Wondrous Facts about Robots/People

☼ The average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world in a lifetime.

☼ Your heart pumps all your blood around your body each minute.

☼ The average human heart beats around three billion times in a lifetime.

☼ Sneezes shoot out of your nose or mouth at about 10 miles per hour.

☼ Your tongue has 2,000 to 8,000 taste buds, and each has 50 to 100 taste receptor cells.

☼ Most of what you ‘taste’ comes through smell.

☼ The average person in the UK walks 3,000 to 4,000 steps per day.

☼ You hum through your nose, not your mouth.

☼ The adult human skeleton has 206 bones. The smallest is the stapes or stirrup, the innermost of three bones in the middle ear, and the femur (thigh bone) is the longest and strongest. Babies are born with about 270 bones. Some fuse together as their bodies grow.

☼ Each of your feet contains about 250,000 sweat glands.

☼ The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

☼ It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely be digested.

☼ Healthy nails grow about 2 cm each year. Fingernails grow four times as fast as toenails.