6 Unusual Facts About the Human Body

1. Don't stick out your tongue if you want to hide your identity. Similar to fingerprints, everyone also has a unique tongue print!

2. Your pet isn't the only one in the house with a shedding problem. Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour. That works out to about 1.5 pounds each year, so the average person will lose around 105 pounds of skin by age 70.

3. An adult has fewer bones than a baby. We start off life with 350 bones, but because bones fuse together during growth, we end up with only 206 as adults.

4. Did you know that you get a new stomach lining every three to four days? If you didn't, the strong acids your stomach uses to digest food would also digest your stomach.

5. Your nose is not as sensitive as a dog's, but it can remember 50,000 different scents.

6. The small intestine is about four times as long as the average adult is tall. If it weren't looped back and forth upon itself, its length of 18 to 23 feet wouldn't fit into the abdominal cavity, making things rather messy.


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3. What was the most interesting thing you learnt about it?
The most interesting that I learn about the article was that the tongue is a form of identification!

4. Make a list of 15 words from the article that you found difficult to understand. Find their meaning.
1) Tongue: a fleshy movable muscular process of the floor of the mouths of most vertebrates that bears sensory end organs and small glands and functions especially in taking and swallowing food and in humans as a speech organ
2) Shedding (verb: shed): to give off, discharge, or expel from the body of a plant or animal
3) Growth: a stage in the process of growing
4) Scents: effluvia from a substance that affect the sense of smell
5) Looped: having, formed in, or characterized by loops
6) Forth: onward in time, place, or order
7) Upon: preposition on
8) Rather: in some degree
9) Messy: marked by confusion, disorder, or dirt
10) Stick: a woody piece or part of a tree or shrub: as a usually dry or dead severed shoot, twig, or slender branch
11) Average: a single value (as a mean, mode, or median) that summarizes or represents the general significance of a set of unequal values
12) Tall: of considerable height
13) Fingerprints: an ink impression of the lines upon the fingertip taken for the purpose of identification
14) Bones: one of the hard parts of the skeleton of a vertebrate