12 more strange but true facts about the human body – Part 2

by specky on March 6, 2009



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How did you like my earlier post about strange but true facts about the human body? I hope you were awed by the little funny facts. As promised in the earlier post, more of these strange but true facts will be posted here. So welcome to part 2 with even more strange stuff to learn.

Here are 12 more of these strange but true facts for you to mull over. And if you still want more, stay tuned to more coming up in future posts. Enjoy!

1. Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells about every 27 days – almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime.

2. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.

3. The average duration of sexual intercourse for humans is 2 minutes – see pigs.

4. It is impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.

5. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.

6. You blink about 84 million times in a year.

7. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop — even your heart!

8. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

9. Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until they are 2 -6 years old.

10. In the course of a lifetime the average person will grow 2 Metres of nose hair.

11. Ladies in nudist camps tend to use more makeup than ladies elsewhere.

12. A team of medical experts in Virginia contends you’re more likely to catch the common cold virus by shaking hands than by kissing.

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