Human Body Facts: Numbers

• An adult skeleton has 206 bones
• There are more than 600 individual skeletal muscles in he human body
• Muscles account to on an average 40 % of the body weight
• The average human head has about 100,000 hairs.
• In the average adult, the skin covers 12-20 square feet and accounts for 12% of body weight.
• 80% of the brain is water.
• Brain operates on 10 watts of power.
• Human nose remembers 50,000 scents.
• Throughout your life, the amount of saliva you have could fill two swimming pools.
• A sneeze can exceed 100 mph.
• Coughs leave at 60 mph.
• When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles.
• To raise a foot you are using up to 100 muscles.
• When you kiss you are using up to 32 muscles.
• When you speak you are using up to 100 muscles.
• Tongue is the longest single ended muscle.
• 1/4 of your bones are in your feet i.e There are 26 bones in each foot, meaning that the 52 bones in account for 25 percent of your body’s 206 bones.
• When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles.
• There are 500,000 (250,000 for each) sweat glands in your feet.
• Human bones are strong enough to lift 20 times the body weight.
• There are 187 joints in human body.
• There are around 100 billion neurons in human brain.
• There are around 75 trillion cells in the human body.
• Skin is the largest organ in the human body.