I periodically get these types of emails. I never know if there is any truth in the information or not but I like to think I’m learning something. Who knows, it may help me win some obscure trivia contest.
20 Interesting Human Body Facts
~ The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.
~ A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.
~ It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
~ One human hair can support 7 pounds of weight.
~ Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
~ The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.
~ If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
~ Your thumb is the same length as your nose. (I can see you putting your thumb to your nose! LOL)
~ A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s.
~ If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.
~ When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate (…they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate!)
~ Men with hairless chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair on their chests.
~ There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
~ Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.
~ Women blink twice as much as men.
~ The average person’s skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
~ It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
~ Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
~ The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.
~ Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you are calm.
