DID YOU KNOW . . .
- We have approx. 21 square feet of skin
- During exercise we can sweat 2 pints an hour and
- Our muscles produce enough heat to boil several cups of coffee (helps to understand heat related emergencies a little better, eh?)
- We have enough carbon in our bodies to make 1000 pencils and
- Enough Phosphorous to make 3000 match heads
- Our femur can absorb a 1/2 ton of pressure
- Our hands have more parts controlled by more muscles than any other part of our body
- We are capable of processing over 10,000 different smells
- Our brain dedicates more space to vision than all the other senses combined
- If every citizen in every city were calling everyone in the phone book (at the same time) it might come close to how many connections our brain makes in a second