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You Have An Amazing Body

Ryan | September 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »

Do you know that you have an amazing body? Not convince? Consider the following:
1. There are 2.5 trillion (give or take) of red blood cells in your body at any moment. To maintain this number, about two and a half million new ones need to be produced every second by your bone marrow. That’s like a new population of the city of Toronto every second.
2. Considering all the tissues and cells in your body, 25 million new cells are being produced each second. That’s a little more than the population of Australia-every second !
3. A red blood cell can circumnavigate your body in under 20 seconds.
4. Nerve Impulses travel at over 400 km/hr (25 miles/hr).
5. Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day.
6. Our eyes can distinguish up to one million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
7. Our lungs inhale over two

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