Did you know that...

  • A liver cell is specialized enough to perform more than 500 operations at a time.
  • The heart beats approximately 100,000 times a day.
  • A normal human body has about 5 billion capillaries whose total length, if stretched out, is about 950 kilometers.
  • Our heart pumps about 43,000 liters of blood per day.
  • If the information in DNA were put in the form of a book, these books put on top of each other would reach 70 meters high.
  • The DNA of a single cell contains the design of 206 bones, 600 muscles, a network of 10,000 auditory muscles, a network of 2 million optic nerves, 100 billion nerve cells, and 100 trillion cells in the body.
  • A single brain can process work equivalent to that of 4.5 million transistors on a modern microprocessor.