Human Body Facts

• In one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year.

• Every square inch of the human body has about 19,000,000 skin cells.

• Approximately 25% of all scald burns to children are from hot tap water and is associated with more deaths than with any other liquid.

• Forty-one percent of women apply body and hand moisturizer at least three times a day.

• Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.

• The world record for the number of body piercing on one individual is 702, which is held by Canadian Brent Moffat.

• The small intestine in the human body is about 2 inches around, and 22 feet long.

• The human body makes anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every 24 hours.

• The human body has approximately 37,000 miles of capillaries.

• The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose.

• The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily.

• It is very common for babies in New Zealand to sleep on sheepskins. This is to help them gain weight faster, and retain their body heat.

• An average women has 17 square feet of skin. When a women is in her ninth month of pregnancy she has 18.5 square feet of skin.

• The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body.

• 41% of women apply body or hand moisturizer a minimum three times a day.

• A human's small intestine is 6 meters long.

• There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee. You don't see all of them because most are too fine and light to be noticed.

• Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.

• Dead cells in the body ultimately go to the kidneys for excretion.

• By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in an year.

• The human body is 75% water.