Here are some fascinating statistics about the human body compiled by a French anatomist.
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| The human head has 1-3 million hair strands (photo: combers) |
– If we were to peel back the entire cerebral cortex and flatten it out, it would form a “spring roll wrapper” measuring 3 mm thick with an area of 90 x 60 cm.
– The brain of an adult man weighs 1.424 kg. In contrast, a 9-meter-long dinosaur had a brain the size of an orange, weighing about 70 grams.
– The average human tongue measures 9 cm in length and weighs 50 grams. It is composed of 17 muscle bundles, making it highly flexible.
– On average, every 10 years, a person’s ears grow 2.2 mm longer.
– The human head has between 1 and 3 million hair strands. If men regularly cut their hair, over a lifetime, they would have cut off 9 to 10 meters of hair.
– If a person lives to be 75-80 years old, their heart will beat approximately 3 billion times.
– The human body’s vascular system stretches a total of 200,000 kilometers.
– Women consume about 25 tons of food over their lifetime, which is 3 tons more than men; they also drink approximately 37,000 liters of liquids, exceeding men by 4,000 liters. Women cry five times more than men, and their average lifespan is 7 years longer than that of men.
