Facts about your body

• In a year your heart beats 40,000,000 times.
  

• 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.
  

• Your lungs inhale over 2 million liters of air every day, without even thinking.

• Your blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.
  

• The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in their lifetime.

• Your eyes can distinguish up to 1 million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
  

• On an average your eyes blink 6,205,000 times each year.

• Your sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.
  

• When you touch something, you send a message to your brain at 124 mph.

• Your brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion nerve cells.

• You give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.
  

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

• You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown. You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile.
  

• You have over 600 muscles.

• You exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.

• You are about 70 percent water.

• You make 1 litre of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.

• Your nose is your personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.

• In 1 square inch of skin there lie 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.
  

• Each square inch of human skin consists of 20 feet of blood vessels.
  

• In one square inch of your hand you have 9 feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.

• You have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon in your bodies.

• Your body contains enough Sulphur to make 2,200 match heads, and enough Water to fill a ten-gallon tank.

• Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions.

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

• You have 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
  

• Nerve im pulses 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.

• Every 2000 frowns create one wrinkle.

• Every person has a unique tongue print.
  

• You burn 26 calories in a one-minute kiss.

• A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over100 m.p.h.

• If you were freeze-dried, 10% of your body weight would be from the microorganisms on your body.
  

• Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life.

• The tooth is the only part of your body that can't repair itself.

• Your brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world's telephones put together.