*Your spinal cord most likely stop growing when you were five.
* An average women has 17 square feet of skin. When a women is in her ninth month of pregnancy she has 18.5 square feet of skin.
*In one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year.
*A woman has approximately 4.5 litres of blood in her body, while men have 5.6 litres
*Blood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for paint
*In the early nineteenth century some advertisements claimed that riding the carousel was good for the circulation of blood.
*Seven percent of a humans body wieght is made up of blood.
*Two million red blood cells die every second
*1 in 2000 babies are born with a tooth that is already visible
*Adult human bones account for 14% of the body's total weight
*Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% water.
*The "funny bone" is not a bone. It's the spot where the ulnar nerve touches the humerus
*The only bone fully grown at birth is located in the ear.
*The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone which is located in the ear
*3000 children die every day in Africa because of malaria.
*A person that is struck by lightning has a greater chance of developing motor neurone disease
*Chances of a women getting breast cancer are increased by excesseive use of alcohol
*Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for about 180,000 deaths per year.
* In New York, dentists charge $125 to get a breath makeover
*In a year you most likely shed 8 pints of tears
* Billions of dead cells float around in the air each day
*The average sized man eats 33 tons of food in his lifetime. That's six elephants!!
* Not everybody's ear wax is the same. It can be a pumpkin colour, grey, yellow, brown, moist or dry!
*It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow
*Females blink twice as much as males do
*Baby who are unborn can hiccup and doctors say that it is good for their diaphragms.
*Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!
* Your foot is the same size as your forearm![sent in by Michael from www.freewebs.com/loadsofgreatstuff]
* Your teeth are the only part of you that does not grow back.