Jenny Kellett

28 quotes

Female

All The Human Body (28)

From “The Human Body”

“A baby is born without kneecaps. They appear between age 2 and 6.”

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“You have no sense of smell when you're sleeping.”

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“Everyone has a completely unique smell (except for twins, who smell the same)”

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“Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.”

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“Humans are the only animals to produce emotional tears.”

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“Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren’t.”

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“In one day, your blood travels 12,000 miles around your body. That's four times the distance across the US from coast-to-coast.”

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“Three hundred million cells die in the human body every minute.”

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“Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells about every 27 days.”

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“You use 200 muscles to take one step.”

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“Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood the number is reduced to 206.”

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“A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.”

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“Your eyes are always the same size from birth but your nose and ears never stop growing.”

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“By the age of 60, most people will have lost about half their taste buds.”

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“After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.”

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“Sneezes regularly exceed 100 mph.”

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“Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.”

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“The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades.”

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“For every pound of fat or muscle gained, your body creates seven miles of new blood vessels.”

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“If the human brain were a computer, it could perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second. The world's most powerful supercomputer, BlueGene, can manage only .002% of that.”

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