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12 UNEXPECTED FACTS ABOUT OUR BODY

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We are sure that everyone will find an unexpected and unknown fact about our body ?

  • Our lungs has 1609 kilometers of capillaries.
  • Up to 200 muscles are used in an adult to take one step.
  • Nothing would help to make nails thicker for those who have them naturally thin, as the matrix (nail root) is laid down genetically.
  • On average, a person produces about 25,000 liters of saliva in his lifetime. That’s enough to fill two pools.
  • A person blinks more than 11,500 times in one day.
  • In one hour, a person loses about 600,000 old skin cells.
  • During the day, the heart passes through about 7,000 liters of blood.
  • The total length of blood vessels in the human body is 96,000 kilometers.
  • About 32,000,000 bacteria live on the surface of the skin.
  • The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that is attached to only one side.
  • The most common allergy in the world to cow’s milk.
  • A man’s beard, if not shaved, would grow to a length of 9 meters in a lifetime.