10 Mind Blowing Facts About the Human Body

Published on January 25, 2018
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You will spend 10 percent of your waking hours with your eyes closed.

A football game will last for three hours on television, but there is only about 20 minutes of actual football action. The rest of the time is spent with filler. In that same vein you spend the majority of your life with your eyes simply closed. Over the span of a full, waking, day you will have your eyes closed thanks to blinking for a total of 10 percent of the time. Combine this statistic with how many hours you will sleep over the span of your lifetime (don’t look it up, it’s depressing) and you’ll end up with the realization that life happens behind closed eyes more often than the other way around.

You will spend 10 percent of your waking hours with your eyes closed

You will spend 10 percent of your waking hours with your eyes closed

You will eat 60,000 pounds of food in your life.

Whether you are a heavy eater or not, the average amount of food that a person will eat in their life ends up at around 60,000 pounds. You can compare this weight to about six full grown adult elephants. You could also line up 9.5 Hummer H2s side by side and that would also represent the weight in food that you will eat before you die. All the more reason to make your diet a good one, right?

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You will eat 60,000 pounds of food in your life

You will eat 60,000 pounds of food in your life

gine 40 pounds of anything. Now replace that