True or False Facts about the Human Body

You tend to blink your eyes 10 times per minute

Once you do not get oxygen your brain can survive up to three to six minutes

The largest joint in your body is in the shoulder.

Your right and left lung are the same size and weight.

Just like finger prints your tongue has it's own unique print.

Information in your brain travels at the speed of 268 miles per hour

The average person spends about 39 total days brushing their teeth over their lifetime.

When you experience EXTREME starvation, chances are your body will start to eat itself.

More than 40% of your body is make of muscles.

Skin contributes to about 5% of your body weight

The largest nerve in the body runs from the spinal cord to the toes of the body.

Heart attacks are higher on Friday than any other day of the week.

The human body contains about 150 bones.

The acid in your stomach is so strong it can dissolve metal

Our heart is the only organ in the body that can float on water.

Your skin is home to more than 1,000 types of bacteria

When you calculate all the blood vessels in the human body, there are more than 10,000 miles of blood vessels present.

You are taller in the morning than you are at night.

Hiccups occur when you are stressed.

Your bones are living tissue, which means that every 20 years you have a new skeleton