Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Fun Facts

Go suck a lemon! Try adding lemon slices to your water. It provides you with good source of vitamin C, stimulates digestion, and helps to clean the liver. It also tastes delicious!

Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.

It takes 70% less energy to produce a ton of paper from recycled paper than from trees.

In your lifetime, you’ll shed over 40 pounds of skin

Every minute, 30-40,000 dead skin cells fall from your body.

15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second.

There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being then there are human beings on the surface of the earth.

The brain uses more than 25% of the oxygen used by the human body.

Muscles are made up of bundles from about 5 in the eyelid to about 200 in the buttock muscles.

Muscles in the human body (640 in total) make up about half of the body weight.

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