11. Underwater swimming is the only time you should hold your breathe while exercising.
12. Your brain weight about 3 pounds, is a pinkish gray color and is about the size of a cauliflower.
13. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
14. The three bones of the middle ear are so small all three could easily fit on your thumbnail.
15. If all 600 muscles in your body pulled in one direction, you could lift 25 tons.
16. If the 300,000,000 tiny air sacs (alveoli) in your lungs could be laid out flat, they would cover a home swimming pool.
17. Tongue prints are as unique as fingerprints.
18. If you weight 100 pounds on earth, you will weigh about 264 pounds on Jupiter.
19. There are 206 bones in the human body. One fourth of them are in your feet.
20. The human body has 45 miles of nerves.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Fun Fitness Facts – I
Fun Fitness Facts – I
1. You would need to drink a quart of milk every day for three to four months to drink as much blood as your heart pumps in one hour.
2. Your heart is about the size of your fist and weighs about as much as a softball.
3. In the course of a lifetime, the resting heart will have pumped enough blood to fill 13 supertankers.
4. The pink under your fingernails is the blood in your capillaries.
5. Your heart is the strongest muscle of your body and beats about 100,000 times in one day, in an average adult.
6. We need light in order to see. Animals that live in deep caves or in the great depths of the ocean where there is no light are often blind or have no eyes at all.
7. A person breathes 7 quarts of air every minute.
8. Almost half the human body’s weight is made from one of three types of muscle tissue.
9. The human nervous system can relay messages to the brain at speeds of up to 200 miles per hour. Your brain receives 100 million nerve messages each second from your senses.
10. In one day, some 4000 children and teenagers take up smoking.
1. You would need to drink a quart of milk every day for three to four months to drink as much blood as your heart pumps in one hour.
2. Your heart is about the size of your fist and weighs about as much as a softball.
3. In the course of a lifetime, the resting heart will have pumped enough blood to fill 13 supertankers.
4. The pink under your fingernails is the blood in your capillaries.
5. Your heart is the strongest muscle of your body and beats about 100,000 times in one day, in an average adult.
6. We need light in order to see. Animals that live in deep caves or in the great depths of the ocean where there is no light are often blind or have no eyes at all.
7. A person breathes 7 quarts of air every minute.
8. Almost half the human body’s weight is made from one of three types of muscle tissue.
9. The human nervous system can relay messages to the brain at speeds of up to 200 miles per hour. Your brain receives 100 million nerve messages each second from your senses.
10. In one day, some 4000 children and teenagers take up smoking.
UnKnown Facts about your Eyes
1.Eyes are the most complex organs you possess except for your brain.
2.Eyes are composed of more than two million working parts.
3.Eyes can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.
4.Under the right conditions, can discern the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles.
5.Eyes contribute towards 85% of your total knowledge.
6.Eyes utilize 65% of all the pathways to the brain.
7.Eyes can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles and organs in your body.
8.In a normal life-span, will bring you almost 24 million images of the world around you.
9.The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be.
10.The adult eyeball measures about 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter. Of its total surface area only one-sixth is exposed — the front portion.
11.The eye is the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment, day or night, without rest. Your eyelids need rest, the external muscles of your eyes need rest, the lubrication of your eyes requires replenishment, but your eyes themselves “never” need rest. But please rest them!
12.Eyes are your most precious sense… cares for them properly!
2.Eyes are composed of more than two million working parts.
3.Eyes can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.
4.Under the right conditions, can discern the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles.
5.Eyes contribute towards 85% of your total knowledge.
6.Eyes utilize 65% of all the pathways to the brain.
7.Eyes can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles and organs in your body.
8.In a normal life-span, will bring you almost 24 million images of the world around you.
9.The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be.
10.The adult eyeball measures about 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter. Of its total surface area only one-sixth is exposed — the front portion.
11.The eye is the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment, day or night, without rest. Your eyelids need rest, the external muscles of your eyes need rest, the lubrication of your eyes requires replenishment, but your eyes themselves “never” need rest. But please rest them!
12.Eyes are your most precious sense… cares for them properly!
Mind Blowing Facts – I
1. Camels can spit.
2. An ostrich can run 43 miles per hour (70 kilometers per hour).
3. Pigs are the fourth most intelligent animal in the world.
4. Dinosaurs didn’t eat grass? There was no grass in the days of the dinosaurs.
5. Dolphins can swim 37 miles per hour (60 kilometers per hour).
6. A crocodile’s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth? It cannot move. It cannot chew but its Digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail, Glass pieces, etc
7. Sharks are immune to disease i.e they do not suffer from any Disease.
8. Animals are either right- or left-handed? Polar bears are always left-handed, and so is Kermit the Frog.
9. Paris, France has more dogs than people.
10. New Zealand is home to 70 million sheep and only 40 million people.
11. Male polar bears weigh 1400 pounds and females only weight 550 pounds, on average.
12. Bison are excellent swimmers? Their head, hump and tail never go below the surface of the water.
2. An ostrich can run 43 miles per hour (70 kilometers per hour).
3. Pigs are the fourth most intelligent animal in the world.
4. Dinosaurs didn’t eat grass? There was no grass in the days of the dinosaurs.
5. Dolphins can swim 37 miles per hour (60 kilometers per hour).
6. A crocodile’s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth? It cannot move. It cannot chew but its Digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail, Glass pieces, etc
7. Sharks are immune to disease i.e they do not suffer from any Disease.
8. Animals are either right- or left-handed? Polar bears are always left-handed, and so is Kermit the Frog.
9. Paris, France has more dogs than people.
10. New Zealand is home to 70 million sheep and only 40 million people.
11. Male polar bears weigh 1400 pounds and females only weight 550 pounds, on average.
12. Bison are excellent swimmers? Their head, hump and tail never go below the surface of the water.
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