Interesting Facts about Our Body(Part-I)

• The stomach takes 20 minutes to tell the brain that it is full and that one should stop eating.

• The thickness of the skin varies from 1/2 to 6 mm,depending on the area of your body.

• The four taste zones on your tongue are bitter(back),sour(back sides),salty(front sides) and sweet(front).

• One uses 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.

• It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

• The strongest muscle of the body is the masseter muscle, which is located in jaw.

• The small intestine is about 750 cm long.

• The large intestine is 150 cm long and 3 times wider than the small intestine.

• Most people shed 20 kg of skin in a life time.

• When you sneeze, air rushes through your nose at the rate of 156 kmph.