Wierd Facts
Totally gross anatomy
The human body exposed.
Did you know that…?
* If you sneeze hard enough, you can fracture a rib. But try to suppress a sneeze andyou might rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and drop dead.
* The human stomach must produce a new lining every day to protect itself from its own acid.
* The acid inyour stomach is so powerful that it can dissolve a razor blade in less than a week.
* The skin is the largest organ in the human body, covering about 6 square meters in an adult male.It also constantly regenerates; a person sheds around 18 kilograms of skin in his lifetime.
* The pressure exerted by a pumping human heart can squirt blood 10 meters.
* You canfind 20 million microscopic animals living on 2 cm square of your skin.
* The average human body radiates enough heat in thirty minutes to boil two pints of water.
* There areover 700 species of bacteria that thrive in the mouth, making it the most unsanitary part of your entire body.
* By the time you are an adult, you´re likely to have about 5 million hairsgrowing out of skin-the same as a gorilla.
* A study in Germany found an increase in sudden cardiac death on days that the German soccer team was playing in the World Cupchampionship.
* Some people is born with extra nipples (polythelia) or even extra breasts (polymastia).
* Humans shed about 1.5 million skin flakes every hour.
* All exist for half anhour as a single cell at conception.
* The British Medical Journal has estimated that smoking one cigarette takes eleven minutes off the life of an average person.
* Continuousfarting for six years and nine months would create energy equal to that of an atomic bomb.
* The average human loses 85.000 brain cells each day, but only regenerates 50 new ones.
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