words per day.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, the next being bone marrow.

On an average, in an adult scalp 35m of hair fiber is produced every day.

An average scalp has 100,000 hairs.

The life span of hair is two to seven years.

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