Amazing facts

1. The human brain has the capacity which is equivalent to more than four

     terabytes on hard drive.

2. The new born child can  breath and swell at the same time for seven months.

3. 50,000 cells in our body die and get replaced by the new while we read this         

    sentence. 

4. The total length of all the blood vessels in the human body is about 100,000 km.

5. We lose 80% of our body heat from the head.

6. If allowed to grow for the whole life hair would be about 725 kilometer.

7. 99% of the calcium contained in the human body is in one's teeth.

8. People with blue eyes are more sensitive to pain than others.

9. The right lung can take in more air than left lung.

10. Our eyes remain in the same size as they were at birth but our nose and ears          

       never stop growing.

11. There is enough DNA in the average person's body to stretch from the Sun to 

       Pluto and back - 17 times.

12. The average human body carries 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells.

13. There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there in the     

      Atlantic Ocean.

14. The universe is made up of 50,000,000,000 galaxies.

15. Grasshoppers have ears in their bellies.

16. Octopuses have three hearts, nine brains and blue blood.

17. Banana oil is made from petroleum.

18. 84% of a raw apple and 96% of a raw cucumber is water.

19. A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree 
      grows.

20. The largest single flower is the Rafflesia or corpse flower. They are generally 3.   
      feet in diameter with the record 42 inches.

21. Quinine, one of the most important drugs known to man, is obtained from the   
      dried bark of an evergreen tree native of South America.