One in every 1000 babies is born with a tooth.
Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and
crayfish have 200.
There are approximately 96 000 km of blood vessels in
the human body.
If the lining of mucus were to disappear from your
stomach, your stomach would digest itself.
Each person sheds 22 kilograms of skin in his or her
lifetime.
Your heart beats 100 000 times a day.
A foetus only acquires fingerprints at the age of three
months.
One person in 20 has an extra rib, and they are most
often men.
When you were born, you had 300 bones. Now you have
206,
if you are an adult. The rest of the bones have not
disappeared – they have merely fused together.
The average person has about 100 000 scalp hairs.
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