Astounding Facts about the human body
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The human body has less muscles in it than a caterpillar.
32. Astounding Facts 43
When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens.
33. Astounding Facts 42
One square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands.
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The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9,000 lead pencils.
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?Most people have lost fifty per cent of their taste buds by the time they reach the age of sixty.
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?The surface area of a human lung is equal to that of a tennis court.
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Your body contains enough iron to make a spike strong enough to hold your weight.
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?From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
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Our lungs inhale over two million litres of air every day, without even thinking. Their surface area is large enough to cover one side of a tennis court.
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?We give birth to over 200 billion red cells every day.
