7 facts about the human body

Producer: Navneet Vyasan

Your eyes blink around 20 times a minute. That’s over ten million times a year!

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You produce about 40,000 litres of spit in your lifetime.

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If you walked for 12 hours a day, it would take the average person 690 days to walk around the world.

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The only muscle that never tires is the heart.

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Every minute you shed over 30,000 dead skin cells.

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If you live to age 70, your heart will have beat around 2.5 billion times!

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Your brain is sometimes more active when you’re asleep than when you’re awake.

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The word “muscle” comes from Latin term meaning “little mouse“, which is what Romans thought flexed bicep muscles resembled.

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