Hello my young friends!  It’s really important to learn something new each and every day. Here are some fun facts for you to read and enjoy. We hope you have as much fun learning as we do!

1- It takes our food about seven seconds to get from our mouth to our stomach.

2- One human hair can support up to six pounds!

3- The human thigh bone (the femur) is stronger than concrete.

4- A woman's heart beats faster than a man's in most cases.

5- Women blink their eyes twice as often as men.

6- The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.

7- Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still!

8- If saliva cannot dissolve something, you can’t taste it.

9- More than 6500 languages are spoken throughout the world.

10- The average human body contains enough iron to make a one inch long nail.

11- An organ is the name of a musical instrument, and also a unique part of your body, like the heart!

12- Our bodies’ organs are made up of tissue, and tissue is made up of cells.

13- Your body has about 50,000 billion cells!

14- Our hearts beat about 100,000 times each day. It’s a great organ and a strong muscle!

15- Did you know that babies have hiccups before they are born?

16- Ear wax is normal stuff – some of us have a lot, and some of us have a little.

17- Our hair grows about six inches every year.

18- The human body is about 70% water.

19- We exercise about 30 muscles when we make a smile. Exercise is healthy, so keep smiling!

20- We all have hair in our noses.

21- The nose cools hot air, and warms hot air.

22- Why do we have eyebrows? They keep sweat out of our eyes.

23- A red blood cell lives for 120 days. We make new ones all the time.

24- A red blood cell can travel through the body in about 20 seconds.

25- Droplets from a sneeze travel faster than droplets from a cough.

26- The sneeze speed is about 100 miles per hour…so cover up!

27- The cough speed is about 60 miles per hour…so cover up!

28- Fingernails grow much faster than toenails, and we don’t know why!

29- Washing our hands is the best way to prevent spreading infections.

30- The word hygiene means to promote health. Good hygiene means keeping clean!

This word comes from the Greek goddess of health, Hygieia. By the way, she was the daughter of Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine.