Amazing

Body Facts
Donovan Valdez
1/30/15

Cardiovascular
System
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The heart pumps over a

million barrels of blood
over an average lifetime
The right lung is a little bit
bigger then the left
Human blood can be
different colors not blue.
The surface area of your
lungs is roughly the size of
a tennis court

Digestive System
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The stomach produces a

new layer of muscles
every 2 weeks to keep it
from digesting itself
The small intestine
absorptive surface area is
about 2700 square feet
Hydrochloric acid, the
primary juice in our
stomachs, is capable of
dissolving substances as
strong as metal

Immune System

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People who lack humor in

there life tend to have a
weaker immune system
99.9% of Bacteria in your
body is good for you
Getting under 5 hours of
sleep can greatly depress
your immune system

Lymphatic
System
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Bone marrow produces

both red and white blood
cells
Lymph fluid drains back
into the blood via the
bodys main veins
The right lymphatic duct
measures only about 1.25
centimeters in length,
while the right duct can be
as long as 45 centimeters

Muscular System
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There are 650 skeletal

muscles in the body
Smallest muscle is in the
middle ear
Taking a step uses 200
muscles
Muscles make up 40% of
body mass

Nervous System
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There are about

13,500,000 neurons in the
human spine
There are more nerve cells
in the brain than stars in
the milky way
The Spine incudes
approximately 220
individual ligaments

Skeletal System
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At birth we have about 300

bones but by adulthood we
have 206 bones after
some fuse
The only joint less bone in
your body is the hyoid in
your throat
The longest bone in your
body is the femur