Amazing Facts about the Human Body

Learn some very interesting facts pertaining to the human body.
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- Human beings lose 40 to 100 strands of hair on average per day.
- When you cough, you exhale air at a rate as high as 60mph.
- A sneeze can exceed the a speed of 100mph.
- An average human consumes about 16,000 gallons of water in their lifetime.
- A fingernail and toenail takes roughly 6 months to grow from its base to its tip.
- The average head of hair has 100,000 strands of hair.
- While it takes 43 muscles to frown, it only takes 17 to smile. : )
- Babies have 300 bones in their body at birth. By adulthood we only have 206.
- By age 60, most people will have lost their taste buds.
- Humans shed their skin everyday. It turns out to be about 1.5 pounds of skin per year.
- The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.
- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
- The total amount of skin covering an adult human weighs 6 lbs.
- Approximately 1 out of 25 people suffers from asthma.
- The human brain uses 20% of the body’s energy but is only 2% of the body’s weight.