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Amazing Facts
About our Body

1. 50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with :new cells, all while you have been reading this sentence! :
2. In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost 1 ton of weight 1 yard off :the ground. :
3. Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions. :
4. In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels. :
5. The structural plan of a whale's, a dog's, a bird's and a man's 'arm' are exactly the same. : :The world's first test-tube twins were born in June 1981. :
6. There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.In a year, a person`s heart beats 40,000,000 times.
7. :Most people blink about 25 times a minute. :
8. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of :blood vessels. : :Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 :miles per hour.
9. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
10. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for :your heart.
11. You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown. You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile.
12. Every two thousand frowns :creates one wrinkle.
13. The average human blinks his eyes 6,205,000 times each year. :
14. The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.
15. Every person has a unique tongue print.
16. The average human's heart will beat 3,000 million times in their lifetime. The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in :their lifetime. : :You burn 26 calories in a one-minute kiss.
17. The average human body contains enough: Sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire :a toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars of soap, Phosphorus to make :2,200 matchheads, and enough Water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
18. :Among the first known "dentists" of the world were the Etruscans. :In 700 BC they carved false teeth from the teeth of various :mammals :and produced partial bridgework good enough to eat with.
19. Ophthalmic surgery was one of the most advanced areas of medicine in the ancient world. Detailed descriptions of delicate cataract surgery with sophisticated needle syringes is contained in the medical writings of Celsus (A.D.14-37)
20. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
21. If you were freeze-dried, 10% of your body weight would be from :the microorganisms on your body. According to the World Health Organization, there are :approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
22. Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life. :
23. When you eat meat and drink milk in the same meal, your body does not absorb any of the milk's calcium. It is best to have 2 hours between the milk and meat intake.
24. Only humans and horses have hymens.
25. The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.
26. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. :
27. One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world's telephones put together. THE TYANA TABLOID : 2 APRIL 2000
28. We have a a whole pharmacy within us. We can create any drug inside us.
29. Our bodies are recreating themselves constantly - we ,make a skeleton every 3 months, new skin every month. We are capable of reversing the Aging Process!!

(From Abdul Jabbar Khan's, Magical Mind Magical Body')

related links:

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/ BBC Science - Human Body

 Real-life Superheroes: 10 People with Incredible Abilities. Awesome Information 

With so many superhero movies around, such as Spiderman or Hulk, 
we are used to see people with special abilities in fiction.
But people with amazing abilities actually do exist in real life; 
here's a list of 10 of the most amazing of these people! 

 The Incredible Brain Daniel Tammet):

Daniel Paul Tammet is a British high-functioning autistic savant
gifted with a facility for mathematical calculations, sequence memory,
and natural language learning. He was born with congenital
childhood epilepsy Experiencing numbers as colors or 
sensations is a well-documented form of synesthesia, 
but the detail and specificity of Tammet's mental imagery of 
numbers is unique. In his mind, he says, each number up to 10,000
has its own unique shape and feel, that he can "see" results
of calculations as landscapes, and that he can "sense" 
whether a number is prime or composite. He has described his
visual image of 289 as particularly ugly, 333 as
particularly attractive, and pi as beautiful. Tammet not only verbally
describes these visions, but also creates artwork, 
particularly watercolor paintings, such as his painting of Pi. 

Tammet holds the European record for memorising and recounting pi
to 22,514 digits in just over five hours. He also speaks a variety
of Languages including English, French, Finnish, German, Spanish,
Lithuanian, Romanian, Estonian, Icelandic, Welsh and Esperanto. 
He particularly likes Estonian, because it is rich in vowels.
Tammet is creating a new language called Mnti. Tammet is capable of 
learning new languages very quickly. To prove this for the Channel 
Five documentary, Tammet was challenged to learn Icelandic in one week.
Seven days later he appeared on Icelandic television conversing 
in Icelandic, with his Icelandic language instructor 
saying it was "not human." 

Watch This Video on You Tube


 The Boy with Sonar Vision(Ben Underwood):



Ben Underwoodtaught is blind, both of his eyes were removed (cancer) 
when he was 3. Yet, he plays basketball, rides on a bicycle, and 
lives a quite normal life. He taught himself to use echo location
to navigate around the world. With no guide-dogs, he doesn't
even need hands: he uses sound. Ben makes a short click sound that
bounces back from objects. Amazingly, his ears pick up 
the ecos to let him know where the objects are. He's the only person
in the world who sees using nothing but eco location, like 
a sonar or a dolphin.

Watch This Video on You Tube

 The Rubber boy (Daniel Browning Smith): 



Five time Guiness Record holder,The Rubber boy is the most flexible
man alive and the most famous contortionist. He has been
in many professional basketball or baseball games and on The 
Tonight Show with Jay Leno, ESPN's Sports Center, Oprah Winfrey,
Ripley's Believe It or Not, Cirque du Soleil, Best Damn Sports Show Period,
The Discovery Channel Men in Black 2, HBO's Carnivale, and 
CSI: NY and American got a talent.. He dislocates his arms 
to crawl through an unstrung tennis racquet. He performs contortion
handstands and unique acrobatics. 

Watch This Video on You Tube

 Mister Eat-it-All (Michel Lotito):



Michel Lotito (born 1950) is a French entertainer, famous as the
consumer of undigestables, and is known as Monsieur Mangetout
(Mister Eat-it-all).

Lotito's performances are the consumption of metal, glass, rubber
and so on in items such as bicycles, televisions, a Cessna 150,
and smaller items which are disassembled, cut-up and swallowed.
The aircraft took roughly two years to be 'eaten' from 1978 to 1980.
He began eating unusual material while a child and has been
performing publicly since 1966. Lotito does not often suffer from
ill-effects due to his diet, even after the consumption of materials
usually considered poisonous. When performing he consumes 
around a kilogram of material daily, preceding it with mineral oil
and drinking considerable quantities of water during the 'meal'.
He apparently possesses a stomach and intestine with walls 
of twice the expected thickness, and his digestive acids are,
allegedly, unusually powerful, allowing him to digest a certain 
portion of his metallic meals.

Watch the Video at YouTube. 

 King Tooth(Rathakrishnan Velu):



On August 30, 2007, the eve of Malaysia's 50th Independence Day, 
Rathakrishnan Velu (or Raja Gigi, as he is known locally) broke his
own world record for pulling train with his teeth, this time with 
6 coaches attached weighing 297.1 tons over a distance of 2.8 metres 
at the Old Kuala Lumpur Railway Station. Raja Gigi, from Tampin 
in Malaysia learned a technique of concentrating his powers to 
any part of his body from an Indian guru at a young age of 14.

Watch This Video on You Tube

 The Magnetic Man (Liew Thow Lin):



Liew Thow Lin, a 70-year-old retired contractor in Malaysia, recently
made news for pulling a car twenty meters along a level surface
by means of an iron chain hooked to an iron plate on his midriff.
He says that he discovered he had the amazing ability to make objects
stick "magnetically" to his skin, and now he's added car-pulling to 
his repertoire. After reading an article about a family in Taiwan 
who possessed such power, he says he took several iron objects and
put them on his abdomen, and to his surprise, all the objects 
including an iron, stuck on his skin and didn't fall down. 
Since this "gift'' is also present in three of his sons and 
two grandchildren, he figures it's hereditary. 

 The Man who doesn't Sleep (Thai Ngoc):



Sixty-four-year- old Thai Ngoc, known as Hai Ngoc, said he could 
not sleep at night after getting a fever in 1973, and has 
counted infinite numbers of sheep during more than 11,700
consecutive sleepless nights. "I don't know whether the insomnia
has impacted my health or not. But I'm still healthy and can farm
normally like others," Ngoc said. Proving his health, the elderly
resident of Que Trung commune, Que Son district said he can carry 
two 50kg bags of fertilizer down 4km of road to return home 
every day. His wife said, "My husband used to sleep well, but 
these days, even liquor cannot put him down." She said when Ngoc
went to Da Nang for a medical examination, doctors gave him a clean
bill of health, except a minor decline in liver function. Ngoc currently
lives on his 5ha farm at the foot of a mountain busy with
farming and taking care of pigs and chickens all day. His six 
children live at their house in Que Trung. Ngoc often does extra farm work
or guards his farm at night to prevent theft, saying he used 
three months of sleepless nights to dig two large ponds to raise fish. 

 The Torture King (Tim Cridland): 



Tim Cridland doesn't seem to feel pain like the rest of people. 
He astounded everyone by pushing needles into his arms without 
flinching and he now performs a terrifying act for audiences 
all over America. Scientific tests have shown that Tim can tolerate 
much higher levels of pain than are humanly possible. He explains 
that, by using mind over matter , he is able to push skewers
through his body and put up with extreme heat and cold unharmed
- but to do this safely he has extensively studied human anatomy,
because puncturing an artery could be fatal. 

 The Lion Whisperer(Kevin Richardson) 



Animal behaviourist Kevin Richardson says he relies on instinct to win
the hearts and form an intimate bond with the big cats. He can spend
the night curled up with them without the slightest fear of being attacked.
His magic works not only work for lions but other animals such as cheetahs,
leopards and even hyenas do not hold a threat against him.
Lions are his favourites and its a wonder how he can play, carress, 
cuddle with them whose teeth are sharp enough to bite through 
thick steel. Its a dangerous job but to Kevin, its more of a passion
for him.

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 The Eye-Popping Man (Claudio Pinto) 



Claudio Pinto can pop both of his eyes 4 cm (about 1 and a half inch)
or 95% out of their sockets. He's now aiming (poppin'?) for a world record.
Mr Pinto has undergone various tests and doctors say they have never
seen or heard of a person who can pop the eyes as much as him. 
Mr Pinto, from Belo Horizonte, said: "It is a pretty easy way to make money.
"I can pop my eyes out four centimetres each, it is a gift from God,
I feel blessed."

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