That dust on rugs and your furniture is not only dirt. It’s mostly made of dead skin cells. Everybody loses millions of skin cells every day which fall on the floor and get kicked up to land on all the surfaces in a room. You could say, "That’s me all over."
It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus.
Submitted by Lovella
A human's small intestine is 6 meters long.
The human body is 75% water.
Submitted by veggykid15
Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a human's blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That's enough to go around the world twice.
Submitted by Todd
The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it's hollow!
Submitted by AquaGrl
The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body.
Submitted by blue120
The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.
The average American over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
The farthest you can see with the naked eye is 2.4 million light years away! (140,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles.) That's the distance to the giant Andromeda Galaxy. You can see it easily as a dim, large gray "cloud" almost directly overhead in a clear night sky.
Submitted by Todd
The average person has at least seven dreams a night.
Submitted by Christina and Jessica
Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day.
Submitted by Christina and Jessica
Your brain is 80% water.
85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.
Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds.
Your forearm (from inside of elbow to inside of wrist) is the same length as your foot.
Submitted by Josh
A sneeze travels at over 100 miles per hour. Gesundheit!
Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.
Your fingernails grow almost four times as fast as your toenails.
The longest bout of hiccups lasted 69 years!
You blink your eyes over 10,000,000 a year.
