Amazing facts

Amazing facts

1. A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.

2. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

3. A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.

4. A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.

5. Every person has a unique tongue print.

6. 98.6% DNAs of a monkey are exactly same as those of human beings.

7. According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.

8. After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.

9. An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.

10. A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.

11. An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs. It takes 17 muscles to smile but 43 to frown.

12. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

13. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

14. By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds. By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.

15. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

16. Every person has a unique tongue print. Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.

17. Did you ever notice that your fingernails grow faster than toenails?

18. Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.

19. 50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells, all while you have been reading this sentence!

20. In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost 1 ton of weight 1 yard off the ground.

21. Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions.

22. In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.

23. The structural plan of a whale's, a dog's, a bird's and a man's 'arm' are exactly the same.

24.  Carrots were originally yellow, white, red, and purple!!! The Dutch turned them orange in the 16th Century to be patriotic for the royal family, the House of Orange.