1. Number Facts about the Human Body There are lot’s of interesting fact’s in this PowerPoint By Gaby D

2. There are heaps of different number facts about the body and here are just a few to help you get through school work, (NOOOO) while we are doing this topic!

3. Fact 1 The nose has specialized smell - detecting cells with nerves taking information to the brain. Each nerve has up to 25 tiny micro - hairs that respond to minute odour particles.

4. Fact 2 The average 25 year old has up to 10,000 taste buds. After the age of 50, however, taste buds gradually die and a 70 – year – old may only have 5,000 taste buds left.

5. Fact 3 The average adult human being consumes 550 kilograms of food in a year.

6. Fact 4 At rest people breathe in and out 10 to 15 times each minute or an average of 20,000 each day.

7. Fact 5 More than 300 million alveoli in the lungs provide a huge surface area for taking in oxygen.

8. Fact 6 The human heart beats more than 3,000 times in an average life time.

9. Fact 7 At rest, each heartbeat pumps out around 80 millilitres of blood.

10. Fact 8 A tiny pinhead-sized drop of blood contains 5,000,000 red cells, 5,000 white cells, as well as 300,000 platelets.

11. Fact 9 The body has more than 640 skeletal muscles.

12. Fact 10 There is no link between brain size and intelligence – Einstein’s brain weighed just 1.2 kilograms.