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Little Known Facts (Human Body)

Rate these facts about the human body by how cool they are. From: http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/science/trivia/human/

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A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months

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It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown

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Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie

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According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week

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A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.

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A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip

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A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.

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A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph

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After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink

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An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime

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An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs

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Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies

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Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime

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By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.

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By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)

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Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels

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Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell

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Every person has a unique tongue print

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Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin

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