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Slide 1:Interesting Facts About
The Human Body Just sharing what was shared with me.
The facts were not checked for accuracy
Slide 2:Children grow faster
in the springtime.
Slide 3:Your stomach needs to produce
a new layer of mucus every
two weeks or it would digest itself.
Slide 4:The average human will shed over 18 kilograms
or 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.
Slide 5:It takes the human
stomach an hour
to break down
Slide 6:15 million blood cells are
destroyed in the human
body every second.
Slide 7:A healthy adult can draw in about
200 to 300 cubic inches (3.3 to 4.9 Litres)
of air at a single breath, but at rest
only about 5% of this volume is used.
Slide 8:The length of the finger dictates
how fast your fingernails grow.
The nail on your middle finger grows
the fastest, and on average, your toenails
grow half the speed of your fingernails.
Slide 9:After you die, your body starts to
dry out creating the illusion that your hair and nails
are still growing after death.
Slide 10:Your nose and ears
never stop growing.
Slide 11:You were born with 300 bones.
When you get to be an adult,
you have 206.
Slide 12:Babies are born without knee caps.
They don't appear until the child reaches
2-6 years of age.
Slide 13:If you go blind in one eye you only
lose about one fifth of your vision but
All your sense of depth.
Slide 14:There are 10 human body parts
that are only 3 letters long
- eye, jaw, rib, Hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, lip and gum.
Slide 15:Relative to size, the strongest
muscle in the body is the tongue.
Slide 16:It takes 72 different muscles
to produce human speech.
Slide 17:Thank you.