The Human Body

A human eye can distinguish about 17,000 different colours.

The smallest bone in our body is the malleus bone of the middle ear.

55% of the people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. A yawn is believed to be triggered by a need to get rid of accumulated carbon dioxide.

There are 33 bones or vertebrae in our spine and 27 bones in our hand.

The food we eat, on an average, takesapproximately 24 hours to pass all the way through our alimentary canal.

No two human ears, even your own, are alike .There are some key identical points on the outer ear 3 that do not change throughout one's life.

The largest muscle is the gluteus maximus or buttock, out of 639 muscles in our body.

There are 24 elements present in our body.

The most child births in rapid succession of a delivery were two boys and eight girls, born in 1946 in Bacay (Brazil).

On an average, people need around 2000 calories of energy food a day. People in USA eat 3200 calories of food and people in Ethiopia, Africa survive on less than 500 calories of food a day.


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