Our bodies are amazing. I’ve hunted high and low to find some amazing facts for you. Here goes …

(1) In a lifetime, a human being will grow six feet of nose hair.

(2) During a 24 hour period, the average person will breathe about 23,000 times.

(3) Bone is 5 times stronger than a steel bar of the same weight.

(4) In an average lifetime of 70 years, the heart will be at rest for 40 years.

(5) If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end-to-end, they would reach approximately 93,000 miles (enough to go round the world twice).

(6) In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

(7) Your heart beats 100,000 times per day.

(8) The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (roughly two car lengths).

(9) Your lungs contain almost 1,500 miles of airways, approximately the distance between London and Moscow.

(10) Every minute you breathe in about 13 pints of air.

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