Your Body: 100 Illustrated Fun Facts
About this ebook
Do you know that?
In one day, your blood travels 12,000 miles around your body. That’s four times the distance across the US from coast-to-coast.
The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
The enamel on the top surface of our tooth is the hardest part of the entire body.
You have no sense of smell when you're sleeping.
The brain grows quickest till the age of 5.
Every drop of blood in your body is filtered by your body over 300 times a day.
Your skeleton keeps changing every 10 years that means your bodies keep renewing themselves so every 10 year you have a new skeleton.
Blinking helps to wash tears over our eyeballs. That keeps them clean and moist.
Our fingers don't have any muscles. The muscles which move our finger joints are located in the palm and up in the forearm.
An average person has over 1,460 dreams a year which is about 4 dreams every night.
All babies are color blind when they are born so they only see black and white.
Blood is 6 times thicker than water.
Inside all of us is around 0.2 milligrams of gold, most of which is in our blood.
If the human brain were a computer, it could perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second. The world’s most powerful supercomputer can manage only .002% of that.
As you read this book over and over to your child it won't be long before they are the ones pointing to the picture and telling you what it is. The author Katy Gleit wrote this book for her own two grandchildren Dani and Deia: In "Your Body: 100 Illustrated Fun Facts " your children are given a well-selected knowledge along with entertaining information about the human body. In addition, a set of wonderful pictures show exactly what a human body looks like.
