Current Affairs The Human Body

In an average lifetime of 65 years an individual eats nearly 50,000 kg of food.

A tiny drop of blood, the size of a pinhead, contains up to 5 million red blood corpuscles (RBCs), 15000 white blood corpuscles (WBCs) and 250, 000 platelets.

There are 24 ribs in our body arranged in 12 pairs. 7 pairs of true ribs, 3 pairs of false ribs and 2 pairs of floating ribs.

Everyday the liver produces one litre of bile, a thick bitter, yellow F or green fluid, which is 95% of water and contains a wide range of chemicals, which play a vital role in the digestion of fats.

It needs 17 muscles to smile, 43 muscles to frown and 200 muscles to walk.

An average adult produces 1500 ml of urine each day. It is 95% of water and 5% of wastes such as unwanted salts and minerals.

One fifth of the oxygen we inhale is used up by the cells in the brain.

Stuttering is four to six times more common in boys than in girls. Girls tend to sleep more soundly than boys. 

The only person in medical history to have been both dwarf and giant was an American called Adam Rainer. In 1920, aged years, he measured only 118 cm tall. He, then grew at an alarming rate, to 218 cm. The rapid growth made him so weak that he became bedridden until he died, aged 51, and measuring 234 cm tall.

There are over 230 moveable and partly- moveable joints in our body.


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