Interesting health facts you never knew
* You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening.
* The adult human heart weighs about ten ounces.
* It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
* Of the 206 bones in the average human adult's body, 106 are in the hands and feet (54 in the hands and 52 in the feet).
* The human brain has about 100 billion neurons. From the age of 35 years about 7,000 neurons are lost daily.
* The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9,000 'lead' pencils.
* The brain itself is incapable of feeling pain. Once the skull is opened it is possible to operate on the brain with the patient awake.
* Nerve impulses travel at over 400 Km/hr speed.
* We give birth to over 200 billion red cells every day.
* In one square inch of our hand, we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
* The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
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