Ten Health Facts
1. Number of bones in our body at birth is 350. But the number of bones for
an adult is 206 because many bones fuse together during growth.
2. Yawning is contagious .why. Because of social bonds between people.
People understand and feel the emotions of another.3.
An adult blink about 15 times per minute, but a baby blinks only two times per
minute. |
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4. Those whirls, loops and arches on your fingertips are unique to each like our
tongue has unique imprinted.
5.We breathe without thinking about it, because the brain stem, is the autopilot for
our most important functions such as breathing, blood pressure, and heart rate.
6. Length of the small intestines is 22 feet whereas the length of the Large
intestines is 5-6 feet only.
7. Our retina is covered with millions of special cells called rods and cones that
process light from the lens and cones detect colors.
8. Tears are salty. why. because sodium chloride, the most common salt, is in all
our body fluids like blood, sweat, and tears. our tears contain salt less than one
percent.
9. Our eyes are green, brown, blue, etc., why. Because of the colors, the eye is
determined by the genes we inherit from our parents.
10. Length of blood vessels is 96,560 km and the volume of our blood is1.3 gallons.
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