The Amazing

Human Body
BY JOSE FUERTES

Nervous system fun facts

There are more nerve cells in
the human brain than there are
stars in the Milky Way.
If we lined up all the neurons
in our body it would be around
600 miles long.
There are about 13, 500,00
neurons in the human spinal
cord.
A New born baby
loses about half of their nerve cells before they are born.

Reproductive system facts

The female human body is capable of giving birth to
35children in onelifetime.
About 500 million sperm mature every day in a normal male
adult.
The average life span of a sperm is about 36 hours.
Fallopian tubes are no wider than the head of a pin.

Lymphatic system fun facts

Lymphatic system works in
coordination and collaboration
with the lymphoid system,
immune system and
cardiovascular system.
The right lymphatic duct
measures only about 1.25
centimeter (cm) in length, while
the thoracic duct may measure as
long as 45 cm.
In case of pathogenic bacteria, Bcells are assigned the job to deal
with them.

Respiratory system facts

The right lung is slightly larger than the left.
The highest recorded "sneeze speed" is 165 km per hour.
A person at rest usually breathes between 12 and 15 times a
minute.
The capillaries in the lungs would extend 1,600 kilometres if
placed end to end.

Circulatory system fun facts

The heart beats around 3 billion times in the averages

person's life.

About 8 million blood cells die in the human body every

second, and the same number are born each second.

Red blood cells make approximately 250,000 round trips

of the body before returning to the bone marrow, where
they were born, to die.

It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle

the whole body.

Muscular system facts

Muscles make up 40% of your total body weight.

The smallest muscles are found in the middle ear.

It takes half as long to gain muscle than it does to lose

it.

To take one step, you use 200 muscles.

When youre cold, your muscles contract

involuntarily.

Skeletal system fun facts

At birth the human skeleton is made up of around 300

bones. By adulthood, some bones have fused together
to end up with 206 bones.

The longest bone in the human body is the thigh bone

called the femur.

Ourteethform part of the skeletal system, but are not

counted as bones.