Welcome to my blog. This blog is all about our ever complex and interesting human bodies. The human body is an absolutely amazing thing... it blows my mind that there are so many things going in your body at all times and we don't even think about it or realize that they are going on.
Let me take a moment and introduce myself. My name is Christina and I am a sophomore at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. I am studying elementary education and cannot wait to have a classroom of my own some day.
Some facts about the human body that you may not know...:
- The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat.
- Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself
- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart. - Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator. - The average surface of the human intestine is 656 square feet (200 m).
- The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).
- Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
- Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.
- The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood.
Amazing, huh? :)
1 comment:
Interesting. I did not know many of these facts. Thanks for sharing!
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