You blink 14,000 times a day,
You make 1 million red blood cells a second,
Your lungs spread out would cover a tennis court & the airways in them stretched out would reach from coast to coast,
The length of your blood vessels would circle the planet two & a half times.
But the most amazing things are:
You have a meter of DNA in every cell, that means if you stretched out all your DNA into a single strand, it would stretch 10 billion miles- that’s beyond Pluto,
far enough to leave our solar system!
You are made of 7 billion billion billion atoms (that’s 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)!
~ inspired by Bill Bryson’s book: THE BODY A Guide for Occupants
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