Mad Body Facts You Should Know!

1. Your nose is the same length as your thumbs.

2. Your eyeballs weigh roughly 30g each, which is about the same as a packet of crisps.

3. During your lifetime, you'll produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.

4. Your stomach will grow a completely new lining every three to four days.

5. The acid inside your stomach is strong enough to dissolve a razor blade.

6. On average, every square inch of your body surface contains 32 million bacteria.

7. Your skin is around 1mm thick when you're born, growing to 2 mm in adulthood.

8. You will shed around 18kg of skin during your lifetime.

9. The section of the average person's arm between the elbow and the wrist is exactly the same length as their feet.

10. You blink around 84 million times in a year.

11. In the course of your lifetime, you'll grow around two metres of nose hair.

12. Just like your fingerprints, your tongue has its own unique identifying print.

13. A human head remains conscious for 15 to 20 seconds after it's been cut off.

14. Your fingernails take around six months to grow from top to bottom.

15. In one day, your heart beats 100,000 times.

16. The surface area of one of your lungs is equal to that of a tennis court.

17. Your small intestine is about 23 feet long.

18. Your thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

19. Your body contains enough iron to make a nail 8 inches long.

20. The average male foot excretes half a pint of sweat everyday. Tasty!


taken from Nuts magazine.
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