amazing facts

Blood accounts for about 8% of a human's body weight.


A woman has approximately 4.5 liters of blood in her body, while men have 5.6 liters.


Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a human's blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That's enough to go around the world twice.


Half your body’s red blood cells are replaced every seven days.


If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about Bone Facts;
The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone which is located in the ear.


There are 54 bones in your hands including the wrists.


The only bone fully grown at birth is located in the ear.


The human face is made up of 14 bones.


The chances of getting a cavity is higher if candy is eaten slowly throughout the day compared to eating it all at once and then brushing your teeth.


If an identical twin grows up without having a certain tooth, the other twin will most likely also grow up with that tooth missing.


Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.


Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.


Enamel is hardest substance in the human body.


Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% water.


Adult human bones account for 14% of the body's total weight.


In 2000 babies are born with a tooth that is already visible.


Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!


Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.


The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it's hollow!

Brain Facts;
Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression than men in the United States.


The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons.


From all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain.


People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.


Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.


It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.


A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder.


In America, the most common mental illness is Anxiety Disorders.


Your brain is 80% water.


Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day.
Cricket Facts;
No one has completed an innings at the score of 228!


South Africans were the first to introduce TV run outs!


Graham Yallop, in 1978 was the first man to wear a helmet!


Wasim Akram is the first (an only?) man to perform a hat-trick in both one days and tests!


England and Australia played the first ever one day international at Melbourne in 1971!


Sachin Tendulkar was the first victim of the third umpire. In the Test match!


Hanif Mohammed (Pakistan) batted for 16 hours and 10 minutes - nearly 3 full days - against the West Indies, scoring 337*.


There are 10 ways a batsman can be declared "out" in cricket:
1. Caught
2. Bowled
3. Leg Before Wicket
4. Hit Wicket
5. Timed Out (wonder what is this?)
6. Handling the ball
7. Obstructing the field
8. Hit the ball twice
9. Run Out
10. Stumped
"Timed Out (wonder what is this?) "


Hey Crickman, timed out means a batsman can be declared out if he fails to come to the crease in 5 mins. After a batsman is out, if the next batsman takes more then 5 mins to come to the crease and the fielding team appeals, he can be declared out.


Sourav Ganguly is the only cricketer to have won four successive Man of the Match awards in One-day Internationals.


The first Test match began on 15 March 1877 and had a timeless format with four balls per over. It ended on 19 March 1877 with Australia winning by 45 runs.


The first Twenty20 international was between Australia and New Zealand in 2005.


The Test match between England and South Africa at Durban in 1939 was finally abandoned as a draw on the tenth day because England players had to catch their Disease Facts;
People that use mobile phones are 2.5 time more likely to develop cancer in areas of the brain that are adjacent to the ear they use to talk on the mobile phone.


Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress.


Over 436,000 U.S. Troops were exposed to depleted uranium during the first Gulf war.


On average, 90% of the people that have the disease Lupus are female.


Many cancer patients that are treated with chemotherapy lose their hair. For some when the hair grows back, it can grow back a different colour, or be curly or straight.


Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for about 180,000 deaths per year.


Chances of a women getting breast cancer are increased by excessive use of alcohol.


A popular superstition is that if you put a piece of bread in a baby's crib, it will keep away diseases.


A person that is struck by lightning has a greater chance of developing motor neurons disease.