Do You Know How much Skin You Shed Over a Life Time? Read 20 More Amazing Facts about Your Body
11. The human heart is an amazing organ too. The heartbeat changes and mimics the music you are listening to.
12. The human skeleton is made up of several bones joined together by ligaments and joints. But these bones grow since childhood and eventually some of these bones merge and become one large bone. Therefore, a human baby has about 60 more bones than an adult does.
13. If you took all the blood vessels in your body and laid them down in a single chain, they would cover 100,000 miles.
14. If you could uncoil your DNA and lay it down in a single chain, it would stretch for 10 billion miles – this is double the distance between Earth and Pluto.
15. The entire gastrointestinal tract running from your mouth to your anus is a single tube almost 30 feet long.
16. Our digestive system is an amazing thing. Did you know that the digestive acids that our stomach secretes are so potent that they can dissolve a metal like zinc within seconds? It does not affect the stomach because our stomach recreates itself constantly – the cells that our stomach walls are made up of constantly renew themselves and therefore keep it from getting destroyed.
17. Men burn fats faster than women do. On an average, they burn about 50 calories more than women every day.
18 . The strongest muscle in the body is the muscle you use to chew food – the jaw muscle or the masseter.
19. The female egg is the largest cell in the human body while the male sperm is the smallest.
20. Iron is an important component of the human body. Our bodies contain enough iron to make up a 3-inch long metal nail.
