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    • Cool Facts About the Human Body Health & Wellness
    • Join this group if you would like to share cool and interesting facts or simply learn more about the human body.
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      • Last updated 8/19/11

    Cool Facts About the Human Body

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      • Cary Byrd
        Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . The liver filters over a liter of blood every minute!
        12/5/11
        • Cary Byrd
          Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . When inside a woman's body, a sperm can live up to 5 days!
          12/1/11
          • Cary Byrd
            Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . Your gall bladder stores bile used to break down dietary fat!
            11/22/11
            • Cary Byrd
              Cary Byrd: Did you know . . .  Your brain is about 2% of your total body weight but uses 20% of your body's energy!
              11/15/11
              • Cary Byrd
                Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . While sleeping, every one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds their teeth!
                11/12/11
                • Cary Byrd
                  Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . Your stomach's wall is lined with 3 layers of powerful muscles!
                  11/9/11
                  • Cary Byrd
                    Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . Our hair turns gray as we age because the pigment cells in the hair follicle, which is responsible for producing melanin, start to die. 
                    11/7/11
                    • Cary Byrd
                      Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . Your liver aids in digestion and detoxification of food impurities and inspects nutrients before allowing them into the bloodstream!
                      11/5/11
                      • Cary Byrd
                        Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . the human brain thinks about 70,000 thoughts on an average day!
                        11/3/11
                        • Cary Byrd
                          Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . Vision can often be the basis for poor eye-hand  coordination, motion sickness, and clumsiness!
                          11/2/11
                          • Cary Byrd
                            Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . It takes your food 7 seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach!
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                            10/31/11
                            • Cary Byrd
                              Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . Your fingers are never perfectly strait. Usually, the index, ring, and small finger each curve sideways slightly toward the middle finger!
                              10/26/11
                              • Cary Byrd
                                Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . Your jaw muscle can provide about 200 pounds of force to bring the back teeth together for chewing!
                                10/25/11
                                • Cary Byrd
                                  Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . Red blood cells carry oxygen around the body. They are created inside the bone marrow of your bones!
                                  10/24/11
                                  • Cary Byrd
                                    Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . Dead cells in the body ultimately go to the kidneys for excretion!
                                    10/20/11
                                    • Cary Byrd
                                      Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet!
                                      10/11/11
                                      • Cary Byrd
                                        Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . There are about 100 billion neurons in the human brain, the same number of stars in the galaxy!
                                        10/7/11
                                        • Cary Byrd
                                          Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . The width of your arm span stretched out is the length of your entire body!
                                          10/3/11
                                          • Cary Byrd
                                            Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . On average, your stomach produces 2 liters of Hydrochloric Acid a day!
                                            10/1/11
                                            • Cary Byrd
                                              Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball!
                                              9/30/11
                                              • Cary Byrd
                                                Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . Your sense of smell is 10,000 times more sensitive than your sense of taste!
                                                9/29/11
                                                • Cary Byrd
                                                  Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . The energy used by the brain is enough to light a 25-watt light bulb!
                                                  9/26/11
                                                  • Cary Byrd
                                                    Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it!
                                                    9/24/11
                                                    • Cary Byrd
                                                      Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still!
                                                      9/22/11
                                                      • Cary Byrd
                                                        Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones!
                                                        9/21/11
                                                        • Cary Byrd
                                                          Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . each day 400 gallons of recycled blood are pumped through your kidneys!
                                                          9/20/11
                                                          • Cary Byrd
                                                            Cary Byrd: Did you know . . . At birth, a newborn or infant's brain weighs an average of about 0.8 lbs. An adult's brain weighs about 3 lbs!
                                                            9/19/11