10 Amazing Scientific “Facts on Human body and Life” interesting facts for Class 10 and 12 Part 9

Facts on Human Body and Life Part-9

81. The liver filters enough blood in a year to fill up 23 milk trucks. But if it ever stops working, a person will die within 8 to 24 hours.

82. No one knows why, but more men than women are colour blind.

83. There are 206 bones in the human body.

84. Our bones, gram by gram, are stronger than steel.

85. The head has 22 bones in it.

86. The mouth contain more bacteria than any other orifice in the body.

87. The chances of a mother giving birth to quadruplets are almost 1 in 600,000.

88. Sleep –walking is more common in children than in adults.

89. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 muscles to frown.

90. The little lump of flesh jutting forwards outside your ear canal, right next to your temple is called a tragus.

91. The thyroid bone in your throat is the only bone is the body that is not attached to another bone.

92. It takes about 8 seconds for the food to travel down the esophagus. The average time for your stomach to digest a high fat meal is 6 hours as compared to 2 hours for a carbohydrate meal. The average time for the digestion process in the small intestine is about 3 hours. This is followed by another 4 hours to 3 days in the large intestine.