Health and Medical Trivia

  • It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body
  • Red blood cells may live for about 4 months circulating throughout the body, feeding the 60 trillion other body cells
  • Red blood cells make approximately 250,000 round trips of the body before returning to the bone marrow, where they were born, to die
  • Within a tiny droplet of blood, there are some 5 million red blood cells
  • Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself
  • The human brain is insensetive to pain, The suffering of a headache comes not from the brain but from the nerves and muscles lining it.
  • The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet
  • Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.
  • One-fourth of the 206 bones in the human body are located in the feet
  • 80 % of people infected with a sexually transmitted disease have no symptoms.
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