Get in touch with your Body.. Odd Facts

* 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.

* 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.

* The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.

* Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

* Kidney stones come in any color--from yellow to brown.

* Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age. Before that they are just cartilage.

* 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.

* If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.

* The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.

* A baby is born every seven seconds.

* You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000000000000071 ounce of its spray.

* You breathe about 10 million times a year.

* 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 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.

* 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 beard grows an average of 140mm a year

* A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes

* Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair

* During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble

* 4.5 million people have their health 'adversely affected' by air pollutants each year.

* 4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and Dung

* 4 million people die annually from diarrhea infections, caused by poor sanitary conditions

* The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.