The most intriguing health trivia:
The human body is like a machine that is full of wonder. Here is a collection of unusual health trivia — ranging from anatomy facts to medical anecdotes gathered from various sources.
• The human brain cell can hold five times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.
• The average number of nerve cells (neurons) in the brain is 100 billion.
• The brain is soft and gelatinous — its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.
• Though it makes up only two percent of our total body weight, the brain demands 20 percent of the body’s oxygen and calories.
• The time until unconsciousness after loss of blood supply to the brain is about eight to 10 seconds. (So don’t let anybody squeeze your neck.)
• Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.
• The hearing range for a young adult human is 20 to 20,000 Hz. For an elderly person, hearing is less at 50 to 8,000 Hz. In contrast, a cat can hear better at 100 to 60,000 Hz, and a dolphin has the widest hearing range at 200 to 150,000 Hz.
• The auditory pain threshold is 130 Db. The threshold for hearing damage is 90 Db for an extended period of time. A rocket launching pad is equivalent to 180 Db, a jet plane to 140 Db, an automobile horn to 120 Db, a nagging wife up to 75 Db, and a soft whisper, 30 Db. Interestingly, the sound of a snore (up to 69 decibels) can be almost as loud as the noise of a drill.
• There are 9,000 taste buds on the tongue. We lose a lot of these taste buds as we get older.
• If you go blind in one eye, you’ll only lose about one-fifth of your vision, but all your depth perception.

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