The Worlds Xtreme 10

As I said here is another post under ‘Facts Factory’.  This time the 10 facts are about Human Anatomy.

1. The HEART pumps 27949.3 litres of blood every day and the point to be noted is that the HEART and KIDNEY are the only parts in our body which never rest.

2. The  1.36 kg organ,BRAIN stores 100 trillion bits of information over the course of 70 years equal to 500,000 sets of Encyclopedia Britannica.

3. There are "96,000 km of blood vessels in our body."

4. 8,000,000 RBC’s are produced in BONE MARROW every second.

5. The longest bone is "FEMUR" or "THIGH BONE," and The smallest bone is "STAPES" present in middle ear and ENAMEL(teeth) is the hardest part of our body.

6. It takes 17 muscles to SMILE and 47 muscles to STARE and the largest muscle in our body  is the  "BUTTOCK MUSCLE."

7. NERVES can send impulses at a speed of 360 km/hr.

8. NOSE can smell 2000-4000 different smells, Ears can detect 1500 different sounds, HUMAN EYE can detect 10,000 colours and U can visualize a 200 degree wide angle and the maximum amount of times we blink a day is about 30 minutes.

9. STOMACH produces 2 litres of HYDROCHLORIC ACID every day.500,000 cells of stomach’s inner walls are replaced every minute so that acid does not damage the walls.

10. TWO BILLION BODY CELLS wear out and are replaced everyday.

comments about some more facts are welcome.