10888. Body Facts

You swallow about 2 pints of mucus (snot) every day.

10889. Body Facts

A scab forms because cells in your blood called platelets make a very thin fibre that traps other blood cells and holds them in a layer that dries out over a scratch or cut.

10890. Body Facts

If you could lay out all your blood vessels end to end they would go round the world over twice.

10891. Body Facts

The mental disorder called ‘walking corpse' disease leads people to believe parts of their body are missing or that they are dead.

10892. Body Facts

Hookworms can infest people who walk barefoot. They bore through the skin of the feet and travel in the blood to the lungs, where they come out and crawl up to the throat, to be swallowed and start a new life in the gut.

10893. Body Facts

There is enough iron in the human body to make a nail.

10894. Body Facts

Your body absorbs about two-thirds of the volume of the food you eat – the rest is squished into faeces.

10895. Body Facts

A dead body quickly looks greyish as the blood drains down to the part of the body closest to the ground.The effect is most noticeable in people with white skin.

10896. Body Facts

Right-handed people sweat most under their right arm, left-handed people sweat most under their left arm.

10897. Body Facts

People who live in big cities make more ear wax than those who live in the country, where the air is cleaner.

10898. Body Facts

Nearly half the dust in your house and that vacuumed up when you clean the house is old skin cells!

10899. Body Facts

An adult has around 5 million hairs on their head and body.

10900. Body Facts

The infection thrush causes a white, hairy fungus to grow on the tongue.

10901. Body Facts

Your intestines are about four times your height they fit because they're all squashed up and coiled around.

10902. Body Facts

Nose-pickings are a mix of drying mucus and rubbish filtered out of the air you breathe in – pollen, dust, smoke, dirt, sand, and even tiny particles of dust from space!

10903. Body Facts

Babies can get extra thick, yellow dandruff that sticks to their heads in scales. It's called cradle cap and is more noticeable because they usually don't have much hair.

10904. Body Facts

A person produces 1.5 litres (2.6 pints) of spit (saliva) every day and swallows almost all of it.

10905. Body Facts

The skin of an adult laid out flat on the floor would cover about 1.67 square metres (18 square feet).

10906. Body Facts

The toilet paper that Americans use in one day would go around the world nine times.

10907. Body Facts

Dandruff is a mixture of dirt and dead skin cells stuck together with oil that oozes out of your glands on your head. If your head oozes too much oil, your dandruff becomes noticeable.

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