Interesting facts!!!

Hi guys, found these interesting facts online today... thought is interesting to share ;)

• Women blink twice as many times as men do.
  
  
• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
  
  
• We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.
  
  
• There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
  
  
• If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.
  
  
• Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
  
  
• Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
  
  
• Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
  
  
• The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
  
  
• Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.
  
  
• The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
  
  
• The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.
  
  
• After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
  
  
• A person swallows approx. 295 times while eating dinner.
  
  
• Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagus.
  
  
• If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
  
  
• A baby is born every seven seconds.
  
  
• You breathe about 10 million times a year.
  
  
• There are more people alive today than have ever died.
  
  
• The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
  
  
• A man's beard contains between 7000 and 15,000 hairs.
  
  
• A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes
  
  
• The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
  
  
• Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair
  
  
• The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
  
  
• The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
  
  
• The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.
  
  
• The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
  
  
• The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
  
  
• The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
  
  
• The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
  
  
• The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.