Fun Facts: Did You Know...

1. The stomach is made of protein and food is made of protein, too. So,
... the stomach has a layer of mucus to keep it from digesting itself.

2. We have the same nerves as when we were born.

3. When nerves die, they cannot be replaced.

4. If you steamrolled all the veins in your body, they would circle the earth twice!!!

5. Did you know that the funny bone isn’t actually a bone? It’s actually a network
....of nerves.

6. Your body is actually 72% water?

7. That 76%-77% of your heat comes from your head?

8. The skin is the biggest organ in your body?

9. That women use the bathroom more often than men?

10.The brain weighs about 3 pounds?

11. Each lung has more than 30,000 bronchioles.

12. Your brain is working every day and night and never stops?

13. The longest cell in the human body ever to live is the motor neurons.

14. .. That children have 300 bones - some fuse together before they become adults.

15. ..The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.).