I was eating a bowl of cereal the other day, instead of helping a leprechaun find all of his lucky charms the back of this box contained some useful and interesting information. It had a bunch of interesting facts that you probably don’t know about your body. I thought you would like it, check it out:

• A child has 300 bones that fuse into 206 bones by adulthood.
• Some people have an extra bone in the arch of their foot.
• One in every 20 people has an extra rib.
• You have 93,000 miles of peripheral nerves.
• Your fastest nerves send impulses at 395 feet/second at up to 300 impulses per second.
• You have more than 640 skeletal muscles. Which is the largest? You’re sitting on it.
• Your body has ~10pints of blood. About the same amount of oil in a v8 engine.
• Your body is ~54-60% water.
• Your body is only ~18% bone.
• Your heart weighs about half a pound to 3/4 of a pound.
• Your heart does the amount of work it would take to life the body one mile straight up.
• Your heart beats 100,000 times a day and 2.5 billion times in your life.
• The average head has 120,000 hairs.
• Natural blonds have an average of ~140,000 hairs.
• Natural red heads have an average of ~90,000 hairs.
• You can recognize 10,000 different smells.
• There are  four basic types of smell – fragrant, acid, rancid and burnt.
• Smell is the sense we get accustomed to most quickly.
• Most odors can hardly be perceived just 30 seconds after they are first detected.
• You can hear sound frequencies from 20 hz to 20,000 Hz.
• You can hear some lower frequencies than a bat can, but you can also hear some higher frequencies than a bird can.

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