Amazing Medical Facts of the Body

• A childs ability to learn can increase or decrease by 25 % or more depending on whether the child grows up in a stimulating environment.
• On an average a persons head has 100, 000 to 150, 000 hair.
• A single hair has the ability to support up to 100 grams of weight and the whole hair has the ability to support up to 12 tones of weight.
•  The pigment of human hair is produced in the shaft of hair beneath the skin.
• In lifetime, the human heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood, which is enough to fill more than three tankers.
• The width of an average human brain is 140 mm.
• It takes 5- 30 seconds to chew food.
• Swallowing of the food takes about 10 seconds.
• The enzyme in the stomach that breaks down alcohol is produced less in men than women.
• In a year on an average person sleeps for 122 days out of 365 days.
• There are around 9,000 taste buds present on the tongue.
• Capillaries are so small that it would take ten of them to equal the thickness of a human hair.
• It is impossible to tickle our selves.
• In a human body, the small intestine is 21 feet and the large intestine is 6 feet long.
• For every 24 hours, in a healthy adult, more than a gallon of water containing over an ounce of salt is absorbed from the intestine.
• The right side of the human brain is responsible for self-recognition.
• Men listen with the left side of the brain and women use both sides of the brain.
• In a lifetime, the human kidneys clean over 1 million gallons of blood.
• Identical twins have identical DNA but not identical fingerprints.
• Babies recognize sounds while in mothers womb.

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