Amazing Body

Have you ever thought about how amazing your body is and what it does? It is so intricate and works so well. I found some facts that I thought were interesting and maybe you will too=)

There are 2.5 trillion (give or take) of red blood cells in your body at any moment. To maintain this number, about two and a half million new ones need to be produced every second by your bone marrow.That's like a new population of the city of Toronto every second

Nerve Impulses travel at over 400 km/hr (25 mi/hr)

A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr (100 mi/hr), and a cough moves out at 100 km/hr (60 mi/hr)

Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day

Our eyes can distinguish up to one million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man

When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph

We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon in our bodies

Your body contains enough iron to make a spike strong enough to hold your weight

The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9,000 'lead' pencils

The human body has less muscles in it than a caterpillar

If you could save all the times your eyes blink in one life time and use them all at once you would see blackness for 1.2 years

Capillaries are so small that it takes ten of them to equal the thickness of a human hair