vineri, 17 august 2007

good to know: our amazing body

♣ In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost 1 ton of weight 1 yard off the ground.

Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions.

In 25 square milimeters of skin there lies 3.6 meters of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 2.7 meters of blood vessels.

The structural plan of a whale's, a dog's, a bird's and a man's 'arm' are exactly the same.

The world's first test-tube twins were born in June 1981.

In a year, a person`s heart beats 40,000,000 times.

Most people blink about 25 times a minute.

Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells, all while you have been reading this sentence!

[ deci aproximativ 600.000 de celule citind tot articolul, inclusiv asta :) (cronometrat) ]