Human Body facts 2

While sitting at your desk make clockwise circles
with your right foot. (go ahead no one will see you)
While doing this, draw the number "6" in the air
with your right hand.
Your foot will change direction.
Grapefruit scent will make middle aged women
appear six years younger to men. The perception is
not reciprocal and the grapefruit scent on men has
no effect on women's perception.
Women blink twice as many times as men do.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in
their hair.
We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the
evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets
compressed during the day.
There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
The strongest muscle in the human body is the
tongue.
The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and
lived in China in 1910.
The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36
kilograms.
Most dust particles in your house are made from
dead skin.
Kidney stones come in any color--from yellow to
brown.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear
when the child is 2-6 years of age.
The average human produces 10,000 gallons of
saliva in a lifetime.
If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same
time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
A baby is born every seven seconds.
You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only
.000000000000071 ounce of its spray.
You breathe about 10 million times a year.
The colder the room you sleep in, the better the
chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
The foot is the most common body part bitten by
insects.
The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.
The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a
day.
The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the
index finger.
The human body weighs 40 times more than the
brain.
After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
A person swallows approx. 295 times while eating
dinner.
Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too
much asparagus.
There are more people alive today than have ever
died.
The human body is better suited to two four-hour
sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
A man's beard contains between 7000 and 15,000
hairs.
A beard grows an average of 140mm a year
A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in
warm water for two minutes
Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's
hair
During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350
hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble
4.5 million people have their health 'adversely
affected' by air pollutants each year.
4 million children die each year from inhaling
smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood
and Dung
4 million people die annually from diarrhea
infections, caused by poor sanitary conditions
The hardest bone in the human body is the
jawbone.