Life by the numbers

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