Life by the Numbers
During a lifetime, an average human being will:
- have sex over 3,000 times, with perhaps eight different partners.
- dribble 154 quarts of saliva before its first birthday.
- crawl 93 miles before age 2.
- after age 2, learn a new word every two hours for the next 10 years.
- utter its first words at about 12 months after birth
- by age 6, master the essentials of language.
- by age 21, breathe over 3 1/2 million balloons full of air.
- fall in love twice.
- spend two weeks kissing.
- have two children and four grandchildren.
- be able to put names to around 2,000 faces, but only consider about 150
as friends.
- be able to distinguish over one million colors.
- produce 200 billion new red blood cells every day.
- grow until it contains ten thousand billion cells, nearly all of which will
undergo a constant cycle of death and renewal.
- spend five solid years eating and drinking to supply fuel to its body.
- walk 14,000 miles.
- spend a year traveling in a car.
- spend nine years working for pay.
- spend 22 years sleeping.
- spend 12 years talking.
- blink 415 million times.
- produce 42,400 quarts of urine.
- spend over 12 years watching TV.
- spend 2 1/2 years on the telephone.
- grow 30 yards of fingernails.
- shed 40 pounds of dead skin
source: www.discovery.ca
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