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Do you know how much saliva your body produces? How much time do men spend looking at women? How many weeks in a year do you spend kissing someone? From unusual facts to more serious stuff, here are are 22 facts that will help you realize how amazing the human body is.
1. On average, you spend a third of your time sleeping. About 25 to 30 years in total! With that in mind, are you still tired?
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2. Your body needs approximately 7 hours of sleep per night
Sleep deprivation can cause you health problems and shorten your life expectancy. Go back to sleep!
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3. On average, you yawn 250 000 times in your life. And this pic is probably going to make you yawn.
Indeed, it’s been proven that the sole fact of thinking about Yawning is enough to make you want to make you yawn. It’s also been proven that yawning is more like to be contagious between people with strong bonds to one another. So if you just yawn after watching this picture, you’re probably a fan of President Obama.
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4. On average, your body produces 24 000 liters of saliva in a lifetime
Enough to fill two pools! But don’t visualize this thought…there are so many better things you can think about.
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5. You need 640 muscles to move your body
The smallest skeletal muscle in your body is called the stapedius. It is just over 0.5 cm in length and is located in your ear.
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6. Your skin replaces itself 900 times in a lifetime
Besides, skin cells have a relatively short life span. They only live two to three weeks. This doesn’t mean you should neglect your skin!
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7. Your kidneys filter up to 150 quarts of liquid a day
The kidneys filter the entire blood in the body 400 times a day! They produce 1.5 quarts of urine on a daily basis.
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8. According to a survey, men spend the equivalent of a year of their life staring at women
The “staring at a woman for hours” technique is probably not the most effective.
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9. It should take more than a million mosquito bites to drain all the blood from your body
Of course, no one wants this to happen!
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10. According to a survey, women spend up to a year of their life deciding what to wear
The trick of the day: choose your clothes the night before! Or, you coud choose to wear the same clothes every day, like Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg.
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11. British women spend a fortune on makeup: up to 160 000 dollars in their lifetime
The global cosmetic business is not going anywhere.
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12. On average, a man spends six months of his life shaving
Of course, this depends on the relative popularity of beards.
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13. During your life, you will consume 35 tons of food
One piece of advice: eat healthy!
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14. You will spend three months of your life sitting on the throne
How many paper rolls do you think that equates to?
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15. 183 755 600 is the largest number on this list
It represents the number of steps you will take during your entire lifetime. This is equivalent of walking about 5 times around this planet.
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16. The average human being walks 120 000 km in his life
Just to put things into perspective, the 183 755 600 steps you will walk in your life represent about 120 000 kms.
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17. Sitting more than three hours a day is bad for you
Try walking…or at least standing up. Scientists have found that reducing sitting time by 50% can result in a 2.3% decline in all-cause death.
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18. On average, people who jog live 6 years longer than those who don’t
So grab those sneakers and go run outside! But beware: moving vehicles are dangerous.
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19. On average, a human being spends two weeks of his life kissing
When Cupid strikes! By the way, your lips are 100 times more sensitive than your fingers.
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20. You lose 20 000 brain cells a day once you reach the age of 20, 50 000 at age 40 and 100 000 at 90 years old
But don’t worry, the brain has about 14 billion neurons. You will still have brain cells left after you turn 100 years old.
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21. Your heart beats on average 1.16 times per second, which totals to more than 100 000 times per day and 36.8 million times per year
At age 80, your heart will have beaten 3 billion times.
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22. Nerve impulses travel through you body at the speed of 223 miles per hour
This is faster than a Lamborghini!
You will probably see things differently next time you walk, eat, or kiss somebody.
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