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The human body contains over 60,000 miles of blood vessels if stretched out end to end. Abraham Lincoln may have had Marfan syndrome, which can cause extremely long bones and other health issues. Germs in the intestines help digest foods and produce vitamin K to help blood clotting.

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Facts About the Human Body Can you feel the pulse in your wrist? For humans the normal pulse is 70 heartbeats per minute. Elephants have a slower pulse of 27 and for a canary it is 1000! If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 60,000 miles. Abraham Lincoln probably had a medical condition called Marfans syndrome. Some of its symptoms are extremely long bones, curved spine, an arm span that is longer than the persons height, eye problems, heart problems and very little fat. It is a rare, inherited condition. In one day your heart beats 100,000 times. Half your bodys red blood cells are replaced every seven days. By the time you are 70 you will have easily drunk over 12,000 gallons of water. Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound over a thousand feet per second! Germs only cause disease, right? But a common bacterium, E. Coli, found in the intestine helps us digest green vegetables and beans (also making gases pew!). These same bacteria also make vitamin K, which causes blood to clot. If we didnt have these germs we would bleed to death whenever we got a small cut! It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile. That dust on rugs and your furniture is not only dirt. Its mostly made of dead skin cells. Everybody loses millions of skin cells every day which fall on the floor and get kicked up to land on all the surfaces in a room. You could say, Thats me all over. It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus. Submitted by: Lovella A humans small intestine is 6 meters long. The human body is 75% water. Submitted by: veggykid15 Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a humans blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. Thats enough to go around the world twice. Submitted by: The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and its hollow! Submitted by: aquagirl The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body. Submitted by: blue120 The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds. The average American over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines. The farthest you can see with the naked eye is 2.4 million light years away! (140,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles.) Thats the distance to the giant Andromeda Galaxy. You can see it easily as a dim, large gray cloud almost directly overhead in a clear night sky. Submitted by: Todd The average person has at least seven dreams a night. Submitted by: Christina & Jessica Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day. Submitted by: Christina & Jessica Your brain is 80% water. 85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube. Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds. Your forearm (from inside of elbow to inside of wrist) is the same length as your foot. Submitted by: Josh A sneeze travels at over 100 miles per hour. Gesundheit! Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete. Your fingernails grow almost four times as fast as your toenails. You blink your eyes over 10,000,000 a year. There were about 300 bones in your body when you were born, but by the time you reach adulthood you only have 206. The smallest bones in the human body are in your ear! Submitted by: The Phoenix Your mouth uses 75 muscles when you speak! Submitted by: Devin
When you wake up in the morning you are at taller than when you go to sleep, because you have let your spine straighten back out after all the bending, sitting, and moving you have done! Submitted by: Katie Mae It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Submitted by: Mazda Roxx The average growth of hair is half an inch per month. Submitted by: Amylia If hair remains uncut, it can grow up to 5 feet long. Submitted by: Amylia Your tongue, eye, and jaw muscles are among the strongest muscles in your body. Submitted by: Jazzy T

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Facts about the human body

  • 1. Facts About the Human Body Can you feel the pulse in your wrist? For humans the normal pulse is 70 heartbeats per minute. Elephants have a slower pulse of 27 and for a canary it is 1000! If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 60,000 miles. Abraham Lincoln probably had a medical condition called Marfans syndrome. Some of its symptoms are extremely long bones, curved spine, an arm span that is longer than the persons height, eye problems, heart problems and very little fat. It is a rare, inherited condition. In one day your heart beats 100,000 times. Half your bodys red blood cells are replaced every seven days. By the time you are 70 you will have easily drunk over 12,000 gallons of water. Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound over a thousand feet per second! Germs only cause disease, right? But a common bacterium, E. Coli, found in the intestine helps us digest green vegetables and beans (also making gases pew!). These same bacteria also make vitamin K, which causes blood to clot. If we didnt have these germs we would bleed to death whenever we got a small cut! It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile. That dust on rugs and your furniture is not only dirt. Its mostly made of dead skin cells. Everybody loses millions of skin cells every day which fall on the floor and get kicked up to land on all the surfaces in a room. You could say, Thats me all over. It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus. Submitted by: Lovella A humans small intestine is 6 meters long. The human body is 75% water. Submitted by: veggykid15 Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a humans blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. Thats enough to go around the world twice. Submitted by: The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and its hollow! Submitted by: aquagirl The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body. Submitted by: blue120 The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds. The average American over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines. The farthest you can see with the naked eye is 2.4 million light years away! (140,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles.) Thats the distance to the giant Andromeda Galaxy. You can see it easily as a dim, large gray cloud almost directly overhead in a clear night sky. Submitted by: Todd The average person has at least seven dreams a night. Submitted by: Christina & Jessica Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day. Submitted by: Christina & Jessica Your brain is 80% water. 85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube. Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds. Your forearm (from inside of elbow to inside of wrist) is the same length as your foot. Submitted by: Josh A sneeze travels at over 100 miles per hour. Gesundheit! Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete. Your fingernails grow almost four times as fast as your toenails. You blink your eyes over 10,000,000 a year. There were about 300 bones in your body when you were born, but by the time you reach adulthood you only have 206. The smallest bones in the human body are in your ear! Submitted by: The Phoenix Your mouth uses 75 muscles when you speak! Submitted by: Devin
  • 2. When you wake up in the morning you are at taller than when you go to sleep, because you have let your spine straighten back out after all the bending, sitting, and moving you have done! Submitted by: Katie Mae It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Submitted by: Mazda Roxx The average growth of hair is half an inch per month. Submitted by: Amylia If hair remains uncut, it can grow up to 5 feet long. Submitted by: Amylia Your tongue, eye, and jaw muscles are among the strongest muscles in your body. Submitted by: Jazzy T