Interesting Medical Facts part 1

Interesting Medical Facts part 1

• A person will die from lack of sleep sooner than they will from starvation.

• There are approximately 96,000 km of blood vessels in the human body.

• If the lining of mucus were to disappear from your stomach, your stomach would digest itself.

• Each person sheds 22 kilograms of skin in his or her lifetime.

• More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

• When you were born, you had 300 bones. Now you have 206, if you are an adult. The rest of the bones have not disappeared – they have merely fused together.

• Enamel, found on our teeth, is the hardest substance in the human body.

• Like fingerprints, every person has a unique tongue print.