29 Enlightening (and Slightly Odd) Medical Facts
One hundred thousand people. Did you know that's how many die from negative
reactions to prescription medications each year? Or that your brain can recall up to 50,000 different scents? What about this: you may be surprised to learn that you grow a new stomach lining every three to four days.
Wait, what?
While knowing certain medical facts can certainly be beneficial to your health, others are simply enlightening. But all expose the wondrous marvel that is the human body.
Here are 29 revealing - and sometimes a little bizarre – documented medical facts.
- 72: the number of different muscles is takes to produce human speech.
- 30 feet: the distance the force of blood pressure can shoot.
- 1,000 pounds: the amount of red blood cells a person generates in a lifetime.
- Dogs and humans: the only animals with prostates.
- 278 colonies: how much bacteria are exchanged during a kiss (gross!).
- 10 ounces: the weight of the adult human heart.
- 60,000 miles: how far blood travels through the human body each day.
- 60 years: how long you live before you lose half of your taste buds.
- Diabetes: the number one cause of blindness in the U.S.
- 7.5 times: how much more likely a person is to be admitted to a psychiatric facility if never married. I’m going to use that one the next time my husband teases...
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