Saturday, 16 February 2013

Facts about our body

* Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day.
* Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.
* Our eyes can distinguish up to one million colors surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
* Our lungs inhale over two million liters of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.
* Our hearing is so sensitive it can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different sounds.
* Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.
* Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over100 billion nerve cells.
* We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.
* When we touch something, we send amessage to our brain at 124 mph.
* We have over 600 muscles.
* We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.
* We are about 70 percent water.
* We make one liters of saliva a day.
* Our nose is our personal air-conditionin ­ g system: It warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.
* In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
* We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon in our bodies.

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