Amazing Human Body Facts

• Scientists say the higher your I.Q. The more you dream.
• The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.
• You use 200 muscles to take one step.
• The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.
• Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three.
• A pair of human feet contains 250,000 sweat glands.
• A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.
• The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades.
• The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.
• It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
• The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds.
• Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than Men with hair.
• At the moment of conception, you spent about half an hour as a single cell.
• There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

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• Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil.
• The enamel in your teeth is the hardest substance in your body.
• Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born.
• When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, and they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.

• Your thumb is the same length of your nose.

• The lungs contain over 300,000 million capillaries (tiny blood vessels). If they were laid end to end, they would stretch 2400km (1500 miles).

• Human bone is as strong as granite in supporting weight. A block of bone the size of a matchbox can support 9 tonnes – that is four times as much as concrete can support.

• Each finger and toenail takes six months to grow from base to tip.
• When you sleep, you grow by about 8mm (0.3in). The next day you shrink back to your former height. The reason is that your cartilage discs are squeezed like sponges by the force of gravity when you stand or sit.

• The average person in the West eats 50 tonnes of food and drinks 50,000 liters (11,000 gallons) of liquid during his life.
• The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
• Each kidney contains 1 million individual filters. They filter an average of around 1.3 liters (2.2 pints) of blood per minute, and expel up to 1.4 liters (2.5 pints) a day of urine.
• The eyes receive approximately 90 percent of all our information, making us basically visual creatures.
• The female ovaries contain nearly half-a-million egg cells, yet only 400 or so will ever get the opportunity to create a new life.

• A single human blood cell takes only 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
• Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.
• It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
• The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.
• 15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.

Amazing Fruit and Vegetable Facts

The world’s smallest edible plant is the Asian Watermeal or Wolffia globosa. This amazing edible plant that makes a nutritious food has an average length of 0.6 mm and 0.3 mm in width. It weighs about 150 micrograms or the approximate weight of two ordinary grains of table salt. It has no leaves, no stems and no roots.

Avocado is one of the world’s most nutritious fruits. It has more protein than any other fruit. It also has the highest calories of any fruit. In addition, there are more than 500 varieties of avocados in existence.

Another amazing nutritional fact about Avocado is that, it is 50% richer in potassium than bananas.

You might have not known but Kiwi fruits are richer in vitamin C than oranges. These fruits are filled with nutrients known to fight cancer cells.

The largest recorded fruit in the world is a pumpkin. It weighed more than 782 kilograms or 1725 lbs.

The world’s largest tree borne fruit is the Jackfruit. The largest Jackfruit was harvested in the Philippines where it is known as “Langka”. It weighed more than 35 kilograms.

7.) How do you know if a cranberry is already ripe? Dribble it like a basketball, if it bounce it is ripe.

8.) Are you having problem with acne? Try to apply apple pulp on your face. It is known to cure acne. Remember this, don’t consume the seeds of apple, they are poisonous although they are not deadly.

9.) Most people drink coffee to stay awake. Do you know that the sugar in apple is more potent than the caffeine in coffee? So why not take an apple instead of a coffee.

In addition, there are about 7,500 varieties of apples while there are about 5,000 varieties of tomatoes.

Not all fruits and vegetables should be refrigerated. You should not refrigerate tomatoes because they lose their flavor and nutrients.

Cucumbers, pumpkin, squash and tomatoes are actually vegetables, they are vegetable fruits.

The hottest chili peppers are the healthiest. Just a precaution, don’t take too much because it can cause you hemorrhoid.

Fruits and vegetables rich in water are healthy foods. Watermelon is 92% water, cabbage is 90% and carrot is 87%. Carrots come in different colors.

A Banana is not fruit, it’s an herb and there are more than 100 varieties of bananas. It shares the same family with lilies and orchids. Bananas are also available in different colors

16.) Pound for pound, the healthiest fruit is the banana. It is considered as the “complete food” because of the many and healthy nutrient it contains.

17.) Don’t peel your potato because most of its nutrients are located just beneath the skin layer. It has been traced that potatoes were first cultivated in Peru 5,000 years ago. Like carrots and bananas, potatoes come in different colors too.

One of the most amazing plants in the world because of its usefulness is the coconut; hence it is regarded as the “tree of life”. Coconut water can be substituted for blood plasma during emergencies because it possesses the perfect PH level and is also sterile.

Of all the edible plants in the world, rice has more varieties than any other plant. There are about 15,000 varieties of rice. It also comes in various colors.

Scientists have identified Over 30,000 species of edible plants have been identified by scientists but about 90% of the grain and vegetable food supply in the world comes from 20 species only.