The Body

2010-03-11 / Features

It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach. One human hair can support 6 lb. Human thighbones are stronger than concrete. There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet. The average person’s skin weighs twice as much as the brain. Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still. If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

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