7 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 : number of carbon atoms. To bring a universal perspective to this data, there are "only" 300 000 000 000 (300 billion) stars in our galaxy.
1 360 Kg : Weight of the brain. The brain is made up of 85% water. If it were a computer, it could perform 38 trillion operations per second. For comparison, one of the most powerful computers in the world, Blue Gene, could only handle 0.02% of these operations per second.
Human brain (Nervous system)
1375 g : Weight(2% of body weight)
Consumes 20% of oxygen
100 billion Neurons
2000 to 10000 Connection between each neuron : between
10 000 000 billion Signals per second
100 000 billion Axons (connections between neurons)
120 m/s : Communication speed of nerve fibers (Axons)
20 to 30% of connection are made at birth
50 ms : brain reaction to light
100 ms : brain reaction to a sound.
320 ms : brain processing speed of a thought
60 000 thoughts a day
100 000 km : length of blood vessels (96,500 km). Put end to end, their distance would be equivalent to the distance traveled by the Earth around the Sun in a day.
8 000 liters of blood pumped by heart per day.
20 040 breaths per day
100 800 beats per day
5 liters of blood
30 000 billion red blood cells
1 liter : the amount of blood filtered and cleaned every minute by our kidneys.
1 million : number of filter units in our kidneys.
37 200 billion cells
200 different cell types
35 billion epidermal cells
10 000 : number of taste buds on our tongue, each containing 50 taste cells
60 million sensory receptors
127 million retinal cells (eye). We can distinguish 10 million different colors
5 Million olfactory receptors. We can recognize 1 000 Billion odors
7 meters : length of our small intestine. It measures approximately 2.5 cm in diameter and the food passes through at a speed approaching 2 cm per minute
500 : number of different functions the liver performs, including breaking down red blood cells, making proteins, or detoxification.
525 billion : number of sperm a man produces in a lifetime. A healthy adult can release between 40 million and 150 million sperm in a single ejaculation.
2 million : number of ovarian follicles per ovary with which a woman is born. At the end of puberty, there are approximately 450,000 follicles per ovary. Only 400 of them can be fertilized.
206 Bones in an adult - 300 Bones in a child (they fuse as they grow)
100 000 hair follicles (hair). 100 hairs fall out every day
700 ml of sweat produced each day
640 Muscles
360 Joints