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An adult’s heart beats around 70 times per minute. That’s about 37 million times per year. A women’s heart beats a little faster than a man’s heart – about 8 times more per minute. A newborn baby’s heart beats even faster with an average of 120 beats per minute.

An adult skeleton has 206 bones and an infant has over 300, as a baby grows, a lot of his bones fuse together.

An adult has 96,500 km of veins and arteries. That’s long enough to wrap around the world twice!

We have around 200 eyelashes surrounding each eye. Your eyelashes fall out approximately every 150 days.

We move 14 muscles to smile, 29 to kiss and 72 to pronounce one syllable. That’s why smiling is so easy to do!

Our nose can recognize up to 6850 different smells.

70% of the human body is made of water and it’s accountable for half of our weight.

Did you know that movies are really just a set of still pictures? We need 1/10 of a second for an image to be perceived by our eyes. Movies are shown at a speed of 24 frames per second. This is too fast for us to see each frame individually, so the images mix together and give us the illusion of movement.

In your whole lifetime you will blink for a combined 1.2 years.

The human body has fewer muscles than a caterpillar.

You probably know that everyone’s fingerprints are different, but did you know that everybody has a different tongue print?

A sneeze leaves your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

The space between your elbow and your wrist is the same length as your foot. Check to see!

It’s impossible to lick your own elbow. Try it!