Here are this week’s 10 fascinating Friday facts on the human body:
1. Right-handed people chew most of their food on the right side of their mouth, whereas left-handed people do so on the left.
2. Only seven per cent of people are left-handed.
3. If you collected all the iron contained in the human body, you would get just a small cog, big enough only for use in your watch.
4. Human lips are hundreds of times more sensitive than the tips of a person’s fingers.
5. If allowed to grow for their whole lifetime, the length of someone’s hair would be about 725 kilometres.
6. During their lifetime, a person will on average accidentally swallow eight small spiders.
7. The total weight of the bacteria in the human body is 2 kg.
8. The total strength of masticatory muscles on one side of your jaw is equal to 195 kilograms.
9. Out of all the people who can move their ears, only one third of them are able to move just one ear.
10. A kiss increases a person’s pulse to 100 beats per minute or more.
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