Human Tidbits!

Tidbits of fun!

• Go ahead and LAUGH! Laughing lowers blood pressure and lifts your spirits!
• The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
• Go suck a lemon! Try adding lemon slices to your water. It provides you with good source of vitamin C, stimulates digestion, and helps to clean the liver. It also tastes delicious!
• Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
• It takes 70% less energy to produce a ton of paper from recycled paper than from trees.
• In your lifetime, you’ll shed over 40 pounds of skin
• Every minute, 30-40,000 dead skin cells fall from your body.
• 15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second.
• There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being then there are human beings on the surface of the earth.
• The brain uses more than 25% of the oxygen used by the human body.
• Muscles are made up of bundles from about 5 in the eyelid to about 200 in the buttock muscles.
• Muscles in the human body (640 in total) make up about half of the body weight.
• The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.
• Most people blink about 17,000 times a day.
• 70% of dust in your home consists of shed skin.
• The average human produces a quart of saliva a day – about 10 thousand gallons in a lifetime.
• Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the US is contaminated with bacteria.

There are 60,000 miles in blood vessels in every human body.
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