Tuesday, July 18, 2006

numbers behind our bodies...

You cough at 560 mph, you lose 0.71 Liters a day just from sweating and You leave 150 grams in the toilet everyday in average. The numbers behind our bodies...more below...

209,000
Farts in the life of an average male; Females fart more, but that’s only because they live more in average. As for amounts: 0.5 - 1 Liter of gas a day.

1.4
Your brain’s weight in Kilograms, which is about a weight of a laptop. The difference is that the brain can hold more “data”, about 4.2 Terabytes to be exact (4,200GB). Just for the comparsion: An elephant’s brain weights 6KG, rats will do enough with 2 grams of brains.

100,000,000,000
nerve cells, if you’d like to count them one by one, let’s say one per second, it should take you about 3,171 years.

150
Grams a day, that’s what we leave everyday in the toilet from what we ate, in average.

6,000,000
According to Men’s Health magazine, that’s the number of KG’s our British friends leave in the toilet each day. If you feel the urge to imagine and compare it: Eiffel tower weights 7,300 Tons.

35
Days. That’s how long it will take your eyelashes to grow, sounds meaningless to the average man.

6,205,000
The number of times you blink in 1 year. Each action like this lasts 0.3 seconds, which means you probably blinked 3 times while reading this sentence.

100,000
The number of movements your eye muscles move a day, which are the busiest of all muscle in our body.

4
Hours of sleep a night. That’s how much sleep you need if you’re a “short-sleeper”. “Long sleepers” from the other side, can sleep up to 10 hours and still lack in function.

28
Grams. Sounds like a cocaine dose, but it’s your eye-ball weight.

0.71
Liters of perspiration a day are generated by our body. Which makes it 21 liters a month, 252 a year. And 18,000 liters a lifetime, something like 60 full bath-tubs.

1.9
That’s your large intestine in meters if we would lay it on a table long enough, it can stretch 8 more meters though.

2.5
Centimeters a minutes, that’s how fast the food moves in your small intestine.

12
Hours. Average time of meat and milk digestion in our digestive system.

15
Minutes. Average time of natural drinks digestion, but not fruits, these will take 3 hours at the least.

50
Tons of food-traffic in and out your digestive system in a lifetime.

559.2
MPH. Speed of the air that gets out of your mouth when you cough, quite close to the speed of sound eh?

10,000
Taste sensors in and on our tongue, these that are infected or dead are replaces with new ones eventually.

23,600
Liters of saliva (spittle) that each average person will generate during his/her lifetime; Enough to fill 2 olympic swimming pools.

96,000
This one has two meanings. Speed in kilometers/hour that the earth spins around the sun. But also this: the length, in kilometers of all of your blood vessels, If they were to be streteched and connected from the two sides, they would lap our earth. twice.

5
Liters of blood each one of us has in his body, that’s all; But it’s more than the 273 mili-liters we had when we were first born.

3,300,000,000
Heart-beats in an average lifetime.

144,000,000
Sperms from the total 180 million you’ve ejaculated are still alive after 2 hours of your orgasm. 36 Million of them are still alive-n’-kickin’ in her body the next day when she walks to work. Use a condom, please.

18
Kilo’s of dead skin are left behind from our feet.

25
Percent of all the bones in the body are found in the legs.

160,300
The number of Kilometeres you’ve walked by the time you are 70, so you probably walked around the equator 5 times. Oh and by the way, Bristol University has done a research that concluded that each less centimeter of your leg length will result of X20 chances of getting heart related problems.

2
PM. The time our legs are most fit, according to French researchers.

3
Liters is your maximum bladder capacity. You’ll start feeling the urge to empty the tank after there are 0.5 in there.

2,414
Airways in your lungs, isn’t that a reason to start ruining them with cigarettes??

1
Year without smoking will deduct the chances of heart-illness by half comparing to smokers, after 15 years without smoking your chances of getting one is exactly the same as your non-smoking neighbour.

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