riginally published: Franklin Watts, 2014.

ncludes bibliographical references (page 30) and index.

ounting down the human body -- There are 100 trillion good bacteria living in the human body -- There are one trillion, 300 billion skin cells on the human body -- Blondes have 146 thousand strands of hair on their heads - - The heart beats one hundred thousand times a day -- Blood travels sixty thousand miles (96,560 km) a day -- We take 20 thousand breaths a day -- More than six hundred muscles in your body -- 206 bones in the human body -- 12- 72 hours to digest food -- Nine months for a baby to grow inside the womb -- Five senses -- The human brain weighs 3 pounds.

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