Fun Body Facts
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every
two
weeks or it would digest itself.
The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.
The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles per hour.
Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Babies are born without knee caps
They don't appear until the child reaches
2-6 years of age.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop
growing.
An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs
The human body is comprised of 80% water.
You were born with 300 bones. When you get to be an adult,
you have 206.
Human blood travels 60,000 miles per day
on its journey through the 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!
85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.
The longest bout of hiccups lasted 69 years!
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body.
If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would
grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in
a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
The most common blood type in the world is Type O. The
rarest, Type A-H, has been found in less than a dozen
people since the type was discovered.
What to Expect at a Doctor's Appointment
Texas
Department of State Health Services
