One smoot is defined to be equal to five feet and seven inches 170 m the height of oliver r. The structure of the human body contains only four minerals.
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Strange body measurement facts. The human body is a treasure trove of mysteries one that still confounds doctors and scientists about the details of its working. Optimists live longer and have lower overall death rates than strong pessimists. Your heartbeats 101000 times a day. The length of a foot the width of a finger and the distance of a step were all accepted measurements. The longest bone in an adult human is the thighbone measuring about 18 inches 46 cm. In the 14th century king edward ii of england ruled that 1 inch equalled 3 grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise.
It is impossible to lick your elbow. There are 500000 250000 for each sweat glands in your feet and that can mean a great deal of stinky sweat. The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot. Here are some weird facts about the way your body functions. Sometimes its the thrill some times its the challenge while at other times its just an abnormality which enables a particular human body to break and set new limits. In ancient times the body ruled when it came to measuring.
The bridges length was measured to be 3644 smoots plus or minus one ear. Smoot then an mit undergrad who during his fraternity pledge was used by his fraternity brothers to measure the length of the harvard bridge between boston and cambridge massachusetts. If you want healthy ears you need some earwax in there. The human body is a thing of wonder. Here are fifty facts about your body that will leave you stunned. 50 really weird facts about your body.
Well for almost everyone but a few can. Apatite aragonite calcite and crystobalite. He was an mit student whose fraternity pledge in 1958 was to be used to measure the length of the harvard bridge. A smidgen is exactly 12 a pinch or 132 of a teaspoon. Babies who have no sense of social norms or how they are perceived by others do not blush. Your feet can produce a pint of sweat a day.
A passionate kiss causes the same chemical reactions in the brain that skydiving and firing a gun do. Men are officially classified as dwarves if their height is below 13 m whereas for women the measure is 12 m. During your lifetime it will beat about 3 billion times and pump about 400 million litres 800 million pints of blood. Earwax is necessary. Just when we set a limit for our body someone comes forward with an incredible new body record. The shortest bone is in the ear and is just 01 inches 25 cm long which is shorter than a grain of rice.
Humans are the only species known to blush a behavior darwin called the most peculiar and the most human of all. 24 an adult who weighs 150 pounds has a skeleton that weighs about 21 pounds. Its not an overstatement to say that every part of your body is a miracle. Smoot one smoot is defined as 5 feet and 7 inches 17 m the height of oliver r. At first an inch was the width of a mans thumb.
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