FRIDAY fun facts – Here are a few interesting facts about one’s body.
• If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 96560.64 kilometres.
• In one day your heart beats 100,000 times.
• Half your body’s red blood cells are replaced every seven days.
• By the time you are 70 you will have easily drunk over 45424.941 litres of water.
• Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound – over a thousand feet per second!
• It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.
• A human’s small intestine is six meters long.
• The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it’s hollow!
• The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body.
• The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.
• The tongue has 3,000 taste buds.
• Your forearm (from inside of elbow to inside of wrist) is the same length as your foot.
• The thigh bone is stronger than concrete.
• You blink your eyes over 10,000,000 times a year.
• Your mouth uses 75 muscles when you speak!