Body facts

•Liver is the largest organ in our body,weighting about 1.6kg .

•Each day our heart beats normally over 1,00,000 times .

•The normal temperature of our body is 37°C or 98°F .

•There are 206 bones in our skeleton .A new born baby has 300 bones,out of which 94 bones join together as he or she grows .

•Most people have 12 pair of ribs .But one out of every 20 people has at least one pair extra .

•An average man has about 5.5 litres of blood .

•Each side of the brain controls the opposite side of the body .

•The hair on our head usually lives for 2-6 years before dropping out .

•The fastest muscles in our body are those that blink the eyelids .We can blink as fast as 200 times per minute .

•Our eyelids have the thinnest skin on our body (only 1 mm thick) while our soles have the thickest skin(about 3 mm thick) .

•It takes about 17 muscles to smile,but about 43 muscles to frown .

•The size and shape of a person’s nose can affect his or her voice .

•The coronary heart disease is the most common cause for sudden death .

•One brain cell may be connected to as many as 25,000 other brain cells .

•A meal takes as long as 15 hours to pass through our whole digestive system .

•Through blinking we spend about half an hour of our waking day with our eyes closed .

•The thigh bone,called femur,is the longest and the largest bone in our body .The smallest bone in our body is the stirrup bone in the middle ear .