Is this about your body?

There are infinite posts on “interesting facts about human body”.This is a “Nimmy’s personally-liked interesting facts about human body”

 

    

1.  The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot.

2.  Your mouth produces 1 litre (1.8 pints) of saliva a day.

3.  Over the last 150 years the average height of people in industrialised nations increased by 10 cm (4 in).

4.  Men loose about 40 hairs a day. Women loose about 70 hairs a day.

5.  The muscle that lets your eye blink is the fastest muscle in your body. It allows you to blink 5 times a second. On average, you blink 15 000 times a day. Women blink twice as much as men.

6.  Not all our taste buds are on our tongue; about 10% are on the palette and the cheeks.

7.  The bones in your body are not white – they range in colour from beige to light brown. The bones you see in museums are white because they have been boiled and cleaned.

8.  Our eyes are always the same size from birth.

9.  Every person has a unique tongue print.

10.  If all your DNA is stretched out, it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.

11.  One human hair can support 3kg.

12.  The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.

13.  *A cockroach will live nine days without it’s head, before it starves to death

14.  *Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

15.  The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb

16.  80% of the brain is water

17.  You get a new stomach lining every three to four days

18.  The ashes of a cremated person average about 9 pounds

19.  Monday is the day of the week when the risk of heart attack is greatest

20.  About 32 million bacteria call every inch of your skin home

21.  The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you’ll have a bad dream

22.  It is not possible to tickle yourself. Even the most ticklish among us do not have the ability to tickle ourselves. The reason  behind this is that your brain predicts the tickle from information it already has, like how your fingers are moving. Because it knows and can feel where the tickle is coming from, your brain doesn’t respond in the same way as it would if someone else was doing the tickling.

23.  Hiccups happen when the diaphragm, the muscle that controls our breathing, becomes irritated and start to spasm and contract uncontrollably. With each contraction, air is pulled into the lungs very quickly, passes through the voice box, and then the epiglottis closes behind the rush of air, shaking the vocal chords, causing the “hic” sound. The irritation can be caused by rapid eating, emotional stress and even some diseases. The best cure? Breathing into a paper bag. This calms the diaphragm by increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in your bloodstream 

 

 

*I didn’t write that by mistake.

The Weight Of The Human Soul

“There has been disagreement over the centuries over just what the human soul is, or even if such a thing exists. The soul, which is not the same thing as the spirit, seems to be that spark of something within us that links us to our creator. Some say this is God. We believe it is the Mother Earth, from which we were spawned and to where we will return after our bodies are turned to rot.”

 

I’ve always thought that the weight of the soul is as heavy as a stone if one feel remorseful or as light as air when one is happy.It is the feel you have at any given situation which will make it lighter or heavier.For those who believe in souls, the soul is not a material article. For those who don’t, there is no such thing as a soul. Either way, the soul does not have a weight.Never did I think it the other way round!

 

Now some fun. Seems, there was a documented case of a doctor who tried to find the weight of a soul.

 

There was a strange experiment by a doctor in Massachusetts back in 1907 that suggests something, indeed, leaves the body at the moment of death. And that something weighs about 21 grams.

 

It seems that Dr. Duncan MacDougall of Haverhill conducted his experiment with the help of six dying patients placed in a specially designed bed. The bed was built on a scale so that they could be weighed before, during and immediately after death.

 

He said the loss was about three-fourths of an ounce, or just over 21 grams.

 

MacDougallconducted similar tests during the deaths of other patients over the years and got similar results. He noted that the entire bed was weighed so that any loss of fluids from urine or the bowels at the moment of death would still be weighed because the material would remain on the bed.

 

The doctor even considered loss of left-over air in the lungs. To test the possible weight of air in the lungs, he said he and another person each got on the bed and strenuously inhaled and exhaled. Their efforts made no change on the scale.

 

As a further part of his experiments, Dr. MacDougallwrote that he tried the same experiment with15 dogs. He said he had to drug the animals to keep them from struggling, which suggests that he also used drugs to kill them. He wrote that there was no change in the weight of the bodies of the dogs at the moment of their death.

 

What is that “something” which is not possessed by an animal,but by a human??

 

Isn’t that interesting!