Medical Facts

• It is good for a man to donate blood
• Red Blood cells are the only cells in your body to lack a nucleus
• Nerve cells are the longest cells in your body
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
• You create 10 billion White Blood Cells a day
• A Babies skeleton has more than 300 bones and adult has only 206
• The femur is the largest and strongest bone in the body
• bone is five times stronger than a piece of steel that is the same weight
• The skull has 22 bones 8 cranial and 14 facial
• A persons neck has the same amount of vertebrae as a giraffe
• All the nerve cells of an average person laid end to end would measure 75 km
• Skin has a surface area of up to 22 square feet
• Skin is the bodies largest organ
• Ears can detect the direction of sounds within 3 degrees
• The circulatory system contains 150,000 Km of blood vessels
• The body contains around 5 liters of blood
• Epinephrine gives superhuman strength to people in emergency situations
• The lungs contain about 2,400 km of airways
• Each lung has the total surface area of 646 square feet
• The small intestine is 9 feet and 4 inches long it doubles in length when you die!
• The large intestine is 4 feet and 11 inches
• Men produce 3000 sperms per second
• 4 hugs a day is recommended for good health
• One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet
• Small people have less back problems because they don't crouch over as much

•  Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people
• The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist
• Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie
• The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year
• The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year
• Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows
• Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark
• During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants
• In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow
• There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones
• a sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
• More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
• A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
• Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
• You blink over 10,000,000 times a year
• The average person laughs 13 times a day
• Milk is a solid not a liquid
• Japanese woman have the highest average life span
• Hitler was a vegetarian
• Hitler did speed
• U.S. once issued a five cent bill
• Canada once issued a 25 cent bill