Facts in category: Human Body
| You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. |
| The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the mandible and the voice box. Its function is to support the tongue and its muscles. |
| In an average lifetime, a person produces 10,000 gallons of saliva. |
| The human brain is about 85% water. |
| The human skin weights 6 lbs. |
| Cholesterol is used to make sex hormones. |
| When you fart in a pool, it creates a chemical reaction. |
| Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, second only to bone marrow. |
| It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body. |
| About 8 million blood cells die in the human body every second, and the same number are born each second. |
| At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing. |
| There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach. |
| A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours. |
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